New Thinking

Quote: the doc, Feb 2011

What a disturbing thing to say, Baz.

Trust me, the picture was worse. Deleted now, even though it ruins the flow of the conversation.

Quote: wombat, Feb 2011

I wish I had more friends.

You've probably got one you can count on, though, haven't you? Like someone who's pleased to see you and likes making the effort to hang out.

I am proper f*cking lonely. I swear to God if it wasn't for Niomie, I'd literally never see anyone who wasn't work related or family.

Quote: the doc, Feb 2011

Quote: LoonyPandora, Feb 2011

Quote: the doc, Feb 2011

21st Century life is extremely alienating. Discuss.

All this advanced communication technology, all the global village bullsh*t - yet people are more isolated than ever before…

Pretty much how I see it, yeah.

About 20% of my Facebook friends are from this site, and I've never met any of you. Yet I prefer talking to a lot of people here and care more about what's going on in your lives than actual people I know.

Strange when I say it like that. Had never really thought of it before.

Quote: Animal, Feb 2011

Quote: Abin Cooper, Feb 2011

I regularly think to myself that I'm in the wrong career. And now I fear it's too late to change, even though I don't know what I change it to. I'd dread to think the past 8 years of my life have been worthless

It's never too late to change a career.
As for wasting the last 8 years, that depends.. You picked up some valuable and useful skills over that time. Many of which will undoubtably be transferrable to other lines of work.


Personally, I really have no issue moving from job to job, sure the last couple have been IT related jobs, so you could say my career is in IT.. Thing is, I have other things I want to try outside of the IT sector and am slowly working towards those too.. Meaning, all going according to plan I may end up working elsewhere in a completely different industry and line of work, potentially off the back of the skills I picked up in this one. Its the sole reason I never turn down opportunities in work, even if I'm not interested. Hell its the main reason I went for the TS job, since its a rung on the ladder to management - Something I know WILL open up windows in other industries.

Don't confuse a job with a career and definitely don't think you can't move from industry to industry, changing aspects of what you do until you find something you enjoy.

It just seems to be harder than it is..

The only other industry I could see myself working in or would have a bit of an interest in is IT. I don't think there are any skills from the construction industry I've learnt over the past 8 years which would be of any use.

It's not that the 8 years would be completely useless, it's that, even though I wasn't hugely interested in the course, I still tried hard and out of the 50 students from my year, I am the only one I know who is actually working as a Building Surveyor. And my results were mid-table. Mostly a combination of luck and circumstance.

But even then, I'm not even sure I'd like to work in IT. I'd like to know more about computers, sure. But working with them all day? I don't know.

I'd maybe like to do some structural engineering, but at this point, I alreay have a level 8 qualification. Going back to college to get another level 8 qualification in a similar field seems pointless to me, and could be difficult to get into. And I'm not sure I could do the whole college thing again. Especially as I'd be doing a course to get a qualification, meaning I'd have two level 8 qualifications in an industry which is f*cking dead here.

The guy I work with, he went to a recruitment agency on Friday. They said there might be a job working for an insulation company as a technical specialist. Not just technical support, but as a team investigating ways to improve products and stuff. Now, maybe not for an insulation company, but that sort of job might be alright. It'd be interesting.

I think the only reasons why I was thinking of IT was because one of my greatest achievements during my final year of college, was fixing my own laptop when it Blue Screened. Similarly I felt kinda bad a*s when I fixed my sisters laptop at New Years (although I failed when it blue screened). Same with work, on Friday I pointed out two problems with the work that one of my bosses did. Felt awesome. I like fixing problems. I like coming up with solutions. I don't get that enough here, because the problems are rarely something for which there isn't already an alternative answer.

I'm babbling at this point. I think I just need to spend more time looking for a new job, whether it be here or the UK

Quote: Hare, Feb 2011

I just want to scrape up poo, but no one will let me...

Would you be interested in an unpaid volunteer position?

I got a lot of careers advice at school, and it didn't help at all. I had loads of ideas on what i wanted to do, but when it got right down to it, I was either no where near clever enough for it (doctor) or didn't actually want to be one (teacher).

The best advice I ever got was this:

You should think about your pipe dreams. They're less pipey when you realise you have nothing tying you down.

Thats from Laura, by the way, as in that one who posts on here.

Anyway, its true- think about what you'd like to do really, my vague idea of wanting to work in a charity made me realise that i have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for Human Rights, which makes filling in the 'why do you want this job' section a little easier. That said, it took MONTHS of trawling job pages and applying to everything I liked the sound of to discover that, and I'm only just getting somewhere (or nowhere,depending on how useful this Amnesty thing turns out to be).

And hey... f*ck it. Who says you have to have career. I intend to just do whatever I want for as long as possible, and eventually I'll settle on something I like. I'll let the career just happen rather than actively seek it.

That said, the job market is gash at the moment and I HATE my job. Just got to hold on to the fact that its only temporary. I also search and apply apply for jobs every single night (which I genuinely have been until recently).

Quote: Annie, Feb 2011

1 year legal secretary course (about £1800 all in), I'm sort of interested in law but not enough that I'd want to do a whole degree, and it would make me much more employable in any kind of office

Have you looked into becoming a paralegal?

No formal qualifications needed, and you can earn quite a lot of money from it, as well as being a good way to go into being a solicitor, barrister or even judge from it if you do fancy law.

It's never a good idea to tell identical twins which one of them is hottest.

oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t. I've got flights booked for 1st March to go to texas :s This sh*t is actually happening. oh f*ck oh f*ck oh f*ck.

Quote: Annie, Feb 2011

Just watched that Beauty and The Beast thing on 4

Seems to me that all the disfigured people campaigning on TV are incredibly defensive, and I'd be much more convinced when they said they were happy if they weren't so angry when saying it.

Sort of reminds of myself as a kid saying that if people weren't friends with me because I was fat I didn't want to be friends with them. Which was Bulldisney.

i think it's understandable for them to be defensive if it helps them to cope with people being w*nkers to them.

Oh, and good luck to Loony.