Comments on: Your Dream Job: Overrated http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/ Work, life and the pursuit of happiness for the young professional. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:01:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: torbjornrive http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-3627 torbjornrive Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:46:23 +0000 http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/#comment-3627 I really like what Glenn said, the best way to test out the waters. My situation was similar, but I had the opportunity to get into an industry I was very unsure about, but once I worked with the people, discovered the variety I was hooked. Our land is endless, yet so fragile = there's always work somewhere. For some reason I don't trust people who go into medicine, I don't know what it is. Doctors are good, fine and dandy, but I always feel like they enter that workforce for the wrong reasons! **btw thanks for all your input @ my post w/ Brazen. I really like what Glenn said, the best way to test out the waters.

My situation was similar, but I had the opportunity to get into an industry I was very unsure about, but once I worked with the people, discovered the variety I was hooked. Our land is endless, yet so fragile = there’s always work somewhere.

For some reason I don’t trust people who go into medicine, I don’t know what it is. Doctors are good, fine and dandy, but I always feel like they enter that workforce for the wrong reasons!

**btw thanks for all your input @ my post w/ Brazen.

]]> By: Michel Savoie http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-3621 Michel Savoie Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:57:12 +0000 http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/#comment-3621 My advice to anyone who has ended up in a job they feel is overrated: Do something else. I think a lot of people my age (23) don't realize that just because they have a degree in (insert field of study) doesn't mean that they have to work in that field. I.E.: I started off in Computer Engineering. I now work in a Personal Banking Strategies team. I have a friend who studied music. She now works in Entertainment financing. Explore the space... There are so many random jobs out there! My advice to anyone who has ended up in a job they feel is overrated: Do something else. I think a lot of people my age (23) don’t realize that just because they have a degree in (insert field of study) doesn’t mean that they have to work in that field. I.E.: I started off in Computer Engineering. I now work in a Personal Banking Strategies team. I have a friend who studied music. She now works in Entertainment financing. Explore the space… There are so many random jobs out there!

]]> By: Glenn http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-3616 Glenn Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:17:10 +0000 http://newlycorporate.com/2008/04/10/your-dream-job-overrated/#comment-3616 I believe that people considering any of these "most overrated careers," (and really, any one in college, or simply about to join the workforce) should absolutely test out the job in an internship first. For years, people told me that I really ought to be a lawyer, that being a lawyer was something they thought I would excel at -- to the point I slowly started believing them. I was never passionate about the idea, but it was an interesting one... until I began volunteering for a teen court program, then interned under a local attorney. Teen court was fun, and I learned so, so much from my internship... and also realized that I probably do not want to go to law school... it's just not for me. It scares me when I see peers of mine dedicate all of high school towards medical science classes because they are heart-set on being a doctor... because they have little-to-no real-world experience, and as such, have no balance in their lives, much less many fall-back interests. Research and coursework is key, but that hands-on experience through co-ops and internships ought to be an essential part of any person's career planning. I believe that people considering any of these “most overrated careers,” (and really, any one in college, or simply about to join the workforce) should absolutely test out the job in an internship first.

For years, people told me that I really ought to be a lawyer, that being a lawyer was something they thought I would excel at — to the point I slowly started believing them. I was never passionate about the idea, but it was an interesting one… until I began volunteering for a teen court program, then interned under a local attorney. Teen court was fun, and I learned so, so much from my internship… and also realized that I probably do not want to go to law school… it’s just not for me.

It scares me when I see peers of mine dedicate all of high school towards medical science classes because they are heart-set on being a doctor… because they have little-to-no real-world experience, and as such, have no balance in their lives, much less many fall-back interests.

Research and coursework is key, but that hands-on experience through co-ops and internships ought to be an essential part of any person’s career planning.

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