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 Please ignore title; in my neurosis to make this post perfect, I accidentally posted when I didn't mean to. Still not sure how the tag is right... Sorry, I realise some of you are understandably upset at this news Hey goons,I’m hoping you can guide me out of my quandary here! My story is pretty standard E/N fare. Struggled with a whole bunch of (benign, in the grand scheme of things) issues growing up – homosexuality, weight issues, self-esteem, lack of a solid and lasting support system since my family moved around a lot, culture shock – all of which have been building up over the years and came to a head in the last ~5 years. Many problems I've dealt with and others I am cognizant of. Done the E/N staples: weights, therapy, breaking out of my comfort zone (~*~dating ~*~)...  Still in a rut though. Relevant backstory: University was an utter mess. First went into uni straight out of high school in 2008. Didn't work out, I took time off and when I returned in 2010, I returned under probation which I cleared soon. However, it was all in vain because my grades slipped the following year and as 2011 drew to a close, I was dismissed for low GPA. I appealed it (for the second time in my university career) but the appeal was denied. The next few weeks were hell but I did the E/N staples: therapy for clinical depression and anxiety (gave therapy my 100% for the first time), working out as I had never done before, and took each day at a time. I have waded through much of what I like to call my aura of bullshit over 2012. Came to terms with myself about my appearance, dated, had a relationship, on good terms with my parents, sort of at peace at being a failure. Still feel really lost though given I still don't know what I want to do for that all-important job/career thing and this is something I've always been unsure about. It's probably why one of the reasons I was hesitant going into uni in 2008 (Finance). Currently, I work part-time at a clothing store, a job I've had on-and-off since high school. It bores me to tears and I just want to get the hell on with my adult life. Get that precious degree, move out and so on. You guys might have spotted my dilemma though: I honestly don't know what my next steps should be. I'd very much like to return to school since I don't have any trade skils whatsoever. From all the extensive reading I've done and from what I hear from the people I've met, it seems to me that many people end up doing things that have very little to do with what they studied in college. Okay. My university marks are poo poo so I have to upgrade - I intend to check out my local polytechnic and college (the latter was recently granted uni status) this week to see where I stand. After that step though, I'm unsure of what degree to pursue given the thing about how people make careers vastly different from their degrees. Do I do something totally different like Journalism or Broadcasting and Communications? Or do I stick with a Business-type degree which has the safety net factor thing? The problem is I don't have dreams or passions. I loathe the city I live in and I want to move out ASAP. The quickest path to that (as I see it) is through an education. One day, I'd like to go to a proper university. I guess it's one part not feeling ready for an industry job and another part a chip on my shoulder since I bungled up uni so terribly. I'm hoping to find out how transfers from the polytechnic to universities work when I ask my questions. I really marvel at the how goons come from all walks of life and I'm looking for advice from people who might have been positions like mine, or if you know people who went through something similar. How did you fill in the gaps and turn it all around? What did you do when you were my age? My parents for instance can't provide much insight because they did everything to the letter. A little about me: A few months into 22, and my experiences have sort of shown me what I want from life. When I'm all alone in the dead of the night, my ambitions become boundless. I have a feeling that has everything to do with my monumental failures and that it's not an accurate representation of what I really want out of life. Additionally, my thinking is still "off": Very black-and-white, very intense... I've always wanted a lot out of life and I feel like at my first chance at life, I screwed up and threw it all away and now I see no way out. When I'm a lot happier, I realise I don't want too much. Just a place in a big city (in the States, or in Europe), and enough to live a comfortable, full life. I see goons post their apartments in YLLS - nice, cozy places - and that's what I want. Not much. Perhaps an occasion to backpack across several continents now and then. I just want to move on.  What do you suggest? PS. Thread title. Didn't mean to post when I did; can a moderator edit it please? I'm sorry if the post came off as jumbled. I had a verbose Word document that I was editing down and posted accidentally. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Fireless Phoenix fucked around with this message at Feb 28, 2013 around 06:04 |
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Whole grains, lots of vegetables. Fruits sparingly, and bake your own bread if you live in the USA.
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Why are your grades poo poo? If you tried your best at uni and flunked out, consider that maybe university isn't for you. That doesn't make you stupid. Plenty of perfectly intelligent people don't do well academically. If you are academically talented but failed because of life or medical issues then you should not be thinking about going back to uni unless those are no longer factors. Journalism is a waste of time as a degree unless you want to write for a living. Even if you do, the job market is a monumental clusterfuck and you will likely end up in an underpaid and soul-crushing job if you get one in the field at all. If you're interested in writing but don't necessarily want to be employed as a journalist, then just write stuff. You don't need a degree to do that. Communications is for people who either couldn't get into journalism or who want to go into PR but aren't smart enough to understand that PR positions worth having are filled by the cream of journalism. A degree in communications is a bullshit qualification to have. There are lots of talented, successful, and happy people with communications degrees, but it's not the kind of degree that's going to take you anywhere interesting on its own. It's hardly an uncommon problem to not know what you want to do for a living at 22. You may never be able to answer this question confidently, but that doesn't mean you'll have an unhappy life. Is having A Career even really important to you, or is it just something you're convinced you need in order to be normal? At any rate, nobody can advise you unless you list some interests, and your known academic and professional strengths and weaknesses. Smudgie Buggler fucked around with this message at Feb 26, 2013 around 11:16 |
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Smudgie Buggler posted:Why are your grades poo poo? If you tried your best at uni and flunked out, consider that maybe university isn't for you. That doesn't make you stupid. Plenty of perfectly intelligent people don't do well academically. If you are academically talented but failed because of life or medical issues then you should not be thinking about going back to uni unless those are no longer factors. I just want to chime in and reiterate this bit—that's exactly what happened to me. Both my parents are doctors, and uni was always the 'inevitable' route after highschool—what else would I do?! As it turned out, I didn't thrive in that kind of academic atmosphere at all and, after three years of failing, guilt over failing, drinking to cover the guilt, rinse, repeat, I grew a spine, admitted it wasn't for me, and went back to the UK equivalent of community college, got a useful, hands-on qualification, and now I'm much happier. University isn't the only place to get a meaningful education. This happened when I was 22, as it happened. I did two courses at university, and both of them contained elements of, "I'm doing this because I'm at university," and not really because I wanted to. I was doing it for career options or money or (don't do this) because my then-girlfriend pushed it. Fundamentally, though, I had cock-all idea about what I wanted to do with my life, except I didn't want to be a suited-and-booted office drone, and I wanted enough to get beers when I felt like it. That was the extent of my ambition—until I left university, at least. Working dead-end retail jobs is one of the most soul-destroying experiences you can have. If you have the spare cash (and it shouldn't much), look into whether your community college offers night classes. A lot of people I met on my course were there because they'd done the night class in the subject and loved it enough to make it full-time. This allows you to test the waters without committing yourself to two plus years of potential hell. In the end, too, remember that you're only 22. It wasn't that long ago that I was 22, and the world seemed both vaster and tinier than it does now. You're not very old. You have a lot of time. Remember to breathe, try stuff out, and if in doubt, try something that involves working with your hands; it's surprising how often that works.
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I see "become a truck driver" thrown around a lot in career oriented threads. I'm dying to do it, one of these days. If I were unemployed, I'd certainly look into it. I swear to god, when I retire, I'm spending my retirement on a rig and doing freelance hauling.
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Fireless Phoenix posted:
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Call Me Abey posted:Done Thank you. The title was throwing me off. Makes perfect sense now. OP, You may be Down To gently caress, but are you Down with the ODB?
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cname posted:I see "become a truck driver" thrown around a lot in career oriented threads. I'm dying to do it, one of these days. If I were unemployed, I'd certainly look into it. There's 0% chance robots haven't made all long haul truckers obselete at that point. They're literally beta testing self-driving technology right now with an accepted limited release by 2015.
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Thundercracker posted:There's 0% chance robots haven't made all long haul truckers obselete at that point. They're literally beta testing self-driving technology right now with an accepted limited release by 2015. Haven't they sorta been saying the same thing for the past 30 some-odd years? A self-driving fleet of trucks would cost a fortune in both technology and technological upkeep. I highly doubt that highway transit will be automated in my lifetime. Obviously, we have the technology, but I can't see society agreeing to implement it within the next hundred years.
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Thundercracker posted:There's 0% chance robots haven't made all long haul truckers obselete at that point. They're literally beta testing self-driving technology right now with an accepted limited release by 2015. Planes can fly themselves but we still have pilots. I doubt they're just going to let trucks drive themselves across the country.
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You'll just need less truck drivers. Trucks will be able to go longer distances through use of technology, requiring less trucks unless there is an increase in shipping demand. I'd feel safer with a robot pilot.
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What is DTF? Disclaimer: I am old. 
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Dick Trauma posted:What is DTF? Down to fornicate. Or whatever other else word you can come up with.
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"I don't want much, I just want a full life with my own nice, comfortable apartment in a major city and the opportunity to travel!!" That is a whole lot to want. Most people can't ever achieve it. If you want to get there, you need to work hard as hell and figure poo poo out fast.
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Darth123123 posted:Down to fornicate. Or whatever other else word you can come up with. Down to Free Willy!
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cname posted:Haven't they sorta been saying the same thing for the past 30 some-odd years? A self-driving fleet of trucks would cost a fortune in both technology and technological upkeep. I'd take this bet. I'd bet that 30 years from now, self-driving vehicles with inter-vehicle communication will be a major player, and even if they are still overseen by a person in the cab, you won't have to manually steer or change lanes or any such manual control. To be more concrete, I'll say 25% of vehicles are self-driving. I'd even double down and say that, in your 100 year timeline, driving yourself will be illegal or at least require a highly specialized license, far beyond what it requires today.
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OP I really don't see how having sex will help you get back into uni but maybe if it was with somebody in admissions or something.
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Dick Trauma posted:Down to Free Willy! I hate it when I'm down to free willy, the expensive stuff is so much better. 
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I think you're suffering from nomatterwhereyougothereyouareitis. The cure is to get over yourself and work for what you want.
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Dick Trauma posted:What is DTF? Read about Ben Roethlisberger.
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You sound like the sort of person who, if you were to have passions and dreams, would pursue them with a manic intensity then come into E/N complaining of being a failure. The good news is you sound like you're on track to grow out of most of this by your late 20s. Just keep working on cultivating your daily sense of well-being and everything else will fall into place as you figure out what's important in life and what's just socially conditioned anxiety (e.g. "everyone has to find a dream job they're passionate about"). I am all for education but it's not the only way to go places in life. Why would you spend years in a city you hate going to school just so you could move away? Wouldn't you be better off applying for a scholarship at a school in a city you'd want to be in?
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Thanks for the responses everyone!Smudgie Buggler posted:Why are your grades poo poo? If you tried your best at uni and flunked out, consider that maybe university isn't for you. That doesn't make you stupid. Plenty of perfectly intelligent people don't do well academically. If you are academically talented but failed because of life or medical issues then you should not be thinking about going back to uni unless those are no longer factors. That's just it. I didn't try my best. I didn't try at all. I was truant to the point of skipping my final exams in my first semester. I didn't party or anything; just stayed at home. I had done something similar back in high school although not to such a devastating extent. I did get counselling for it but only the superficial issues, the symptoms were addressed. I've always suffered mood swings and depressive symptoms since I hit puberty but it's all gone unchecked until last year when I decided to come clean about EVERYTHING to my current therapist (she's like the 7th specialist I've seen). I don't know if I'm "cured" - mental illness runs on my mother's side and I don't believe depression is something that goes away, just something that you have to deal and cope with. But I would say I'm a LOT better. My therapist agreed with me on our last occasion, that I've beaten my issues... or the underlying ones that had gone unchecked, anyway. quote:Journalism is a waste of time as a degree unless you want to write for a living. Even if you do, the job market is a monumental clusterfuck and you will likely end up in an underpaid and soul-crushing job if you get one in the field at all. If you're interested in writing but don't necessarily want to be employed as a journalist, then just write stuff. You don't need a degree to do that. Communications is for people who either couldn't get into journalism or who want to go into PR but aren't smart enough to understand that PR positions worth having are filled by the cream of journalism. A degree in communications is a bullshit qualification to have. There are lots of talented, successful, and happy people with communications degrees, but it's not the kind of degree that's going to take you anywhere interesting on its own. Hey, I hear you which is part of the the reason I'm so uncertain about it. I mean I really don't want to do a major in something like Queer Theory which I am sure is very interesting but I just don't see a future in it. quote:It's hardly an uncommon problem to not know what you want to do for a living at 22. I just feel like before I know it, I'll be 24 and still young and having fun, then I'll be 27 and before I know it 35 and still in my rut. quote:Is having A Career even really important to you, or is it just something you're convinced you need in order to be normal? A mixture of both, perhaps? I don't know. I am working retail, a job I've held on-and-off since I was 16 which is why I feel like I've been stuck in the same phase forever. I want a change, to move forward. quote:At any rate, nobody can advise you unless you list some interests, and your known academic and professional strengths and weaknesses. I've always been a good (not great but probably because I've never applied myself - and no, this isn't the Dunning-Kruger effect talking) student. I was in the IB program in high school which is like Advanced Placement. I can be fascinated by anything (no joke) which is why it makes it so hard for me to pick something and feel it's 'what I should be doing'. I'm also very earnest in whatever I do. Strengths? I honestly don't know. I feel like the things I am good at are things most people are good at. I'm a good speaker (growing up, I used to be the MC for school events for instance), well-presented (even in my darkest, gooniest state where I was playing MMOs for 20 hours a day, I'd clean up well and wear a happy, confident, confident facade to present to the world) and personable. Love to read and love languages (hoping to start on Mandarin this year). I'm alright with numbers but they don't turn me on at all. Words are more my thing. If there were things - as unrealistic as they are - I've seen myself becoming, it would be: magazine editor, journalist, TV presenter, manager at a hotel (hospitality industry) or something of the like. But these things are totally in the realm of fantasy right now for me. EDIT: If there's one thing my lovely retail job has taught me is that I love to work with people. I can't see myself working alone doing some mundane task five days a week. I love to play MMOs but I can't play most video games as obsessively as goons do in the Gaming forums. I love to work shipment shifts, or when there are many employees working. My uncle is a director at KPMG London, London being my dream city to work/live. I know if I got my Finance degree, I'd easily get a job there. But for the first few years in audit, work is very much, "do your own thing, hope you like working with numbers". It's only as you stick it out that the work becomes more team-oriented. I don't think I could make it past the first few years. Fireless Phoenix fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2013 around 03:16 |
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Jeherrin posted:University isn't the only place to get a meaningful education. Agree 100%. The thing is that I don't know what I want AT ALL. At this point I figure something's better than nothing. I'm hoping to find what interests me if I do enroll in courses at the polytechnic (I'll still keep my retail job for the discount and chump change  ). Unfortunately, the industry in my city is Oil and Gas, and Energy. If you have a business degree, you work for an oil company here and if you're an engineer, you go up north, work in the field for 3 weeks, make an unholy amount of cash, return for a week and eventually buy yourself a big truck, drink on the weekends watching hockey. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not something I want! I feel like sitting at home, reading GBS, going to the gym (which I LOVE), and working at the mall is just not gonna cut it for me any longer. I just don't know what courses I should take... and I feel like University would be ideal for me because of all the courses and things they offer. But I'm probably wrong. cname, I'm currently working on my license. Failed the driving test 4 times, but haven't given up. I don't see myself being a good truck driver though... While the travel opportunities are tempting, I'd go insane spending all those hours alone. Of course, given that the robots are gonna be driving trucks soon, this isn't a very lucrative career option. Anne Whateley, I agree. Which is why I'm making this thread. Well, sort of. I'm willing to work for it, just trying to figure out my best course of action. Bippie Mishap posted:I think you're suffering from nomatterwhereyougothereyouareitis. The cure is to get over yourself and work for what you want. In my position, what would be the best way to proceed? In my city, most jobs prefer you to have a post-secondary degree. Going to community college is a no-brainer, but what do I take? At this point, my feeling is "take whatever", it will help versus simply sitting at home, working in a clothing store for $11/hour. Fireless Phoenix fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2013 around 03:43 |
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Novo posted:You sound like the sort of person who, if you were to have passions and dreams, would pursue them with a manic intensity then come into E/N complaining of being a failure. Does ti really come across? Haha, I am a perfectionist which is part of my problems. I'm very all-or-anything and I've been working on my broken paradigm for a while now. As you do say, it is getting better, I am mellowing out. quote:I am all for education but it's not the only way to go places in life. Why would you spend years in a city you hate going to school just so you could move away? Wouldn't you be better off applying for a scholarship at a school in a city you'd want to be in? My GPA is a 1.17 or something; I need to fix that before I can move out. And that is sort of my plan; get grades up, apply for scholarships to places in other cities (something I wanted back when I was 17 but for some reason, I got cold feet/or was complacent).
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Fireless Phoenix posted:If there were things - as unrealistic as they are - I've seen myself becoming, it would be: magazine editor, journalist, TV presenter, manager at a hotel (hospitality industry) or something of the like. But these things are totally in the realm of fantasy right now for me. Those other three things are, but working in hotels is not. Not that you're necessarily incapable of making a career as a successful journalist, but it'll be a big loving slog and it's more likely than not that luck will just take a poo poo on you and you'll never achieve what you want through no fault of your own. Working in hospitality, however, is a solid career if you're any good at it. If you think you're ready to study again, why aren't you looking at hotel management courses and using your extensive customer service experience to apply for entry-level jobs in hotels?
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Fireless Phoenix posted:My uncle is a director at KPMG London, London being my dream city to work/live. I know if I got my Finance degree, I'd easily get a job there. But for the first few years in audit, work is very much, "do your own thing, hope you like working with numbers". It's only as you stick it out that the work becomes more team-oriented. I don't think I could make it past the first few years. Fireless Phoenix posted:Anne Whateley, I agree. Which is why I'm making this thread. Well, sort of. I'm willing to work for it, just trying to figure out my best course of action. If your goal is really a nice apartment in a good part of London, a comfortable life, money and time to travel, then that really is a big goal -- it'll require paying dues. If you have an exit plan (you know you'll be working with a team eventually), a couple years of grinding shouldn't be a big deal as long as you keep your eyes on your goal. If that goal isn't worth a couple years of boring office work, then maybe rethink what your goal is. Maybe you would be okay with living in a smaller city, or having a couple roommates or a grungier place, or traveling less, as long as your job involves dealing with people. There's nothing wrong with that either. You just have to figure out which aspects are most important to you, and strangers on the internet can't do that for you.
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Anne Whateley posted:You're willing to work -- as long as it doesn't involve doing something you dislike? Thanks so much for putting it this way. Happiness is very important to me... ugh, looks like it's back to the drawing board with me needing to figure out what it is I want. drat it, I thought I was past this stage. It's so hard
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OP, I've had sex. Lots of sex. With multiple partners (not at the same time). It's pretty ok. So my advice is yeah, go do the sex. e: Pope Mobile posted:OP, You may be Down To gently caress, but are you Down with the ODB? I think he means OPP, in which case you answer "Yeah you know me!" gnarlyhotep fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2013 around 06:45 |
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cname posted:I see "become a truck driver" thrown around a lot in career oriented threads. I'm dying to do it, one of these days. If I were unemployed, I'd certainly look into it. Go read through this thread and then come back here and say "I still want to be a truck driver."
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Fireless Phoenix posted:That's just it. I didn't try my best. I didn't try at all. I was truant to the point of skipping my final exams in my first semester. I didn't party or anything; just stayed at home. I had done something similar back in high school although not to such a devastating extent. I did get counselling for it but only the superficial issues, the symptoms were addressed. I've always suffered mood swings and depressive symptoms since I hit puberty but it's all gone unchecked until last year when I decided to come clean about EVERYTHING to my current therapist (she's like the 7th specialist I've seen). It sounds like you need medication, have you brought this up with your doctor?
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Agnostic Prophet posted:It sounds like you need medication, have you brought this up with your doctor? I basically told her my life story when I first started seeing her a year ago because I knew there was something not right with me for years beyond the issues at that particular time (relapsing into truancy, anxiety, mild depression, not knowing how to cope with school, procrastination). She told me that psychotherapy would be enough -- and I think she's been right for the most part. I still have dark days but they're no worse than what most people go through I think. I'm 'normal' with responsibility; back in 2009, I used to call in sick to work, and have punctuality issues. I haven't taken a single sick day in the past year or been late (barring the odd snow day) this time around at the same job. I try to keep as active as possible (I remember not going to the gym for two consecutive weeks sometime last year and I had the worst week following it) and make sure to see friends and socialize because I can keep perspective that way (having no friends throughout university really sapped me of perspective; I'm positive if I had a support system back then, I'd have stuck it out and had some sort of degree by now). There's a boat-load of uncertainty in my life right now and that's what stresses and frustrates me out, I think.
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gnarlyhotep posted:OP, I've had sex. Lots of sex. With multiple partners (not at the same time).  "you, it was you: posted:I've seen myself becoming, it would be: magazine editor, journalist, TV presenter, manager at a hotel (hospitality industry) or something of the like
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Fireless Phoenix posted:Agree 100%. The thing is that I don't know what I want AT ALL. At this point I figure something's better than nothing. I'm hoping to find what interests me if I do enroll in courses at the polytechnic (I'll still keep my retail job for the discount and chump change You live in Calgary, then? It's a pretty expensive city to live in, but the job market is better than any city in Canada except Edmonton, and the Fort. If your top priority is to go to school, take a diverse set of courses relating to degrees that are at least somewhat useful to see what you like. If your top priority is to get out, just focus on working full-time, studying for your driver's license when you have the time, and look into cities you can move to. You're not going to live in London, England without some kind of special skill that the English don't have, but London, Ontario is a nice place to live.
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If you love going to the gym, have you considered becoming a personal trainer? I don't believe it requires a degree and it's certainly a wonderful job for people who love exercising/gym stuff.
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Even if you did go hang out and work in the Fort or whatever, there's not a rule that roughnecks have to buy the tricked-out Chevy truck and watch hockey. They just do that because they're young redneck kids.
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Smudgie Buggler is right- these days, journalism is not a job you will enjoy or succeed at unless you're willing to be very self-motivated and work really hard. The market is full of journalists who really, really want a small pool of jobs and if you're not absolutely sure it's your scene, you'll get outclassed. What about going into the trades? It doesn't sound as classy as what you're picturing, but I bet London has the same shortage of plumbers and electricians as every other major city in the world.
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Smudgie Buggler posted:Working in hospitality, however, is a solid career if you're any good at it. If you think you're ready to study again, why aren't you looking at hotel management courses and using your extensive customer service experience to apply for entry-level jobs in hotels? I'll definitely check it out. I love to travel and I love languages - I'm also researching careers that involve either (or both). The reason I might seem fixated on Journalism (or Boradcasting/Communications) is because I feel it will lead me to that "Aha! This is what I love!" moment. And it's a start over sitting at home. That said, thanks for your words on journalism. I know of someone who did the Broadcasting degree I am talking about from the same school I'd intend to go to and they are back in school for engineering.  bunnybean posted:
Which is what brought me to wonder if I should just get into community college and do something stable and reliable like a Bachelor of Business Administration. And once my grades are up, I can apply to a university in a different city (or country!). Hopefully by then I'd be closer to determining what it is I want to do? Super Aggro Crag posted:Become a carpenter. There's only one kind of wood I'm good at handling. Fireless Phoenix fucked around with this message at Feb 28, 2013 around 05:39 |
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