day 2 - where you’d like to be in 10 years.
There are numerous aspects to this, mainly work (career) and physical location. Also relationship-wise, hobby-wise, family-wise and so on.
Work - I used to know, but now I don't. When I was working for T-Mobile I had a potential future career progression and due to the nature of the business it would have been inevitable I would have ended up in Hatfield.
Now I don't know. I'm working in a small company and career progression isn't going to happen. The industry I work in (CCTV) is small and very incestuous and I don't see a future for myself within it. I need a change.
Along with this goes location. I like it in this part of the world (this part of the world being the North-West (well, kinda) of England, or more technically I'm now in North Wales) and have no plans to leave it. I look occasionally at jobs that would involve moving to the South and I can't see enough advantages to make it worthwhile (I do see some advantages, but the disadvantages really are huge). I just wish that more of the people I knew lived nearby.
My current location makes finding a new job kinda tricky. If I was based in or near a big city (Manchester/Liverpool) there are LOADS of jobs I could probably blag my way in to. But Wrexham? If you want mechanical engineering jobs, plenty of those around. Picking & packing jobs? LOADS. Tech support, IT, anything vaguely IT-support related? Nope.
What do I want to do career-wise? My goal is to avoid people management as much as possible and keep towards the technical side of things whilst also avoiding direct customer support, and perhaps head towards product management. This provides a nice mix, in my mind at least, of a requirement to keep technical skills up-to-date, innovation and keeping an element of support/training but not necessarily direct customer support.
I keep applying for anything I find interesting. Unfortunately even though I see my skills as being highly transferable (a support job is a support job), employers have their pick of the crop and why bother training me in a specific system when someone already knows it.
Relationship-wise I should probably add that by then![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pipsytip and I should be married by then. What could change between us? Who knows eh?
Family-wise, no plans. My family are fairly distant in general and I have no direct wishes to change this. I would like to see my parents more but who can afford to do a 400 mile round-trip every few weeks? Or should I say, I can't.
Which leads inevitably on to - financially - I will be debt free. Except for good debt (e.g. a mortgage). I explain this fairly regularly to people, but when I stop paying ~£300/mo in debt repayments - excluding student debt which adds yet more on to this - I will be able to do so much more.
Hobby-wise, I would like to seriously get involved with some kind of open-source project that I believe in and could contribute to seriously. I look every now and then at volunteering for various things but whenever I get involved with anything like this it takes over my life. I know Warcraft is a poor example but I don't do things by half.
I could go on, but I don't think I should.
day 3 - your views on drugs and alcohol.
day 4 - your views on religion.
day 5 - a time you thought about ending your own life.
day 6 - write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
day 7 - your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
day 8 - a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
day 9 - how you hope your future will be like.
day 10 - discuss your first love and first kiss.
day 11 - put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
day 12 - bullet your whole day.
day 13 - somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
day 14 - your earliest memory.
day 15 - your favourite tumblrs.
day 16 - your views on mainstream music.
day 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.
day 18 - your beliefs.
day 19 - disrespecting your parents.
day 20 - how important you think education is.
day 21 - one of your favourite shows.
day 22 - how have you changed in the past 2 years?
day 23 - give pictures of 5 guys who are famous who you find attractive.
day 24 - your favourite movie and what it’s about.
day 25 - someone who fascinates you and why.
day 26 - what kind of person attracts you.
day 27 - a problem that you have had.
day 28 - something that you miss.
day 29 - goals for the next 30 days.
day 30 - your highs and lows of this month
There are numerous aspects to this, mainly work (career) and physical location. Also relationship-wise, hobby-wise, family-wise and so on.
Work - I used to know, but now I don't. When I was working for T-Mobile I had a potential future career progression and due to the nature of the business it would have been inevitable I would have ended up in Hatfield.
Now I don't know. I'm working in a small company and career progression isn't going to happen. The industry I work in (CCTV) is small and very incestuous and I don't see a future for myself within it. I need a change.
Along with this goes location. I like it in this part of the world (this part of the world being the North-West (well, kinda) of England, or more technically I'm now in North Wales) and have no plans to leave it. I look occasionally at jobs that would involve moving to the South and I can't see enough advantages to make it worthwhile (I do see some advantages, but the disadvantages really are huge). I just wish that more of the people I knew lived nearby.
My current location makes finding a new job kinda tricky. If I was based in or near a big city (Manchester/Liverpool) there are LOADS of jobs I could probably blag my way in to. But Wrexham? If you want mechanical engineering jobs, plenty of those around. Picking & packing jobs? LOADS. Tech support, IT, anything vaguely IT-support related? Nope.
What do I want to do career-wise? My goal is to avoid people management as much as possible and keep towards the technical side of things whilst also avoiding direct customer support, and perhaps head towards product management. This provides a nice mix, in my mind at least, of a requirement to keep technical skills up-to-date, innovation and keeping an element of support/training but not necessarily direct customer support.
I keep applying for anything I find interesting. Unfortunately even though I see my skills as being highly transferable (a support job is a support job), employers have their pick of the crop and why bother training me in a specific system when someone already knows it.
Relationship-wise I should probably add that by then
pipsytip and I should be married by then. What could change between us? Who knows eh?Family-wise, no plans. My family are fairly distant in general and I have no direct wishes to change this. I would like to see my parents more but who can afford to do a 400 mile round-trip every few weeks? Or should I say, I can't.
Which leads inevitably on to - financially - I will be debt free. Except for good debt (e.g. a mortgage). I explain this fairly regularly to people, but when I stop paying ~£300/mo in debt repayments - excluding student debt which adds yet more on to this - I will be able to do so much more.
Hobby-wise, I would like to seriously get involved with some kind of open-source project that I believe in and could contribute to seriously. I look every now and then at volunteering for various things but whenever I get involved with anything like this it takes over my life. I know Warcraft is a poor example but I don't do things by half.
I could go on, but I don't think I should.
day 3 - your views on drugs and alcohol.
day 4 - your views on religion.
day 5 - a time you thought about ending your own life.
day 6 - write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
day 7 - your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
day 8 - a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
day 9 - how you hope your future will be like.
day 10 - discuss your first love and first kiss.
day 11 - put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
day 12 - bullet your whole day.
day 13 - somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
day 14 - your earliest memory.
day 15 - your favourite tumblrs.
day 16 - your views on mainstream music.
day 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.
day 18 - your beliefs.
day 19 - disrespecting your parents.
day 20 - how important you think education is.
day 21 - one of your favourite shows.
day 22 - how have you changed in the past 2 years?
day 23 - give pictures of 5 guys who are famous who you find attractive.
day 24 - your favourite movie and what it’s about.
day 25 - someone who fascinates you and why.
day 26 - what kind of person attracts you.
day 27 - a problem that you have had.
day 28 - something that you miss.
day 29 - goals for the next 30 days.
day 30 - your highs and lows of this month