Your job

[Dan 4RR]

How long did it take you to find your perfect job, or a job that you find sufficient enough to keep you going, paying the bills, spending some on toys. I know there are the old sayings, "your just excisting, not living" and "work to live not live to work", etc. But after leaving college last year I've been having second thoughts and doubts as to wether I choose the right subject, cause back when I started 2-3 years ago I had my heart set on it, but after a few recent events I not so sure now. I mean I've always wanted to do building/mechanical work so I'll hopefully get a job in that area someday, but I might have taken the wrong turning at the moment. But you hear about people who trained for years to become a vet and then decided it wasn't for them, so they became a lawyer, etc.

Coming to think of it, didn't bcf's 'Izzi81'?? leave uni hoping to go into the filming making/media industry, but decided it wasn't for her and is now working at a crime lab/csi type of job?

Did people here go into a job they thought they liked and it's turned out to be perfect or have you changed occupations in the past?
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[Flip]

Done loads of different stuff. Changing jobs ASAP 'cause I'm bored. Although I have jobs and not careers.

[TheShaggyDA]

I've been working in IT since 1983. It just sort of happened, and I still don't know what I really want to do.

It does pay the bills quite well though.
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[Dan 4RR]

Ah yes, good point Flip. Should of stated I meant careers that would last you until you retire. Not just temp jobs.
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[Dave McCool]

Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudent at the minute, but I'm doing English which should hopefully leave me fairly well set for a fairly wide range of careers.

In my head at the minute, I'm determined to get into motor journalism, hopefully working on a car/bike magazine, but hey, that might change, I'm still quite open to advertising or even teaching.

I'm quite enjoying the fact that currently my options are open.


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[xlfive]

Been doing the same job since 1977 never felt the need to change

[Kickstart]

Hi

Found a job I quite like. Unfortunatly the job has changed to one I hate.

Izzi couldn't get a job in the industry that her qualifications were in.

All the best

Keith
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[mattjs895]

i'm a student doing accounting and finance and am currently in my first year,

got to admit, that this career things has crossed my mind.

do i really want to do this for the rest of my working life or is there something better, but then i think about the money and it all seems good

[mazz]

I was a student, my work now is totally unrelated to anything I studied (which is a good thing) I love my job though, for me it was just something to keep me ticking over and I fell in love with it....you have to try many things that previously you may not have considered to find one you really enjoy

[m99dws]

Went into IT in 95-96 and never looked back. Haven't found my perfect job yet, although this one pays awesome money!

[thx1138]

drifted through life, ended up about 7 years ago working in an auction house, worked there briefly, before moving on, and found I had a talent for buying and selling junk, and paid my mortgage off now.

I'd kinda like a decent interesting job, but I doubt anyone will ever hire me.

[tatters]

Started mine december 06 as a eletrical engineer, just came of the probation period and am now on full pay which is a massive amount of money for a 20y old, had to suffer 3 years of a apprenticeship to get to my current job though but now l,m fu*king loving it.
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[binge]

If my job paid more and the company treated us all with more respect. Then it would possibly be the perfect Job.

Tyres
Exhausts
Brakes
Suspension

We even do servicing at kwikfit now. And even Head gaskets.
So its not just a "monkeys Job" anymore really.
And its quite stress free.

Will be going on my MOT Testers course as soon as im old enough. Trained up for free too.


Would like to go to a main dealer for the more engine related work. BUT it means dropping back to apprentice wages again. And now that im a Fully qualified Fitter. My income would more than half if I was to go back to being an apprentice.

Not somthing I can do when Im trying to Run a Flat, A car, A Car Project and a Scooter project.

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[techierob]

I don't believe there is such a thing as a perfect job. I take permanent jobs either when I'm too knackered to work contracts or I need a fixed income to make the paperwork look respectable. I flick between programming and systems to try and fend off the monotony a little, but doing any one job for too long is too boring to even contemplate. Also, bearing in mind that a lot of companies in my particular sector routinely get thinned out, showing too much loyalty to a company is just asking to get shafted.

The state pensions situation means that my retirement plan involves either dying before my 65th birthday or picking up enough skills to keep me quietly self-employed until I'm in advanced stages of senile dementia, by which time I'll have probably donated all my belongings to a cat home and be quite happily drooling and fucking handfuls of my own shit in some public->private pauper's care home somewhere

[woo]

Finished my Accounting & Finance Degree at Greenwich Uni last year and am currently doing temp jobs, current one is a contract till end of June with a possible permante position which i have decided if its offered to me i wont take it, crystal palace to red hill is a trek for me.

Have decided this aint what i want to and i wanna become a bike/car mechanic but not to sure if they pay well and if its too late to start making changes again cos im 26yrs now and to be a mechanic with all the necessary qualifications id have to study probably at Croydon College.

So am well confused at the moment!

Help & advice appreciated!
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[Suzuki]

Another IT bod here.

Like any job it has it's boring moments, but the money isn't to be sniffed at.
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[Rob]

Thankfully I have a job that I quite enjoy, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1643955/

It's not something I studied to do... in fact in the usual school 'style' I was forced down the 'science' route which for a while I actually believed I would enjoy.. how wrong can you be! That's the problem with studying is that it is very hard to know what you want to do and that is the point in your life you are forced to make a decision about it! That's so crap!

I don't believe that people can really have a career for life anymore, certainly not like it used to be anyway!

Ah well, at least I'm living proof you can study one thing and have a career down the opposite path!!
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[Keen]

I graduated last year with a good business degree, basically did it because I thought it would leave alot of options open, I focused on marketing and entrepreneurship and would like to open my own business at some point in the future.
For the time being I'm doing a graduate marketing thing at a software company in France. Its boring. I only took it because my girlfriend was already living and working down here and it was easy (I did an internship at the company as part of of my degree and my boss gave me a good reference so it was easy to get rehired).

I don't fully believe in the 'work to live' idea. I used to but not any more. I need to do something I enjoy. I get bored easy so I need to be stimulated. At the end of the day you spend 5 days out of 7 at work, for most of your life, if you don't enjoy it thats a serious waste of your precious time. I'm so unchallenged and uninterested in my current job, for me its important to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile where I'm learning something.
The annoying this is alot of my friends here at the company are developers, they get paid alot and they love, really love, what they do. Those bastards
My graduate contract runs out in August and I won't be trying to get hired full time. I'm going to try to find a job in the motorcycle industry. I came so close to getting a marketing position at Triumph (I hadn't graduated yet so couldn't start in time! at least I got a factory tour), something like that would be ideal for me, so I'll just keep trying until I get it.
I don't think you can expect your dream job out of uni, that really pissed me off because you can't help thinking what I have I been working for all these years then? but I think the important thing is to keep working towards your dream job. At least then you feel like you're getting somewhere and even if the job you're doing isn't ideal, it is useful as a stepping stone to something better
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[kawashima]

I was transferred to several areas every 5 years in the same company. It's common style. It makes it difficult to buy a estate.
I've done production control, facilities, and planning(each 5 years at each site). Next transfer timing is approaching me I suppose.
I was lucky I wasn't in accounting dept., cause they move every 3 years and to site of every type of products. They have "skill" though...

[Bishbash]

Yet another IT person here. I am more to do with the law side of the software, mainly the licensing but I draw up the contracts as well. I studied IT and IT laws for years and now found the perfect job (I think) Money is amazing and any students on the forum will/should know our product (SPSS Inc).

My company regularly send me to Chicago as that is where our HQ is and I get to work in Sears Tower for a while. A great perk to my job.

[feef]

Finally dropped out of uni about 8 or 9 years ago..

Started on this job, which is working out rather well, in january 2005.

other jobs were fun, but this is 'the one'

I turned down a potential 20k payrise for a job in london to stay here.

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[hendo13]

iam a money grabbing bastad so i've got 2 jobs.18 years of shifts, making WHISKY mmmm love the job money is brill could be better ! And 15 years of being a retained firefighter money is good and pays ma mortgage means ma main job money is for drink and toys
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