I passionately wanted to be a design/construction engineer. After just under 2 years of it, I learned that we worked 12+ hr days, got reamed when the sub-contractors f-d up, didn't get the support we needed from our customers, were constantly underbidding time/resources, and got paid less than beginning school teachers.
I used my lay-off as an opportunity to change my career so that I would not have to live like that. I made a choice to change and I've treated each career move since then with the idea that I am responsible for the consequences. I think too many people fall into jobs and then assume they have no choice or control. That might also be a generational thing; you and I have been tossed about by the software/dot-com boom and doom.
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Date: 2008-09-18 05:38 pm (UTC)I used my lay-off as an opportunity to change my career so that I would not have to live like that. I made a choice to change and I've treated each career move since then with the idea that I am responsible for the consequences. I think too many people fall into jobs and then assume they have no choice or control. That might also be a generational thing; you and I have been tossed about by the software/dot-com boom and doom.