Do you enjoy your career?

[Ryazan]

I speak about careers and work and find that most people are not in jobs/careers that they actually like. Is this common or am I speaking to too many miserable people?

What career.

 

[Treacle Toes]

THEY SHOULD JUST KNOW!!!!

I dunno, the Darwinian spirit is dead in modern educayshun

I do hope your joking ....a lot of what i teach is preparation for the level of academic skills required of them at uni.............Don't say the dirty Darwin word again...he has a lot to answer for.

 

[Ryazan]

Streeturchin hasn't answered his call. Been a couple of days now.

 

[8ball]

Sink or swim, I say.

It would make the essays you're given more interesting if the students had no idea how to write them. Think of it like that old footage of when people were trying to make flying machines by driving random aggregations of machine parts, feathers and paper off the end of piers.

Sure, virtually none of them really flew but they were always more interesting in themselves than a procession of Boeings and Airbuses.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Sink or swim, I say.

It would make the essays you're given more interesting if the students had no idea how to write them. Think of it like that old footage of when people were trying to make flying machines by driving random aggregations of machine parts, feathers and paper off the end of piers.

Sure, virtually none of them really flew but they were always more interesting in themselves than a procession of Boeings and Airbuses.

All sounds lovely in an ideal world but unfortunately higher education is governed by what 'tutors' think is acceptable.....not much room for creativitely in the style and format of students essay/report writing...it's more a case of conform to style/format or fail!

 

[Ryazan]

Depending on how imaginative a person is, then there can be some manouverability (probably spelt wrong).

 

[8ball]

Is that true in the world of the humanities?

I always thought they'd allow for a lot more leeway than scientific essays.

 

[Ryazan]

English, if you know how to play with words.

 

[fractionMan]

I enjoy my work as much as possible. I don't dread going, but I don't really want to stay late either. It's better than other lines of work I've done, and that's about all you can hope for I think.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

I quite like my job and don't mind going in most mornings (I only live a 15 min walk away which helps). It's not a career though - the concept seems an odd one to me atm; I may well fall into one at some point or another though.