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mvansand76

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Would you like to make a career switch?
« on: August 01, 2007, 06:20:42 am »


If you do or you want to help other people make some changes in their life, please discuss things here!
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Offline David In Indy

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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2007, 11:17:26 pm »
*David raises his hand high in the air*

YES!!  :D

Yes, I'd like to make a career change. I was planning to go back to school this year and earn a degree in psychology but it didn't work out. I got too busy, I guess.

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Offline serious crayons

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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2007, 11:24:10 pm »
I would like to find a career that pays actual money. As a writer, I have been published in numerous magazines and won prizes in literary contests, and yet I can't get hired to pump out ordinary old writing. Such is the plight of writers these days, of almost any kind. I got my Social Security statement the other day and noticed that I made more money one year in college, waitressing part time, than I made last year.

True, I could be more energetic about hustling for freelance gigs, so I realize part of that is my fault. And BBM's.  ::) But another big part of it is the internet.

Anyway, it's funny that I can write for respected national magazines but can't get a staff job writing press releases for a college.  ???  >:(

OK, end of rant.  :)



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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2007, 12:49:02 am »
Me... me... pick me.. I'll take a career change... not sure to what though...

I need to work on my resume some... too, anyone want to post theirs so I can get an idea for the format (and the types of things I should include)
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2007, 11:22:06 am »
Quote from: ineedcrayons on August 12, 2007, 11:24:10 pm
Anyway, it's funny that I can write for respected national magazines but can't get a staff job writing press releases for a college.  ???  >:(

Ain't that a goddamn bitch. ...  :(
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2007, 11:28:30 am »





    Irony I tell you, life is all about irony.  I guess we are supposed to be learning something.  I am
not sure what it is though...
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2007, 11:44:09 am »
I guess we're learning how to be human.
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2007, 11:56:51 am »
Quote from: Snavel del Snater Snuit on August 01, 2007, 06:20:42 am

If you do or you want to help other people make some changes in their life, please discuss things here!

Are you offerring a career change?  LOL    ;D
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2007, 11:59:25 am »
Quote from: Daniel on October 12, 2007, 11:44:09 am
I guess we're learning how to be human.

And then we die and the effort has gone to waste.  :-\
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Re: Would you like to make a career switch?
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2007, 01:03:49 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 12, 2007, 11:59:25 am
And then we die and the effort has gone to waste.  :-\

I disagree! Maybe you ought to read the thread about "Serious Discussions on the Meaning of Life." It's an eye-opener. Anyway, any time spent learning to be human does not go to waste. About half your life is still to come! And what you learn and know is passed on to others, perhaps in a subtle way, perhaps in a huge way like Annie Proulx did. But it does add to the humanness of humankind.

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