What Job

[Pogue]

Simple question: What job do you do/want to do?

Please don't post any personal details, and obviously don't post anything too specific or that could get you into trouble.

I ask because being 17 this is something I am obviously having to consider alot at the moment.

[Dimentio]

Simple question: What job do you do/want to do?

Please don't post any personal details, and obviously don't post anything too specific or that could get you into trouble.

I ask because being 17 this is something I am obviously having to consider alot at the moment.

I want to be an author.

[Pogue]

Cool, what steps are you taking for that? Uni?

[Niccolò Rossi]

I'm in the same situation at the moment Pogue. I'm 17 and in my last year of highschool and I'm really confused on where go go next and what to do... :unsure:

[Pogue]

Yeh its a bummer isn't it. I'm someone who likes to know what I want to do, too.

[bcbm]

Adventurer and explorer.

[Pogue]

Adventurer and explorer.

i took that at gcse

[bcbm]

I'm actually trying to learn as many trades as possible.

[F9]

i took that at gcse

:ohmy:there is such thing in gcses?:ohmy:
Anw im 17 too, but im not and that worry or something what to do, basically what really is in my mind now, is if we get championship:lol:
As sports is really a huge part of my life, i think to get something to do with sports, sports management, manager, trainer whatever seem to be the most likely jobs i would really be happy with.But i have another year to rethink about those and maybe two extra in military:rolleyes: so i m not and that in a hurry on what to do.

Fuserg9:star:

[Pogue]

:ohmy:there is such thing in gcses?:ohmy:
Anw im 17 too, but im not and that worry or something what to do, basically what really is in my mind now, is if we get championship:lol:
As sports is really a huge part of my life, i think to get something to do with sports, sports management, manager, trainer whatever seem to be the most likely jobs i would really be happy with.But i have another year to rethink about those and maybe two extra in military:rolleyes: so i m not and that in a hurry on what to do.

Fuserg9:star:

there isn't really, i was joking :lol:

if you like sports thats cool

you have to do national service in cyprus?

[Kamerat]

Game developer/programmer.

[Dimentio]

This was fun ^^


Stranger: hi

You: be greeted fellow child of gaia

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

[F9]

there isn't really, i was joking :lol:

if you like sports thats cool

you have to do national service in cyprus?

oh, lol i dont know and much about gcses anw, i just did english ones.

like sports? thats not enough:cool:

yeah we do, to protect from da evil turkz who will killz uz one dayz:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Pogue]

oh, lol i dont know and much about gcses anw, i just did english ones.

like sports? thats not enough:cool:

yeah we do, to protect from da evil turkz who will killz uz one dayz:rolleyes::rolleyes:

oh yeh, you never know when they'll come for you

[F9]

Dimentio: wrong thread:lol:

[Kamerat]

This was fun ^^
I think you want this thread
http://www.revleft.com/vb/omegle-t108052/index.html

[Pogue]

lolol

[Il Medico]

I deliver a the Tampa Tribune (local paper), Wall Street Journal, USA Today, USA Sports Weekly, Barron's, IBD (Investor's Business Daily), West Pasco Press (very local paper) and The London Daily Mail to Stores and Racks. Pay sucks, hours suck (2-6) and I generally don't like it.

I want to be a writer and just travel the world, living an exciting life and then writing down a slightly cooler version of what I just did. So yeah.

[Kamerat]

I deliver a the Tampa Tribune (local paper), Wall Street Journal, USA Today, USA Sports Weekly, Barron's, IBD (Investor's Business Daily), West Pasco Press (very local paper) and The London Daily Mail to Stores and Racks. Pay sucks, hours suck (2-6) and I generally don't like it.

I want to be a writer and just travel the world, living an exciting life and then writing down a slightly cooler version of what I just did. So yeah.
I used to deliver newspaper too, had the exact same working hours. The salary/hour was not bad compared to other jobs. I think it was 200 NKR, divided by 7 equals 28.57 US $. But as you say hours suck(ed).

[bellyscratch]

I've just finished my undergraduate degree and I still don't know what job I want to do, so I'm taking an MA and hope it points me the right direction.

[Dr Mindbender]

i am currently in the throws of becoming a game designer.

There is a realistic chance of this happening in less than a year.

[Cassius Clay 2009]

Ah this is bad, I'm in my mid 20's and not only did this thread immediantly apply and appeal to me but I can tell you it get's no easier, I'm still ''really confused on where to go and what to do next''. The one advantage of growing up in the relatively 'advanced' nations of Europe or North America is that with the right work ethic you stand a better chance of getting your 'dream job' than the rest of the world does. Be prepared to work bloody hard though, you need alot of luck aswell (right place, right time and all that) and without a incredible amount of luck you stand a good chance of working yourself into the ground or insanity before you do 'make it'.

It maybe a cliche but most people who will be your boss will be offensive in every sense. Sadly that's how they got there, personally even if we do have to live under Capitalism I can never understand the need for management to run there companies on fear rather than something else. For me it crushes any enthusiasm or creativity among the workforce. What's most pathetic is alot of people you encounter even at superivisor level choose to try this method of fear rather than dialogue.

Anyway if you want to become a writer then there's no better education than joining the ranks of the workers for inspiration. My experience is Retail can be a killa physically, office work mudane and boring and the one time you are actually earning good money and get to where a nice suit and feel your 'career' is going places you will struggle to actually describe what your job is to your mates and be forced to work 16 hour days still without a clue as to what it is your actually doing.

Maybe that was just me though, right now I want to be a writer :thumbup1:

[Pogue]

Ah this is bad, I'm in my mid 20's and not only did this thread immediantly apply and appeal to me but I can tell you it get's no easier, I'm still ''really confused on where to go and what to do next''. The one advantage of growing up in the relatively 'advanced' nations of Europe or North America is that with the right work ethic you stand a better chance of getting your 'dream job' than the rest of the world does. Be prepared to work bloody hard though, you need alot of luck aswell (right place, right time and all that) and without a incredible amount of luck you stand a good chance of working yourself into the ground or insanity before you do 'make it'.

It maybe a cliche but most people who will be your boss will be offensive in every sense. Sadly that's how they got there, personally even if we do have to live under Capitalism I can never understand the need for management to run there companies on fear rather than something else. For me it crushes any enthusiasm or creativity among the workforce. What's most pathetic is alot of people you encounter even at superivisor level choose to try this method of fear rather than dialogue.

Anyway if you want to become a writer then there's no better education than joining the ranks of the workers for inspiration. My experience is Retail can be a killa physically, office work mudane and boring and the one time you are actually earning good money and get to where a nice suit and feel your 'career' is going places you will struggle to actually describe what your job is to your mates and be forced to work 16 hour days still without a clue as to what it is your actually doing.

Maybe that was just me though, right now I want to be a writer :thumbup1:

Good post, I like the bit about office workers :p

[Dimentio]

Cool, what steps are you taking for that? Uni?

I have translated 183 out of 225 pages in my book now ^^

[Pogue]

I have translated 183 out of 225 pages in my book now ^^

Just to fuck over the readers, leave the last few pages untranslated.

[Dr Mindbender]

my advice is dont underestimate the benefits of not going to university.

In my naive pridefulness i took a uni course that i couldnt cope with both financially or academically forcing me to drop out- now i'm stuck in a minimum wage dead end job unlike my contemporaries who have a trade.

:(

Your school or college will tell you otherwise but most employers dont give a shit about qualifications; its all about experience, bullshitting, arselicking and having friends in the right places. I'm probably more qualified than half the management in my place.

[Cassius Clay 2009]

my advice is dont underestimate the benefits of not going to university.

In my naive pridefulness i took a uni course that i couldnt cope with both financially or academically forcing me to drop out- now i'm stuck in a minimum wage dead end job unlike my contemporaries who have a trade.

:(

Your school or college will tell you otherwise but most employers dont give a shit about qualifications; its all about experience, bullshitting, arselicking and having friends in the right places. I'm probably more qualified than half the management in my place.

Good stuff, you saved me from writing this almost word for word since that's more or less what I did and the way I feel now. I can be quite good at all that bullshitting and arselicking but it has to become a 24/7 thing if you want to get anywhere with it, in other words you've got to turn into a complete twat.

Cliche yes but it's more true than given credit for. It isn't all hell though, you can become good friends with the other peeps that work there, it can give you a shot of confidence and teach you new skills and create a good work ethic. That is before your new 'friends' leave or worse yet turn into idiots, before your new-found confidence is crushed by sudden lack of self-esteem, before you realise these new skills are in affect useless in every other aspect of your life and that it's great having a new found work-ethic but your to bloody tired to achieve anything worthwhile (that is non-job related) with it.

Still there's allways the pay-check :), that is until you realise most of that is gone on bills/rent:(. Ok there are some positives out there I'm sure.

[mykittyhasaboner]

I want to be self employed, collectively with a group of friends.

I think that is a reasonable goal. maybe.

[Sentinel]

I'm a cashier and a receptionist, and have been working in customer service for over a decade now. I'm good with people, but sometimes when it's rough I dream of doing something completely different, such as gardening.

[Pogue]

btw what do people think about this thread? its not dodgy, personal details and all?

[Steve_j]

Forget a trade and forget uni for now, save a little cash and fuck of to asia or south america or where ever takes your fancy. Take a year or so, no parents, school or jobs can teach you the lessons you will run into on the way. You will not come back the same person (if you come back at all) so no point settling into a career just yet ay?

[Pogue]

Forget a trade and forget uni for now, save a little cash and fuck of to asia or south america or where ever takes your fancy. Take a year or so, no parents, school or jobs can teach you the lessons you will run into on the way. You will not come back the same person (if you come back at all) so no point settling into a career just yet ay?

I wish I could think like this.

[Killfacer]

Forget a trade and forget uni for now, save a little cash and fuck of to asia or south america or where ever takes your fancy. Take a year or so, no parents, school or jobs can teach you the lessons you will run into on the way. You will not come back the same person (if you come back at all) so no point settling into a career just yet ay?


Yeah man go fufill stereotypes of vacant gap year idiots. Go find yourself in the east man.

[Pogue]

Yeah man go fufill stereotypes of vacant gap year idiots. Go find yourself in the east man.

Aw don't be such a miserable fuck.

Having said that I don't think such trips really change people because they are always seen as a 'gap' from youth and the impending life of drudgery to follow.

[Killfacer]

Aw don't be such a miserable fuck.

Having said that I don't think such trips really change people because they are always seen as a 'gap' from youth and the impending life of drudgery to follow.

I'd much rather spend the time at home with friends or in a pub with friends.

[Pogue]

I'd much rather spend the time at home with friends or in a pub with friends.

thats because your a total geezer

[More Fire for the People]

History Teacher.


Working on History degree.
Hope to go to grad school and get a degree in either the philosophy of education or multicultural education with an emphasis on the role of social justice in educational theory and practice.

[Killfacer]

thats because your a total geezer


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SSztLo-ML._SL500_AA240_.jpg

this is me

[Pogue]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SSztLo-ML._SL500_AA240_.jpg

this is me


....dad?

[More Fire for the People]

I forgot to add that if teaching doesn't work out, I want to become a gangster.

[Pogue]

I forgot to add that if teaching doesn't work out, I want to become a gangster.

in fairness thats most peoples second option

[Killfacer]

in fairness thats most peoples second option

I want to become a somali pirate.

[Pogue]

I want to become a somali pirate.

i did my work experience with them at the end of year 11

[Killfacer]

i did my work experience with them at the end of year 11

So did i but i didn't think a week was long enough to get the feel for the job. Plus, business wasn't as booming when i was in year 11 so i didn't get an entirely up to date veiw.

[Pogue]

So did i but i didn't think a week was long enough to get the feel for the job. Plus, business wasn't as booming when i was in year 11 so i didn't get an entirely up to date veiw.

well when i went a year ago things were ship shape really, we had a few italians in the hull and the UN weren't really fucked

then long john got the clap and had to go ashore, i left just after that but i heard everyone was put in a foul mood, and the italians only fetched 40k ransom each

[Killfacer]

well when i went a year ago things were ship shape really, we had a few italians in the hull and the UN weren't really fucked

then long john got the clap and had to go ashore, i left just after that but i heard everyone was put in a foul mood, and the italians only fetched 40k ransom each

Fucking blow, when i was down we did a bit of fighting in mogadishu for some extra cash because business was slow. On the 4 days though we went to the coast and fired and RPG and a boat.

[Misanthrope]

Fourteen, freshman in highschool :( Good luck with you bro.

[Hoggy_RS]

I work summers with a plumber and that was the trade I always wanted to do but I ended up doing better in my final exams than id expected so accepted to do an arts degree in college. I've finished 1st year(of 3yrs) now & haven't a fucking clue what i'll do when i'm finished. If college wasn't such a laugh i'd drop out and go for a plumbing apprenticeship.

[More Fire for the People]

Plumber? If an American child said they wanted to be a plumber they'd be laughed at. American children are supposed to be FUCKING AWESOME DOCTORS or FUCKING AWESOME LAWYERS or MODEL FUCKING SUPERSTARS.

[Hoggy_RS]

Plumber? If an American child said they wanted to be a plumber they'd be laughed at. American children are supposed to be FUCKING AWESOME DOCTORS or FUCKING AWESOME LAWYERS or MODEL FUCKING SUPERSTARS.

Id be happier plumbing than working as a doctor. Picking your career shouldn't be a choice between which job you can get the most money from.

[More Fire for the People]

Yeah, I know. After all, teachers in the United States only make $30,000-$40,000. (Median household income in the US is $50,740)

[Comrade B]

I am 18, right now I do copy work for a local private school, but... that is a short term thing
Going to school in a few months, going to study Political Science

I would like to be God/ruler of the world, but if I fail on that I think I will pass for attempting to become a public defender.

I also consider trafficking coke for the FARC...
that was a joke...
not that it really matters, already get the whole full "random" search at any airport checkpoint. Nothing like having people use a fucking metal detector wand on your wallet.... makes it near impossible to sneak in that bomb I have been hiding inside of my driver's license