To ask you a question about your job?

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Do you have an 'average' job? A job rather than a career so to speak. If so, what do you do and are you happy doing it? Are there any people out there who did well at school but prefer to have a job rather than a profession?

I work in the voluntary sector as a senior manager but don't really class it as a career or a profession
Although I would class myself as a professional!
It's more of a vocation than a job because I live and breathe it and do quite a lot in my own time towards it

Really interesting to read people's comments thanks.

I have a job rather than a career and feel I've let everyone, especially myself down. Having done very well at school, I think I set myself too high a bar at uni, and undiagnosed dyspraxia really started to impact. I got an ok degree but I was really down on myself and underconfident and I drifted for a few years. I know people look down on what I do and it puzzles them that I do it. I don't feel good about it either, although I am now starting to get somewhere and have a plan, so I do feel better!
However, I never knew what I wanted to do as a career and I did reach a point where I got fed up of putting my all into studying. I could go back, but money, time and already changing my mind on one career/further qualification make me reticent. I'm finally climbing the ladder in my industry and I think I'm finally reaching a level where I'd have transferable skills into something which is still a "job" but is much better regarded and much better paid.

I have a job not a career and much to the disappointment of people around me I love it. I didn't well at school went to uni (didn't finish which I do regret). I work behind a bar and I'm bloody good at it. It's not a hard job but I know I can build an appropriate atmosphere and calm things down when it gets rough. I love it really (even though it's exhausting)

Yep; I work in fast food. I absolutely love it.

I did well all through school and could do so many things, but I just don't want to. I don't want a career; that wouldn't make me happy.

Society says you should want to have a career and go as far as you can. Ignore them; they're talking bollocks.

Spend your life being happy and do what you want.

I have a career, or at least I think I do, but I find in my case, I feel like I'm waiting for my career (where I've progressed far enough, have enough confidence) to start, if you see what I mean, and so in practice, I have a job!

What to do totally agree. Society does seems to expect this but what's important is that we are happy with what we are doing. Somebody once asked me what university I went to. I said I didn't go to Uni. People just assume you have as it's the done thing.

We need people to work in our fast food outlets, supermarkets etc

Exactly. I never went to uni (though I was accepted to six on unconditional offers) because I realised (after being pushed into applying by school) that it wasn't for me.

Everyone should do what makes them happy. There's no point in life if you're living it to please someone else.