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So, I started the Work rant thread, not realizing that i would be laid off a mere 3 hours later... *sigh* aaah... the irony. And the thread seems to actually be doing well; only, I'm not in the best of moods to read it, because who wants to read about people whining about their jobs, when you dont have one? right? i'm not wrong!

And I figured id put this one in "other stuff" because unemployment tends to be less about relationships with other people and more about filling out forms, applying to jobs, never hearing back from them, going on interviews-if you're lucky. In general it seems to be more about beauracracy than relationships with other people--then again, it could be more about the relationship you have with yourself. anyhoo, here it is. the ..

UNEMPLOYMENT RANT

so far i've filed for unemployment. my first appointment with MARVIN is on the 12th. I put my resume on michworks and have taken two different career assessment tests that both say i should be a civil engineer/fisheries technician/health record technician/nutritionist... basically i like numbers, i like paper work, i like animals, i like helping people in need and i LOVE food. *sigh* which is what the career assessment test i took back when i was 19 said.

Why am i in the communications/marketing industry when i hate the concept of persuading people to buy shit they dont want? i dont know. because it was the easy degree instead of the right degree for me. I fucking hate commercials and i'm trying to tell myself that i'd love making them? Why do i insist on working with creatives when they tend to really hate me, even though i like them? I'm not really that creative! I just like things to be different.... ok, so i have a good eye for beauty... but, what's so obviously wrong with the overall picture?

every job-which are few-that ive read on monster.com and i qualify for, i think, yeah, i'd qualify for that, but i'd fucking hate that job. i sooo dont want to waste time, money and effort on going back to school to get that engineering/mathmatics degree i should have gotten in the first place.

well, that's unemployment rant #1. come back next week and finish this cliffhanger series with the next installment! Excitement! Thrills! Lots of moping!!! Woooooooooo!

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Your post reminded me of a favorite line from a Minutemen song:

"Fuck advertising and commercial psychology. Psychological methods to sell, should be destroyed!!"

I've been laid off 4 times in six years. My financial life is a disaster due to that and bad spending habits. I know how ya feel.

If you can in any way afford it, go back and do what you love. You'll have a lot healthier life that way.

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I can relate. I picked a major and career path that were not a good fit for me AT ALL, though I thought they were at the time. Now I'm discovering what I might actually be good at and enjoy, but I'm broke and my credit is completely fucked, so no going back to school for me. Bummer.

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if you can't do what you love, love what you do - find a way to make peace with the job, if only for the sake of a paycheck, which will make your life that much easier... i used to hate my job, the people i worked with, etc, until i realized that i was just making myself sick for no good reason. now i just think of it as "paying the bills" - i leave work at work, and i put my money in the bank, and i get on with living my life.

***if you can't do what you love, love what you do ***

it really does work... :wink

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every job-which are few-that ive read on monster.com and i qualify for, i think, yeah, i'd qualify for that, but i'd fucking hate that job. i sooo dont want to waste time, money and effort on going back to school to get that engineering/mathmatics degree i should have gotten in the first place.

:cry

Time, money, & effort spent on something that substantially improves your quality of life are never wasted. There's no way that spending a couple years to learn something that will bring you joy, or at least contentment, is more "effort" than spending the next 30 years waking up and forcing yourself to go out & do something you hate. This is definitely a situation where you need to think in terms of the long run picture.

If you can at all afford to, DO IT. At the very least talk to some admissions counselors and get an idea of what coursework you need and how long it would take... it's probably less than you think!

Good fortune!

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if you can't do what you love, love what you do - find a way to make peace with the job, if only for the sake of a paycheck, which will make your life that much easier... i used to hate my job, the people i worked with, etc, until i realized that i was just making myself sick for no good reason. now i just think of it as "paying the bills" - i leave work at work, and i put my money in the bank, and i get on with living my life.

***if you can't do what you love, love what you do ***

it really does work... :wink

must. . .not. . .be. . .perverted

gah ok anyway, i fully agree.

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