Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
One job, two jobs, your job!!
I had this long chat with one of my closest old friends. "S" lives in Cairo after her marriage, after she lived in Alexandria for the first 27 years in her life!! I needn't to say that she is not very fond of living in our dear capital where one can always experience the nice smoky atmosphere, something that we lack here in Alexandria!!
Any way, she is a physician (i.e: she spend 7 whole years studying medicine by her own free well) and she is married to a pharmacist who spend 5 years studying pharmacy. Till here everything looks perfect, but the problem here, according to "S", is that both medicine and pharmacy are no more those amazing careers one should look for. Although her husband owned his own pharmacy, his income could not provide him the respectable life one would want to live. He quited his job, sold his pharmacy & worked in a certain company with a fancy office, AC & a computer where he finishes his job that needs nothing except good computer skills and fluent French and English. He earns good money and gets back home early, he needn't to work in another job(like all pharmacists do when they work with their certificate). Then we came to my dear friend, she is not currently working as a physician any more!! She teaches English in a very popular center where she earns good money, gets back home early, does not have to deal with patients' problems and above all, she does not have to work in another job (as all physicians do, even the most famous ones of them). She had an interesting point of view here, in a country like ours, when person had to work in one and two jobs to provide an appropriate life for himself and his family, you should study whatever you want (before you regret that in the future) but you don't have to work in the same field of your studies!! Go to a place where you can work in one job only till one day comes where things change and each of us gets the position he / she deserves!!!!
Dear readers, please I want each one of you to tell me whether you work in the field you studied or not? do you work in one job or two? are you satisfied or not? what do you think, is my friend right or wrong??
By the way, I work in the same field I studied before, I work in two jobs, I like one of them but the other one I have nothing to do about it, I have to work there!!!! and I think "S" is right, she used to be a wise girl:)
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