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netheo86

netheo86

netheo86

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having been a student for the past three years, generally taking life pretty easy and doing very little of a constructive nature if i could help it, it turns out that your supposed to get a job!

So after a holiday to relax having finished uni and many months looking i finally find an alright sounding job and manage to get a trial period, which i've passed.

Anyway i'm beginning to get the feeling that i might have taken the wrong path at some point in my life, and i'm only 22 :eek:. The single best job i've ever had is one in wholesale that has no requirement for a degree and is in no way related to my interest in photography... think its to do with the type of people i was working with and the customers.

Anyone else out there ever regret their career choice or wonder about that 'other' job that was so much better. Or am i just getting depressed over the thought of working for the next 50 odd years
 
Used to think it a lot until I found my plan of attack for my career. I studied Sports and Exercise Science and I work in a care home!

Thought I would be stuck there (I am still there, but I'm moving forward) until I decided to take a course in Anatomy and Physiology and also Nutritional Health. I'm currently hoping to get into the hospitals and then progress my way through with training.

It's just a phase people go through I think. I have only just realised what I wanted to do and I'm 21. I like sport aswel so I'm leaving my options open with that aswel (hopefully a job maybe at my b/f place of work).

Hope it all goes to plan for you.
 
i realise that i can change jobs but given the time it took to find this one, and the current market trends towards recesion and job cuts this one might have to be for a while.
suppos ei'll get used to it in time, just got to get into the routine of it.
 
I feel the same tbh, been in my job 7 months now and its my first full time job, its ok but I just really feel like packing it in, mainly because of all the driving but also just because its not quite what i expected, I guess its just the way the real world is :(:p
 
I finished uni few months ago, going travelling soon for a bit, my plan when i come back is to find a job, and change every 6 months :D
 
Post-Uni Depression is common (I'm not kidding), when real life hits home. I left uni mid 2006 and got a 'real' job soon after, I enjoyed it but started to get really depressed/despondant with where my life was heading.

Soon enough I got another Job, started earning a lot of money and i'm fairly happy. I still feel really tied down and want to travel etc, although that's pretty difficult considering I knocked up my ex and we had a bebe in '06.
 
Having gone into work for 2 years since leaving college and now going to Uni i'm kind of having the opposite. I went to get out of work, probably the worst reason ever I know :o, but I couldn't see me ever getting a job I'd enjoy otherwise. But now I have to look after myself (!) and work almost seems easy compared, you just turned up, worked, and went home, here I've got to do assignments and things so generally have to be much more organised. Ah well, nice long breaks are a big advantage, your never likely to get that in a job, I certainly never did; sorry, thats probably not helping :o:(
 
Whilst i complain about it constantly i actually quite enjoy working. I like having the structure to both my day and week, i like the fact i'm forced to socialise everyday, i even like the office politics and associated drama you get with almost all jobs.

My attitude to working has always been that it's the means to better enjoy the rest of my life. Whilst i certainly hope to progress in my career i don't see it as the be all and end all and i don't strive to have a job i love. As long as i'm doing something i don't dislike and i'm paid a reasonable amount then the holidays and weekend are where my real life is lived.
 
I've worked, only part time, for less than a year in a supermarket and I've recently been approached being asked to go full time as a supervisor on a different department (I'm not considering this bad as I'm only 18).

It's not at all what I was planning to do with my life but can't seem to find any work in the line I want so may take it as I could do with the extra money and now I've finished college I'm just sat around most days.
 
Good reply Grrrrrr, agree with a lot of that but I couldn't deal with the sheer amount of time at work in relation to your free time. Like you say, so long as it's not something you dislike you can deal with it, unfortunately I certainly haven't enjoyed either of my jobs. In parts yes, the people on the whole have been good in both, but the jobs themselves no.
 
I did a 2 year IT course then started an apprenteship and found the job utterly boring and didn't really want to finish so i left an now back at college. Best thing to do is either get a trade or find differant area's of the industry you can work with, you're not stuck with the 1 company (unless its the job on the whole you're unimpressed with).

Just dont do what i did and go see a career's advisor at my local connections, worst advice i have ever been given :D.
 
I don't exactly enjoy work but I can't think of many things I would actually enjoy doing that someone would pay me for. It is the best out of most other jobs I can imagine me doing and I really have it quite good compared to many.

But 5 days 9-5 and 2 days off at weekend compared to Uni life is rubbish. However the only eay to not have to do that is to work hard and get a better job.

Now working less hours and on much more money than when I started 3 years ago. :)

You have to remember you are kind of at the worst point right now, but atleast a degree gives you a headstart.

will retire at 30. :cool:
 
starfighter said:
But 5 days 9-5 and 2 days off at weekend compared to Uni life is rubbish.

will retire at 30. :cool:
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the amount of free time is easily missed, 2 days a week compared to uni where some weeks during my last year i'd maybe only have to do c/wrk for 3/4 days and even then i could spread it out and only do bits here and there everyday, and first year where i pretty much got away with doing very little at all; was way too easy.
On the plus side i do like knowing that once 6pm roles around i'm finished and don't have to worry about doing anything more until 9am the next day.
 
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