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Old 08-11-2004, 05:18 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Have you found your CAREER?

We all go through numerous job changes in life, well most of us anyway. How many has actually found a career? After working full time for nearly 18 years I think I'm still "in between jobs".

I'm not sure if I will find a job that will keep me happy and take me to retirement (another 25 years unless I hit the Lotto jackpot).
Are you in a job/field set for life?

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Old 08-11-2004, 06:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I thought I never had a career. I thought I had just taken a hobby of programming and fixing computers from when I was 12 into a 20+ year career.

I didn't know that it was a career until 10+ years in I looked back and went ... "Woah..." I've been doing computers for so long.
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Old 08-11-2004, 06:10 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I am in a field where I consider it a career, but will be switching jobs constantly. Since I am a graphic designer, we tend to switch often. How do define career. I always thought it meant that what you do at your job is actually what you were trained in. Like I went to school for graphic design and I work as a graphic designer. But I guess since I hate my job beyond all comprehension, I am not considering this job as part of my career.
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Old 08-11-2004, 02:00 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I found my career at 14, Radio, i've been at it for about 7 years now and even though the pay is minimal for the talent involved, its the best job in the world, for me at least.
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Old 08-11-2004, 07:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I'm only two years in but I went to school and got a degree specifically for my job. Although I will probably work in many different places and settings I consider it all part of my career.
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Old 08-11-2004, 08:53 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I have a degree in CIS that doesn't seem to be helping me in the IT field, as I had planned. With all the outsourcing of tech jobs and not being able to get an IT position with out IT experience I'm in a hell of a position.

I don't know what to do and where to go from here, but I've got to do something different soon.
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Old 08-11-2004, 09:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I found a career a couple years out of college. It wasn't the career I had in mind, but it used the skills I had developed in college, and I stuck with it for over 20 years. Careers don't necessarily last a lifetime anymore, however; because of changes in the industry, outsourceing, and so on, I've had to seek a new one after all this time, and hopefully that'll last me another 15 or so.

Nor are careers synonymous with a single, multi-decade job. Those are increasingly rare, almost a fantasy. I had seven different employers in my 20 years, and the longest -- six years -- was with a technical services organization which placed me at various job sites for six months to a year. So if you count those placements, I actually had something like 15 jobs.
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Old 08-12-2004, 07:22 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I'm going through school for a very specific career, so I hope I've found it. I've doen some volunteer work in the field, and some co-op placements, so I think I have found it. Now give me another 5 years to finish school...
 
Old 08-12-2004, 07:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I thought I had decided what my career would be. Computer networking, troubleshooting, etc... However the further I got into it the more I realized the jobs just aren't out there for me... The pay is mediocre, and I dunno, I'm just kinda disillusioned about the whole thing. As much as I've always wanted to do something I enjoy, I'm getting to a point now where I want to do something that I can make good money at.
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Old 08-12-2004, 08:11 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I made a decision to make a career out of cooking after having part-time cooking jobs through school. Once I got the desk job that I thought I wanted I realized that I liked cooking a lot more. It meant having to go back to school and taking a bit of a pay cut but I'm a lot happier now than I was before.
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Old 08-12-2004, 10:09 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Hmmm although only 33, never thought of having a career job, I knew one day I would be working for myself..I did the typical factory job right out of high school here, but knew that I was not staying there...7 years later..I am werking at the family business and knowing that its getting passed to me..so I guess I am in a career job now..if all goes as it should and the old man retires in a few years...wonder if i can speed that up
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Old 08-12-2004, 10:12 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I guess I'm at my career now. I've been here so long I'm affraid I'm labeled a 'salesman' now. Kind of depressing..............
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Old 08-12-2004, 10:29 AM   #13 (permalink)
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For the time being I have. I love computers but this economy has hit the job market pretty hard. Not sure if I will stay with it if I was layed off.
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Old 08-12-2004, 01:54 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I've got my two. Writing and Slingin' Booze.
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Old 08-12-2004, 09:47 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I've been working as a computer programmer for the last 7 years. It's sort of fun, but I'm having trouble classifying that as a career. I can't see myself doing this 15 years down the road. Not that there's anything else I want to do (not that I want to be a programmer that badly). A career is defined as "a chosen profession or occupation". Well, strike "chosen" out for me.
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Old 08-13-2004, 05:12 AM   #16 (permalink)
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I found my career. It's just a matter of getting my foot in the door.
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Old 08-13-2004, 05:43 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I started out in college with one thing in mind... then somewhere along the line fell into computers and have made a 15 year career out of it... Every so often I get an itch for a change- I want to do one of two things -- both of which I think i'd be pretty good at -- it's a matter of motivating my butt to do it...
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Old 08-13-2004, 06:34 AM   #18 (permalink)
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*raises hand* I have a career. But I also knew what I wanted to do with my life when I was four years old. I majored in music at my small liberal arts college, but went to grad school for a Master of Library and Information Science. Librarianship is what I was born to do, but someday I'd also like to write a novel.
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Old 08-13-2004, 02:38 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Nope- what I have barely qualifies as a job. It is soo not what I wouldlike to do. But I have made my choices in life and this is what I got. Would like to change it though....maybe someday.
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Old 08-13-2004, 02:53 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Eh, I have no clue if I'll make it out there. I'm studying at the junior college here to get my AA in Business Administration, and then I'm hoping to move on to a university in order to get my French major. What can I do with a FRENCH MAJOR?!

Anyway, I'll probably just end up with some low-paying secretary job.
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