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.*
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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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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