Job Gear – Equiptment for work

So I’m working an office job now that isn’t necessarily related to what I want to do in the future, but I’m finishing up my business degree, and I figure any work in a professional office environment will reflect well on my resume when I graduate. However, I hate it and I made WAY more money and worked WAY less hours at my old job waiting tables. Am I slaving every day at work for no real benefit?

Man I really feel your pain, ultimately you gotta do what you love and love what you do, then you come alive, otherwise you kind of die, and I know what it’s like.

My take on it is this, if I want to be a doctor, then without the background in medicine, no one in the world will take me seriously, now that’s an extreme example and is life or death in the results.

Now for specialized roles, you do need experience, think about the people you’re competing with.

However, if you can demonstrate that you have the right attitude, that makes you very attractive, and I would say employers would give you the benefit of the doubt.

Every employer wants someone who is pleasant to get on with, fits into their organization and gets on well with the team. The key thing they’re looking for is you attitude to hit the ground running, they’ll cut you some slack, but if you’re the kind of guy that will go the extra mile to make sure you get the job done, you’ll score over someone who may have the experience but not the attitude.

I remember when I graduated from University, I now understand why companies take on graduates. Take my company for example. A good java developer can as a freelance consultant earn £500 per day, that is the market rate. Yet a company will take on a graduate with no experience, pay them say £25,000 and put them through £10,000 of training and put together a 1-2 year development plan.

They pick the graduates who have the right attitude, they know their fresh and new and will work their socks off, to a company graduates are cheap labor.