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Originally Posted by goatmeal

I am thinking about quitting my job moving on, although I do enjoy my work. I work as a chef and if I am not learning anything new I feel as though I am stagnating in my career. The only novelty now is coming from books, newspapers, eating out, not from work. I am toying with the idea of selling my house, moving to NYC or SF, working under some top tier chefs, mooch knowledge of them as long as possible. To bad my wife wants to move to Japan, we might have to go our seperate ways for a while. I guess c'est la vie...

Btw anyone know how tough it is to find a apartment, job in NYC??

Phil

dude, go to japan with your wife. i bet you'd learn a lot there to help your career.

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Originally Posted by ultra-g

I was working for 6 long years (since 1998) at a temp agency in New York City called Tiger Information Systems.

I started there as a data entry processor at Goldman Sachs, it was sweet back then when I was 22 because it was my first office job and I felt like a grown up for the first time in my life, having a real job.

A year after that in 1999 I went to Warburg Dillon Read, an investment bank in midtown, as a word processor. I worked there for 5 years, doing the same thing day in and day out. In 5 years, Warburg Dillon Read became UBS Warburg then UBS Investment Bank.

The last 3 years I was there because it was the only job I could find that paid well, especially after 9-11-2001 and the recession that followed.

Anyway, I've been so depressed about working there for the longest time.

Last week on Craigslist I saw an ad for a job in a bike shop and sent my resume and got hired. I've been there a week now and I like the job, but the pay is really low.

I quit my office job finally... told them on my birthday this past Wednesday. Anyway, I'm happy but the change is a bit of a shock to me, I'm still in a daze about it all.

I can understand where you are coming from. I work for UBS Financial Services and I was almost to the point you are at until I got promoted last year. It's a high stress industry. Luckily, after the promotion, I love my job!

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Originally Posted by goatmeal

How is it that we're all so burnt out?

The guy I worked with that just moved to NYC for grad school had a pretty hard time finding a place. He wasn't looking for a job, but knowing your resume, I don't think you'd have a hard time with that. Getting paid enough to pay for the apartment might be a problem though...

We should take a vacation and go play in traffic out there and check it out...

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Originally Posted by skitbraviking

With paid boozy lunches and stupid other perks and...

HA! Which corporate world is that? Not the one I am LEAVING in a year...

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Originally Posted by [165]

HA! Which corporate world is that? Not the one I am LEAVING in a year...

Insurnce Brokerage. That was before the most recent crash and the layoffs, etc. Yea, the booze wasn't enough to help us forget about the rest of the job. Good riddance! I'll pay for my own margarits on my teacher's salary any day of the week. Usually about three or four days a week!

Hey, being a guy in Japan does have it's upsides. For example, it's perfectly acceptable to get *****faced at corporate functions, and being married, it's actually deviant to be married and only have one mistress! Hey, and where else can you get Manga dolls of women taking a poop, and eat deserts called 'Creamy Collon'?

Goatmeal - Iron Chef. Has a nice ring to it, no?

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Originally Posted by Thylacine

Hey, being a guy in Japan does have it's upsides.

I'm HUGE in Japan!

allow a bill Burroughs quote here -
money is like junk: what fixes on Monday won't fix on Friday.