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The man to be defeated... err, the one with beard!

No job for me as of yet...just that student thing.

Somewhat. Desing can be a very fun thing to do, but given that my personal interests are wide and related to all sort of activities, sometimes my actual work steps in the way of otehr things I want to do or try. Quite demanding, sometimes you just can't find time for yourself.

Edited by cuncuna - March 15 2007 at 12:27

I am a psychiatric nurse since 1986 and after all those years I still love my job: helping mainly schizophrenic people to rebuild their lives by searching for a new balance (less pressure, daily structure, finding distraction, etc.). My work alternates from giving medication and having talks about how to cope with their psychiatric disease to cleaning the room and listening to music or even playing guitar with them. Every weekend I organise a music DVD meeting, then we watch Pink Floyd, ELP, Ten Years After, Supertramp, David Bowie or Led Zeppelin because most of them are aged between 30 and 50 and they have pleasant memories about this music  It's sometimes a very tough job  but also very grateful and I can put a lot of my enthousism, energy and ideas in it and I have a lot of freedom to do my job, not many 'chiefs' around because that's doesn't match with my authority -conflict

erik neuteboom wrote: I am a psychiatric nurse since 1986 and after all those years I still love my job: helping mainly schizophrenic people to rebuild their lives by searching for a new balance (less pressure, daily structure, finding distraction, etc.). My work alternates from giving medication and having talks about how to cope with their psychiatric disease to cleaning the room and listening to music or even playing guitar with them. Every weekend I organise a music DVD meeting, then we watch Pink Floyd, ELP, Ten Years After, Supertramp, David Bowie or Led Zeppelin because most of them are aged between 30 and 50 and they have pleasant memories about this music  It's sometimes a very tough job  but also very grateful and I can put a lot of my enthousism, energy and ideas in it and I have a lot of freedom to do my job, not many 'chiefs' around because that's doesn't match with my authority -conflict

Therapy through prog - I love it! Seriously though, I'm impressed with your obvious love of what you do, especially as I'd imagine it can be extremely challenging at times - all power to you

Personally - I work in credit control (have done similar for most of my working life); I'm very good at it, but I wouldn't say I particularly enjoy, or dislike the job (although I do like the people I work with, which is a bonus) - as far as I'm concerned, it's just a job, pure & simple. It means the bills are paid, there's food on the table & we can go for a beer when we want to - I'm not ambitious, career-wise (that way lies stress & disappointment) and I refuse to be defined by my career. In short, I work to live, not vice versa.

I'm a consultant in the area of software and systems engineering, and recently I was also made responsible for managing a 4 headed sales team on that same topic. Interesting, with technical as well as business issues to deal with - but momentarily very time consuming, I may need an 8 day working week for the next two months.

I dont have a job, im a medicine studient, I start the university this year

<<I think to really love what you do for a living is a real blessing>>

Man, how true that is. I hate to think what would've happened if I hadn't gone to college. For 5 years after high school I worked at a grocery store. I didn't mind it, but really wasn't going anywhere. Then in 1989 I was fired for doing something really stupid (I was a kid...and not a very smart one). The next year I went from one dead end job to the next, but then I decided to go to college. Sold my car and started the Fall of 1990 and made it all the way through with a degree (even accepted into Clemson's graduate program, but really didn't want to stay in school) and now doing what I never thought possible. Funny how life works.

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