Is your current job in a way related to your educational attainment?
By Rexy_leigh
@Rexy_leigh (1189)
Philippines
February 15, 2007 6:31pm CST
"When I grow up I want to be a teacher"...That was what I said when I was once holding a microphone in front of a big crowd during our Kindergarten graduation. It was really my dream to teach kids and be called "ma'am". And I was so blessed to have my parents supporting me all the way up. They sent me to Cebu Normal University where I got my Teacher Diploma a couple of years back. I then landed a teaching job a month before I graduated, that was even before I got my license. Yeah teaching is fun... but for some reasons I head my way off the teaching field. And here I am now, working graveyard in a call center company... Making lesson plans, test questions, evaluation sheets and the like are no longer in my senses.. And now am starting to be afraid...afraid that am learning to love my current job more than the one should be devoting my time with... the job I spent 4 years of sleepless nights in college just to be equipped with. Life is really isn't that simple.
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13 responses
@nafeesa_mohd (281)
• India
25 Feb 07
no idea about what my job is going to be until i join a company.... as I'm going to do my masters in engineering... i have another two years to answer this question... but for my friends who got selected in companies... its totally out of the box.......
@Rexy_leigh (1189)
• Philippines
25 Feb 07
thanks for the reply...yeah, there are really quite a few whose occupations are far off their degrees gotten from college. :)
@rogen_andrei (638)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
may it be different from our dream or wish..God only knows why you landed on that job maybe after your call center and the more you develop you English skills then maybe its time to go to the field you graduated or your field as we say....God Bless nd keep it =)
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@titaniumsoul (1191)
• Singapore
19 Mar 07
My job is not related to my studies. I studied Information technology but my job is a photographer. My job came with no choice because the cost of living is freaking high. The prices of taxes, goods, products increase dramatically which I believe with my current salary, I may unable to afford to buy things. I agree with you that life is really isn't simple. Life is like a test of our endurance to hardship. However, I have taken an optimistic look on my life.
Cheers
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@JackBravo (970)
• United States
19 Mar 07
I think that, in the end, you should be doing what you won't regret doing, or not doing. If you look back in 100 years at what you've been spending your sleepless nights to do, and you're not happy, then maybe that's not the job for you. If you think you'll look back at this time and feel satisfied and accomplished, then this maybe the perfect job for you. I think it's all about regret, and not having any. So even though you may be working hard now, if it'll give you life satisfaction and you can truly say that you've spent your time well, then I say keep doing what you're doing.
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@samtaylorskykierajen (7977)
• Canada
9 Mar 07
My job is in no way related to my educational attainment but I would say my home life is in some sense . When I was younger I wanted to work with children everyday and either be a teacher or someone who taught in a daycare facility or work with children who had learning difficulties . I don't do this as my job but in my home life I now have five children who I can help each day with all there problems they have in life and try to make things a little easier for them ay explaining why we need to be able to do certain things in life like get an education .
If you are starting to love the job you have now then you could look at this as a good thing . Many people are not fortuante to have something that they enjoy doing everyday and even if it is not what you studied so hard to do at least you had the experience and it never hurts to have a little more in your life to fall back on if need be .
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@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
9 Mar 07
well now i do not work a regular job
i work as a freelancer on some projects
but am looking for a regular job
most of my life
i had two kinds of jobs
the regular one was not ever related to my education ( i learned a special theater art in the university) but the freelancer job was always related to my art
and it is still that way now:)
i could not work only in one job that does not concern what i learned at the university and what i like:)
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@Zelmarq (12585)
• Cebu City, Philippines
27 Mar 07
I graduated bs pschology and also finished by professional education and currently working as a customer service offecier of a telecommunications company here and i can say its related with my course. I handle people and serve them. I know when I grow older i'd look for a kind of job that I really love doing and its teaching. i plan to enroll special education so i can handle special children.
@webbuff (926)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
yes it is. im a computer engineer and now im working in a telecommunication company. =) i just hope you are enjoying your work.. and im glad in a small amount of time you able to live your dream. =) i wanted to be a pilot but i landed in an IT field. =) goodluck!
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@luping0513 (127)
• China
8 Mar 07
I'm a student.I'll graduate from my school.I 'll try my best to find a good job in the future.
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@kitkat1 (1227)
• Canada
19 Mar 07
I work parttime doing janitor work at the local schools which has nothing to do with what i went to college for but i also do spare Program Support Assistant work which is working with children with special needs in the classroom and that i did go to college to do and hope to someday be able to do it on a full time bases. For now i will do both puts food on the table and pays the bills right.
@thenaga (38)
• India
17 Mar 07
ya ur opinion is really correct because there is no relation ship between our education what we studied and our job what we r doing now so at child my dream is abt to become a pilot but now i am working in software company so depending up on us dreams will also be changed so there is a chance for us to dream but we cant go through that one in ur present life what u r doing now we should not be wait to get my dreams become success
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