Barrel of Fun
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Are you fulfilling a dream?
Are you happy in your job?
What do/did you really want to do?
Too many questions?
Are you happy in your job?
What do/did you really want to do?
Too many questions?
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Is it your calling?
- Thread starter Barrel of Fun
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Are you fulfilling a dream? >> career wise, no. personally yes.
Are you happy in your job? >> yes
What do/did you really want to do? >>i wanted to be a doctor - neuroscience. but got sidetracked at school.
Too many questions? >> no. ask some more. the wife thinks i am doing work and is leaving me alone all the while i keep typing.
Are you happy in your job? >> yes
What do/did you really want to do? >>i wanted to be a doctor - neuroscience. but got sidetracked at school.
Too many questions? >> no. ask some more. the wife thinks i am doing work and is leaving me alone all the while i keep typing.
Wardy
NSC's Benefits Guru
Are you fulfilling a dream? nope but it pays the bills
Are you happy in your job? most days.
What do/did you really want to do? wanted to work in computers, did it for awhile but then moved in to my current job because it paid more.
Too many questions? Nope
Are you happy in your job? most days.
What do/did you really want to do? wanted to work in computers, did it for awhile but then moved in to my current job because it paid more.
Too many questions? Nope
Cian
Well-known member
Are you fulfilling a dream? Nowhere close. Won't be fulfilling a career dream until I'm walking on to stage at the Amsterdam Arena to a capacity crowd for a 6 hour set... ahh, no, I've woken up again 
Are you happy in your job? Enough to stop me resigning in the morning, but that's about it. I appear to be working in the worlds only profitable sinking ship - about 15% of the senior staff have left in the past 4 weeks.
What do/did you really want to do? Did: Air force but failed the medical on eyesight grounds. Do: Not really sure at the moment.
Are you happy in your job? Enough to stop me resigning in the morning, but that's about it. I appear to be working in the worlds only profitable sinking ship - about 15% of the senior staff have left in the past 4 weeks.
What do/did you really want to do? Did: Air force but failed the medical on eyesight grounds. Do: Not really sure at the moment.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Are you fulfilling a dream? Career wise not bothered, lifewise yes, Albion wise - no!
Are you happy in your job? Reasonably and pay is good
What do/did you really want to do? Not a clue, drifted in to what I do
Too many questions? Far to many
Are you happy in your job? Reasonably and pay is good
What do/did you really want to do? Not a clue, drifted in to what I do
Too many questions? Far to many
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
no - more like living a nightmare really , if this stuff about reincarnation is true i must've been a right c**t in my previous life
oh hell know - if i wasn't so lazy i would quit , lucky for them i'm lazy
something involving ICT that pays well for little work (since the dream of playing football is a non-starter)
yes , yes it is
oh hell know - if i wasn't so lazy i would quit , lucky for them i'm lazy
something involving ICT that pays well for little work (since the dream of playing football is a non-starter)
yes , yes it is
NMH
Banned
I'm happy to change jobs at will, taking on new opportunities, challenges, and experiences with every phase of life (and have such changes signify another phase).
Life may include a lot of ambition, but people (especially kids) should know that it's best to attain normal/modest aspirations than fail at ridiculous ones. Anyway,as an example, it's a clear fact that celebrities are rarely at peace and as happy as their status might suggest to mere mortals - plus they have a lot of problems gaging who their true friends really are, and can become isolated when they are unable to, themselves, relate to regular lifestyles and people - and walk among them.
However, people I really feel sad for and about, are those who must trudge through a job they despise, in order to reach retirement - just to get a measly pension for the few-to-zero years they will spend in valuable health!
Life may include a lot of ambition, but people (especially kids) should know that it's best to attain normal/modest aspirations than fail at ridiculous ones. Anyway,as an example, it's a clear fact that celebrities are rarely at peace and as happy as their status might suggest to mere mortals - plus they have a lot of problems gaging who their true friends really are, and can become isolated when they are unable to, themselves, relate to regular lifestyles and people - and walk among them.
However, people I really feel sad for and about, are those who must trudge through a job they despise, in order to reach retirement - just to get a measly pension for the few-to-zero years they will spend in valuable health!
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Brixtaan
New member
Won't be happy until i'm on a 1-day-week.Work is shite and stops you doing the things that really count in life.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Really like my current job but unfortunately the company is relocating next year and my job is going with it, I can't afford to move to the new location and they don't pay much in the way of relocation expenses...certainly not enough to get a home as nice as my present one in the new area. So, after 23 years with the same organisation I will be re-entering the job market...shit scared, yup!
cjd
Well-known member
Are you fulfilling a dream: Yes,....I,m alive and enjoying life.
Are you happy in your job: I was very happy in my job for 30 years......then got up one morning and decided I didn,t want to do it anymore...........so I didn,t. I,m very happy not working now.
What did/do you really want to do: Just wanted to make some money....at the time I didn,t really care how. Odd thing is, that now I,m older and look back on my life so far, all the things that have made me really happy, didn,t cost me anything.
Too many questions: No.........I have tried to be honest to myself and others, so I,ve nothing to hide.....(I don,t think so anyway)
Are you happy in your job: I was very happy in my job for 30 years......then got up one morning and decided I didn,t want to do it anymore...........so I didn,t. I,m very happy not working now.
What did/do you really want to do: Just wanted to make some money....at the time I didn,t really care how. Odd thing is, that now I,m older and look back on my life so far, all the things that have made me really happy, didn,t cost me anything.
Too many questions: No.........I have tried to be honest to myself and others, so I,ve nothing to hide.....(I don,t think so anyway
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Barrel of Fun
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The penny might drop when Starry reads this thread.
Me? Maybe. It could turn out to be a very good job/opportunity. I feel my real calling is in writing. I want to write comedies, but I am not sure I have what it takes. I could settle for travel writing though...
Only time will tell!
Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
I'm very happy doing what I do and don't ever intend to retire!
Just doing a job to pay bills and maybe one day in the future to look after any potential wife or kids. If all jobs paid the same I would not be doing what I am. Stuck in an office in the internatonal hell hole that is London, missing the green fields and the rolling hills of the Sussex countryside, missing Brighton, the lanes, and the sea (I'm welling up here), no I'm not loving it. But it could be worse I guess. Still feel that maybe I should be doing something a bit more worthwhile, though.
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Are you fulfilling a dream? >> career wise, probably. personally, definately.
Are you happy in your job? >> yes
What do/did you really want to do? >>i wanted to be a PE Teacher - or an airline pilot, but I went to 9 schools when I was young and it totally f***ed my education!!! so I didn't get any decent quallies
Are you happy in your job? >> yes
What do/did you really want to do? >>i wanted to be a PE Teacher - or an airline pilot, but I went to 9 schools when I was young and it totally f***ed my education!!! so I didn't get any decent quallies
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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I thought this was going to be a scientology recruitment thread with optional free stress test!
I like my job because it is a ten minute cycle ride across Brighton to work. Anyone who ever has to step on a train or bus for work has my utmost sympathy, it's so spirit crushing - how people commute to London by train each day amazes me, it's too depressing to contemplate.
I like my job because it is a ten minute cycle ride across Brighton to work. Anyone who ever has to step on a train or bus for work has my utmost sympathy, it's so spirit crushing - how people commute to London by train each day amazes me, it's too depressing to contemplate.
No
No
Be an architect and design community centres and schools and homes and places for people to enjoy...or a heart or brain surgeon.
Never to many questions - just never enough answers....
bhaexpress
New member
No it wasn't at all. When I got into IT it was very different to what it is today. Schools didn't have computers (mine barely had an Abacus) and I fell into IT by accident. Back then it was a very weird and wonderful thing that few people had any idea about. Films such as 'War Games' helped perpetrate that rumour and because it was pretty rare it was well paid especially if you had minimal qualifications like I did.
When I was in my late thirties I had my first soirée in the US (with a millionaire's daughter no less) and as it was the at the time of a nice big recession and mainframes were bad news whereas Unix boxes and Mircos were coming in I headed west to try something else. Something else turned out to be a bad idea so I came back from the US with not much cash and not a whole lot of future. I went on a 'Government Sponsered IT Course' just to retrain in PCs (I was told to do that because of my previous twenty years in IT. Frankly it was crap advice as the HNC I got from it has done sod all for me but I was then committed to IT.
Frankly I wish I had been a chef or a Historian now.
When I was in my late thirties I had my first soirée in the US (with a millionaire's daughter no less) and as it was the at the time of a nice big recession and mainframes were bad news whereas Unix boxes and Mircos were coming in I headed west to try something else. Something else turned out to be a bad idea so I came back from the US with not much cash and not a whole lot of future. I went on a 'Government Sponsered IT Course' just to retrain in PCs (I was told to do that because of my previous twenty years in IT. Frankly it was crap advice as the HNC I got from it has done sod all for me but I was then committed to IT.
Frankly I wish I had been a chef or a Historian now.