When you look for a new job,
what’s the most important thing
that you look for?Eleoopy
Some may say that when they’re looking for a job, that they look for something that pays well or is close to home. Those things are important, but when I look for a job, I look for something that I would enjoy doing first and everything else second. Because I can’t imagine working somewhere for any length of time if it’s not something I love or even like.
To be honest, there’s not a lot out there I want to do. The older I get, the less I want to work for other people. I want to open my own business because I know exactly how I want to do it, how I want to run it, who I want to run it for.
But back to what I look for in a job… I look for a place that can hold my attention. It doesn’t have to be challenging, but it must be engaging. The first thing my mother thinks about when I get a new job is how much money I will make. She’s talked me into staying at a job simply for the pay, and it was the worst thing I ever did. By the time I left that job (at the bank), I wanted to kill myself. So I don’t look for a job based on pay, and while location is important, the only thing that will keep me at a job is how much it interests me.
March 30th
(yesterday)
A festival of Janus and Concordia is held today.
March 31st
(today)
The Romans honor Luna, goddess of the Full Moon, with a festival at her temple on the Aventine hill.
Comments (2)
I’m the same way, but it seems like interesting jobs are few and far between these days… unless you want to answer random/scary adds on Craig’s List. =/
I agree. I need something that interests me and hold’s me to that job. I’m the kind of person who can’t (well, I guess it is more like won’t) do things if my heart is not in it. If it isn’t I feel like, “what’s the point” and “who gives a shit”. Right now I think writing could hold the greatest possibility to captivate me, but we’ll see.