Should I be worried???

Since leaving school, ive mainly being jumping from call centre to call centre, from customer services, to technical support for NTL/BT...

TBH, i dont think ive enjoyed any job ive ever been in... yet i cant handle being at home doing nothing, and ill point blank refuse to "sign-on", so i remain in dead end sweat shops (aka. call centres). Ive actually left home and renting a £250k appartment in the centre of town, which id like to buy one day...

I dont mind working for anything, that doesnt bother me... I think i just need to find some direction, and was wondering if i was the only one in this situation...
 
Good no. Most the staff I've ever met in the IT industry are there because its a job, not because they love it, or ever intended to go into it.

I left uni without a clue and kinda fell into accoutancy (good pay, easy to do). After a few years of that I realised that I would be better off doing a job I enjoyed, (only so many month ends, quarter reports, and years end accounts I could do without going totally mad) and switched to IT, and even since then I've changed fields from database management to server management, and then onto networks. I don't have a definite career plan, and so long as works fun, and i have enough money to keep a roof and food, then I'm happy and don't worry.
 
Rotty said:
true there aren't jobs for life but many people follow a career for life and by the time you apply for uni you should at least have some idea of the direction you want to take otherwise how do you know what courses to apply for
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a lot of students apply for their courses based on partial interest or based on their academic strenghts at the time, thats why you see a lot of music graduates in banking jobs etc, uni courses are a lot more specialised than things at school, you dont know what your getting into until you attend.
 
Replicant said:
22 is around the age people are leaving uni, most of whom will be unsure of the exact career they want, i would say 25 is about the time you should be thinking about what field or career you want to stick with.
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I maybe being very ignorant or stupid here, but don't you go to uni because it's part of your career path?? I mean, you must have something in mind to take a uni course. You don't do it for fun, do you?

SexyBetty said:
Im 24 and clueless :D
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me too :o :p
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I maybe being very ignorant or stupid here, but don't you go to uni because it's part of your career path?? I mean, you must have something in mind to take a uni course. You don't do it for fun, do you?
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I went to uni because I couldn't think of anything else to do. Seemed a good idea at the time, my regret was listening to my parents. They wanted me to do a 'proper' degree at a 'proper' university. Physics..... damnit. Hardly a career choice more a a masochistic waste of a few years.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I maybe being very ignorant or stupid here, but don't you go to uni because it's part of your career path?? I mean, you must have something in mind to take a uni course. You don't do it for fun, do you?
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Most of my friends did degrees in things they were good at...most of them dont know what their career should be..

Im doing my degree for fun :D
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I maybe being very ignorant or stupid here, but don't you go to uni because it's part of your career path?? I mean, you must have something in mind to take a uni course. You don't do it for fun, do you?
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Some people go doing a course they have an interest in but they don't necessarily stick to their course's subject for their future/career. A lot end up doing conversion courses or doing something completely different and unrelated. University can be good for people to learn to live by themselves, work for themselves, become pro-active and making the effort to sort themselves out.
 
Ive considered Uni quite recently, only problem is i dont think i could afford to run the appartment and live on a part time job salary (if im lucky enough to have the time for that!). I live with my fiance whos training to be a barrister but she only takes like 750 a month :rolleyes:
 
Phantom said:
thats ok, youre a woman - your place is at home doing the housework :p :D
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That's so sexist... though to make a sweeping generalisation, most women I know (after a few drinks anyway) will admit they're more worried about finding a man by the time they're 30 than having a career.
 
Phantom said:
i disagree... happiness has nothing to do with it :p

you need to think long and hard where you want your life to go as your career (i.e. the job you do) will play a big role in it.

what are your qualifications?
what are you interested in?
do you have any aspirations?
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Personally I figure if he's happy in his job but has no career plans then it doesn't really matter.
But as later on in this thread he's mentioned he's not happy where he is then yes he could do with finding where he wants to go.

Guess it just comes down to your priorities in life :)
 
I 'knew' what i wanted to do when i was 18, now im 27 and totally bored with my chosen career. This is why im sitting in work posting on web forums. Your only young be a career whore, try a few things.
 
Freefaller said:
Some people go doing a course they have an interest in but they don't necessarily stick to their course's subject for their future/career. A lot end up doing conversion courses or doing something completely different and unrelated. University can be good for people to learn to live by themselves, work for themselves, become pro-active and making the effort to sort themselves out.
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I have to say, I don't get this Uni larky in this instance.

It’s a lot years and money only to find your self with no career path at the end. Then the potential prospect of maybe having to do it all again afterwards! That means you could be in your mid/late twenties before you are settled into a job. A junior one of that I would imagine.

I guess I got lucky when I left school. Employers were begging for trainees and I was lucky enough to be trained by IBM by the age of 17.
 
powned said:
I 'knew' what i wanted to do when i was 18, now im 27 and totally bored with my chosen career. This is why im sitting in work posting on web forums.
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Me too! Everyone thinks I'm busy... suckers!

My parents were always "career, career, career", rather than encouraging me to try my hand at a few different possible careers. As a result I've been in the same rut for the last 7 years and only in the past year I've actually figured out the cause of me being such a miserable git half the time (i.e. my "chosen" career)

I did try to break free from it about 8 months ago, but turns out signing on the dole for a few months while applying for jobs I had no experience in is not the best way to go.

So I ended up back in my old career. Now I'm leaving again and going abroad to work in ANY jobs going. I'm really determined to use the next year to discover something I'll enjoy doing in life.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I have to say, I don't get this Uni larky in this instance.

It’s a lot years and money only to find your self with no career path at the end. Then the potential prospect of maybe having to do it all again afterwards! That means you could be in your mid/late twenties before you are settled into a job. A junior one of that I would imagine.

I guess I got lucky when I left school. Employers were begging for trainees and I was lucky enough to be trained by IBM by the age of 17.
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There are a lot of companies recruiting at uni and during your time there you can tailor your course a bit more or change to do something else if you want to do. Certainly get inspiration from the courses available, or from other people on different courses. Just because you study History for example doesn't mean you have to end up being a historian. Uni is mainly but not solely about learning a new subject really. I have met very few people who *knew* what they wanted to do from the age of 16 - despite going to public school.

I think that a career for life isn't my thing so that's probably why I see it that way.
 
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