Is Your Job Important To You?

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PostIs Your Job Important To You?
by Captain Kinopio » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:49 pm

Not just in a 'if I didn't have it I would have no money' sense. I mean do you actually like/care what you're doing and do you think that is an important part of having a career. Or is your job just a means of providing you with an income so you can actually pursue what you really want to do.

I'm job hunting at the moment and it's an absolute nightmare partly because I have no idea what I want to do and I don't know which of the above categories I fit into.

So to GRcade I came. Over to you.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by OLIN » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:52 pm

My job is five minutes away from where I live.

That is important to me.

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by Floex » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:54 pm

I'm lucky enough to have found what I want to do. I work in video production, trouble is at the moment the stuff i'm working on isn't what I want to be doing.

If you can, think of something you like doing or have done at uni go towards that.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Absolutely Zero » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:54 pm

OLIN wrote:My job is five minutes away from where I live.

That is important to me.


This. But it's a supermarket. So not really important no, trying to get a job driving lorries but i keep epic failing the test and it's £300 a pop.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Floex » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:55 pm

OLIN wrote:My job is five minutes away from where I live.

That is important to me.


1hr 45 commute there then an 1hr 45 commute back


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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Tragic Magic » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:56 pm

No. Not really.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Barley » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:03 pm

No, not at all. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it, perhaps too much sometimes, but I just couldn't give a strawberry float about the service or the 'customers'. Unfortunately for most of the people that phone me for help on a daily basis.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by SEP » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:05 pm

It's merely a means to an end. Made some great friends, though.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Cuttooth » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:05 pm

In my current situation a job would only have to be bearable and as long as I didn't resent going in every morning I would take it.

Of course for it to be enjoyable would be preferable.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Lotus » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:14 pm

Kind of. It's not what I'd ideally be spending my days doing, but the people are great and the work's ok. I want to succeed in it, as with everything else I do.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by FatDaz » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:18 pm

My job is pretty much all i have these days! I enjoy it and wouldnt want to do anything else. It has more variety than any other job i can think of and no 2 days are ever the same. I work with a great bunch of people who are also my best mates!

Edit: I also get to drive really fast legally! FTW :D

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Glowy69 » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:20 pm

I have to travel 60 miles a day to my job, its only a bit more money than my previous job, and its not really what I want to do, but to get where I want to go I 'have' to go through the motions.

If someone said I could have any job that I wanted now, I honestly wouldnt know what to say. :fp:

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Oh Teh Noes » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:26 pm

No. Washing dishes in a museum café kitchen isn't what I'd consider a 'career'.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Yorkcityknight » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:27 pm

I alternate between loving and hating my laboratory managers job with equal measure.
The days I can do some analysis and produce some results I love as I know every bit of work I do is maximising a growers crop production and ultimately putting grub in someones belly.
The days I do nothing but fill in forms, attend meetings and push bits of paper around my desk I hate, although I do appreciate that without doing all that there wouldn't be a lab in the first place.

Oh yeah, 10 mins drive there & 10 mins drive back. :)

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by floydfreak » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:38 pm

working in a warehouse no not really, sometimes its ok other times i hate it. But it brings money in and will do for now i guess.

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by SEP » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:39 pm

floydfreak wrote:working in a warehouse no not really, sometimes its ok other times i hate it. But it brings money in and will do for now i guess.


Are you a picker? Which warehouse?

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by PuppetBoy » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:40 pm

I no longer have a job.

Its fantastic!

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by DeckardRunner » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:41 pm

25 minutes walk to serve pints, and hopefully on monday a second job washing dishes. it's all about the money till I finish Uni baby :P

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by TornadoShaun » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:08 pm

I hate my job, with a passion, but a crap job is better than no job - I've been looking as well but there just doesn't seem to be anything around at the moment that I could do...

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PostRe: Is Your Job Important To You?
by Turok » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:15 pm

FatDaz wrote:My job is pretty much all i have these days! I enjoy it and wouldnt want to do anything else. It has more variety than any other job i can think of and no 2 days are ever the same. I work with a great bunch of people who are also my best mates!

Edit: I also get to drive really fast legally! FTW :D


You drive ambulances/fire engines / police cars?

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