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GreenTeaDisease
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and people wonder why I am on here so much lately.
I did not spend 19 years in school studying my ass off and a gagillion dollars on higher education to summarize company web sites.
I did not spend 19 years in school studying my ass off and a gagillion dollars on higher education to summarize company web sites.
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as the days go on, i am more and more uninterested and less and less motivated at my job.
big problem.
world fucking champs!!!
I cannot tell you how liberating it was to quit and go back to uni, be a starving artist and do something I was really passionate about.
But that was a few years ago now and I'm bored again.
Don't spend your whole life doing something you aren't happy doing and be prepared to change paths often. Things are far more interesting that way.
Least that's what I learned from it all.
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lol, well I just went back to uni and have only been here for 6 months!
they promised they needed an environmental economist and told me there would be all sorts exciting responsibilities for me...yeah right. I get shit upon and they don't want an environmental economist- they are trying to make me into some cross between an MBA and an electrical engineer...when they give me work at all. And I am doing work of the same level of difficulty I was doing 8 years ago when I graduated from college.
Sorry, I just get so pissed. The money here is good as well as the environmental, location, etc.
I hate that about work, how you are moulded into what they want. Squished around till you fit their box.
So can you use the elements of the situation that you do like to your advantage? You hate the work but enjoy the money, location, environment. Can you hatch a plan to move on while fully utilizing the things about the situation that you do like?
For example, I hated my job, but I adored the location. So while I was using the place to make the money to finance my goals in other areas of my life, I also made sure and enjoyed everything that the surrounding environs of my work had to offer.
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yeah I am definitely trying to do that
I just worry because in order for me to get a job I like better I will have to do one or both of the following 1) I will probably have to move, which I don't want to do for a long time- I love my apartment and my neighborhood and 2) I will have to take an enormous pay cut, and due to that alone I would have to move, and I have no idea how I would pay my enormous student loan bills.
sigh. I know I shouldn't complain, I just get so bored...
(But you sound as if you feel entitled)
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Nah, I understand. It's a trap and one of the reasons I stayed so long, the money and the ramifications that not having it would have on my life.
It's a tough call. I guess I played games with myself, made little challenges to get me through the working day and made sure that I had plenty to think about and do that challenged me in my time away from work.
Ultimately though, the thing I feared most about resigning (not having the money) well it didn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would once I was doing something I was truly passionate about. BUT I did pay off everything first. What can I tell you? It's a difficult game to play. I hope you can tweek the existing arrangements to give yourself as much opportunity for happiness until you can launch yourself at your true calling.
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Of course she does to you. :rolleyes:
I won't tell you how you sound, you already know what I think.
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well, I actually love my chosen field of environmental economics, this job just turned out to not actually be *in* my chosen field!
ugh, i wish I could pay off everything. I will be paying off my student loans until I'm dead, even if I made double what I'm making now...
I sound like someone who respects those that come in and work their way into more ideal positions rather than someone who thinks that just because someone has gone to extra years of school, they can bypass practical experience.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
hate that!
how hard would it be to find another job in environmental economics where you are right now?
yeah, sinking in debt is a horrible feeling.
how about seeing a financial advisor? see if they can help you hatch a plan to get out of debt faster?
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Coz how you think you sound and how you actually sound are two entirely different things.
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I have experience. a lot of experience. and besides experience is really irrelevant in this job, education is valued a lot more.
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absolutely!
I don't "sound" like anything since it's just text. You're adding emotion to what you're reading....
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Stickman!!
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Ok, whatever know1. You have a great day there in your ivory tower.
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yeah. unfortunately, I already applied everywhere else around here when I was looking for *this* job and they all pay really badly anyway, so I wouldn't be able to afford to live around here...I know this sounds weird, but it is very catch-22 situation.
haha well I do have one actually, but unfortunately, $80K of student debt isn't very easy to speed up.
It doesn't sound weird. It is a catch-22. A situation I know very well.
Not sure what you can do really. I only know what I did eventually and that after I'd done it I didn't regret it. It's a difficult game to play GTD. I hope you can somehow find a way to live with it as well as you can for as long as you need to.
aaargh!! :eek: I thought my $30,000 was bad enough!
I dunno, it's just bull that people have to get themselves into that kind of debt just to be educated.
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i am typing with my toes...
I know that's not cool to not enjoy your job
but I think it's better to be 'bored' then to be stressed, if you know what I mean
are you looking for something else in the meantime?
I mean in this economy I think you have to feel grateful to have a well paying job
my job is not bad, it's just part time so it's not enough moolah coming in
but it took me a looong time to get that one!
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and Metsy!
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Yeah, I know you'll find this out there lovely, but I believe that education should be the right of everyone and it's wrong that people have to pay that kind of money just to learn.
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It's not out there! I'm with you! They just don't do it like that over here, unfortunately
is 'uni' free in Australia?
I mean here it depends where you go. State Universities are less expensive, but college in general and grad school is super pricey. The tuition, the fees, the books! Textbooks are crazy! 10 yrs ago in grad school I remember paying like $500 a semestser!!!
but I also felt if I was going to get a graduate degree I wanted to go to the 'best' name brand school. That's only probably a good plan if you are wealthy though! :eek:
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Yeah, it's becoming the same here. I guess I'm a dinosaur coz I remember the old days. It's just bullshit that quality education is becoming unobtainable if you're not wealthy and that it's setting smart people that want to go further up to a life of debt before they even get started.
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