BTW Dolly, you could work part time (perhaps in your current job) - I lived on a part time wage for several months and managed to save up to go travelling, then live on what was left of the savings when I got back and couldn't be arsed to get a job - and then do the MA part time at the same time. MA's aren't too much hard work tbh and Goldsmiths is a reeeeeally great place! Lots of cool interesting (often mature) students.
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After worrying about what I was going to do when I grew up for ages I've found myself in a position where I have a job that I don't mind doing, that I can do anywhere. I've come to the conclusion that unless you're lucky enough to have a burning desire to do a certain career and are doing it then your job should be viewed as something you do in order to pay for all the fun stuff you do when you're not working! 
Thing is I haven't ever fit into either category, I neither work to live - it's slightly more than that and I don't care overly for money anyway - nor do I live to work, I have plenty of other things that I love as much, and quite a few that I love a lot more!treefrog said:After worrying about what I was going to do when I grew up for ages I've found myself in a position where I have a job that I don't mind doing, that I can do anywhere. I've come to the conclusion that unless you're lucky enough to have a burning desire to do a certain career and are doing it then your job should be viewed as something you do in order to pay for all the fun stuff you do when you're not working!
I guess a happy medium is ideal though. I think once I have a job that is satisfactory and at least gives me *some* satisfaction, I'll be happy with simply concentrating more effort into my hobbies and things.
"Do anywhere" is particularly important too!
Vixen said:
I think society needs people like you (assuming that you feel the way your post portrayed in the collective sense), people who will aim high, never be satisfied and probably not get stuck in a rut. I think it's great that you feel that way.
However, not everyone feels that way, many many people are perfectly happy to do (what might seem to others) a mundane job very well for years on end. In my "career"(cough), I managed small business accounts and helped people who wanted to start businesses at the smaller end of the scale. The pay was crap (for London), I would never have got past the 25k barrier, but I was perfectly happy and used to turn down promotions all the time because I was really, really happy in my work and good at it. Someone like you stuck in that kind of job for years would have gone insane. I loved it. I loved the fact that I knew it inside out, didn't give a crap about new challenges and stretching myself, and I think there are plenty of people like me out there too.
It takes all sorts.
I dunno though, if I found a job that I was happy with then I'd probably stick with it, providing the pay was enough to live on and a little bit extra - basically "enough" money for me. Sometimes promotion and stuff just means extra work and stress that you might not actually want. I think I'm not really even looking to be at the top, as it were, I just want to get satisfaction from what I'm doing. I can understand why you turned down promotion.lyra_k said:I think society needs people like you (assuming that you feel the way your post portrayed in the collective sense), people who will aim high, never be satisfied and probably not get stuck in a rut. I think it's great that you feel that way.
However, not everyone feels that way, many many people are perfectly happy to do (what might seem to others) a mundane job very well for years on end. In my "career"(cough), I managed small business accounts and helped people who wanted to start businesses at the smaller end of the scale. The pay was crap (for London), I would never have got past the 25k barrier, but I was perfectly happy and used to turn down promotions all the time because I was really, really happy in my work and good at it. Someone like you stuck in that kind of job for years would have gone insane. I loved it. I loved the fact that I knew it inside out, didn't give a crap about new challenges and stretching myself, and I think there are plenty of people like me out there too.
It takes all sorts.
I remember reading somewhere that very intelligent people had a lower chance of being happy, mainly because they had the capability to do lots of different things, but given the employment opportunities on offer (lots of crap jobs, few challenging ones + far too much competition for the latter), were rarely able to find a job that truly stretched them to their maximum. The whole 'option anxiety' thing was there as well.
Thos of low ability tended to be happier, at least partially because shelf-stacking at Sainsbury's (or whatever) was the most they could hope for, so when they got it, all their job-seeking ambitions were fulfilled.
Think it was in the Sunday Times...
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Thos of low ability tended to be happier, at least partially because shelf-stacking at Sainsbury's (or whatever) was the most they could hope for, so when they got it, all their job-seeking ambitions were fulfilled.
Think it was in the Sunday Times...
edit: spelling
I think this applies to one of my friends who is constantly changing the area of psychology she goes into. It doesn't apply to me though as I'm definitely not "very" intelligent. I'm bright but that's as far as I can stretch it I reckon.snoogles said:
I think I was just born unsatisfied.
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snoogles said:
what a patronising full-of-shit study!
can you imagine the times readers sitting back thinking 'oh yes, these thick poor people, can't even begin to better themselves, thank god they've got some shelves to stack'
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