Burnt our public servant warning!!!

[Miss Scarlett]

Are university degrees over rated? Can one achieve job satisfaction in a low level position and is it a cop out to work to live rather than living to work?

[ShinymetalASS]

You will only be satisfied, regardless of your position, if you chose satisfaction.

What creates satisfaction is relative.

Honesty is crucial.

And degrees are overrated.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Depends on

how much money you're making
how much sex you are getting
how happy your home life is
how fulfilled you feel at work and in general
can you fulfil your desires and dreams

[jasebert]

For me, I do not need a degree because I want to work in the private sector of my chosen profession (they tend to focus more on industry certification). But if I wanted to work in the public service, they cream their pants if you have a degree, bachelor or master (so dominatrix).
For the record I am in IT doing consulting work.

Saying can somebody work in a low position and have job satisfaction is very condescending. What is a low position. Only low position I know is when a women goes down on me. Oh yeah, BOOYAH....

Seriously though, not having a uni certification does not directly mean you will get a shit job if that is where you are going with it.

[Miss Scarlett]

how much sex you are getting

why am I not surprised! :nonono:

(none by the way)

[oggy]

i thought a degree was associated with angles...:shrug:

i enjoy my job but be fucked if i live for work...

[ms edeity]

degrees don't mean you'll have a "high level position" and vice versa by not having one.

as for happiness - living to work only works if work is what makes your life. geddit?

[Miss Scarlett]

Actually I hate my job - I hate the people I work with and the clients make me want to kill someone. I want to get some boring, brain dead data entry job that doesn't wear me out, pays more and leaves me with enough will to have a fucking life.

[BlueBoy]

How did you burn out in a public servant role?

[jasebert]

How did you burn out in a public servant role?

I was just about to ask the same thing :huh:

[Colonel Kurtz]

She spent all morning looking out the window... so she had nothing to do all afternoon :D

[BlueBoy]

She spent all morning looking out the window... so she had nothing to do all afternoon :D
That's if she had a window. ;)

[Miss Scarlett]

How did you burn out in a public servant role?

How did you guess? Also a dash of small town blues, itchy feet, and high turn over of management types which made me realise that even the people earning the big bucks hate their jobs and co-workers.

I Have made a decision (omigawd) and here it is:

I AM DROPPING OUT OF MY UNI DEGREE!!!!!

[Glompbot]

I refuse to go to uni.
it seems to me like such a large waste of time for my career path... I am however interested in more specialist certification... and I think in jobs they do count more in the long run.

[Miss Scarlett]

How did you burn out in a public servant role?

Sorry - had a blonde moment back there.

How?

Convinced myself my job meant something. Wanted a career. Allowed my self to be vocationally seduced by management. Decided to do a degree so that instead of being overworked and underpaid I would be overworked, underpaid and overqualified.

I actually love the work which is supposed to be primarily library cataloguing - it's the place, people and context I hate. I recently described my job as drowning in other peoples' bad taste.

I just want to be left alone with my computer all day and no fucking stupid coworkers (except for the IT folks, they rock and make me laugh) or clients. Especially the kids - I hate other people's kids. And old people. I hate them too.

[Chocoholic]

You are stuck in a rut. You have to work out what will make you happy then go get it. I hated every one at an old job, got a new one that meet my happiness criteria i.e. not dealing with sales people, actually only dealing with a handful of senior management . Took me about two months to realised that I really did like working with sales people but the company I used to work for was fucked. Organise 2 weeks leave and find yourself a new job, you may have to change jobs a couple of times and it will probably take a few years to work out exactly what you want to do and if a degree is nessesary but your happiness is worth it. Plus a change is as good as a holiday.

I got over uni too, but I saw it coming and made sure I could graduate with a stats degree instead of a comp/IT degree. Stats enables me to work in pretty much any industry I choose. That is the only reason I stuck it out.