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Perhaps you need to realize that money isn't the deciding factor when
determining a "good job." Granted, money is a factor...it is a motivation,
but is it good to say that you will work for X company because there is a
pay raise? That may not be what you *meant* to come across in your message,
but count how many times you give a dollar figure or mention money.
Sit down and evaluate what really is your ideal job...then research how to
get there...then go.
Money aside...what makes you tick?
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Kristian Rickard
Multimedia/Instructional Designer
Texas Tech University
College of Engineering
Box 43103
Lubbock, TX 79409-3103
(806)742-3451
K -dot- Rickard -at- ttu -dot- edu
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>I've posted previously about job dissatisfaction in my current job and
>previous jobs. I'm getting really frustrated with myself and with the work
>world in general.
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>After graduating from college I had one job for 4 months and left due to
>boredom. At that time I really didnt know what I wanted to do and just
>took a job to pay the bills. I took a temp job until I could find my ideal
>job.
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>Six weeks later I had what I thought was my ideal job. I had discovered
>tech writing, entered a masters program and thought I had found a job that
>would give me experience. I did almost no technical writing there and left
>9 months later for what, again, I thought was my dream job.
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> At the next job I got some TW experience and a $5000 raise from my
>previous job. I left that job after I'd had it for 8 months because they
>gave me a promotion with lots more responsibility and no raise. Also
>because I had no official job duites for 6 months and management wasnt all
>that excited about putting any down on paper. I also left because a
>fortune 500 company offered me a job and a $15000 raise.
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>Now I'm at the fortune 500 company and I hate my job. I'm doing lots of
>Web work (which is partly what I want to do), but no technical writing.
>Also the web work I am doing is not exactly the kind of web work I want to
>be doing. Most of all I hate the organization around here. I never know
>what I'm going to be doing when I get to work because they give me bits and
>pieces of work on a daily basis and NEVER give me the big picture. Because
>they don't give me the big picture I often end up redoing things...
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>I've only been here since August and think I should give this job and this
>organization and myself more time before I call it quits, but I get more
>and more frustrated every single day. When I first got here they werent
>giving me any work at all and I complained to my manager and now I'm at
>least getting work...
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>I need to hear other people's points of view here. The people closest to
>me think I will never be happy or satisfied with any job, but I dont think
>thats true. I also dont think its true that I always just end up in bad
>companies or bad departments. In other words, I'm willing to accept some
>of the responsibility here. However, every time I've left a job its been
>for what I thought would be a better job and I've always received
>significant pay raises in the deal...
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>Help!!!
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