A Career

[Nochowderforyou]

One of buddies back home welds. He just got his jouneyman (4yrs) in about 2 yrs, and now he's making $32/hr.

Me, I do nothing as of now, but I'm trying to find my place in this world. Music is what I was to persue and I have met a few guys here that I'm now jamming with once or twice a week. We hope to be playing gigs around the Vancouver area by the new year, so if you're in that area, watch out for us because we're coming boy!

[EmoRebellion]

Im in IT. Ive been around it all my life, and it just seemed right to keep going. I studied my ass off, and got several certifications (A+, Network+, Security+, and MCSE). I took a job at kaiser for a year and a half as an IT consultant, and use that as a stepping stone to boost my career. I got experiance on my resume, and learned alot.

Then I dumped those assholes for a smart career move. The moral of the story? Get what you can, from who you can.

[JunkYard]

Cab driver ---> it's fun, the pay sucks, I love driving, but it certainly isn't what I had in mind when I was contemplating a carreer choice. I fell into it, as w/o highschool diploma, or college credits, or degree, my choices were very limited.

The good news is that I enjoy my job. I just hate the pay, and the prices of gasoline! Kinda makes life difficult, still I am happy nowdays, so all is good...

:smokin:

[RichieRich]

Hey Inferius: Thought I would chime in here. I personally don't do anything assocaited with my degree but I have a job that I really love and I am very good at it. I tried a bunch of different jobs until I got to where I am however. I took a few jobs that were "building blocks". I mean jobs where the experience would transfer over pretty much no matter what I did. For Instance I sold retail at Nordstroms and eventually went into the management. Exp on resume: cust service, communication, sales, management, all from a 2 year gig.

The best advice I could give you is don't look for a job for fulfillment or meaning in your life. A job is where you get paid and you make money. I think US people like us tend to look for meaning and find our worth or values in our jobs. Find out who you are, what are your ethics, what do you believe, etc, and go be that person no matter what you choose to do. The best people I have ever worked with have all seemed to have this in common, whether they are stoners, skaters, yuppies, you name it.... All the best dude!!

[birdgirl73]

I sorta just "happened" into the career I had as a long time before returning to school this past fall: speechwriting/marketing-advertising communications for a high-tech company. It wasn't based on any deep love or interest in that field as much as it was a fit for the skills I'd picked up in college and grad school. And it happened to work with my desire to only work part time and to take care of my primary job, which, as I see it, is being a wife and mother. During all those years in that career, I dreamed about moving in the direction of my real interest, which is medicine. But I knew that'd be demanding and also wanted to make sure my son was grown and off to college before I took on a major life change like going back to school.

If I had it to do all over again, I'd have probably done the same thing since I made the choice to have a family. But I still think people need to try as hard as they can to do work that they love, especially men, who define themselves by their careers more strongly than women do, I think. If you love what you do and it interests you, you'll do better than if that's not the case. Life's too short to go through it in an unfulfilling career, even one that pays a lot of money.