Thread: Changes... do the right thing at the right time!?

Well... career is not the important aspect in my eyes...
To like what you do is the harder thing to achieve...

Originally Posted by Grisu_HDH

Well... career is not the important aspect in my eyes...
To like what you do is the harder thing to achieve...

That's a quest most will fail and it's a shame that people have to settle for something just because it pays enough. I can say that for most of my life, I've worked jobs that were just jobs. I've yet to find something that I truly love to do, except maybe when I used to cook. Bad thing is, being a cook pays squat and being a chef, yeah, there's money in it if you don't mind working 16 hours a day. I would love to be a career fire fighter and I've tried numerous times...it just wasn't in the cards for me and now I'm too old to apply at most paid departments.

Originally Posted by Grisu_HDH

To like what you do is the harder thing to achieve...

I'm with Mark Twain when it comes to work: "I do not like work, even when someone else is doing it."

Or maybe Aldous Huxley: "Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Hm, no, perhaps Dorothy Parker said it best: "Work is the province of cattle."

Wait, scratch that! Final answer. I'm going with Kurt Vonnegut: "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

12 years is a long time.

Hope all does well at the new adventure.

Originally Posted by Grisu_HDH

He folks.
Today I quite my job at my company after 15 years working with them...
Really strange feeling to know that in 3 months (thats notice period) I will work for a new company... New colleagues, new product to sell...
:'( and :-) at the same time...

Worked in the printing industry since I studied, now I will be with on of Germanys biggest producer of firefighting trucks and ladders... B-)

To me, that sounds like a pretty interesting job!

I, too, spent some time in the printing industry working at a little offset printer on a college campus. Was more sales than printing, but either way, I can't say that I miss it.

I think we're seeing the worst of the Recession, right now in 2013. Sure, that's a pretty bold (dumb ?) moment to let go of a safe job, but as I said there's only so much I will accept to *keep* a job. I'm not gonna get on all four and roll over like so many management folks want us to these days I'd rather go back to school and have it rough for a year or two, and then have a better position again. In the meantime I'm getting a well deserved break walking my pup and discussing photography with great folks

I've lost track of how many times since my teens that I've 'thrown away' a valuable career to chase my whims. I was the eternal despair of my mother but (and maybe I've just been lucky) I always found myself in a better position once the smoke had cleared.

Well done for taking the jump and best of luck with your next move. To have the ability to adapt and change is a humans greatest gift, and one that will prove useful in cash-strapped Europe right now.

Originally Posted by Grisu_HDH

Well... career is not the important aspect in my eyes...
To like what you do is the harder thing to achieve...

Very, very true.

When I went to the reunion of my high school class, I found that out of 461 people in the class I was one of only a handful that was doing what I had wanted to do at graduation. It has made me appreciate my good fortune that after 51 years in my profession (Aerospace Engineer), I still enjoy doing what feeds my family.

- Tom -

I'll try to translate my father's saying (he himself worked like crazy all his life) in English, without betraying the meaning :

"Le travail rabaisse l'homme au rang du travailleur"

more or less "Work lowers Man into Worker"

I've been out of the job since January 18th and it's total bliss, lol.

Big changes, disruptions can teach us a lot about ourselves. 10 years ago I left a good career in Canada to move to China. No family, no friends, no Chinese language. Am I better off now? Financially, probably not but I'm happier than I've ever been and I learned so much about who I am, what I need and what I have to offer.

Good luck in your change. It can be frightening or at least unnerving but it's always educational.