Professional Dreams

[Homuncul]

And it's not another Dreams thread

 

Well, let's start....

 

I'm having a "little" problem. I'm graduating the university in 2 years, which means I have to look for a job.

 

I was raised with an attitude of "you have alot of money = you're free to do what you want". It's funny but I tryed not to think in that manner (tryed to realize that maybe something is just not for me, that many many people live and don't think about money ), but every time I do I feel ashamed. It's unconscious already I guess.

 

The issue contains a major flaw if looked from my angle. I have always wanted to make movies and work with informaion technologies. But that is only a dream. The only probable way for me now is working as a programmer, manager, designer-animator, but not a director (working as a programmer is more probable, cauze the market is free and it's very good money! (if you're very good programmer, what an irony)). In fact if I first wanted to make money in the niche where it's actually more probable for me to develop, the only thing I would think about is getting more and more money and not making my dreams.

 

Then later, if perhaps I'm getting my own business started and become free to do what I want, I won't make my dreams come true because of my srenghtened attitude of making more money (and something even more important mentioned below)

 

Let's look at the different situation. A man does not long for money but he wants to be a director. He has no background (as a rich daddy or some connections in the field) for doing it and he's not actually as genius as Quentin Tarantino. So he works with no probability at all only a small possibility that he someday might get lucky to become a director. I'm not talking about hard work cause it's genius enough and as I mentioned that creepy man is not a genius.

 

So the first question here is what will you choose (if not already chosen and if chosen then why)?

 

Talking about second choice is pointless, cauze you're actually free to do what you want.

 

The first is much more complicated. Career is a slicky thing which is needed to be balanced especially today when good professionals are obligued to know exponencially more then just proffessionals. In fact the salary of proffessional and the best professional is measured in hundreds of times. There are many proffessionals today, so to start career one has to be the best in his niche. There are 3 steps for it:

 

1. Education

2. Certification

3. Experience

 

Education is the major one. If you don't have the highest education you can't count on anything today. But there are many many educated people now, so one has to be very very educated.

 

Certification is only about a small paper telling you're that and that good. I have an MCP and I'm studying to get MCSD (but it's so very hard, I already failed one of the exams twice and lost $120). Certification gives your resume a good credit filling the gaps of your theoretical education and practical skills.

 

Next is experience. And i guess that's where is the greatest of all problems. If you don't have experence you won't get a job, but to gain experience you also need a job (and the more respectable the better). Some form of experience is for example your own project which you can show as a proof of your practical skills. For example in programming you can make some solution to show to your future probable boss (and it's got to be a really outstanding solution I might add). But there are many more problem areas where one can't get experience ffast enough not to get old and become useless (cauze they only take 20 year old children these days ). This is the end for these three but not the end of a story.

 

Next to think about is priorities. For example if you want to be a programmer you are not neccesarily have to go to the technical college or something. I study economics in the university and programming at home (don't see much result though, I'm very lazy). Then about what type of certifcation and experience you trully need (cauze no boss at your future job would tell you in advance what you need to be skilled at)

 

And the last issue. It's psychological when a man wants to develop more in what he's good at. So actually even if my first goal was to gain money to be free to become a director (and express myself through moving frames.... oh) I won't become one because at that moment I would feel myself a true success in my own business of programming. And that could lead to some future paranoya or a middle age crisis, beforehand baldness, prostatit or something worse (but what can be worse than that)

 

Perhaps I could somehow mix profession and my dream but there are still things that could not be mixed.

 

So think carefully what you choose or you might lose your hair

 

In the end I would want to know what are noble members of the Senate do for living. If you're not working in Pentagon it wouldn't be that impolite to ask i think. Still if it bothers you don't have to answer.

[FunClown]

I'm not really one with the experience to answer your question specifically but only generally.

 

If you want to make movies and be a director perhaps you could use your degree to get your foot into the door of that industry.

 

For instance, work on the business side of things and see how things are done in the movie industry.

 

Perhaps you may want to work on plays in your spare time as well.

 

I'm doing a business degree and want to own my own business(es). I know that when I get out of uni, I'm not going to go out and make a business straight away. Instead, I will work and see how things are done and see what the market demands are. Get the experience (as you say) then make it happen.