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The career of my dreams or a job?

  • 07-01-2009 1:46pm
    #1
    Tiger Weenie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    Hi Dare

    I need some advice whether it b sound or not.

    I recently became unemployed again after 2 yrs in a job dat i thought was 2 b for life. i had previously done a fetac business course and got this job as a result. i ave applied for every job advertised on the net and in papers since being let go but can get nothing. i was looking again 2day and came across a course dat i ave wanted 2 do all my life. It is an animal care course. i couldnt get dis course near me when i was looking 2 do something 4yrs ago so i chose the other course as it was all i could get. Office work isnt bad i dont hate it or anything but my passion is animals. The only thing is dare doesnt seem 2 b any work out dare at all for this type of career. The course doesnt start until nxt sept.
    After dat long winded introduction the actual question is:
    Should i follow my heart or my head?
    I ave a teenage son dat will want money in a few yrs for college so should i just stay applying for anything i can get or do i follow my heart.

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Go for it. Its your dream job. Your teenager will be fine.

    My folks didn't pay for my college and while it was admittedly tougher, i think i came out better for it. I realised i was paying for myself and all my work experience makes me far more preferable as a graduate.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Tiger Weenie wrote: »
    Hi Dare.

    This is where I stopped.


  • #4
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    I hope you don't apply for jobs in that retarded text speak.


  • #5
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    This is where I stopped.

    +1


  • #6
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Follow your heart and never in your life write like that again in any communication outside of a SMS please.


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  • #7
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Nody wrote: »
    Follow your heart and never in your life write like that again in any communication outside of a SMS please.

    4rlnig


  • #8
    Ellechim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Ellechim


    Go for it.

    While you're doing the course try to volunteer and get as much relevant experience as possible and just keep looking and take jobs that are similar if not exactly what you're looking for.

    Best of luck.


  • #9
    Tiger Weenie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Tiger Weenie


    Sorry if i offended you, i didn't realise that it was so offensive to type in that way.
    Could this really be the reason i can't get a job?


  • #10
    jimmyneo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭jimmyneo1


    yep


  • #11
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Tiger Weenie wrote: »
    Sorry if i offended you, i didn't realise that it was so offensive to type in that way.
    Could this really be the reason i can't get a job?
    YES!

    Seriously don't write like that in any communication outside of a SMS to friends or chances for you being taken serious are greatly diminished, esp. for job applications and similar occasions (i.e. never send a text asking for a question on the position, call or write a e-/paper mail instead).


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  • #12
    Tiger Weenie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Tiger Weenie


    RedXIV wrote: »
    Go for it. Its your dream job. Your teenager will be fine.

    My folks didn't pay for my college and while it was admittedly tougher, i think i came out better for it. I realised i was paying for myself and all my work experience makes me far more preferable as a graduate.
    That is a great acheivement, i would like to have been as motivated as you when it actually mattered. My parents wouldn't have even dreamt of sending me to college they couldn't wait until i was old enough to leave school and get a job. Even if i had wanted to go at that time. I swore it would never happen to my child and i would do everything i can to help them through college.


  • #13
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Tiger Weenie wrote: »
    Sorry if i offended you, i didn't realise that it was so offensive to type in that way.
    Could this really be the reason i can't get a job?

    Are you serious or joking?

    Do you write in semi-text speak in your cover letter... or CV?!


  • #14
    Tiger Weenie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Tiger Weenie


    Nody wrote: »
    YES!

    Seriously don't write like that in any communication outside of a SMS to friends or chances for you being taken serious are greatly diminished, esp. for job applications and similar occasions (i.e. never send a text asking for a question on the position, call or write a e-/paper mail instead).
    I don't actually have my Curriculum Vitae written out like that. I just found it quicker to type like that as i do a lot of typing. The final draft is always in perfect english.


  • #15
    Tiger Weenie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Tiger Weenie


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    Are you serious or joking?

    Do you write in semi-text speak in your cover letter... or CV?!
    Joking, nobody could be that bad. I have had jobs in the past you know i have only been unemployed for six weeks.


  • #16
    cooperguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭cooperguy


    I would say go for it. I would also say u might aswell keep applying for jobs between now and then anyway. You might get a couple of months work out of it and the money would come in handy whan you went back studying.

    Also tis vry anoyin tryn 2 read txt spk. Cn u imagn if de ntire site was lyk dat?


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