Do you have a career objective?

Winning_Stroke · 24-01-2020 10:53AM #1

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 · 24-01-2020 11:02AM

Yes and I'm more or less there.

Loafing Oaf · 24-01-2020 12:21PM

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

24-01-2020 12:22PM

Avoid getting sacked.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 24-01-2020 12:23PM

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

WrenBoy · 24-01-2020 12:24PM

Mo' money

SantaClaw · 24-01-2020 12:26PM

Be good at my job

MrAbyss · 24-01-2020 12:26PM

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 · 24-01-2020 12:27PM

Retirement

belfe · 24-01-2020 12:28PM

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 · 24-01-2020 12:29PM

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 · 24-01-2020 12:31PM

Money.

howamidifferent · 24-01-2020 12:31PM

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

Potential-Monke · 25-01-2020 03:17AM

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 · 25-01-2020 05:08AM

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 · 25-01-2020 07:40AM

Yup, retirement.

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

25-01-2020 09:31AM

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

corner of hells · 25-01-2020 10:46AM

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 · 25-01-2020 11:01AM

Literally going higher and faster

45,000 feet and 628 nautical miles per hour so far.

s7ryf3925pivug · 25-01-2020 11:10AM

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

rosmoke · 25-01-2020 11:16AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:04AM

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.

26-01-2020 12:11AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:20AM

Pay off the mortgage as soon as possible

NSAman · 26-01-2020 12:21AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:25AM

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

I do software dev (like 90% of you)

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ancapailldorcha · 26-01-2020 12:30AM

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

The chan chan man · 26-01-2020 12:38AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:38AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:41AM

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 · 26-01-2020 12:44AM

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

(Will never happen)

Do you have a career objective?

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