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Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction?
I-love-my-work, who is considering rejoining the IT world after a stint in business, asks: "A molecular biologist with a PhD at University of
Birmingham, in the UK, quits his lab position to become a plumber, since a plumber apparently earns twice what he currently makes (~US$42K).
How many of you would change careers if given a chance? What factors would influence the decision (money, hours, upper management, a chance to enjoy more of your life)?" What factors would make you seriously consider leaving your current career for another?
Paid? I'm supposed to get Paid?!
Duuuude....
And believe you me, Steve Jobs was PISSED. When he finally got out of the closet where I was keeping him, he killed the cloned Steve Jobs I made, and fired me.
What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Besides 2 chicks at the same time?
Well yeah
I'd do absolutly nothing...
=)
If I ever get an offer for the position of "Beatle", I'm outta here.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
All day long, every day, I find bugs in software and kill those bugs.
I just found out that I would make more money if I spend all day long, every day, finding bugs under furniture and kill those bugs.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
If you find someone that is hiring let me know I'd like to grave rob as well.... Oh you said grave digging
"what fun is the money if you never get a chance to spend it?"
Ask you wife.
Or perhaps one could find a job that does not require work, and therefore come to love it ;-)
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
To go from an air conditioned lab to unclogging shitters is not my idea of job satisfaction.
The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away
Every time I try to get out of the (IT) business, I get pulled back in. ;-)
One professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home broke down. He called a plumber. The plumber came on the next day, sealed a few screws and everything was working as before. The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked. "This is one third of my monthly salary!" he yelled. Well, he paid and then the plumber said to him: "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply tell them that you completed only the seventh grade. They don't like educated people."
So it happened. The professor got a plumber job and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly. One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber has to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check student's knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of the circle. The person who was ask was the professor. He jumped to the board, and then he realized that he forgot the formula.
He started to reason it and soon filled the board with integrals, differentials and other advanced formulas to conclude the result that he had forgotten. As a result he got "negative pi times r squared." He didn't like the negative, so he started all over again. He got the negative sign again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a negative. He was frustrated. He looked a bit scared at the class and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch the limits of the integral!!"
When men used to be men
What happens when plumbing jobs go offshore? We'll eventually be a country of rich corporations and unemployed citizens.
And it'll smell, from all the shit piling up due to the lack of local plumbers!
"All too often the 'job' part ruins the 'fun' part."
So you're telling me that Ron Jeremy responds to a woman coming onto him with, "Naa, you look pretty hot an' all, but it'd feel too much like work..."?
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
which is why i NEVER want to be a gynecologist :)
"It's so beautiful, I feel so ... I feel my juices are just you know ... it makes me so ... I want to write, I want to paint, I want to sculpt something massive. I've got a creative urge. I wonder if there's a men's room around here."
I'd give up my day job in a heartbeat if there was any money in the massive sculpture market.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
what fun is the money if you never get a chance to spend it?
Outsource the spending part. That gives you more time to earn money. And purely concidental, I happen to be an excellent spender, so I'll be your outsourcing company for very reasonable fee.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
Invest what???
My unemployment checks or the money I get from the coke can recycling???
Code poet, espresso fiend, starter upper.
How about a job that lets you spend 90% of your time reloading slashdot? (like mine :)
sit at home, hack perl code, and watch tv/listen to music. I work in my underwear most days...in fact I'm posting in my underwear. I have sex while i'm at work when my gf comes over. I can drink if i want, smoke whenever i want, get a tan on my deck since i have a laptop, whatever i want. sometimes i walk downtown and go to a coffee shop for a change of scenery.
:) what more can I ask for? maybe i could buy a house close to where i am now, which is 3 blocks from the beach.
plus i get paid well
Whoa, you live in 1998?
If it's alright with you, I'd like to hate your job for $100K/year.
~m
"Yes, I have a Disaster Recovery Plan. It's called my Resume"
"...I actually moonshined for a friend..."
You must mean MOONLIGHTED.
Moonlight : too work a second job after your primary job or a '80 detective show with Cybil Shepard (back when she was still a hottie) and Bruce Willis (back when he was still screwing Demi Moore)
Moonshine : an alcoholic beverage made with corn, wheat, or whatever one can get ahold of that will ferment usually causes blindness and draw the attention of revenuers -- the stuff granny made on the Beverly Hillbillies
but my hands were tied with the responsibiliti
I trust you haven't been too busy untying yourself...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I used to love science. I would read articles, study the techniques and figure out how to do experiments on my own. I once cloned a gene using jello, gummi worms, a rubbermaid box, some wire,some twine, a tylenol bottle,a pinch of lye, and a lantern battery.
Obviously science and biochemistry was something I would do as a hobby . . . out of school now, and having been working for 6 years in the field. . . there is no desire left to do science in the kitchen, it just feels like work without the pay.
Even at work it feels like work more than a hobby with pay.
--Tsiangkun
"The Plumbing Business Is Not As Glamorous As The Porn Industry Depicts"
What blows me away is that any woman would "come on" to Ron Jeremy at all!
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Come on Taco, we know it's you, no need to post as AC ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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> Outsource the spending part. That gives you more time to earn money. And purely concidental, I happen to be an excellent spender, so I'll be your outsourcing company for very reasonable fee.
Tinfoil hats rejoice! Proof positive that the Government does read Slashdot!
"Oh, you hate your job?! There's a support group for that. It's called everyone,
they meet at the bar."
-- Drew Carry, the Drew Carry Show.
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that, it's called everyone, they meet at the bar."
Does anybody do plumbing as a hobby?
I can hear it now: "I used to like installing PVC drainage pipes but now, well when I get home and find a leak under the sink it's just too much like work to get under there and fix it."
Frist rule of plumbing: shit don't run up hill.
Amy
I hear SCO is still looking for a CFO... you can make over $100k/year for a couple years, spend about 5 years in jail, then pay yourself $20k a year out of what's left after you pay your lawyers...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Why anyone would want to be a Microbiologist?? I mean I have desire to be a plummer personally, but at least I would get tons of meaningless casual sex... That is unless porn has lied to me... :)
Find a job you love...
and you'll never work a day in your life...
after they outsource that job to India!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
This is why they call it a "job" and not "blowjob"
Amoeba
Do not taunt Happy-Fun Ball
Cmdr Taco reads Slashdot?
Professional Student!
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
I would never sacrifice my uptime stats to indulge in such impulsive behavior.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
Everything except the articles.
Just like everyone else.
Err...I'd rather date a student that's happy than a professional pulling down a half-million that isn't...
And I bet many guys would agree. (Okay, the half-million might be a stretch.)
--RJ
Dude;
> not everyone can code 4000 (good) lines in a week
Especially not network administrators.
> Yes it is a horrible plan (ebay selling combined with windshield repair)
I'm sure you'll make good with all your ebay selling and windshield repair. Clearly both more lucrative then writing (good) software.
> and plan on hiring part time java programmers
Which part of your business are they going to help with? The windshield repair? or the ebay selling?
> I still come back here even though 95% of the posters on slashdot haven't a clue
I see you what you mean.
k
Sorry, I have to nitpick this one.
> Mod down this rant if you want, but it is an objective opinion of the consensus of this thread.
objective
adj 1: undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
opinion
n 1: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
> not everyone can program a pix without looking at it.
Uhh... what would looking at a pix tell you about "programming" it?
-Mark
Obviously, they will become plummers as well.
'Like they say, nobody ever said on their deathbed "I wish I'd spent more time at work".'
Trite and true, but how many have said "I wish I could have put my kids through college", "If could have afforded health care I wouldn't be here now", "I wish I hadn't had to kill my female children so I could afford to feed my male children", et friggen cetera..
-- your Web browser is Ronald Reagan
Err...I'd rather date a student that's happy than a professional pulling down a half-million that isn't...
:)
Why not have it both ways? The profesional pulling down half a million will be far too busy to notice the student on the side.
isn't working outdoors also a workplace with no windows?
Oh! I thought she meant she was working in a Solaris shop!
If you're a vascular surgeon, you already know the basics. ;)
payday is friday
"- Don't have kids until you can afford them"
Afford them? AFFORD THEM?!?!?
Dude, you are so deluded. You can never afford them, ever. You just have them and then you spend and spend and spend and spend....
. (Don't even bother, that was intentional to get you're hopes up.)
.
P.S. Hah! So was that. :-)
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.