Sometimes I look at what I've done with my life and despair. I went to Oxford University and yet I've managed to steer myself into a position where I alphabetise for a living. It's so humiliating.
May I? (*Prepares for an ear-bashing, but please remember that this is infused with more than a little sympathy.*)
Two points:
1. Work, though sometimes unfulfilling, is a necessary pain in the backside to endure. (Note: I've spent most of this morning drudging my way through a tedious and lengthy research outline which could've been done - better, I suspect - by someone with the skills of a sycophantic PR consultant!)
2. Nothing lasts forever.
*Hopes you find something more challenging or suited to your skills, tastes, and qualifications.*
The context of me saying that then was to quote a Billy Bragg song, it seemed fitting.
Although in my experience everything is mostly a vicious circle of experience and qualifications = you can't do something because you dont have enough experience, you can't get enough experience because you don't have the right qualifications, you can't get the right qualifications and you don't have enough experience... round and around
Mmm. This is where I completely ignore the advice I've given other people: Aim for something, stay on course, get what you need, tell other people to sod off, and count yourself lucky if you manage to end up doing what you want to do!
I'd hate to be going through the undergraduate system today, I tell you.
I'm considering going back to it... the undergraduate system that is... been toying with it for, well, years actually, I keep managing to disuade meself from it though.
You can always give the OU a try - that's quite a nice way back into accademic work with the added bonus of no snotty-nosed 18 year olds and no having to give up full-time employment.
I do know the feeling. I look at where some of my contemporaries are and look at where my brother is and think "damn, where did I go wrong?" and then I remember that although I *DID* go wrong (in the sense that I chose utterly the wrong thing to do at A-Level and then made an even bigger **** up at uni), if I hadn't done so, I'd probably be standing at a roadside measuring the volume of traffic as it passes and I wouldn't have met *ANY* of the folks I'm now happy and honoured to call friends.
So while there are crap bits, some of it's been rather on the shiny side :)
I think looking at life and despairing is normal. I look back at choices I made and wonder what I was thinking at the time! Look at me - I'm a semi-intellilgent independant female and could do anything if I wanted. And what do I do with each day? Oh yes, declutter the house and shout at snotty kids. Yes, my GCSEs, RSAs, Pitmans, Highers, blah blah blah are soooooooo valuable......
I know the feeling only too well. I have an MA and I'm unemployed. My last job was working on an assembly line...
I keep telling myself that it's just a stage though. I'm still young and flitting from thing to thing, and eventually I'll get where I want to go. When I figure out where it is exactly that I want to go.
but you are not a dog, nor "the other thing" & you are not someone who tells Scouting stories...
plus, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHANGE LENIN'S TIE *nods*
I love you in all your alphabetising fineness & I know you could do ANYTHING if you set your mind to it (and possibly did the life-of-crime thing for funding purposes...)
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Two points:
1. Work, though sometimes unfulfilling, is a necessary pain in the backside to endure. (Note: I've spent most of this morning drudging my way through a tedious and lengthy research outline which could've been done - better, I suspect - by someone with the skills of a sycophantic PR consultant!)
2. Nothing lasts forever.
*Hopes you find something more challenging or suited to your skills, tastes, and qualifications.*
Terry.
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If it makes you feel any better I basically have an MA in alphabetising...
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*Makes note to do that *hug* thing more in future. It's what I meant, but I just went off on one instead. *Sigh.*
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*hugs the Squeen* You are most brilliant. Do not fret.
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It's definately more involved than alphabetising it sometimes involves alpha-numeric reference numbers or wow is me dewey...*g*
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The alpha-numeric stuff is so much more advanced, yus.
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(Anonymous) 2006-01-25 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)And 16 digit numbers are always a great laugh.
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*hugs the Squeen*
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With all due respect... ;o)
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Although in my experience everything is mostly a vicious circle of experience and qualifications = you can't do something because you dont have enough experience, you can't get enough experience because you don't have the right qualifications, you can't get the right qualifications and you don't have enough experience... round and around
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I'd hate to be going through the undergraduate system today, I tell you.
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I do know the feeling. I look at where some of my contemporaries are and look at where my brother is and think "damn, where did I go wrong?" and then I remember that although I *DID* go wrong (in the sense that I chose utterly the wrong thing to do at A-Level and then made an even bigger **** up at uni), if I hadn't done so, I'd probably be standing at a roadside measuring the volume of traffic as it passes and I wouldn't have met *ANY* of the folks I'm now happy and honoured to call friends.
So while there are crap bits, some of it's been rather on the shiny side :)
*hugs again*
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What you do does not define who you are, and the latter is far more important.
And it is possible to get out of the alphabetizing - just 'cos you're doing it now does not mean you'll be doing it forever x
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I keep telling myself that it's just a stage though. I'm still young and flitting from thing to thing, and eventually I'll get where I want to go. When I figure out where it is exactly that I want to go.
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but you are not a dog, nor "the other thing" & you are not someone who tells Scouting stories...
plus, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHANGE LENIN'S TIE *nods*
I love you in all your alphabetising fineness & I know you could do ANYTHING if you set your mind to it (and possibly did the life-of-crime thing for funding purposes...)
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*kicks the system*
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