every day. hah.
graduated with a BA in English Lit last May. Since then, I've had 3 different jobs, all in pretty different fields.
my first job after graduation was doing sales (group sales for a tourism-based company. most of my job was just planning vacations for groups of 50+).
in September, I transfered to a different job in the same company -- managing their website and internet marketing. it was a nice pay raise, but the pay wasn't enough to make it worth the extra work I had to put in and stress I had to deal with (it was a high profile job... meaning that even though I was only making $24K, if I messed up... or even if I didn't mess up and sales fell through despite all the marketing promotions I had going on, I had to hear about it from 2 VP's and the President of the company).
quit that job in November, and moved over to an IT job. I work at a Data Center, building, monitoring, and repairing dedicated servers. The pay is not so great (30K) and the hours are kinda sucky (graveyard shift, at least till some people quit/transfer out). But on the other hand... no dress code, cool co-workers, and cool bosses. the general attitude of the company is get your work done, get it done right, and no one will bother you. I've never had anyone on my back about what I'm working on (except maybe when I was in training).
that's in opposition to my original sales job, where if it was pretty slow and I took a breather, I had someone up my arse about what I was doing and why I wasn't doing work.
on the other hand, though, the pay, hours, and stress are sorta getting to me. I've been thinking about maybe going back to grad school to pick up a PhD in something (either English Lit or Rhetoric... or possibly Comp. Engineering)
graduated with a BA in English Lit last May. Since then, I've had 3 different jobs, all in pretty different fields.
my first job after graduation was doing sales (group sales for a tourism-based company. most of my job was just planning vacations for groups of 50+).
in September, I transfered to a different job in the same company -- managing their website and internet marketing. it was a nice pay raise, but the pay wasn't enough to make it worth the extra work I had to put in and stress I had to deal with (it was a high profile job... meaning that even though I was only making $24K, if I messed up... or even if I didn't mess up and sales fell through despite all the marketing promotions I had going on, I had to hear about it from 2 VP's and the President of the company).
quit that job in November, and moved over to an IT job. I work at a Data Center, building, monitoring, and repairing dedicated servers. The pay is not so great (30K) and the hours are kinda sucky (graveyard shift, at least till some people quit/transfer out). But on the other hand... no dress code, cool co-workers, and cool bosses. the general attitude of the company is get your work done, get it done right, and no one will bother you. I've never had anyone on my back about what I'm working on (except maybe when I was in training).
that's in opposition to my original sales job, where if it was pretty slow and I took a breather, I had someone up my arse about what I was doing and why I wasn't doing work.
on the other hand, though, the pay, hours, and stress are sorta getting to me. I've been thinking about maybe going back to grad school to pick up a PhD in something (either English Lit or Rhetoric... or possibly Comp. Engineering)
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