Diluted Dante wrote:What do you mean by quite the commitment? Training? Workload?
Kow wrote:Learn plumbing. Or electrics. Never out of work. Plenty of money. Helping people. Good hours. No bringing work home with you (unless you burst one of your own pipes).
Yossarian wrote:Kow wrote:Learn plumbing. Or electrics. Never out of work. Plenty of money. Helping people. Good hours. No bringing work home with you (unless you burst one of your own pipes).
That is worth considering.
Yossarian wrote:Training.Diluted Dante wrote:What do you mean by quite the commitment? Training? Workload?
Skerret wrote:Plumbing and lectrics means spiders.
Yossarian wrote:Quite. I taught Arabic speakers English. I had enough Arabic to survive, but was a great distance from fluent.
I was thinking about that a while ago, but was put off by a journalist friend of the family. The industry's a state, and as an outsider, it would take a crapload of determination to break into it, more than I think I have.dynamiteReady wrote:Yossarian wrote:Quite. I taught Arabic speakers English. I had enough Arabic to survive, but was a great distance from fluent.
Do you think you could dig Journalism?
Yossarian wrote:I've also worked out that my primary motivator is trying to make the world a better place, so issues around social justice, inequality, representing those worse off than myself or trying to stand up to power structures are the sorts of things that would get me out of bed in the morning. A few points worth noting: that I need to work within an existing structure as I'm not going to do shit if left to my own devices; I could do with something that will offer me different types of challenges as I get bored quite easily; and I thrive under pressure. The only two ideas that I've generated so far that really appeal to me are working in some capacity with a charity or NGO.
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