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Posted by pinkeye on June 26, 2005, at 22:12:12
I think I should really consider a career change - I have been finding myself getting extremely bored with my job - ie, programming.
I find it very dry, very useless, and not at all anything that I want to do. I have been very good at it in the past.. And I am sure if I want to I can probably do very well. But it seems such a dry thing to me - I would really love something more to do with humans.
Is this something related to my depression ? I don't know - I have been losing interest for many years now.
Posted by Tamar on June 27, 2005, at 4:19:50
In reply to So very bored with my job!!, posted by pinkeye on June 26, 2005, at 22:12:12
> I think I should really consider a career change - I have been finding myself getting extremely bored with my job - ie, programming.
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> I find it very dry, very useless, and not at all anything that I want to do. I have been very good at it in the past.. And I am sure if I want to I can probably do very well. But it seems such a dry thing to me - I would really love something more to do with humans.
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> Is this something related to my depression ? I don't know - I have been losing interest for many years now.I think working with people is very exciting! Of course, it can be challenging too. People are sometimes annoyed for no good reason, or don't take your professional advice, or have their own agendas about what should happen. But the rewards far outweigh the disadvantages, in my opinion.
What sort of work can you imagine doing?
Posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 16:26:27
In reply to Re: So very bored with my job!! » pinkeye, posted by Tamar on June 27, 2005, at 4:19:50
Thanks Tamar.
I also don't know which area would be good for me. I get very quickly bored with my passions - so to speak. I have been intensely fascinated at one thing or the other throughout - sometime I though I wanted to be a doctor and was intensely passionate about it, and then that vanished. I wanted to be a financial person, teacher, singer, journalist, work in slums, work in orphanage, be a psychiatrist or psychologist - I have had intense fascination to lot of things.. But I don't think I pursue anything for any length of time. One problem nowadays with me is I can't seem to read any technical stuff for any length of time.. I get bored.
Sometimes I think computer science is the best for me, something I think it is too un faminine - like dry and logical and there is no place for any emotional reward in it.. I would really like something with lot of emotional reward I think.
Posted by shrinking violet on June 27, 2005, at 19:23:21
In reply to Re: So very bored with my job!! » Tamar, posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 16:26:27
Have you considered volunteering? A few hours a week, or something? That way you can feel needed and useful in a more tangible way, and it might help you try out some new career paths and working with people, to see how it goes.
I'm having the same career questions too (even though I haven't officially started mine yet!). I keep having these nagging thoughts of being an art therapist, for a couple of years now. I looked into it, before starting my current program (library science), but there are no art therapy programs in my state, and the nearest one is about 2 hours away, so I scrapped it. But it's still nagging at me.
Do whatever makes you happy, regardless of the reasons or whether you think it's "unfeminine" or "not beneficial." If you enjoy it, that's what counts the most. My parents spent their whole lives working at mundane jobs they hate(d), and I promised myself I'd never waste my life doing that. Some people don't have a choice, but for those of us who are lucky enough to have that, choose what's meaningful and enjoyable to YOU. Life is too short to do otherwise.
Good luck.
sv
Posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 19:37:33
In reply to Re: So very bored with my job!! » pinkeye, posted by shrinking violet on June 27, 2005, at 19:23:21
Thanks SV. I don't really like volunteering that much I think. It makes me feel awkward. That is why I like the anonymity of this discussion board where I can give some help and receive help.
Sometimes I feel I am really not that comfortable with people.
And I really don't know what I enjoy doing .. I seem to do pretty well in many things if I put my heart into it.. but I seem to quickly lose interest. It is almsot like, once I figure out the basics of anything, then I lose interest and don't want to go into the details and practice it and do it on a daily basis. Initially I was very interested in programming - but quickly I got all the fundas and then I lost interest in details.. same thing happened with stocks, finance, philosophy, music, even cooking, and I am afraid same thing is happening with psychology also. It is only till I figure it out I am interested.. then I lose interest. That doesn't really go well for any profession I think.
Posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 19:40:46
In reply to Re: So very bored with my job!! » shrinking violet, posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 19:37:33
Ideally I want to be able to do a million things - but nothing for more than couple of years at the max.. I want to write, I want to teach, I want to be in politics, I want to do administrative things, I want to start business, I want to be a counsellor - but really I don't think of anything as a life long profession.. All I want is to try my hand in it for couple of years and then move on. That is really what I want to do. I know it is impossible to do it.
Posted by B2chica on June 27, 2005, at 21:22:58
In reply to I want to change career every couple of years !! » pinkeye, posted by pinkeye on June 27, 2005, at 19:40:46
we must share a common gene. i am right there with you. i have been very dissapointed with my job recently. i too am board very easily, before my job was always changing a little-different projects.now they all seem the same and seem useless. my job seems useless, no purpose. i have seriously considered entering the field of psychology but i don't know for what cuz i couldn't handle working with people all day long. i'd rather be behind the scenes in research or something.
but i agree, i want to do a little of everything but for only a few years.
you think there's something out there for us?
b2c.
> Ideally I want to be able to do a million things - but nothing for more than couple of years at the max.. I want to write, I want to teach, I want to be in politics, I want to do administrative things, I want to start business, I want to be a counsellor - but really I don't think of anything as a life long profession.. All I want is to try my hand in it for couple of years and then move on. That is really what I want to do. I know it is impossible to do it.
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