Do you have a career objective?

Winning_Stroke

Well do you have a career objective? Is their a position or role that you're aiming towards? If so, how's it going?

I'm pretty much where I want to be at. I do software dev (like 90% of you) and have no interest in management or any of that crap. I'm quite happy to stay at this role, getting more pay mind, til I retire.

Your Face

Yes and I'm more or less there.

Loafing Oaf

Just hanging on until we get 'universal basic income':P

NeinNeinNein

Avoid getting sacked.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Get to retirement age in one piece and get the fcuk out of here.

WrenBoy

Mo' money

SantaClaw

Be good at my job

MrAbyss

Nope. Just moved from one job to the next. Only interested in doing stuff for money. I only want a job. Not a career. This way I don't work endless hours for free and the employer can go feck the right off when I walk out on Friday evening until Monday morning.

The most unhappy people I have ever known in my life are career-focused for the company. They are like Mormons or JWs pretending everything is great when you can see the abject misery in their eyes. They know they are slaves.

nelly17

Retirement

belfe

Yes, but it changes almost every year. With time, I've realized that long-term objectives are always broken by unexpected events, then I go year by year.

I'm also doing software dev and is where I want to be, also not interested in management, but there are many roles in software dev where I could do mostly the same but with more money, like technical lead or architect, that I still can improve in my career and still do the same type of tasks.

Jurgen The German

Yep. I plan to stay in my current job for the next 3 years, gain LCOI (compliance qualification) then move into the central bank in a supervisory / consulting role. Hopefully live long enough to pay mortgage, see kids through college and retire with a decent pension, will probably have to work til I'm 68 anyway so if I get another 10 years or so after that in relatively good health I'll be chuffed.

jimgoose

Money.

howamidifferent

Only goal is to live long enough to collect and spend my pension.

Potential-Monke

The dream is to work as little, or not at all, while still getting extremely well paid. Haven't managed it yet though, but did the Euromillions, so fingers crossed (again, even week, for 18 years now).

LaFuton

slowly rid the corporate world of biros, been campaigning for years, got wheelybins full, had to rent self storage.

anyone wanna buy a nearly new biro? must only be used for art.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Yup, retirement.

I'm considering retiring this year actually. After 35 years I feel its time to call it a day

My goal is to collect my pension for longer then I pay into it.
Retirement in 9 years

corner of hells

Yes , one more mission to complete and then I'll be a sergeant major in Call of Duty.

The rest of yiz are in software dev. , I didn't know that.

smurfjed

Literally going higher and faster 45,000 feet and 628 nautical miles per hour so far.

s7ryf3925pivug

Not dealing with ****tards... A nebulous and transient thing to seek

rosmoke

No, I am extremely happy where I am.
SE here doing exactly what I want, plenty of things to learn, only thing it's that I am quite underpaid and I refused slightly higher offers due to extra commute (currently it takes me 3 min to get to work).
In the future I plan to retire early and go to a sunny place.
I wanna enjoy life, I don't need the latest 121 plate car or iPhone.

Tell me how

Yes.

Ultimately it means earning pretty much what I think I will need to live the quality of life I want to from 50 onward. But.... only having to work max 20 hour/week to do so.
So consultancy is the target, which should be possible in the industries I work in.
Key for next 10 years is to build up the experience to make companies want to pay me as such, in that way.

I do enjoy what I do and want to continue to learn within it but do want to working towards that point where I can actively think about the hours I want to work instead of need to work.
Obviously, life/family/health situation will impact on the above plan.

MrAbyss

MrAbyss wrote: »

Nope. Just moved from one job to the next. Only interested in doing stuff for money. I only want a job. Not a career. This way I don't work endless hours for free and the employer can go feck the right off when I walk out on Friday evening until Monday morning.

The most unhappy people I have ever known in my life are career-focused for the company. They are like Mormons or JWs pretending everything is great when you can see the abject misery in their eyes. They know they are slaves.

Totally agree. I worked on a career for many years, and in the end, I just found it wasn't worth the sacrifices made along the way. In work an hour early, leaving work two hours late most evenings, taking calls at all hours, few chances for real vacations, etc. And then you look at those "who made it". Stomach ulcers, premature gray hair, heart attacks in their 40s, broken marriages, etc. Nah. Bugger that.

Now, I work at my own pace, and have my own objectives. It's a career (due to long-term goals), but it's not dependent on employers.

Irish_rat

Pay off the mortgage as soon as possible

NSAman

Pretty much happy with what I do. It is not a career as such though. Something I developed and started to work i by accident.

Enjoy my life as much as I can, but there needs to be a work / life balance which is vital. I probably work too much, but I enjoy what I do immensely and find it interesting and educational practically every day. Family ALWAYS come first now ahead of work/business.

Future objectives: find a successor to take it over and develop it further.

Psychlops

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

I do software dev (like 90% of you)

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

ancapailldorcha

Not really. I'm happy enough but some sort of overall structure or direction would be nice.

The chan chan man

I’m a director of a large engineering consultancy. I’ve worked as an engineer all my working life, and always wanted, when I was younger, to get ‘to the top’.. I now care more about my life, kids, wife, family, holidays etc etc and would happily change jobs in the morning because nothing is that important. I think at this stage I’ve just seen through everyone’s bullsh1t.

You get one go at this life folks. A job is just that, a job.. Don’t get too hung up on it.

bitofabind

Keep getting better. Keep learning.

I work for a relatively small company that's post start-up but still growing up, so I get to learn on the job a lot, my current role is kinda like an MBA in sales and business management.

It's also fast paced and high stress with big commissions on bigger deals, so the plan is to make loads of money fast and then move up to middle management at a different company where I can make good money but chill the fcuk out a little more.

mikeecho

I'm counting down to retirement.

I've an app on my phone.

13yrs 8 months. Minus annual leave and a ball of sick leave

I'll get it down to 13yrs from now.

ED E

If I follow the org chart to the top there's a billionaire there. Wouldn't mind having their seat tbh.

(Will never happen)

the_syco

belfe wrote: »

Yes, but it changes almost every year. With time, I've realized that long-term objectives are always broken by unexpected events, then I go year by year.

Likewise.
When I was 1st level tech support, I wanted to be deskside support.
Now that I'm here, I want to gain the experience to be 3rd level.
Once there, shall probably go into networking.

There is no "end goal"; there is only going forward.

=-=

Have done the dole. Was bored. Not sure if I'll like retirement. Shall probably do consultant work when officially forced to retire.

touts

I didn't. Now all I know is the career path I'm on ends in an early grave with no balance along the way. My career goal is to get off this ****ing threadmill and find something I enjoy even if that means less money.

mookishboy

25 years in IT last 5 with chipzilla with 1.5 hr drive and 12 hour shift. Now 6 mins from work, 30k pay cut happy as a dog with 2 tails.
it pays the mortgage and everything else is gravy. Have zero interest in corporate ladder climbing nonsense. Being flat out for a company that doesn't appreciate the individual is no way to live. I have all i need and career/money is irrelevant to me.

Its a matter of perspective i suppose, get stuck into a job try to progress there and make more money. spend more time there, climb the ladder make more money, spend less time at home etc etc. That is not a proper life. Yes you have plenty of money and a massive mortgage, living in an estate where the neighbors can hear you having a dump and the kids are afraid to walk to the shops because its a mad world out there. Work away with that lifestyle. Some chains are invisible and the chafing feels like love, sometimes...

Lewis_Benson

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

Well do you have a career objective? Is their a position or role that you're aiming towards? If so, how's it going?

I'm pretty much where I want to be at. I do software dev (like 90% of you) and have no interest in management or any of that crap. I'm quite happy to stay at this role, getting more pay mind, til I retire.

No.

wmahcm

Objective number 1 is to drop out of the rat race and let the rats at it.

ILoveYourVibes

My career objective is to help people through my career

chrissb8

MrAbyss wrote: »

Nope. Just moved from one job to the next. Only interested in doing stuff for money. I only want a job. Not a career. This way I don't work endless hours for free and the employer can go feck the right off when I walk out on Friday evening until Monday morning.

The most unhappy people I have ever known in my life are career-focused for the company. They are like Mormons or JWs pretending everything is great when you can see the abject misery in their eyes. They know they are slaves.

That's very assuming. Some of the people I know have had great success in their careers and see it as a rewarding part of their life.

Maybe for something they do 5 days a week they want it to have meaning to them?

Doing the same relative thing without a movement in regards to more responsibility or challenges for years and years would bore the s***e out of me.

Just because someone is career orientated doesn't mean they have "no life" outside of it. They probably had years of fun before and are most likely focusing until they get to a level they're happy at.

wmahcm

So many people seem to think their life is going to begin when they retire . . .madness.

You need to get out long before then.

So, I've reach the end of career. Working at a senior level. Whilst I could go into industry/community/management community. I feel I would miss out on on the contributions I make in individuals lives.

Maybe I won't be able to tell my my grandchildren I'm a millionaire but at least I made a difference.

wmahcm

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So, I've reach the end of career. Working at a senior level. Whilst I could go into industry/community/management community. I feel I would miss out on on the contributions I make in individuals lives.

Maybe I won't be able to tell my my grandchildren I'm a millionaire but at least I made a difference.

It's frighting how many people in Irish society now think money is a measure of "success"

ILoveYourVibes

wmahcm wrote: »

It's frighting how many people in Irish society now think money is a measure of "success"

I think it would be unwise to say its not in some way.

It's not the whole of success though.

But yes I would be wary of someone who had a value system of 'whoever made the most cash is the best'.

wmahcm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I think it would be unwise to say its not in some way.

It's not the whole of success though.

Well that depends on your definition "success", and anyone on the path to wisdom has learned money isn't.

Raconteuse

Anyone would like to earn enough money to be comfortable, not worry about bills etc. There's this condemnation of the desire for monetary gain as if massive wealth accumulation is the only thing it means.

And only people on big money can make a choice like early retirement, or "downsize" to a much lower paying job.

My career objective is to continue earning enough not to have money worries yet limited stress, which is my situation now except I'd like to do something different to what I'm currently doing as I'm bored with it.

suicide_circus

my career objectives?

To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me and to hear the lamentation of their women.

wmahcm

suicide_circus wrote: »

my career objectives?

To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me and to hear the lamentation of their women.

along with raping their cattle and stampeding their women ?