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Good luck with your job search! If you've ever entertained the thought of an entirely new/different/groovy occupation, I think now would be the time to seriously consider it, especially if you don't yet have little ones to worry about. My husband is in the same boat, but feels locked in due to financial complications specifically with our kids.

I went to grad school and got my M.S. degree...just to be unhappy with what I briefly ended up doing. I've now been doing work (for the past 7 years) that really doesn't pertain to my degree at all (though the experience helped me immensely), and am much happier doing it. Sometimes you just gotta take a chance, I guess.

 

Are you talking QA and Audit of the internal systems/software development? Is so I would think that your skill set would transfer over to several of the big local IT shops. You can send me your resume as well and I can look around here (just down the road from Easton on Morse road) and I have a friend who is a recruiter for Cardinal.

 

I'm sure this is going to come off as me sounding like a d!ck, but this is like the second time you have posted something about hating your job. You are vague in what it is you do and what you want to do, which makes it hard for people to try and figure out if they can help you. I just looked at our external facing website and there are 50 + jobs posted for here in the Columbus area, but I have no idea if any of them are remotely related to what you do/are looking to do.

 

Happen to know how to weld, or lay vinyl, spray paint. Bunch of sign companies up there and they need welders and the such, and most are not certified. Pay range is all over the place though but some also get plenty of OT to help the pay check..

 

Marine Ichthyology! Cool! My kiddo would love to talk your ear off...

I studied Nutrition in grad school (though my degree is in Animal Biology). I had this fantasy that I would be a zoo nutritionist...and then I learned that there were a total of maybe 2 full-time zoo nutritionists in the country. And then I also learned that I have an aversion to working with most human nutritionists (no offense to any nutrition people out there...just personal experience). After working with species who can't directly communicate with you I suppose you just develop a level of common sense that you don't develop working with people. Now I process cultures and other clinical specimens in a diagnostic lab. Luckily you learn all sorts of random biochemical pathways studying nutrition so I still can apply all that knowledge I stuffed in my brain...

 

How true...
I loved my last flying job for 5 years....then hated it the last 2...then my job hated me...and it was over...should have moved on...but I waited too long as management changed the company, and eventually I no longer fit the "new" corporate culture....and I got cut loose...:nonod:

 

Same here, went to a vocational high school and studied architectural drafting. I picked up a job as a draftsman for the town engineering office after graduation. That lasted for about four months until a smooth talking recruiter filled my head full of wild ideas.

 

I'm working on my PMP as we speak.

 

I have always enjoyed machinery, I studied mechanical engineering, became a ship's engineer. So, I stayed pretty much on track.

 

I don't think I will ever do that. I figure I will probably move to a different area of the company in a couple of years. I did support for 4 years, QA for 9, and have been in Project Management for 4 so far (all with the same company).

 

....or, at the helm....:devil:

 

Nah, I push, mates point.

 

LOL.

My dad gave me a book titled "Dig your well before you're thirsty". Same concept.

 

Interesting Discussion (first time on this thread). I'm an Insurance Company examiner for a state Insurance Commissioner. I think I do many of the same things APOK does, but everything is totally opposite for me in terms of job enrichment, challenge etc. College was the right prep for Insurance career, and what I do is challenging and interesting at almost every level. Of course I regulate all lines of insurance including OBAMA-CARE, (and yes, flood insurance) so there is no end to the amount of knowledge I need or should acquire. So, I have a lot more variety and can customize what I do to a certain extent. APOK may enjoy government regulation in the right area.

Yet, I see many people even at the Insurance Division expressing some of the same frustrations posted here. So, yeah, not a perfect world for many.

 

I should also add the professional level regulators (like myself and the examiner group) are long-termers and there is very little turnover, while production-oriented people express more dissatisfaction. It seems like there is more satisfaction when people have variety and a fair degree of personal autonomy with how they perform their work. Also, managers who leave their egos at home and at least try to juggle their duties with equanimity and without hostility help create a bearable work atmosphere. But, even here, often management doesn't know what we know, and very often, don't know what they don't know.

APOK, start contacting State Insurance departments. You may have the makings of a market conduct examiner. It's a limited market, and there aren't many such jobs over-all.