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pegkerrTomorrow, as part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work, Fiona is going to be visiting Rob's store and spending the day with him, learning about his job. The last two years, she has spent this day with me at my office, learning about my job.
I'd like her to give her the chance to learn about a lot of jobs. Specifically, your job.
Won't you tell Fiona about your job, so she can get an idea of the vast possibilities in the World of Work out there?
If you can, please leave Fiona a comment by tomorrow night, telling her about your career. Something like:
What your job title is, and what that means
A description of a typical day
What you need in the way of training/education/experience to do this job
Why you like it and (if you dare)
Why you dislike it
What sorts of things can go wrong at your job?
What kind of person thrives in your job
Anything else you can think of that would give her an idea of what it might be like to choose your career?
I'd like her to get as many replies as possible. Thanks ever so much!
Cheers,
Peg (and Fiona)
I'd like her to give her the chance to learn about a lot of jobs. Specifically, your job.
Won't you tell Fiona about your job, so she can get an idea of the vast possibilities in the World of Work out there?
If you can, please leave Fiona a comment by tomorrow night, telling her about your career. Something like:
What your job title is, and what that means
A description of a typical day
What you need in the way of training/education/experience to do this job
Why you like it and (if you dare)
Why you dislike it
What sorts of things can go wrong at your job?
What kind of person thrives in your job
Anything else you can think of that would give her an idea of what it might be like to choose your career?
I'd like her to get as many replies as possible. Thanks ever so much!
Cheers,
Peg (and Fiona)
Does require thinking, but not actually a "career"
Date: 2003-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)Here are my two cents to Peter's description:
First of all, there are ups and downs all the time in this job. Few weeks during the "proxy" season (mid-February through mid-April), you work your ass off, 12 or more hours a day in average, no weekends (company does pay overtime and double time--yet). And there are times when you have almost nothing to do, if stock market is down (financial printing depends very much on it).
The company I work for uses a typesetting system which needs to be learned. My typesetting is actually a programming: I insert commands and formats in an ASCII text (HTML programmer does almost the same). This typesetting system is the most powerful I've ever worked with before; you can do with text virtually anything you can imagine (except for graphic effects, which are not typesetting per se). Unfortunately, the company has not upgraded this system for about eight years, and is planning to switch to MS Word-based tool--precisely because the latter does not need thinking and same level of learning and skills as the current system.
If you understand "career" as "a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement," typesetting is not for you. There is comparatively low ceiling of maximum salary, and no room for growth. But you can learn the system (could be pretty interesting by itself) with a couple of other SGML-like languages, and move into development or IT.
S:)