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By: ahouseholdkate

ahouseholdkate — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:52:36 +0000

I enjoyed this post and all the comments. I think your suggestion of picking up a textbook from your profession is an interesting one. The quality of textbooks for my profession are varied and I’m not sure that just randomly picking up one, reading it, and ranking it as a chore or not would be indicative of whether the profession is my calling or not. However, I figured out my calling when I had to work in the profession (at the level I wanted) for five months without pay. At the end of the first month, I was a bit stressed from having no income, but family and a future husband helped alleviate the stress. After two months I was able to look at the work I was doing and know that I would continue doing that work without pay for the rest of my existence (however, it is nice to get paid for doing it). That’s the moment I knew I had found my calling. I know that this is not necessarily feasible in all professions because in order to have the position you desire, you may have to move up the ranks. But maybe if people were given time to apprentice in the desired position, they might have better motivations for sticking with the bottom rung job and slowly moving up the ranks.

By: Lola

Lola — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:58:38 +0000

I think it’s more than Judeo-Christian ethics or keep up with the jones pressures. It’s more and more expensive to live, and people feel intense pressure to have just the basic necessities (a home, food to eat, health insurance, etc). The gap between the haves and have nots has grown to the haves and everyone else. Everyone else is usually worried about how they’re going to have enough money for basics, and whatever’s left over (if anything) goes to the persuit of happiness. For those who have been able to find what they love doing (a calling) or something that keeps them sufficiently interested and engaged (a career), I commend them for having had the skill to build their lives in that fashion. It is about choices and planning.

But combine the pressure have “enough” to “get by” with the lack of insight many people seem to display about their lives, their choices, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more than 1/3 who see their work as a “job.” Sometimes that’s the best they can get.

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wilfing - what was I looking for? « metropolitan observer — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:57:40 +0000

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By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:27:15 +0000

@lightwave: physics is an amazing base for the semiconductor industry. I work in ASICs (not programming) and I’ve been constantly impressed with my co-workers with Physics backgrounds vs some of the others.

I just finished reading a 1985 book call Programmers at Work that was constantly drilling that compsci isn’t nearly as useful professionally as a Math or Physics degree.