A forlorn pause
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Everyone wants everything to be nice but nothing will ever stay in place.
None of our lives occurs two or three times in the restful way they should,
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Worthless bullshit career advice from Joe Turner
Worthless for me, anyway. I'm so fucking angry right now, or whenever I think about career stuff. Why are there never any articles that DON'T assume you've already had years of experience in a high level professional job? Why can't there be articles that tell people like me what to do? People with no skills or experience or even a slight sense of what the hell they want to do with their life??? I just don't know what to do anymore. It would be one thing if I knew what I wanted to do but simply couldn't find a job. That wouldn't be as bad. My problem is that I have never seriously considered any particular career in anything, and now I feel completely lost and defeated. How did I end up this way? I'm a college graduate, I've always done what I'm told, I don't get into trouble. I've done everything right!!!! And I still can't seem to figure out how to be an "adult", which seems to come completely naturally to everyone else. What is going on?????
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Well what the H did you study in college?
english, which i only did because i'd failed at music, my original major. the only reason i did music was because i was kind of good at it and had gotten a big head about it. when i realized i didn't really like playing the saxophone i switched majors to english because i'd always liked reading. i was never very enthusiastic about studying it though.
If you have no idea what you want to do, you could just do "odd jobs" until you "find yourself." i.e. figure out what kinds of things you definitely DON'T want to do and which things appeal. These might be broad things like "don't want a desk job" or "like working with people" and so on. multitasking vs. one note. or just take the lowest-rung, entry-level job in a field that interests you abstractly so you can start "networking" and looking for "opportunities for advancement." even if you can't think of a job title that appeals you can probably think of something you like in the broad sense. there are careers for everything. like social media is now a job, I see posts for "social media intern," "Twitter expert," shit like that all the time.
my sister sent me a link to some kind of proofreading course, which i'll look into.
the only way i know how to look for jobs is craigslist, and every listing just seems to require so much. i should probably just try to get in with a better temp agency.
i've been doing the same job, carrying files around between offices (that's literally what the job is), for almost 2.5 years (hence my extreme frustration). it's a "temp" thing, which at least means i'm not tied down. there's no limit on it though—a temp job of indefinite duration...
it would actually be okay if it paid more. but i need something respectable.
how many tweets does it take before i'm a twitter expert? ;)
I need to stop commenting so much. But hey, listen. At least you care. There are a lot of people who don't have a clue what they want to do. And they're rather apathetic about it. You're far from apathetic. And that's good. That's excellent!
What are you good at?
What do you enjoy?
If these questions are frustrating, I'm sorry. But I think if you can answer them, then the next step might be going back to school to pursue getting better (or more educated, at least, and therefore more hirable) while studying something you enjoy.
Grad school: it isn't a bad way to go.
Feel free to rant at me anytime. molly.gaudry@gmail.com
If I can help, I will. I'll try, anyway.
grad school is a decent idea. moving files for 2.5 years sounds miserable. you should definitely find something at least moderately more fun/engaging/rewarding. you could take one of those silly tests that tells you your aptitude for various careers ... I have a friends who swears by them.
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