So it's my first real life weekend. I went through more than 21 years of my life without ever working for more than like 30 hours a week consistently and last week I graduated and started my full time job as a Proactive Monitoring and Response Center Technician for Remote Database Administration Experts in Pittsburgh - heck of a title, I know, thanks for noticing.
Anyways, finals week and senior week and graduation day was pretty much as expected, and nobody really cares about that stuff anyway so I'll save you the details. What I really want to write about in this post is something that I was reassured of in my first week of working in the real world. Everyone always talks about how important it is to find a career that you can have fun in, because you are really going to be heading down a bad road if you dread the thing you did for like 30% of your life.
I really think that the welfare of your everyday life depends more on your personality than any actual thing you get yourself into. You could have some crappy job that requires work that you really don't like to do, but you could still enjoy going into work because the interaction with other people is enjoyable. For me, at least, I can pretty much get through anything as long as there are other people around who are willing to talk and joke around. Maybe that isn't true for everyone, but that fact alone makes me confident that I'm never going to dread going to work. Obviously there are certain jobs that could suck real bad regardless, but in my line of work I'm not at all worried about hating my job ever.
In addition to that, I want to say that it would really suck to be a person with no personality. That must be hell. Going through life never making anybody laugh or having people not really liking to have you around. I mean I might be describing myself with that, but ignorance is bliss so don't tell me if that actually is true.
I guess my advice to anyone reading this is if you have a crappy personality, get a better one, it'll make real life a lot more fun.
Anyways, finals week and senior week and graduation day was pretty much as expected, and nobody really cares about that stuff anyway so I'll save you the details. What I really want to write about in this post is something that I was reassured of in my first week of working in the real world. Everyone always talks about how important it is to find a career that you can have fun in, because you are really going to be heading down a bad road if you dread the thing you did for like 30% of your life.
I really think that the welfare of your everyday life depends more on your personality than any actual thing you get yourself into. You could have some crappy job that requires work that you really don't like to do, but you could still enjoy going into work because the interaction with other people is enjoyable. For me, at least, I can pretty much get through anything as long as there are other people around who are willing to talk and joke around. Maybe that isn't true for everyone, but that fact alone makes me confident that I'm never going to dread going to work. Obviously there are certain jobs that could suck real bad regardless, but in my line of work I'm not at all worried about hating my job ever.
In addition to that, I want to say that it would really suck to be a person with no personality. That must be hell. Going through life never making anybody laugh or having people not really liking to have you around. I mean I might be describing myself with that, but ignorance is bliss so don't tell me if that actually is true.
I guess my advice to anyone reading this is if you have a crappy personality, get a better one, it'll make real life a lot more fun.
