Hi Everyone.

I have career questions for all of you. I am currently freaking out with what I am going to do for the rest of my life and weather or not I can be happy with it.

I’m currently working for GE Aviation (formely Smiths Aerospace). I am a software engineering intern there. The work environment is cubicle based (think office space and you’d be half way there). I currently sit at my cube for 8 hours a day staring at a computer screen, typing, and pointing and clicking. This is also what the other employees in my department do. It pays well but it doesn’t make me look forward to going to work.

My degree path is Electrical Engineering (two more years to go). I am interested in technology and science. I just don’t want to work at a cubical my entire life.

What does everyone else here do? Are you happy with it? Do you have any suggestions for me?

I’ve been teaching at a small alternative high school for ten years and I really love it. It’s not easy but it’s never boring. It works for me!

Not to get totally off topic, but I’m about a year away from my teaching certification.  What school are you teaching at? 

And as for you, Andrew, my recommendation is that if work isn’t fulfilling, find something else that is.  So long as you can stomach the job, you might as well keep it.  But if work doesn’t excite you, find something else in your life that does.  Take a cooking class, start painting or get involved with local theatre or something like that.  Makes the work day easier when you know it’s paying the bills for something you love.