Wow - just came from a book-clubish meeting about Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. One of the exercises was to put our name and title on the top of a post-it flip chart sheet. We were supposed to write "highs, lows, frustrations, rewards" and the other people in the room were supposed to write what they thought our highs, lows, frustrations and rewards are.
What an eye-opener, as people were dead on for most people, but not for me! They listed things for highs like "doing what is needed before I'm asked" and "helping everyone" !!! I told them all that I used to HAVE help now I AM the help, and it is SO NOT what I want to be doing at this point in my life. Maybe I'd accept it better if I never knew any other way, but damn it, I'm getting tired of being underemployed.
I was struggling with that this week. I went to work at the university to get an education, when no one would hire me without a college degree. Now I have the degree, and I'm 3/4 of the way to a Masters degree, and I'm still making less than I did before I had a freaking college degree. Not only making less, but making WAY less and not getting any bonus either. Not to mention that I used to have a job where I had responsibility, could be creative and travel.
I wonder if the Penn Career Services people want THAT leaked out... spend 100K on your degree and you too could be on a lower rung than when you started!
