Are You In The Right Job?

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 02:34PM #1

This is not so much about whether you're happy in your job or how much you earn but more about is the job right for you? For example you might be earning big money as a partner in a law firm but would you be more content up to your elbows in oil and grease tinkering with a car?

In order to truly give your job 100% I feel that you have to be doing something you're passionate about, no matter what the renumeration. I'm sure many of us have felt like throwing the towel in and persuing our dream job but has anyone out there had the balls to do it?

oldyouth · 06-03-2012 02:39PM

My job was right for me in the past, no longer have ANY desire to keep it going. Told the boss last week I'm gone in a couple of months. Life is for the living. Haven't even researched the financial implications (which shouldn't be too bad) but I'm done

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-03-2012 02:40PM

If you are in the right job it does not feel like a job

smash · 06-03-2012 02:40PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I'm sure many of us have felt like throwing the towel in and persuing are dream job but has anyone out there had the balls to do it?

I'd love to do that

Yakult · 06-03-2012 02:41PM

Don't know why you would do something that you have no passion for. Done it before and will not do it again. Would rather stay unemployed than waste my life doing something I don't even like.

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 02:43PM

Yakult wrote: »

Don't know why you would do something that you have no passion for. Done it before and will not do it again. Would rather stay unemployed than waste my life doing something I don't even like.

Financial commitments?

summerskin · 06-03-2012 02:43PM

Yakult wrote: »

Don't know why you would do something that you have no passion for. Done it before and will not do it again. Would rather stay unemployed than waste my life doing something I don't even like.

So you'd rather be a drain on the state and drive taxes up for the rest of us than knuckle down and work for a living? What a wonderful person you must be.

Jobs aren't for pleasure, they are a means to an end. Hobbies are for pleasure.

Dubit10 · 06-03-2012 02:44PM

I earn just a little over minimum wage but i love my job helping people who can't look after themselves. I also can go home and look myself in the mirror at the end of the day which means a lot as in a previous job i earned a hell of a lot more money but hated the position and people i worked with.

El Guapo! · 06-03-2012 02:45PM

I hate my job with a passion. There's nothing I hate more than what I do for a living. Everyday is torture and it's depressing me to come in to work everyday. It's utterly soul destroying and I'm on the verge of going postal.
Problem is, I can't afford to quit so I'm stuck here till I find something else.

Sleepy · 06-03-2012 02:45PM

Really? You can't fathom why someone would do something they didn't enjoy in order to provide for their family?

I never found a "passion" for something I could be employed in as a teenager so studied stuff I was good at in college and ended up doing it for a living. Even now, if I could go back and do it all again, I'm not sure that there's anything someone can get paid to do that I'd be passionate enough to pursue as a career...

My hope is that me doing this will enable my daughter to find her passions in life and pursue those rather than following my footsteps into the humdrum of a "normal" / "good" job...

foxyboxer · 06-03-2012 02:45PM

There's a test for this.

Imagine if you were guaranteed your salary every month but did not have to show up for your current job...

How would you fill your time?

If you're quite happy to continue on with your current job then you're in the right role.

If you'd rather tinker with a car engine then you're not.
If you'd rather stay in bed all day and watch Jeremy Kyle then your ideal role is on the dole.

Simple.

foxyboxer · 06-03-2012 02:47PM

As for not wanting to stay in a role you have no passion for, i'd use the analogy of a relationship with no passion.

Sure you get no satisfaction from it but the regular sex (salary) makes you stay in it regardless.

FortuneChip · 06-03-2012 02:48PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

There's a test for this.

Imagine if you were guaranteed your salary every month but did not have to show up for your current job...

How would you fill your time?

If you're quite happy to continue on with your current job then you're in the right role.

If you'd rather tinker with a car engine then you're not.
If you'd rather stay in bed all day and watch Jeremy Kyle then you're ideal role is on the dole.

Simple.

Please use SPOILERS!
It's not a test if you give us the answers

sbsquarepants · 06-03-2012 02:48PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

In order to truly give your job 100% I feel that you have to be doing something you're passionate about, no matter what the renumeration. I'm sure many of us have felt like throwing the towel in and persuing our dream job but has anyone out there had the balls to do it?

This is wishfull thinking bullshít to be honest. There aren't too many people in Ireland who get to do something they are passionate about for a living. The vast majority end up doing something they can tolerate in order to pay their bills. In less fortunate countries it's probably something they can't even tolerate, but must do to survive.

Yakult wrote: »

Don't know why you would do something that you have no passion for. Done it before and will not do it again. Would rather stay unemployed than waste my life doing something I don't even like.

See above. You're living in cloud cuckoo land.

emzolita · 06-03-2012 02:48PM

No. I wanna be a baker/confectioner, it used to be a trade that you could learn, but nowadays, you need to have a degree in pastry arts to do it.
I'm good at it too, always have people asking me to make them cakes etc.
I'm a trained childcare worker and special needs assistant, but don't feel like this is the job for me, but don't have the money for a degree.

Yakult · 06-03-2012 02:48PM

summerskin wrote: »

So you'd rather be a drain on the state and drive taxes up for the rest of us than knuckle down and work for a living? What a wonderful person you must be.

Jobs aren't for pleasure, they are a means to an end. Hobbies are for pleasure.

Of course not, both are bad places to be.
I'd rather look/wait for a job I'd like to do and if I need support til I find one, then be it.

Jobs aren't for pleasure? Bollix to that. if you dont get pleasure from doing your job, whats the point?

krudler · 06-03-2012 02:51PM

Dean09 wrote: »

I hate my job with a passion. There's nothing I hate more than what I do for a living. Everyday is torture and it's depressing me to come in to work everyday. It's utterly soul destroying and I'm on the verge of going postal.
Problem is, I can't afford to quit so I'm stuck here till I find something else.

same, interviewed for somewhere else who only told me afterwards they had finished hiring for the moment and would let me know when they would be again, ffs :rolleyes: looking more and more likely going abroad is the way to go, have nothing keeping me here

summerskin · 06-03-2012 02:52PM

Yakult wrote: »

summerskin wrote: »

So you'd rather be a drain on the state and drive taxes up for the rest of us than knuckle down and work for a living? What a wonderful person you must be.

Jobs aren't for pleasure, they are a means to an end. Hobbies are for pleasure.

Of course not, both are bad places to be.
I'd rather look/wait for a job I'd like to do and if I need support til I find one, then be it.

I'm guessing you are under 25 and still live at home? Either that or a student.

Either way, get yourself a job and stop making the rest of us support your world of Warcraft subscription.

Most of the workforce don't enjoy their jobs, but do it to support families or themselves without being a useless leech. Work to live. We use our earnings to fund our hobbies and interests that make life worth living.

Grow up.

steve9859 · 06-03-2012 02:52PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

There's a test for this.

If you'd rather stay in bed all day and watch Jeremy Kyle then your ideal role is on the dole.

Simple.

Except that if that is what you want to do, your dole is going to get taken away (and the sooner they get on with doing that, the better)

Sleepy · 06-03-2012 02:52PM

Yakult wrote:

Of course not, both are bad places to be.
I'd rather look/wait for a job I'd like to do and if I need support til I find one, then be it.

Jobs aren't for pleasure? Bollix to that. if you dont get pleasure from doing your job, whats the point?

You get to say you're not a parasite for a start.

gbee · 06-03-2012 02:52PM

I was passionate about photography, got some work in the early days and it just spoilt it for me so I got a series of jobs pumping gas, van assistant, forks driver, tyre fitter two counts at store manger and ended my working career as a 24hr breakdown service.

Used my redundancy to set up my own little business, in photography, but that has become work and it ain't giving a weekly like the others did ~ am looking for van driving job again ....

starbelgrade · 06-03-2012 02:56PM

summerskin wrote: »

Jobs aren't for pleasure, they are a means to an end. Hobbies are for pleasure.

I don't think it's as black & white as that. Employment certainly provides a means to an end, but in order to be happy in life and successful in your career, you need to gain a good modicum of pleasure or satisfaction from your work.

There are times when you will work at anything to put bread on the table, but long term, those type of jobs are unsustainable for your well being.

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 02:57PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

This is wishfull thinking bullshít to be honest. There aren't too many people in Ireland who get to do something they are passionate about for a living. The vast majority end up doing something they can tolerate in order to pay their bills. In less fortunate countries it's probably something they can't even tolerate, but must do to survive.

It's pretty depressing to think that most people are doing a job they can just about tollerate in order to cover the bills. There's something very wrong with our schooling / career guidance system so.

thebigbiffo · 06-03-2012 03:00PM

Love my job. Work on the commercial side of media for a relatively good wage. Problem? My boss is a c'unt and he's ruining my life.

Terrible that I'm actively considering leaving a job I'm excellent at, in a company I really like with colleagues I respect because I refuse to fawn all over some jumped up git with a bigger ego than Stalin - and the lack of f'ucking conscience to match. That's what I get for having too much pride to kiss ass like a pornstar. Feeling a lot like McNulty from The Wire recently.

/rant

foxyboxer · 06-03-2012 03:01PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

It's pretty depressing to think that most people are doing a job they can just about tollerate in order to cover the bills. There's something very wrong with our schooling / career guidance system so.

Our education system does groom people to become employees and not (self) employers.

Yakult · 06-03-2012 03:01PM

summerskin wrote: »

I'm guessing you are under 25 and still live at home? Either that or a student.

Either way, get yourself a job and stop making the rest of us support your world of Warcraft subscription.

Most of the workforce don't enjoy their jobs, but do it to support families or themselves without being a useless leech. Work to live. We use our earnings to fund our hobbies and interests that make life worth living.

Grow up.

You don't even know me, so **** off with your stereotyping b/s!
Part-time job + student btw and don't play that game.

Theirs no wrong answer, if I want to work a job I have passion about or get enjoyment out of, who are you to tell me different?

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 03:14PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

Our education system does groom people to become employees and not (self) employers.

Yeah but the point is you're sat down at 15/16 and made fill out CAO / CAS forms and there's a good chance you won't have a whole lot of interest in the choices you're making.

Wouldn't it be a whole lot better if you were sat down when you begin secondary and asked 'what do you want to do when you grow up'? I'm not saying an 11/12 year old can possibly know what they want to do with the rest of their life but there's a strong chance they will have already developed passions that they will persue for much of their life.

For example if the 11/12 year old answered 'I want to be a race car driver' they're obviously in to cars. Even though that would be a very difficult career to persue a good guidance counsellor would (IMO) advise that they take metalwork and woodwork as opposed to geography and French or whatever. They should also advise the child to look forward to getting a part time / summer job at the nearest karting track (karting is where many race drivers begin their careers). The kid is now persuing their current passion and has a much better chance of following their chosen or at least related career. By the time the kid hits 15/16 and it's CAO / CAS time they might realise that racing driving is a bit of a long shot but mechanical engineering or automotive design would enable them to work in an industry they are passionate about.

This is not what's happening in this country IMO. Instead it appears there's a lot of people out there doing jobs they don't relate to in order to cover the bills. Has to be more to life than that.

robbie_998 · 06-03-2012 03:22PM

call center agent.

do i have to say anymore ? :mad:

But im keeping it. better than nothing but i do want something better.

cant bear to be unemployed and the max ive ever being unemployed for was 2 weeks and i never claimed anything.

Sleepy · 06-03-2012 03:30PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

It's pretty depressing to think that most people are doing a job they can just about tollerate in order to cover the bills. There's something very wrong with our schooling / career guidance system so.

Yes and no. If we all got to do our dream job, who'd do the stuff society needs in order to function or an economy needs in order to grow?

Some lucky people get to do jobs they're passionate about. Usually, those who are talented enough or work hard enough (or more typically both in my experience). The rest of us need to do what we need to do to survive.

No one dreams of doing credit control, helpdesk support, financial system implementation, administration, auditing, etc. They all need to be done by someone though. Conversely, whilst so many people dream about being a TV presenter, model, actress, barrister, policeman, author, teacher, surf instructor, fireman, dolphin trainer, video game reviewer or (my own ideal) newspaper columnist we don't all get to be. Society couldn't function if all the people who wanted to do these things had our dream jobs.

Yakult wrote: »

You don't even know me, so **** off with your stereotyping b/s!
Part-time job + student btw and don't play that game.

Theirs no wrong answer, if I want to work a job I have passion about or get enjoyment out of, who are you to tell me different?

I'm guessing he/she's a representative of the group who'll be paying your dole if you believe you're entitled to sit on it waiting for your dream job to materialise.

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 03:31PM

robbie_998 wrote: »

call center agent.

do i have to say anymore ? :mad:

But im keeping it. better than nothing but i do want something better.

cant bear to be unemployed and the max ive ever being unemployed for was 2 weeks and i never claimed anything.

Can I ask you how old you are Robbie? I know you're in to cars but what other passions do you have? What would you like to do for a living?

Big Nasty · 06-03-2012 03:34PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Yes and no. If we all got to do our dream job, who'd do the stuff society needs in order to function or an economy needs in order to grow?

As boring as it might sound to you or me there are people out there who WANT to be accountants.

Like the grease monkey example ones dream job does not have to be an actor or whatever, everyone has their own level, we're just for the most part in the wrong job as far as I can see.

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