DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
a person who gets paid to loll around doing fuck all except write and eat
If you could change careers... what would you change to?
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subversplat
writer of wrongs
Sleb journalist
obanite
Kroketten
Haha, I don't work in the games industry anymore... way too much 'compulsory' overtime for the money
Free Radical have gone under now too, which has left some of my mates in the shit 
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Hard boiled private dick
Been doing the private sector thing over ten years.
When you understand business like I have learned to over the years you can teach most people how to run their companies successfully and ethically (as much as possible) but the house of cards is tumbling right now.
My issue is that I have too many morals (yeah, I know it is a shock) to actually make a proper (greedy) living from it. I have got to the stage where I can do the job by only working an hour a day and although most of my work is done by other people I set this up and manage it, but it means I have to be 'on call' nearly 24/7 and I grow weary of it all.
Sales (like all business) is much maligned and I have made people millionaires while seeing others go to ruin over the years. I had just got to the point where I was running my own company within a large company so had been working almost totally with the not for profit sector and was actually making progress. Now the failings of the greedy have f*cked me once more and I get to start from scratch in the same industry or change direction again.
My 'chosen' job is something that I could/should do on top of a full time job but my working day leaves me shattered and lacking in any motivation most days. Living in London it is virtually impossible to save decent money (while having a life) so I can't just take a few months out to gather my thoughts. I pretty much work (or am at least on call) 24/7 right now but always thought I could do the job well. However I have finally admitted defeat as there is no changing the mindset of the greedy people who are f*cking our way of life.
How many times do you just agree with people who tell you that you should be doing something before you actually do it and hope that it works for you? Or do you just stick with the system and risk regretting it one day? Are you wasting your life or is the trick just to exist and be thankful for the good things (wife, friends, family, fun and other things) while they last?
Do you compare your life to the lives of other people in other situations or other countries? Is this just an excuse for being lazy and not grabbing opportunities with both hands while you are still fairly (just) young? I find the whole thing confusing and irritating in equal measures as I type and my mind whirls at a thousand miles per hour.
When you understand business like I have learned to over the years you can teach most people how to run their companies successfully and ethically (as much as possible) but the house of cards is tumbling right now.
My issue is that I have too many morals (yeah, I know it is a shock) to actually make a proper (greedy) living from it. I have got to the stage where I can do the job by only working an hour a day and although most of my work is done by other people I set this up and manage it, but it means I have to be 'on call' nearly 24/7 and I grow weary of it all.
Sales (like all business) is much maligned and I have made people millionaires while seeing others go to ruin over the years. I had just got to the point where I was running my own company within a large company so had been working almost totally with the not for profit sector and was actually making progress. Now the failings of the greedy have f*cked me once more and I get to start from scratch in the same industry or change direction again.
My 'chosen' job is something that I could/should do on top of a full time job but my working day leaves me shattered and lacking in any motivation most days. Living in London it is virtually impossible to save decent money (while having a life) so I can't just take a few months out to gather my thoughts. I pretty much work (or am at least on call) 24/7 right now but always thought I could do the job well. However I have finally admitted defeat as there is no changing the mindset of the greedy people who are f*cking our way of life.
How many times do you just agree with people who tell you that you should be doing something before you actually do it and hope that it works for you? Or do you just stick with the system and risk regretting it one day? Are you wasting your life or is the trick just to exist and be thankful for the good things (wife, friends, family, fun and other things) while they last?
Do you compare your life to the lives of other people in other situations or other countries? Is this just an excuse for being lazy and not grabbing opportunities with both hands while you are still fairly (just) young? I find the whole thing confusing and irritating in equal measures as I type and my mind whirls at a thousand miles per hour.
8ball
World is a fuck
Haha, I don't work in the games industry anymore... way too much 'compulsory' overtime for the money
I see - so is this you researching your next career move?
How about cocaine tester?
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
If I really had to choose it would be a ballet teacher but I dont have enough grades. Too old now anyway.
obanite
Kroketten
Haha, nah, I'm actually pretty happy where I am at the moment (desktop software), the people are great, the money's decent and (touch wood) we've not been hit hard by the recession...yet.... it's just something I was thinking about and do think about sometimes, and I was interested in what other people thought
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
oh wow - when i was in my twenties i was desperate to be a wedding planner!Me too, or a wedding planner.
There are wedding planning schools but it costs a fortune. If I came into some money I would set up my own company.
Surely you don't need to go to school to be a wedding planner?
I think you and spangles should go into business
do you know where she lives??? on. the. moon. or very nearly. a long way away at any rate. I can't commute to the moon. Peckham Rye very nearly finishes me off.
greedy banker
I have a very large penis
navy pilot or astronaut, seems obvious to me really
If I really had to choose it would be a ballet teacher but I dont have enough grades. Too old now anyway.
One of my ballet teachers was still teaching in her sixties
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
@ Badgers - you sound fed up with your job - was it just a bad day or more serious?
@stobbart stopper - my friends sister trained as a dance (and ballet) teacher in her late 40's/early 50's as she'd always wanted to be a dancer - she really enjoys it and its inspired two of her girls to study dance in Leeds - northern contempory dance?
@me - I'd like to be a dance movement therapist cos I always wanted to be a dancer then I worked with children and now do movement work with them - thing is I like the money and security of being paid as a teacher
@everyone - its important to hold onto dreams and let dreams evolve and chase them and keep passionate about life and find ways to do things important when we can
(i've been on an inspiring conference about education and creativity this weekend)
@stobbart stopper - my friends sister trained as a dance (and ballet) teacher in her late 40's/early 50's as she'd always wanted to be a dancer - she really enjoys it and its inspired two of her girls to study dance in Leeds - northern contempory dance?
@me - I'd like to be a dance movement therapist cos I always wanted to be a dancer then I worked with children and now do movement work with them - thing is I like the money and security of being paid as a teacher
@everyone - its important to hold onto dreams and let dreams evolve and chase them and keep passionate about life and find ways to do things important when we can
(i've been on an inspiring conference about education and creativity this weekend)
Looby
Well-Known Member
I really wanted to do this and applied for a job as a debt advisor for Shelter but I didn't have enough experience.
Apparently the best way to get into it is to volunteer which I can't afford to do as it meant reducing my hours at work.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Well, I can change career. The only things I can think of wanting to do other than what I'm doing now are becoming a chef or being in a rock star. I'm not prepared to put in the stupid long unsociable hours and low pay to be a chef. As for being a rock star, I'm in a band now, and we're working on it.
obanite
Kroketten
Sound engineer would be pretty
I reckon. I'd like to get more into "making music" of some kind, but there's so many choices Gonna stick to fucking about on my decks for now I think.
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
I'd like this please.
http://www.islandreefjob.com/
Or I'd like to own a bookshop with a pub attached, and a nice restaurant maybe.
Although I'd settle for being a librarian.
http://www.islandreefjob.com/
Or I'd like to own a bookshop with a pub attached, and a nice restaurant maybe.
Although I'd settle for being a librarian.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Interesting thread. I started off as an archaeologist, was very good at it but then got sick of running excavations and all the responsibility for such a measly wage. Wanted some financial reward for such hard work.
Went into IT 8 years ago, chose a difficult and one of the highest paid sectors. Now find that I don't have the talent to be truly good at it and have just started getting overtaken by bright young things. Motivation has been dwindling for a couple of years and I clock watch from 9am every day.
Can't do anything in reggae, my main love, 'cos there's no money at all in it. My mates who have given their lives to it are virtually destitute. It has to remain an interest which I haven't got to make a living from or I'd resent it when I ended up broke.
Would like to be a cabinet maker or make art nouveau furniture but with mortgage, family etc I'm faced with weighing up whether to try and leave this stuff to be happy and broke while retraining yet again or slog on in a job I have no interest in just because it pays well.
Got to do something 'cos it's making me more unhappy and that's no good for me or the family.
Went into IT 8 years ago, chose a difficult and one of the highest paid sectors. Now find that I don't have the talent to be truly good at it and have just started getting overtaken by bright young things. Motivation has been dwindling for a couple of years and I clock watch from 9am every day.
Can't do anything in reggae, my main love, 'cos there's no money at all in it. My mates who have given their lives to it are virtually destitute. It has to remain an interest which I haven't got to make a living from or I'd resent it when I ended up broke.
Would like to be a cabinet maker or make art nouveau furniture but with mortgage, family etc I'm faced with weighing up whether to try and leave this stuff to be happy and broke while retraining yet again or slog on in a job I have no interest in just because it pays well.
Got to do something 'cos it's making me more unhappy and that's no good for me or the family.
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