I guess it depends how much is the difference between both, but I'd be curious to hear what people have to say about this.
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Is'nt where you wanna be..and is'nt what you wanna do!!2,3,4, Just give me one more day.......If I can't play for Boro/be the heavyweight Champ/Rock star,I tend to be doing it for the ££Kerching..Trajic I know
but you have to muddle through with your dreams in tact or tatters:\ohwell:
Boatraceface wrote: Is'nt where you wanna be..and is'nt what you wanna do!!2,3,4, Just give me one more day.......If I can't play for Boro/be the heavyweight Champ/Rock star,I tend to be doing it for the ££Kerching..Trajic I know
so true...
I lived me dream for a while, but the cash stank (actually the cash would have been good if it wasn't for the pain involved in extracting it). So I ended it up in the workhouse (call centre), and it made me sick.
there's a lesson in there somewhere, but I'm too off me face on painkillers and anti-puke weed to be buggered finding it.
I'm "in between jobs" at the moment. But considering I've got degrees in English and Library Management I'll have to vote against the 'money' option 
Seriously though, I could've done what a couple of my friends did, get an MBA and make a small fortune working long hours at a job I didn't really enjoy. But what kind of life is that? I'll never be rich but I can enjoy what I do, that's enough for me.
Having just voted to go for the actual work, I'm stuck in a job I don't like coz I need the money.
Crap... 
i'd say go for the work. sometimes now i only turn up because they pay me. heck now i don't even have to turn up there to read my emails as i can now get them at home. it used to be a great place to work.
i'd say go for the work. sometimes now i only turn up because they pay me. heck now i don't even have to turn up there to read my emails(it helps but), as i can now get them at home. it used to be a great place to work.
Currently working a 10pm-6am shift being an I.T. monkey for Royal Mail. It never fails to amuse when people ask, "are you just here for the money, then?"
"No," I reply, "I'm here because I'm emotionally and spiritually fulfilled by the unsocial hours, unskilled labour, and chavtastic colleagues".
'Work' is a four letter word; so is 'play', but that's the exception that proves the rule.
I am growing increasingly intolerant of arsehole managers (which is 95% of them) so I'm working towards being self employed... gonna take about 4 years to get set up thou', so have to be a slave to the capitalist pig dogs until then...
Just in my final year of a Law and Accountancy degree. Shall I earn money as a solicitor earning ridiculous hours, NO f***ing way. I am going to teach at secondary school when I finish. Job satisfaction and all that. P.S Did the call centre thing for five years, made me ill too!
john kershaw wrote: try to do as liitle work for as much money as i can get. makes sense dunnit!!
Job? Are you having a laugh? You're from Liverpool!
lucyjane wrote: Just in my final year of a Law and Accountancy degree. Shall I earn money as a solicitor earning ridiculous hours, NO f***ing way. I am going to teach at secondary school when I finish. Job satisfaction and all that. P.S Did the call centre thing for five years, made me ill too!
that's spot-on Ozzy Osbourne, that pic. Get Paid!!
Missy Jem wrote:
john kershaw wrote: try to do as liitle work for as much money as i can get. makes sense dunnit!!
Job? Are you having a laugh? You're from Liverpool!
and speaking of Avatars, yours is shite. get another one miss. haha
john kershaw wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
john kershaw wrote: try to do as liitle work for as much money as i can get. makes sense dunnit!!
Job? Are you having a laugh? You're from Liverpool!
and speaking of Avatars, yours is shite. get another one miss. haha
Why is an Ian Curtis avatar shite? That's fighting talk where i come from! I thought it was pretty cool. Where can i go to look for avatars? Bear in mind, this is a works computer and every time i try and get an avatar it's too big to put on the site. Should i get a Britney one?
Sorry about the job comment, it was asking to be said!
only messin girl.
just copy any sort of jpg into your My Documents and transfer from there into your profile.
i like www.allmusic.com (just search for your fave bands) for nice sized band album cover ones, and my StevieG one was probably off an LFC website. can't remember now.
john kershaw wrote: only messin girl.
just copy any sort of jpg into your My Documents and transfer from there into your profile.
i like www.allmusic.com (just search for your fave bands) for nice sized band album cover ones, and my StevieG one was probably off an LFC website. can't remember now.
Ta la, i'll have a go when the boss pisses off!
You mean the boss is THERE, what do they THINK you're doing RIGHT now, while talkin bollox with us reprobates.
Missy Jem wrote:
john kershaw wrote: try to do as liitle work for as much money as i can get. makes sense dunnit!!
Job? Are you having a laugh? You're from Liverpool!
A Bolton girl with a sense of humour.
Hmmmm, I've been knocked out by her awesome humour, and it only just now occurred to me that that might not be because she's actually all that funny on any standard scale.....but purely because she seems really funny realitve to the fact she lives in a joyless, dank pit...that's fucknig downwind of manc and all.
:) Suppose you're right!
But i will give you a chinese burn when i see you on the NOOLer day. Be afraid...
Job satisfaction comes when I power down the PC. Money comes when I power it up and start using it. Can't win.
Well, I've been offered a job last year, that would have gave me more money and more stability (working in a bank), I didn't accept it when my current job matched the offer to keep me there, but somehow in the last year, they managed to come back on their word about a few things they promised to me when I decided to stay with them.
But back then, I also said to myself that I would have a brighter future at the company I was working with, because it was growing consistantly and I have confidence in my bosses, etc.
To make a long story short, I feel today I made the wrong choice back then, today I'm again in front of the same dilema and I have to make another choice.. not that I won't like the job, but it's so specialized in one domain (finance) that I fear I will get bored in a few years and will want to change once again...
Ah.. if only I could get paid to do NOOL :p that would solve a lot of things
Neither - i have chosen the job that gives me the most access to my family (f-all money tho')
Working in the environmental field I've accepted the fact that I won't make tons of money. That said, I'm sitting in a job that offered me more money and job security than the last place and couldn't be happier with my work. So, I geuss it's a little bit of both.
I have very rarely worked in the fields in which I have qualifications and training, instead I seem to have ended up in different jobs, and acquired new skills and experience along the way. I haven't done any teaching or lecturing for over ten years, and instead have learned a whole load of IT and project/programme management skills that I can put to a whole bunch of other uses.
It's only now, after so many years in this field of work, that the money is commensurate with what I could get elsewhere. CV looks good though!
I go for the actual work. After I graduated, I could've gone freelance as a Web designer but I'm determined not to do the whole career thing. Who wants to be working all hours, never getting to see your family, friends or partner and burning out (or possibly even dying if you push yourself hard enough) at 40? Not me, that's for sure! I'm happy in my office job, thanks! :)
