I can't do this the rest of my life

[Saint Nick]

I'm sitting at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha. A huge glass box at 1400 Douglas Street. In front of a computer doing menial intern work. Even if they paid me $60,000 out of college, I don't think I could do this.

I think once I graduate, I'm going to get a part time job somewhere, or work construction, and see where my band goes. I seek adventure and travel!

For the rest of you 9-5 type of people, do you guys love what you do? What makes you all keep your incredibly high paying jobs even though you might hate it?

 

[markgm]

18 more years until I can retire.

 

[dartworth]

do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

 

[FP]

I sit in front of a computer all day and absolutely love it.

Mental labor >>> Physical labor in my book.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Wife, kids, mortgage.

 

[IEC]

Huh? Oh right, everyone has a high-paying job and dates a supermodel. While still in college no less. :disgusted;

<-- currently working a $7.95/hr job for the summer, and pleased to be quitting at the end of the month. At least it motivates me to work harder when I get back to school next month...

 

[kranky]

My strategy is this: either LEARN to love what you do, or go do something else. I might not have my dream job but I have learned to love the job I have now.

 

[MrMaster]

Drinking.

lots and lots of drinking...That's how you get through cubicle life.




and surfing the web.

 

[AmpedSilence]

I'm doing this crap til i can get enough in the bank to start my own business. Then I'll do something that I love.

 

[Ns1]

i hated my last job, but i love my current one

 

[skim milk]

I felt the same at my internship
It was so boring

 

[joesmoke]

Originally posted by: MrMaster
Drinking.

lots and lots of drinking and drugs...That's how you get through cubicle life.




and surfing the web.

Fixed. This.

 

[D1gger]

Five more years and I start to back away from my business and move towards retirement. If I had stuck with my first manual labour job (landscaping) I'm sure I would have to work at least another 15 years.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: dartworth
do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

out of college, it's pretty good.

 

[YoungGun21]

Originally posted by: dartworth
do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

$60k right out of college is pretty freaking nice. Oh I forget this is ATOT. $60k/wk is the average starting salary here.

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: dartworth
do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

no, i wasn't implying that at all. i think its high paying for a single person living where i live. i was taking a crack at how everyone on ATOT makes more than $150,000 a year.

 

[OdiN]

Well there's always suicide.

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: dartworth
do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

out of college, it's pretty good.

yeah, it's alright out of college

but if you live in a high cost of living area and paying a huge portion in taxes, it's not much at all

 

[Saint Nick]

I just want to go out and experience new shit. Meet new people. Travel. This glass box sucks.

I might just get the job here after I graduate and save my money for maybe two years then go do what I want.

The biggest thing is that what I decide to do in the next two years pretty much determines the rest of my life. I don't want it to be like that. It makes me feel uncomfortable...

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: NightDarker
I'm sitting at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha. A huge glass box at 1400 Douglas Street. In front of a computer doing menial intern work. Even if they paid me $60,000 out of college, I don't think I could do this.

I think once I graduate, I'm going to get a part time job somewhere, or work construction, and see where my band goes. I seek adventure and travel!

For the rest of you 9-5 type of people, do you guys love what you do? What makes you all keep your incredibly high paying jobs even though you might hate it?

Um...I work a 9-5 job and have traveled to 10+ countries this year and taken already 4 weeks of vacation with 3 still left to take. On top of that I get paid well. Sometimes you can have both...you just have to look for the opportunities and work hard at achieving them.

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: NightDarker
I just want to go out and experience new shit. Meet new people. Travel. This glass box sucks.

You'll get over that. Then the drinking will really kick in.

 

[Descartes]

I enjoy my work, but I don't work for someone else so that at least keeps me motivated to the point where I'm not just filling someone else's pockets.

I know I sound like an old man when I say this, but you'll grow out of it. You're young, and the "I like adventure and travel" will soon take on a new meaning. You shouldn't assume that having a job means you can't travel or have adventure. I travel more now than I ever could, because financially I can afford to do so.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: NightDarker
I just want to go out and experience new shit. Meet new people. Travel. This glass box sucks.

I might just get the job here after I graduate and save my money for maybe two years then go do what I want.

The biggest thing is that what I decide to do in the next two years pretty much determines the rest of my life. I don't want it to be like that. It makes me feel uncomfortable...

A whopping two years? Like I just said, you'll grow out of that. Responsibility finds a way of forcing it upon you whether you like it or not. If you'd rather live the life of an ascetic then by all means, but I think you'll quickly find that it takes a lot more than two years to do what you want.

 

[nakedfrog]

Adventure, excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.

Originally posted by: fritolays

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: dartworth
do you consider $60k an incredibly high paying job?

out of college, it's pretty good.

yeah, it's alright out of college

but if you live in a high cost of living area and paying a huge portion in taxes, it's not much at all

Where he lives, $60k is enough to comfortably raise a family of four.

I've actually been to a few meetings at the Woodman Tower, I worked on a year-long project for UP... they moved the app in-house a year or two ago.

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete

Originally posted by: NightDarker
I'm sitting at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha. A huge glass box at 1400 Douglas Street. In front of a computer doing menial intern work. Even if they paid me $60,000 out of college, I don't think I could do this.

I think once I graduate, I'm going to get a part time job somewhere, or work construction, and see where my band goes. I seek adventure and travel!

For the rest of you 9-5 type of people, do you guys love what you do? What makes you all keep your incredibly high paying jobs even though you might hate it?

Um...I work a 9-5 job and have traveled to 10+ countries this year and taken already 4 weeks of vacation with 3 still left to take. On top of that I get paid well. Sometimes you can have both...you just have to look for the opportunities and work hard at achieving them.

what type of job is it? company?
just a general description if you want to stay private