Career vs Job: Do you love what you do?
I'm curious on how people here feel about this. Is your current job part of your long term career plan? For instance, if you removed money from the equation, how important would it be to you?
I know that most of us perform our day to day jobs because it pays, but what else about it is important to you?
For me this is not the case. I love what I do currently.
Thanks for the response! Was hoping I'd get some comments like this. What's your long term goal if you don't mind me asking?
Very Recently I learned few things which concludes the expertise in IT field. The lore is we cannot say we know everything of IT. Because it always evolving. But there is a set of skills which makes you one man army. This statement is also debatable.
Anyway for long term goal I'm currently accumulating my personal funds.
In 30 I will start a company. It will be not like a typical startup building something novel and if we get customer we win otherwise loose. My primary focus is on (future)humans basic needs and efficient handling of that need based on technology transformation. Hope you don't get this line completely otherwise I'll be in trouble.
Most people want a job and not a career. This is especially true in the current economy with constant job losses and back to back layoffs. The days of careers are dead I feel most jobs might become gig based
I love this viewpoint. I have my own thoughts on this but idk, do you want to elaborate more on why you think careers are dead?
Companies are busy laying off right now hopefully it improves I don't see it being improved for the next 2 years. Take it from a 2023 grad who put in weekends in his job to get hit TWICE. Thank God I found a job and had severance to keep me going and I'm from a middle class family who direly needs money.
Companies are promoting slowly at least from what I can see and increments are a joke, 2-5 percent has become the norm right now.
Maybe in the future like one year later job security increases but I don't think any company will incentivise it's employees and will always try to hire folks with a hike externally
You should do the same, evaluate your positioning within the company at least until you reach a director level and if you feel like you're being unfairly paid switch, loyalty isn't existent and even if it does return with companies making their working environments good, i don't think they'll promote you that easily unless Theres an extreme need. However opportunities outside will now exist which you can get.
The only true job security and monetary gains you can make right now lie in your interview prep which is how you get the most ROI.
I am a hard-core careerist and love doing really good impactful work. Fortunately was doing that too. But in the last 1 year, I switched 2 companies due to personal circumstantial scenarios and ever since, the money doubled but the quality of work and the work satisfaction deteriorated completely.
I'd love to do the work for long term career goals and getting great at what I do, but the current work is no way taking me there. But i still dont wanna let it go because
- Money
- Remote
No other good company is offering that in india, if i am not wrong
Which company are you working for?
I guess you weighed out the pros and cons depending on your situation, and I'm sure you'll still have time to do meaningful work at your next role. Atleast you're making money in the meanwhile as a fallback, which is also a good thing.
Even if money was not there then most would've worked on what they liked,because no one can sit idle and someone who is good, may they do that work for free but in the end if you remove money then there is not point.
It's not about removing money completely.
Think about this scenario: someone who wants to become a restaurateur, but they don't have any experience in the industry. Say, they get a job at a top Michelin guide / star resturant, but they aren't paid. Their end goal is to hopefully open a restaurant of their own. What would they do?
In this scenario, working at the restaurant is a job, opening their own restaurant and becoming a restauranteur is their career.
Can't argue with people who have generational wealth and ask bullshit type questions like what is your dream job ,who in their right mind would dream of having a job
Idk, what's your point.
I'm not enjoying my work what I'm doing now. Yes, you can say for money and experience as well. Nowadays people only trust on experienced guys rather than freshers. Now I'm preparing to switch my company to find my dream role. I wish one day I will say someone that what application you are using that part is built by me
Glad you have that motivation man.
What is it that you're interested in?
Nope. Just staying here for my bills, trying to start some side hustles and resign asap.
Do you plan on doing a side hustle related to your current industry?
