Eternal Temp?
Oct. 30th, 2002 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
absolutedestinyWhy is it that I'm so ambivalent towards seeking out a career? Am I weird for not knowing exactly what job I'd like to do?
I'm 24 in April and I haven't had a single permanent contract since leaving university. I'm now heading back to Oxford in search of employment but will more than likely end up in another temporary position.
The whole country has turned into a mass of over-employed temporary workers who probably would be doing better for themselves if they'd started working after school and not gone to university at all.
I seriously think that if I'd started at the bottom of some company I'd be in a really comfortable job by now. Nowadays I can't even get low level jobs because I'm over-qualified for them... unless I'm a temp in which case I'm not there long enough to progress through the ranks.
This especially sucks because, as stated earlier, I don't have any set criteria for a career. All of the things I enjoy are hobbies, and I'd like to keep it like that so I'm just looking for an inoffensive 9-5 mon-fri job where I don’t have to take the work home and it doesn’t bore me to tears. Is that too much to ask for?
Of course it's a double-edged sword... lack of drive and ambition makes you less employable. Suckiness.
Hmpf. Stuff reality, I want a fairy godmother.
I'm 24 in April and I haven't had a single permanent contract since leaving university. I'm now heading back to Oxford in search of employment but will more than likely end up in another temporary position.
The whole country has turned into a mass of over-employed temporary workers who probably would be doing better for themselves if they'd started working after school and not gone to university at all.
I seriously think that if I'd started at the bottom of some company I'd be in a really comfortable job by now. Nowadays I can't even get low level jobs because I'm over-qualified for them... unless I'm a temp in which case I'm not there long enough to progress through the ranks.
This especially sucks because, as stated earlier, I don't have any set criteria for a career. All of the things I enjoy are hobbies, and I'd like to keep it like that so I'm just looking for an inoffensive 9-5 mon-fri job where I don’t have to take the work home and it doesn’t bore me to tears. Is that too much to ask for?
Of course it's a double-edged sword... lack of drive and ambition makes you less employable. Suckiness.
Hmpf. Stuff reality, I want a fairy godmother.
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Date: 2002-10-30 07:02 am (UTC)I don't have to take my work home, but as for the other stuff, it's more than I have :'(