Comments on: Your Career: Love, Hate or Tolerate it?

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:22:43 +0000

I think i might just win tattslotto this week and not worry about working. Problem solved.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:31:13 +0000

It’s funny how you can be a ‘career person’ and then, things change, and you become a ‘family person’ or a ‘world traveller’ or…. ‘an ironman’! I know my priorities have changed in the past few months. I no longer want to be a paramedic. I just want a job that supports my new hobby – ironman triathlon (a rather expensive hobby I may add! One day I’ll have a bike worth more than your bike Craig! OK, so maybe not for a while, if ever!). I just want to travel around the globe, race on different courses, and meet new ironman friends.

Having said that, I think it still is important to me that I enjoy my job/career to some degree. Otherwise I can see self getting bored quickly and hating it I guess.

By: Lisa from USA

Lisa from USA — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:49:08 +0000

Hope you’re cured now Craig!
My next career transition will be in 1 year, and I’ve been planning for it for a few years. Since I’ll be 48 at the time of my new launch, this post gave me a lift

By: Tina Johnston

Tina Johnston — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:35:32 +0000

Hey Craig !
Feel better soon !
Extra big {{{{HUG}}}}
Tina

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:10:34 +0000

Hi Craig,
Yup – another timely article. Just wish I knew exactly what it was that I was wanted to do. I am a pod person in an office and it kills me. Have you seen the way some of these people decorate their pods? I mean… if that floats your boat then thats great, who am I to judge?
I am trying to be brave and seek out what’s good for me, even if it is at the disdain of others. Some people really have issue’s when you try and break free, live to your true potential and be happy.
Feel better soon.
x

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:22:27 +0000

Hope you are feeling better soon Craig!

Michael you are SO funny

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:23:15 +0000

WOW, love this stuff! like what you said how can i get up and speak when I have no authority in this matter…

Funny how a this 18 yo (who I thought was at least 28) who attends one of my classes was asking me all about what I do.. when I said to her so what do you want to do? What are you doing she said well I havent worked that out yet.. and well I just ‘smiled ‘ and got the lesson!

By: Mandi P

Mandi P — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:40:18 +0000

Hi Craig,
hope you are feeling better soon so you can enjoy the return to summer Melbourne has had.
I have gone from one form of employment to another throught out my life, some I consider a career which was a position/occupation I loved and was passionate about such as chef or bar supervisor. Others were a job, as in I went in and did it pretty much to earn money as I worked out where to next.
Looking back there were similar threads between all my choices, apparently I really need interaction with people, I self-destruct alone in a cubicle and some creativity would be essential.
I am at the looking around stage again and will need to go back to study again to move in the direction I want which I am looking forward to as it has been a while since I stretched my mind.
My father worked 35 years for Telstra, I cannot imagine ever doing the same/similar thing for that length of time.
Thank goodness today there are a lot of options out there if I am brave enough to move out of my comfortable rut and go and explore them.
cheers

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:45:20 +0000

Though this might offend some, i’m pro the Dole and Newstart and welfare, if there was not such a thing in Australia to have a job to be seen to be busy, then things might be better. Why? Well having a job might keep one from crime and poverty, not debating that, but to just select a job for the sake of having a job to please society, that to be causes issues. Then you have the parents who want to choose a career for the child.

What gets me is, I’m 44 and was unemployed for just on a year in 2002, though I did study and do a part time job and voluntary work. Yet the same attitudes towards the unemployed existed in 2002 then when school the first time in 1983, I did Year 12 twice. The ‘you can get a job if you really tried’ attitudes are outdated.

If you don’t like your job and career you should be free to move to another career even if you are 60 – employers have a lot to answer to with their narrow minded attitudes.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:32:11 +0000

Wowzer! So many Newbies – a big welcome to all of you. Thanks for coming out of the cyber-shadows and saying hi.

Thanks for sharing your ideas, thoughts, feedback and stories – great stuff…. and Mystery Teacher – you’re a rockstar! Thanks for the honesty, humility and wisdom. Fantastic stuff. I love being able to learn from others and you taught me something today.