The actually more relevant version of "what you do you want to be when you grow up" today.
What did you try to do for a job or career field did you pursue to some significant degree only to pack it up? This can be whether never to look at it again, do it part time to help a friend, change it to (or back to) a hobby or ultimately just realise it was not worth the aggravation necessary for the results.
Did the skills from it ever pay off in something else?
If it was a hobby then did it damage said hobby for you? Music is presumably a popular one here but there are others.
Was there any financial fallout from this effort?
I can start I suppose.
Engineering.
In short. Did the usual school, sixth form, university, bit of postgrad route. My intention was to get a nobody job in an engineering firm and more or less cruise through life (I don't need a big house, I don't want kids, flashy cars just mean more time and money fixing them, and on fixing things I can fix most things so life is pretty cheap). Don't much care about salary, don't much care about hours, something interesting would be nice but I am flexible there. 2007-2008 by the time I was out in the world for that one but I am not sure that (for those just joining the world there was a tiny little financial crash, though probably will end up being smaller than the one we appear to be heading towards) really made all that much difference.
Nobody cared.
Tapped friends in industry, had CV reviewed, did some extras to pad it out, tried to show interest in other ways... I don't know how many applications, every one of them customised to highlight things that might be suited to the role in question.
3 interviews I think is all that amounted to, one being a pity one it seems. Generally speaking if I walk into a job agency and say engineering I would get a warmer reception should I have trod in dog crap and wiped my feet clean on the carpet before using their kitchen sink to finish the job.
Throughout all that I was doing things (and computers) for people so I then went in for engineering for normal people and non obvious customers -- turns out normal people still exist in a world governed by physics and thus might need things made or fixed that might have not happened otherwise. Got some tooling, got some contacts for things I can't make myself, got some computery stuff set up for that side of things and usually find myself learning something new to do more in it (I generally like to be able to eat every trade's lunch -- I will do my fancy bits and you can keep yours but your bread and butter is something I reckon I can do myself). It is not exactly lucrative (not that baseline engineering is either) but it is varied and interesting. Also means I have technically never been employed by anybody other than myself, never had a boss and so forth despite being closer to retirement than not (not that I have any plans, nor likely ability, to retire).
What did you try to do for a job or career field did you pursue to some significant degree only to pack it up? This can be whether never to look at it again, do it part time to help a friend, change it to (or back to) a hobby or ultimately just realise it was not worth the aggravation necessary for the results.
Did the skills from it ever pay off in something else?
If it was a hobby then did it damage said hobby for you? Music is presumably a popular one here but there are others.
Was there any financial fallout from this effort?
I can start I suppose.
Engineering.
In short. Did the usual school, sixth form, university, bit of postgrad route. My intention was to get a nobody job in an engineering firm and more or less cruise through life (I don't need a big house, I don't want kids, flashy cars just mean more time and money fixing them, and on fixing things I can fix most things so life is pretty cheap). Don't much care about salary, don't much care about hours, something interesting would be nice but I am flexible there. 2007-2008 by the time I was out in the world for that one but I am not sure that (for those just joining the world there was a tiny little financial crash, though probably will end up being smaller than the one we appear to be heading towards) really made all that much difference.
Nobody cared.
Tapped friends in industry, had CV reviewed, did some extras to pad it out, tried to show interest in other ways... I don't know how many applications, every one of them customised to highlight things that might be suited to the role in question.
3 interviews I think is all that amounted to, one being a pity one it seems. Generally speaking if I walk into a job agency and say engineering I would get a warmer reception should I have trod in dog crap and wiped my feet clean on the carpet before using their kitchen sink to finish the job.
Throughout all that I was doing things (and computers) for people so I then went in for engineering for normal people and non obvious customers -- turns out normal people still exist in a world governed by physics and thus might need things made or fixed that might have not happened otherwise. Got some tooling, got some contacts for things I can't make myself, got some computery stuff set up for that side of things and usually find myself learning something new to do more in it (I generally like to be able to eat every trade's lunch -- I will do my fancy bits and you can keep yours but your bread and butter is something I reckon I can do myself). It is not exactly lucrative (not that baseline engineering is either) but it is varied and interesting. Also means I have technically never been employed by anybody other than myself, never had a boss and so forth despite being closer to retirement than not (not that I have any plans, nor likely ability, to retire).
