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Job satisfaction/average pay vs Boring job/pretty good pay
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What are peoples views on that? I'm currently applying my ass of at the moment for jobs. I've been doing temp jobs here and there for a while now but im thinking about looking for a more permanent "career" based job based on my degree.
Anyway i dunno which route to take. There are a few jobs i've been looking at which look like fun and where i would get more job satisfaction i reckon. There are possibilities for job progression further down the line but the pay is pretty average. Its not terrible by any means but its not as much as what i could get for other graduate jobs.
The other graduate jobs ive been looking at are training schemes. Much better paid but all seem very general and im just not feeling it, hard to explain but they just seem like jobs i would get easily bored with. Pretty vague i know but thats the general jist of it.
What would people go for?
P.s thought i might add, i dont know for sure that i will have job satisfaction or hate the jobs, its just the general feeling i get about them
Anyway i dunno which route to take. There are a few jobs i've been looking at which look like fun and where i would get more job satisfaction i reckon. There are possibilities for job progression further down the line but the pay is pretty average. Its not terrible by any means but its not as much as what i could get for other graduate jobs.
The other graduate jobs ive been looking at are training schemes. Much better paid but all seem very general and im just not feeling it, hard to explain but they just seem like jobs i would get easily bored with. Pretty vague i know but thats the general jist of it.
What would people go for?
P.s thought i might add, i dont know for sure that i will have job satisfaction or hate the jobs, its just the general feeling i get about them
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It's not a graduate market for choosers.
So the current one isn't as much fun as some of the others out there, but is more predictable and won't send me to the arse end of nowhere anywehere in the world for 6 weeks with zero notice.
But it pays more and has better working hours than some of the other options I looked at.
Like others have said though, apply for everything and see what you get. Generally graduate schemes are well structured with good training and roles available in them, so even if you're not loving every second of it doing one for a few years will put you in a good position to look for another job.
But yeah cheers, i'm gonna just apply to everything and see what happens
Well to be fair they gave me slightly less than two months notice, and I'm there for 2 months
Oh we've had guys that get put on 24 hours notice to move to a warzone before
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However, i turned it down because the subject area didn't interest me by the end of university. I'm now earning a tad over £20,000 pa in the RAF and enjoying every minute of it!
Confucius once said: "Chose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life"
Personally i wouldn't take a job that didn't let me wear what i wanted (and leave it up to me to decide what is a appropriate) and let me come and go when i wanted within reason as long as i put the right number of hours in and where i got at least 25 days holiday.
I am a big believer in 'things happen for a reason'. considering your current situations I would take whatever job comes along first and play it from there. Thats what i did and things have worked out quite well for me.
If you're lucky and everyone c omes back to you, I'd really say that you should do the job that you think you will enjoy. I've done work I enjoy and work that pays more and, trust me, doing something you enjoy wins hands down. Wanting to go to work is worth five grand a year, if not more.
Go for the money as while you can buy your entertainment outside of work a job you love will - likely as not - change into one you don't.
thats very very true
As you don't have a job at all you can't be choosy, so apply for everything, but I don't agree that money is more important than enjoying your work. Dreading getting out of bed on a Monday morning isn't worth the extra cash, providing the money you're earning is enough to pay the bills.
Of course in an ideal world the job you enjoy is also the highest paying, but that doesn't always work out. I wouldn't go and work for my previous employer for all the tea in China, even though they do pay pretty good wages compared to the wider market in my sector. Sure, I'd love my current employer to pay me more money, and to stop being run by an asshat, but I love my job and the kids I work with.
Pays enough to pay the bills and in an ideal world leave enough left over for soem fun.
Well good luck and I hope you get it, it is always good to be in a job that you have a good interest in.
spending 40-60 hrs a weeks doing a job you hate = spending most of your life doing something you hate.
i'd rather have enough to get by with the basics and my necessary luxuries doing something i can enjoy or at least tolerate than force myself through 60 hours of penitence a week.
I just don't really want a job where I'll be ultra bored and stressed by the time I finish. My brother has a job with good pay and he comes home from work every evening stressed, depressed and moany. I don't know, I mean if I had to, I wouldn't say no, but life is too short for that crap.