What Are You Doing Right Now? (175 Viewers)

[.zero]

Sitting on the patio of a bar right now "working"

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Fake Melo]

You haven't moved to Denmark have you?

 

[.zero]

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Tuz, I need some opinions on career matters.

I'm currently a year and a half or so out of college with two bachelors degrees (economics and finance). I have a dead end easy job in a law firm doing accounts receivable work/random office work making around $25,000 a year before taxes, basically just to gain experience and pay off my student loans. Been there since the end of March. I haven't really been actively looking for other jobs at this point because I feel I haven't been there long enough.

But now, I may have an opportunity to become a track worker for the MTA. This is a city job, so it comes with the usual low pay ($21 an hour to start, still not enough to live off of) BUT amazing benefits, a good pension, job security, 25 years until retirement, and the opportunity for a lot of potential overtime. Also being a city job, it tends to not be all that much actual work. Now, assuming I pass the pre-screening (I have to be able to distinguish different colors, this may be an issue), do you think I should take the job? To me, I'd basically be giving up on a career in the private sector where I could end up making a lot more but end up working a lot harder and for longer. Also working for 5 years towards those degrees would seem kinda pointless, and I'd be exactly where everyone else in my family before me is (all working/middle class city workers, not too bad a life but could have more). It's a big decision.

As I said though, assuming I pass the prescreening and all that.

 

[swag]

It depends on how important work is to you. If you want something more stable, maybe less of a challenge, and are focused more on the other aspects of your life, that could be a great move. Much in the way many Italians work to live rather than live to work.

 

[.zero]

Tuz, I need some opinions on career matters.

I'm currently a year and a half or so out of college with two bachelors degrees (economics and finance). I have a dead end easy job in a law firm doing accounts receivable work/random office work making around $25,000 a year before taxes, basically just to gain experience and pay off my student loans. Been there since the end of March. I haven't really been actively looking for other jobs at this point because I feel I haven't been there long enough.

But now, I may have an opportunity to become a track worker for the MTA. This is a city job, so it comes with the usual low pay ($21 an hour to start, still not enough to live off of) BUT amazing benefits, a good pension, job security, 25 years until retirement, and the opportunity for a lot of potential overtime. Also being a city job, it tends to not be all that much actual work. Now, assuming I pass the pre-screening (I have to be able to distinguish different colors, this may be an issue), do you think I should take the job? To me, I'd basically be giving up on a career in the private sector where I could end up making a lot more but end up working a lot harder and for longer. Also working for 5 years towards those degrees would seem kinda pointless, and I'd be exactly where everyone else in my family before me is (all working/middle class city workers, not too bad a life but could have more). It's a big decision.

As I said though, assuming I pass the prescreening and all that.

I agree with @swag

It all depends on what you want to do. But as long as you are content at the end of the day then that's all that matters honestly

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Tuz, I need some opinions on career matters.

I'm currently a year and a half or so out of college with two bachelors degrees (economics and finance). I have a dead end easy job in a law firm doing accounts receivable work/random office work making around $25,000 a year before taxes, basically just to gain experience and pay off my student loans. Been there since the end of March. I haven't really been actively looking for other jobs at this point because I feel I haven't been there long enough.

But now, I may have an opportunity to become a track worker for the MTA. This is a city job, so it comes with the usual low pay ($21 an hour to start, still not enough to live off of) BUT amazing benefits, a good pension, job security, 25 years until retirement, and the opportunity for a lot of potential overtime. Also being a city job, it tends to not be all that much actual work. Now, assuming I pass the pre-screening (I have to be able to distinguish different colors, this may be an issue), do you think I should take the job? To me, I'd basically be giving up on a career in the private sector where I could end up making a lot more but end up working a lot harder and for longer. Also working for 5 years towards those degrees would seem kinda pointless, and I'd be exactly where everyone else in my family before me is (all working/middle class city workers, not too bad a life but could have more). It's a big decision.

As I said though, assuming I pass the prescreening and all that.

what do you enjoy most in life?(could be many things)

 

[.zero]

No one ever asks me that

 

[WΏΏdy?]

I'd take a year off uni and go travel, decide along the end of it. You wouldn't know what u want from life unless you have at least one huge backpacking tenure.

But what do i know, I'm a nomad

 

[.zero]

I'm a gonad

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

what do you enjoy most in life?(could be many things)

I enjoy a lot of things (economics, helping people, completing jobs, etc) but I dislike maybe even more. I like working, but I don't like working at the same time. At the end of the day though it all comes down to knowing someone that can get you into an entry level position, since that's apparently pretty much impossible to get in this city otherwise.

No one ever asks me that

What do you enjoy most in life?

 

[.zero]

I don't know

 

[IliveForJuve]

Just got someone else a job that pays better than mine.

 

[.zero]

That deserves a whopper jr

 

[.zero]

I want to buy this right now

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...0U7EXH72&linkCode=as2&linkId=6NXGXHCI7RGZRABP

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

But me one too.

 

[lgorTudor]

Tuz, I need some opinions on career matters.

I'm currently a year and a half or so out of college with two bachelors degrees (economics and finance). I have a dead end easy job in a law firm doing accounts receivable work/random office work making around $25,000 a year before taxes, basically just to gain experience and pay off my student loans. Been there since the end of March. I haven't really been actively looking for other jobs at this point because I feel I haven't been there long enough.

But now, I may have an opportunity to become a track worker for the MTA. This is a city job, so it comes with the usual low pay ($21 an hour to start, still not enough to live off of) BUT amazing benefits, a good pension, job security, 25 years until retirement, and the opportunity for a lot of potential overtime. Also being a city job, it tends to not be all that much actual work. Now, assuming I pass the pre-screening (I have to be able to distinguish different colors, this may be an issue), do you think I should take the job? To me, I'd basically be giving up on a career in the private sector where I could end up making a lot more but end up working a lot harder and for longer. Also working for 5 years towards those degrees would seem kinda pointless, and I'd be exactly where everyone else in my family before me is (all working/middle class city workers, not too bad a life but could have more). It's a big decision.

As I said though, assuming I pass the prescreening and all that.

I'd take the job security job but I'm a coward regarding these things

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I want to buy this right now

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...0U7EXH72&linkCode=as2&linkId=6NXGXHCI7RGZRABP

It's gonna be such a disappointment seeing the Falcon subordinate to aerodynamic laws

 

[.zero]

I'll complete the Kessel run in record time

 

[ZoSo]

I did it in 11 parsecs

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

I'll complete the Kessler run in record time

I'm going to allow this.