[quote]DeterminedNate wrote:
This thread seems to apply to me. I graduated from a top 10 (not to mention expensive) business school in 2005. I worked as a financial analyst at a major bank making bank. I hated it. I was eventually fired.
My next job was in sales and I hated that as well. I left after a year, and now am at the point where I realize that maybe I’m just not cut out for cubicle life.
I’ve taken the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator and it yielded an INFP. The careers that best suit an “INFP” are teacher/counselor/psychologist.
I do feel naturally inclined towards those professions and most probably would want to be a professor or at least a lecturer.
The conflict I am having is whether to just leave my entire business education behind and get some sort of MA? Or to continue on with business hoping that I make some respectable cheddar somewhere down the line.
I’m kind of leaning towards what suits my personality best, and truly believe that will make me the most successful. But again, I am 24 years old, and by and large, have no idea what I’m talking about. Would I enjoy a professor’s salary with a wife and kids? Will I ever make it to professor? Will I get tenure? Do I love literature/psych enough to write published works? I’m not sure.
Any advice would help immensely. Thanks.[/quote]
People do this all the time. My friend got his business degree in accounting and was an accountant for 2 years. He hated it. Instead of trying to find jobs similar to accounting (which he figured he’d hate, too), he went back to school and got an different degree and job in an unrelated field. He’s a much happier man now.
Don’t be worried about salary, tenure, becoming a professor, etc. Those ‘risks’ exist with every profession.
If you really believe you won’t be happy long term, then go back to school. Find something else that makes you happy.