Comments on: Direction http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/ Five Sisters figuring out life Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:51:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mandy http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/comment-page-1/#comment-5849 mandy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:23:10 +0000 http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/#comment-5849 I'm still trying to figure it out. I’m still trying to figure it out.

]]> By: natalie http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/comment-page-1/#comment-5838 natalie Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:55 +0000 http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/#comment-5838 This is something I struggle with all. the. time. I think its good to be happy in your job/education for a (longish) period of time, but if you stay in the same place your whole life it's easy to become complacent and (under)challenged. Whenever I have :"whatthehellamidoingwithmylife" freakouts I usually call my 57-year-old father who always makes me feel better by saying "don't worry, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up either". You are certainly not alone, my dear. This is something I struggle with all. the. time.

I think its good to be happy in your job/education for a (longish) period of time, but if you stay in the same place your whole life it’s easy to become complacent and (under)challenged.

Whenever I have :”whatthehellamidoingwithmylife” freakouts I usually call my 57-year-old father who always makes me feel better by saying “don’t worry, I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up either”.

You are certainly not alone, my dear.

]]> By: alittlecoffee http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/comment-page-1/#comment-5834 alittlecoffee Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:02:40 +0000 http://fiveblondes.com/life/direction/#comment-5834 Definitely not there yet. I have a degree in Hospitality & Tourism management and fell into a job in marketing with a hotel company. It was the fact that it was a hotel company that attracted me; the marketing was just incidental, but I fell in love with it. I learned about photography and being creative on the job and knew that's what I wanted to do. But, unfortunately there were no promotions available in my department so I knew I would eventually have to leave. And that's where I got completely derailed. I quit to go work a hospitality consulting gig (um, not related to marketing. Why? Oh right because it paid $9k more and fell into my lap. It wasn't worth it.) I hated it and then got laid off. My next job was the only one I could find in the crap economy last year, as a sales coordinator for a fire safety equipment startup. Can you say random? I just got laid off from that one on Friday. I'm hoping the next one will get me back on track in marketing & communications. I'm worried that if I can't find a job that's a good fit this time, that I will have screwed with my resume too much for anyone to take me seriously in the field that I want. Definitely not there yet. I have a degree in Hospitality & Tourism management and fell into a job in marketing with a hotel company. It was the fact that it was a hotel company that attracted me; the marketing was just incidental, but I fell in love with it. I learned about photography and being creative on the job and knew that’s what I wanted to do. But, unfortunately there were no promotions available in my department so I knew I would eventually have to leave. And that’s where I got completely derailed.

I quit to go work a hospitality consulting gig (um, not related to marketing. Why? Oh right because it paid $9k more and fell into my lap. It wasn’t worth it.) I hated it and then got laid off. My next job was the only one I could find in the crap economy last year, as a sales coordinator for a fire safety equipment startup. Can you say random? I just got laid off from that one on Friday.

I’m hoping the next one will get me back on track in marketing & communications. I’m worried that if I can’t find a job that’s a good fit this time, that I will have screwed with my resume too much for anyone to take me seriously in the field that I want.

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