How did you figure out what job is right for you?
- Thread starter AMHOLIO
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- Jan 4, 2021
So, I needed a different job, because I could only afford rent or food, but not both. I got a job cooking (cooks eat free) and quickly realized it is my true passion. I got lucky.
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The only strategy that has ever worked for me is to try things.
If I could do any job for the rest of my life, it would be skidding logs in forestry. Alas, our current governments hate forestry.
I worked in child care for a year or two, off and on. That was a lot better than you'd think. Closest thing I've ever done to a proper service industry.
Construction has its ups and downs.
Programming for retards is a nightmare. Coding my own shit is sublime. Generally, corporate dev work is closer to programming for retards than coding my own shit.
Farm work, ie. driving tractors and doing shit by hand when tractors can't do it, is pretty decent until you have to fix broken machines.
Tech support is good work when you can get it, and if you have less liability because you're just some frontliner doing triage, more's the better.
If I could do any job for the rest of my life, it would be skidding logs in forestry. Alas, our current governments hate forestry.
I worked in child care for a year or two, off and on. That was a lot better than you'd think. Closest thing I've ever done to a proper service industry.
Construction has its ups and downs.
Programming for retards is a nightmare. Coding my own shit is sublime. Generally, corporate dev work is closer to programming for retards than coding my own shit.
Farm work, ie. driving tractors and doing shit by hand when tractors can't do it, is pretty decent until you have to fix broken machines.
Tech support is good work when you can get it, and if you have less liability because you're just some frontliner doing triage, more's the better.
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- May 29, 2024
I worked a lot of different jobs from bussing to desk.
It depends on the personality, when I was working my ass off, I envied those that just had to work at a desk.
When I was working a desk job I realized that I was too bored with what I was doing.
So I quit my job to get one that was more physical, and found I was most happy in a worker bee position than sitting around crunching numbers, even though it payed less.
Results vary depending on the person, you just have to sit down and really analyze your skill set and cross them with how much you'd like to work. All of the rest you can just fake (because unless you're going for a gov job no one actually checks.
)
It depends on the personality, when I was working my ass off, I envied those that just had to work at a desk.
When I was working a desk job I realized that I was too bored with what I was doing.
So I quit my job to get one that was more physical, and found I was most happy in a worker bee position than sitting around crunching numbers, even though it payed less.
Results vary depending on the person, you just have to sit down and really analyze your skill set and cross them with how much you'd like to work. All of the rest you can just fake (because unless you're going for a gov job no one actually checks.
)