Your dream Job

i tried very hard to become an astronaut.
my earliest memory, aged 4, is sitting in front of my grandparents' tiny b&w watching the countdown and take-off of apollo 11.
alas, i was too much of a fuckhead to make it.
thankfully though, i'm dashingly handsome and women seem to enjoy frittering their money on me.
 
Scottyboi said:
Careers adviser at school, so I then got an apprenticeship in Joinery finished my 3 years and boom credit crunch!

Currently in Telecoms whilst I keep learning to trade, with the aim of being self employed in the next 2 years. Will try to get back into my history then I hope.

But I do believe schools kill creativity.
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I get that schools might need to sometimes warn people about their chances of being a pop star or professional footballer or something, but an archaeologist is hardly a pipe dream.

I find careers adviser a weird job, because I don't know anyone who claims to have been given any good advice by one. And in my experience, unless you've actually worked in a particular field, it's quite hard to give advice about the field and how to get into it. We had some software at our college where you answered the questions about what you like to do and it suggested careers for you. The frequency that people were told to go into leather-making was incredible.
 
calum down said:
i tried very hard to become an astronaut.
my earliest memory, aged 4, is sitting in front of my grandparents' tiny b&w watching the countdown and take-off of apollo 11.
alas, i was too much of a fuckhead to make it.
thankfully though, i'm dashingly handsome and women seem to enjoy frittering their money on me.
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Seen the tests for people going on that Mars mission, one way ticket!
 
I'm With Stupid said:
I get that schools might need to sometimes warn people about their chances of being a pop star or professional footballer or something, but an archaeologist is hardly a pipe dream.

I find careers adviser a weird job, because I don't know anyone who claims to have been given any good advice by one. And in my experience, unless you've actually worked in a particular field, it's quite hard to give advice about the field and how to get into it. We had some software at our college where you answered the questions about what you like to do and it suggested careers for you. The frequency that people were told to go into leather-making was incredible.
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Guess it is just a really old fashioned way of thinking. Thankfully they never told John West to be a builder from my school and now he is in Game of Thrones haha.
 
Scottyboi said:
Yeah more money, archaeologists don't earn as much. But what is money when you love your job? Funny how things pan out.
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Hmm...
The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) provides guidance on salary figures for archaeologists at various stages of their career, in addition to recommended minimum salaries.

  • Starting salaries can range from £19,853 to £20,926, with a recommended minimum salary of £17,646 in 2016/17.
  • With experience and increased responsibility, you can expect a salary of around £29,123 to £31,561 (recommended minimum salary of £20,561).
  • At a senior level, your salary can rise from £36,552 to £40,276 (recommended minimum of £26,568).
Salaries vary according to the location, sector and size of the employing organisation. CIfA provides a recommended package of employment entitlements, which contains guidance on working hours, leave and pension entitlements.

Income figures are intended as a guide only.
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Hardly scraping a living. And probably far less susceptible to Polish archaeologists coming over and doing the job for half the price.
 
Goalkeeper for City and England. Or an Astronaut. Or a pilot.

If I'd actually had some drive when I was younger then I reckon I could've made it to at least 2 of those.
 
Scottyboi said:
Guess it is just a really old fashioned way of thinking. Thankfully they never told John West to be a builder from my school and now he is in Game of Thrones haha.
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Yeah, the problem is that people and parents in particular haven't really got past the mentality of studying for a particular job. I work in the developing world, so you see this a lot. It's so rare to speak to a student who's not studying medicine, economics or engineering, because they've got an obvious job attached. But in reality, other than the ones studying medicine, they end up producing far more people than there are jobs to fill, and are desperate for outside talent on all of the things that get ignored. If you want to hold a concert, you have to bring a lighting engineer in from France, because it wouldn't occur to anyone to study that.

They also have very little idea of what will be in demand in the future. When I was at university in the early 2000s, the joke course was always media studies, film and TV. These industries are too competitive and you'll never get a job in that, everyone said. And look now. The demand for high-quality video content has exploded. There are more jobs than ever before in the field. And yes, it might not involve everyone being the next Scorsese, but there are plenty of ways to make a living. I have friends who work in traditional TV jobs, but I also have friends who make online content for companies. In 2005, no-one could have predicted that you could make a decent living on Youtube, for example. Meanwhile everyone who studied the sensible choice of law is working in a boring office job because the increase of law graduates wasn't matched with an increase in jobs in the industry.

I guess the moral of the story is not to trust your parents to be able to predict what careers will be in demand in the future, and study stuff with transferable skills. And expect to retrain during your life.
 
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