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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....
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
"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 :)
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?
"...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
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
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
"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.
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
Cmdr Taco reads Slashdot?
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
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.