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Back to school.. but I dont like it
Ryna
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Ok, so I hate my retail job, so I enrolled at uni in a post grad course in Business Administration, in the hope of getting a better education, blah blah blah get a better occupation.
I've been doing this subject 'Accounting for Management' while working full time for a few weeks, and.. it aint my cup of tea. I finished a bachelor of comp science degree right out of High school, but because I really didn't want to program, I fucked it off as experience and joined the workforce.
hmmm.. I guess, I'm asking if its OK to quit if what I'm studying is not what I want to do and is boring to all hell. When I think of 'quitting' it just feels so wrong...
I've been doing this subject 'Accounting for Management' while working full time for a few weeks, and.. it aint my cup of tea. I finished a bachelor of comp science degree right out of High school, but because I really didn't want to program, I fucked it off as experience and joined the workforce.
hmmm.. I guess, I'm asking if its OK to quit if what I'm studying is not what I want to do and is boring to all hell. When I think of 'quitting' it just feels so wrong...
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If you decided to try to fix a faucet and discovered partway through the process that it was harder than you thought and you didn't have all of the tools you needed, would you keep trying fix it?
This part stuck out to me.
From everything I heard, any education after college is something you shouldn't do lightly. I thought about going for a MBA for the same reasons as you, but I know that I wouldn't do great in it because it's not my passion, it's not something I could imagine doing.
Sounds like you're facing the same problems. I say think long and hard why you actually want to do this, and if you don't come to a good conclusion just quit.
Did you even like business to begin with? What made you think that was the program for you?
Quit, but start thinking about something that you'll actually enjoy. Sometimes you won't always realize what you want to do right away. I'm 30, and just now headed back to school to become an EMT.
To be fair, the class he is unsure about is Accounting for Managers. No one likes accounting except accountants. But some of the knowledge is necessary for managers to at least understand (in theory at least, when it hits reality everything goes to hell, but alas).
On the other hand, if nothing in business at all interests him, getting an MBA seems like a waste of time and money. So it is hard to tell from the OP whether it is just accounting, or business in general. If it is just accounting, welp they are going to have to just power through and learn to do unpleasant things for a long term payoff.
Exactly what do you like?
It sounds to me what you don't actually like is working, which is a different problem altogether. I am presuming you took none of your education choices lightly.
Truth is I have no fucking idea what I want to do with my life, and at the age of 30, its starting to get me worried. I've done plenty of those career assessment courses and the results are generally either
- something creative/design oriented
- some type of people oriented position (this is where I got business administration)
I did one just the other day where after answering a thousand agree/disagree/indifferent questions, it came up with your ideal career. That ideal career? said I should be an Actor or Performer...
Like?.. hmmm
Well, I'm a gamer, computer and tabletop. that doesn't really help.
I do have an interest in PC hardware.. I was thinking maybe of exploring the career opportunities in this
I think you're best off doing things that you like that can be turned into or be a part of a career curriculum. Try to become serious about a passion. This is no easy task and may take time, but hey life's an adventure right?
Never acted, but have been involved in a few Neil Simon plays in the role of Assistant stage manager. But I guess I'm looking for a stable career. The actors I've known were great, and even then were on the bottom rung. I can tell you I ain't no Zac Efron in looks, or Alec Guinness in ability, so a successful career in the field of acting seems nonsensical.
Creative/design-oriented - what about graphics designer? I don't mean for art-purposes, but for businesses, for a print company or somesuch.
That's why I said "At least as a hobby", it seems like your main goal in work is to get rich. So you have to have something to spend that money on. If you have an uninteresting 9 to 5 job you should have fun things to do from 5 to 9 to make up for it. Be it acting, fucking ridiculously hot women, going on long vacations all over the world, crashing Lamborginis, starting a fantastic charity or any other hobby that can bring you some fulfilment in life.
I mean, you seem set on just getting a degree on something that lands you a boring well-paying job. Most other people I advice to go for a degree into something they enjoy, but so far you've been shooting down all suggestions and only talked about careers that get you a lot of money and hardly about your own interests.
sure, the world needs ditch diggers, burger flippers, and retail workers too
you gonna be happy doing that for the rest of your life?
It's true, I admit thats why I chose a cert in BA. A year or so study, get an easy job that pays well. But I misunderstood the study part. Shitloads of reading, groupwork, analyzing 300 page financial statements, and we're only a few weeks into the course. I probably could have done it back when I was fresh out of uni the first time, but now I just don't care about what I'm trying to learn.
I'm looking at a few community college courses that kinda piqued my interest:
Diploma of Computer Systems Engineering - still with the computers, but hardware more than software
Diploma of Human Resources Management - working with people, making sure they're treated right..
As a kid I was always messing around with those electronic kits. Maybe I'll look into some electronic trade
I'm glad you're really thinking about it and what other options you have. Office work is just one thing you can do, sitting behind desks certainly is not for everyone, even though it's made out to be that way some times.
What I am hearing you say is "I wan't an easy well paying job and I don't want to do any work at all to get it". This is simple, if you really want this easy unfulfilling high paying job that you current study will apparently get you clamp down and do the work. If not find something you do want to do and work towards that.
hell with a BCS you might be able to forgo the community college all together.
edit: and there are plenty of other computer science related jobs that don't require programming.