Starting out at 25

[72camaross]

You laugh but my company is using it to hand out promotions and change peoples jobs. Its unreal.

Cashman rings a bell but I'll find out what company does it and let you know

[72camaross]

It always makes me laugh when I read my first post over again. And the last couple of posts I had when I came straight out of the hospital on heavy steroids and other random drugs... It's like reading something someone else wrote.

Anyway just wanted to see the diary. My health has been somewhat stable for 6 months so that's exciting but in the meantime I've slipped deeper into the rabbit hole. I don't want to talk about it because it's depressing! haha but I keep trying to move forward.

I did have a little bad luck when my car died. Had to buy one since I travel 260+ kms a day. (hopefully not for too much longer) Gas prices are killing me slowly.

If anyone is interested I'm raising money for an event I'm in. the money goes towards finding a cure for Crohn's and Colitis.
http://www.ccfc.ca/faf/donorReg/dono...upId=355403676

or if that doesn't work
http://www.ccfc.ca/saintjohngolf

Hope everyone is doing well!!

J

[MoneyGal]

The old "do what you love, love what you do" Axiom.

I'm doing it, and I hate it.

I love what I do. In, fact both myself and my wife got into our "dream jobs" (I'm a Radio reporter she's a photographer)

We're both horribly underpaid, with no job security, and very few transferrable skills.

If somebody rolled up tomorrow and said "I'll offer you twice as much money for a job you like half as much," I'd take it.

Well, to be fair, this isn't what I said. I think the advice "do what you love" is really crappy. What I said was, "find a job you like." This is actually the opposite thing from "do what you love." Twice as much money for a job you "like" (not love) sounds like a good tradeoff to me.

[Causalien]

I had a dream job a long time ago. My problem is that I still have that same job.

It's hard enough to find a job you really like, but to keep liking it indefinitely is near impossible.

I once threw away everything for my dream job.
Burnt out within a year and realized what my dream job isn't.

[Plugging Along]

Well, to be fair, this isn't what I said. I think the advice "do what you love" is really crappy. What I said was, "find a job you like." This is actually the opposite thing from "do what you love." Twice as much money for a job you "like" (not love) sounds like a good tradeoff to me.

I have always looked at it is 'love what you do' which is also different. It's rare to find a perfect job, oweveR most jobs have some redeeming quality, and if one focuses on the positive rather than he negatives, it makes it a lot easier. A positive for a job one may only like is that they get paid more which hey should love.

Just agreeing with your sentiment.