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Posted: 1/22/2007 6:47:53 PM | The chinese send their best to us for a world class education.....we send our best and brightest there and many other places..... Care to re think your thesis on the matter?
there are many mechanics, engineers,doctors from all countries.... world countries share in order to gain more knowledge on how to utilize modern techniques..... why not embrace different spins on knowledge? Stem cell research?......helloooo... | |
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Posted: 1/22/2007 7:06:30 PM | And your point on the day to day jobs of Canadians is..............
or are you in the wrong thread Bob | |
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| Loving your job/career
Posted: 1/22/2007 8:46:09 PM | Change what you don't want - make life exactly what you want - you DO have the power to do that!!!!! There is nobody holding you to your life - you are the master of the moments you live!!! NEVER settle!!!
leeanne, i have to agree with jeep here...
the fact that i got this job is what allowed me to change the rest of my life. as i said above, i would like to change it, but the world doesn't value the work i do the way the government does - or at least the union that controls the gov't workforce.
this job helped me to move from Ottawa, i have excellent benefits with it, and the friendships i've made in this city make my life so much better.
we have to make trade-offs and sometimes we have to compromise on some things that we want in order to have other things.
All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every
prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke | |
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| Loving your job/career
Posted: 1/22/2007 8:56:36 PM |
If I felt I did not have complete control over my life I would certainly find a way to make sure that I did. There are no fantasies in life that we can't accomplish if you really want them to come to fruition!! Never defeat yourself, or allow life to defeat you because you feel you have no choices!!!
Again, that's lovely idealism. I cannot believe that anyone has complete control over their entire lives. If they do, they must live in a completely enclosed and isolated environment. There are too many variables in the real world to be able to have complete control over anything. Anyway, this is just about work...but even in the working world, as an employee or an entrepreneur, things are simply not always going to go the way you want them to. As for making fantasies come true...there certainly are fantasies you can't fulfill. Ever fantasized about winning a huge lottery? Lots of people do. Very few people win them despite sometimes buying huge numbers of tickets. Want a fantasy I could actually do something about?? My ex is still alive. The penalties for making her otherwise discourage me immensely. Being realistic is not self-defeating...it is simply exercising good judgement in defining what is probable and what is improbable. Nor does defeat come as a result of having no choices. There are always choices...I know that, but many don't. The thing is, sometimes you don't get to pick the things you have to choose between. The choices are not always clearly good or bad. Sometimes all you have to choose between are really bad and not quite so bad. You can only choose between things that are actually before you...not things that you wish were before you. That's just the nature of life. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2007 3:46:50 AM | | I think some ppl think if you love your job, that you are just a happier person in general. I also dont think that it is something that can be expected. In a perfect world, it would be great if we could all love our jobs, but sometimes you are stuck in a postion where you aren't happy and making a change just isnt viable. | |
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| Loving your job/career
Posted: 1/23/2007 7:40:44 AM |
The chinese send their best to us for a world class education.....we send our best and brightest there and many other places..... Care to re think your thesis on the matter?
there are many mechanics, engineers,doctors from all countries.... world countries share in order to gain more knowledge on how to utilize modern techniques..... why not embrace different spins on knowledge? Stem cell research?......helloooo...
If you had made a point I might be able to debate you. I have no idea what your argument is. We need to go to other countries to learn? I didn't say that we shouldn't.
Education gives freedom to get jobs that people are interested in. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 9:38:28 AM | | I'd love a job rating or writing about the service of new resorts/hotels around the world. Where would I find a job like that? It's not that easy making your dream job a reality. Many of us just try to make the best out of working in cubicle hell while fantasizing about our dream jobs LOL | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 9:54:51 AM | Tom's Rule #13 You spend 1/3 of your life at work. That can be 20 years or more in total. Do something you enjoy.
Can you imagine being miserable for 20 years? Can you imagine wanting to be with someone who is miserable for 20 years?
Tom's Rule #11 Fun is an attitude... Not an activity. Even swimming in sh*t can be fun with the right attitude.
The fact is that you don't have to love your job for someone to love you. But if you hate your job, you are essentially hating your life for 8 hours (or more) a day and unfortunately, that attitude doesn't end when the whistle blows. Way too much negativity for me to want to be around.
And people do judge you on your occupation, whether they claim to or not. A partial quote from another thread:
and my condolences to your brother if he's unhappy with that...
referring to someone who is University educated but works in a factory . But according to the OP, why does it matter if he's happy or not? | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 10:21:38 AM | What I enjoy most about my job is the life experience. On a daily basis, I see people celebrate the happiest moments of their lives (child birth) as well as seeing the most sobering effect the death of a loved one can have on family. I also see those triumphs (beating cancer) that make people happy just to be alive. Witnessing a new born infant struggle for it's life and sometimes not winning that battle also puts things into perspective for me.... at any given time I can experience each of those things... seperately, or all of this in the course of one day... many times over.
I never thought, as a Plumber, I would be exposed to such a powerful experience.... I wouldn't trade it for anything else. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 11:42:17 AM |
Change what you don't want - make life exactly what you want - you DO have the power to do that!!!!! There is nobody holding you to your life - you are the master of the moments you live!!! NEVER settle!!!
I am in position to live above stated reality .... I was just laid off, from a job that paid really well, but sucked going to every day. I went because I had too, I had bills to pay, and a family of 5 at one point to support ....
Now it is just me and Little Man, and I want more then anything to be happy and fulfilled ... I am seriously considering going to college, although nascar3fan made a good point. The only thing that is stopping me from signing on to college is the amount of debt it may place me in. That is scary stuff. But weighing the pros and cons ...
I know that I was not all that sad to lose said well paying job .... Nor was I particularily scared of the future ...
I was looking at statistics the other day that said that the average working person now has 3 to 4 careers instead of one. I think this speaks volumes ..... | |
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