This Week's Off Topic Topic (13/02/12)

[Ludwig Venter]

I know of a qualified Fitter & Turner who works as a Furniture salesman at a chain store merely because there are no vacancies in his specialist field....

This weeks' off topic topic is: Are you doing the job you studied for and are qualified for, or are you just doing a job because you cannot find one in your field??

I've been in Environmental Control now since 1970 where I got on the job training for what I'm doing & would probably fail dismally in any other proffession.... Are you doing the job that you always wanted to do for a living?

 

[the_lock_man]

Yes and no.

I work for (and indeed am now a director and shareholder of) my family's security business.

However, I never really planned to do so. I studied Computer Systems Engineering at University. I graduated right at the height of the recession of the early 90s, and found jobs hard to come by. I was offered one job (with the company that manufactures the Mercedes F1 and Indycar engines) which would have meant moving to Cambridgeshire, but I had only just met (and fallen for) Mrs TLM, so elected to stay where I was.

At that point, the company was starting to diversify into computerised locking systems, so it wasn't completely wasted.

 

[moochy13]

not at all.

nobody studies to work in a godawful supermarket. i find it difficult to express how much i hate my job, especially on a forum that swearing isnt allowed on.

 

[tribalbrit]

Yep still laying bricks / building after 33 years. Is it time for a change or have I left it tooooooooooo late.

 

[Baccus]

I studied horticulture when I finished high school, but it is not my passion. Yeah plants are interesting, nice and useful but my real love is animals. I could have left school in year 10 moved to another town on my own just to take up the job as a junior vet nurse, but I was only 16 and the town I would have been moving too wasn't the best place for a single, lone, young female to be. So instead I stayed in school, never got the grades that would have enabled me to get excepted into a vetinary course, and now I am in a mind numbingly, soul sapping job as a Council Gardener.
And the reason I studied horticulture if its not my real interest? Well its the one TAFE course I ogt accepted into and there was no way in this world my Mum was going to not let/ make me do the course even though it ended up costing Mum and Dad a fortune, becuase I could not get any government study assistance.

 

[Westwood]

I came out of secondary school at 16 and went straight into my Dental Technology Apprenticeship. Is not what i wanted to be (Airline Pilot) But we have to be realistic! But I love my Job.

Westwood

 

[Rummynose]

Well, I love my job. It has its days too, but mostly I love it! I work in the community, mainly with the elderly in their activities of daily living!

I've trained and worked as a nurse in Germany (a lifetime ago) and followed love to Canada. Canada has higher standards in their education and having been gone to long from the job raising a family, I would have had to go back to school for 3 years to get back to working as a nurse. Instead, I took and graduated with honours a 3 month Personal Support Worker course for foreign trained nurses.

 

[GrayScale]

Out of high school I wanted to go to college to major in IT or biology to be a marine biologust/ecologist. I spent 1 semester at community college where I failed miserably and decided I wasn't ready yet. So, I got a decent job in a call center for an alarm company. It's definitely not what I wanted to do but it's something I never considered before and I actually somewhat enjoy it and have been considering making it a career. In 2 1/2 years I went from a data entry positiin to supervisor and I'm in the running for a manager position this year so it makes it hard. I'm only 21 so I still have time.