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ladysolitary85 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: Growing up question

If you could do anything (anything you wanted) in a job what would it be? It doesn't matter on your experience now, but if you could go back and do it all over again, what would you do and why? thought this would be fun because I'm having trouble figuring out what I want to do and I'm 22 years old Confused

So I'd like to get some ideas from you guys Smile

plus hearing your answers would be fun Very Happy

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ladysolitary85 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:58 am Post subject:

Oh come on 6 viewers and no respond? come on guys speak up, anything I don't care how silly or lame it might sound, just speak up. Smile

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Eric · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:59 am Post subject:

I'd be a pilot. I've always loved flying. I was all set to go to the Air Force Academy, but I found out when I was a junior in high school that I needed glasses. At the time I thought that the airlines took all of their pilots from the Air Force. I didn't find out until much later that a significant number of pilots don't come from the military and that you don't have to have perfect vision to get your commercial certification.

ladysolitary85 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:02 am Post subject:

Ziola · The Order of Denderah Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 5774

As much as I would love to impart some great wisdom as to what I would like to be doing instead of what I am doing, I can't. Ever since I was 2 years old, I told people that I wanted to be a dance teacher. I went to college for it, I taught for many different studios and now I own my own. It has always been my dream and the fact that I never gave up on it and never let other's opinions about my dream change it is something I am really proud of. My mother wanted me to pick another career, one that would make me more money, but it has never been about becoming rich...its about making my heart happy. My advice would be to find out what truly makes you happy and go for it. Anything less is selling out....

colbertnationgirl · Hymn of One Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 14893

I have no idea what I want to do. It scares me. Sad

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VeiwerZane · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Growing up question

Broken Kid · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 5276

What I learned from my experience knowing what I wanted to do, doing it for a few years, and discovering it's not really what I want to do: It's not that important to get a job doing what you love. Most of us will never have a job doing what we love. If we did, we'd have very few garbage men and burger flippers. If you can, you're very lucky, and that's something to strive for. But it's not required. Instead, get a job you don't mind and that pays you enough to do what you love on your time.

In my experience, I love(d) to write. I got a job doing it full-time and realized I had no interest in writing for me in my spare time. It kind of defeated the purpose.
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Wrathie · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

I would re-live the moment i went to my first football match in 1998...wembley division 2 play off....pure class Cool

Renegade · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:

I want to be a computer game programmer. And although I probably won't be one right out of uni, I'm pretty confident I'll make it some day.

If it comforts you, I more or less stumbled into actually studying as well. I had said for years that I was not gonna study, I never tried to accomplish anything great (grade-wise) in school, since I assumed I wouldn't need it, and I had no idea what I'd do when I left school.

I only decided to try to get a place in uni after I was drafted and half-way through my basic training. Call me arrogant, but it was a thought along the lines of "I don't wanna spend the rest of my life like this...someone's lowly henchman. I'm better than this.". And yet, even after deciding that, and after finishing service, I still wasn't going anywhere. The specific course I was hoping for only started in winter semester, so I had to wait half a year until I could even try getting into it - and with my grades, it didn't look good. In the end, I got admitted, but only because less people applied than they had places.

And even now, I cannot be sure I'll make it, because I already failed my first two attempts on my transition exams. Go me. -_-

Yet, I don't really worry. Even if I fail, there are enough options to get into a programming job, and I'll make it one way or another.

Hence my advice: Figure out what you like to do. Not job-wise, life wise. What hobbies you have. What you enjoy doing. Then check out what jobs there are in that sector, and what you have to do to be allowed to do them. And then, be realistic. Search for a realistic way for your dream job. I know full well I'm not gonna be a high-level programmer at Petroglyph when I finished studying. I know I'm gonna spend several years coding office applications or web sites. But I know just as well that, using the same skills, I can start coding games in my spare time, and then get my foot into the door. So find out what you'd really really really really really really really really really really like to do, and then look for realistic steps to go there.

A path of Highschool -> College -> Dream job will always look unrealistic and impossible.
But if you find a way akin to Highschool -> College -> Job A -> Job B -> Job C -> Dream job, and A->B->C is entirely possible, the jump to dream job starts to look a lot more realistic all of a sudden.

Final note: Pick something where you not only like the end results, or parts of it, but the process of work as well. I see that in uni a lot: There are those of us who live coding and, as boring as it is some times, love and feel it, and those of us who're just touching it now for the first time, simply because it is part of their course. The latter ones seem to see it merely as a task...an annoying obstacle. They're simply using what they learned in class, and not much beyond it - resulting in bad code. Working, yes, but in no way good.
So, when looking for your future job, always keep in mind that the job is not what you create - but how you create it. If you'd love to be someone who sells beautiful photographs, but hate taking pictures, there's no use trying to become a photographer. If you'd like to travel the world, but hate interacting with people, there's no use trying to be a stewardess.

Contrary to what Broken Kid says, I think it's very important you get a job you enjoy doing. The job you choose will probably dominate half or your waking day for the next fifty years - I don't think these will be very enjoyable, if half of your day is only "tolerable"...

P.S.: As somebody who's served in the military, let me tell you: It's not that great. Too many idiots that are allowed to give orders -_-

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LesterG · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

I would have joined Boxing, trained really hard and loved it...

also finished college and got my degree. got a good job and saved up money...

but then I would've never met my wife and had my unnaturally strong son.... I can't say that I would go back for risk of missing out on meeting my wife...

can't say I wish I could've dated other women before I met her... but then what if I met someone else that I would fall for and never meet her?

I can't say I wish I never did drugs and partied... cause then I'ld end up doing it at a more crucial part of my life and lost even more then losing nothing...

well... the only thing I would've changed would be the boxing thing and just have more money and be more financially stable and be exactly where I am now. Now, those things...I don't have to wish I could change, I could do it today Wink

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VeiwerZane · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the amazing advice renagade i think i should say congrats on getting where you are i think... Id quote some pats it but its a bit to get around.

As a small note im in the uk where it goes primary>secondry>sixth form/college>uni.

gah my parents have been nagging me to take up something in the next month or so i plan on dragging myself to the job centre just to get something for the summer. and my current course has a second year so iv got a good amount of time to work towards it.

Damn i love these forums the comunitys so much better than others.

LesterG · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

heh too true and very diverse
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JellyFish72 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject:

I'd be either a dancer or on Broadway. I've danced since I was little, but blew my knee when I was 12, and had to quit dance. I've started it again (I'm 16 now), but I'll never be able to get back down to 95 pounds, or even 110. Broadway, I could do the dance, but I don't have the voice for it.

Otherwise, I'd love to be a linguist or a professional student. I love learning new languages... heck, I love learning in general. Those two would be the two perfect careers for me.

But I can't do any of those, so I'm just going to overachieve and double major in Computer Engineering and Computer Science with at least a minor in Linguistics - Spoken Languages.
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