So my job search this summer hasn't been going terribly well. By extension, my headway into a "career" is precisely....zero. While there are many reasons behind it - like say, bad economy, my advisers from university and my parents would say it is because I simply don't care enough, and aren't focused on anything.
My adviser was taken back, and my parents both get annoyed, that I simply don't care what job I have. Well, I care a little in that there are certain things I will avoid, such as anything with children, but on the whole I simply, bluntly, don't give a fuck. Being the President of the United States and a random farmhand somewhere are both equally "appealing" to me - I would pick President though, because he/she gets paid a lot more.
To me, work is work is work. Its all the same to me. I'll do what you want so long as I'm physically/mentally capable of it, I'll do it to the best of my ability as long as I get paid and it doesn't require me doing something I find morally objectionable.
Be a reporter/journalist? Would do it if paid. Paperwork in an office? You'll pay right? Shovel manure? If the price is right (and could you maybe throw in a mask too?).
However, rather than helping, as one might expect. My adviser said that this attitude caused employers to not want to hire me because they don't feel like I'll care about the job or put in any particular effort - my parents just think it makes me lazy not look for jobs.
My adviser (and therapist from university) also said that my indifference and "level-headed-ness" would make me unpopular and people not trust me because it would so strange and uncomfortable for them - to have someone so "calm and collected" in both good and bad things disturbs people apparently.
So I don't know what to think. On the one hand, I think its utter tripe, and that my joblessness (and other issues) is mostly to blame on other things - on the other hand, my lack of job (and other things) doesn't exactly provide a ringing endorsement.
So what do you think?
My adviser was taken back, and my parents both get annoyed, that I simply don't care what job I have. Well, I care a little in that there are certain things I will avoid, such as anything with children, but on the whole I simply, bluntly, don't give a fuck. Being the President of the United States and a random farmhand somewhere are both equally "appealing" to me - I would pick President though, because he/she gets paid a lot more.
To me, work is work is work. Its all the same to me. I'll do what you want so long as I'm physically/mentally capable of it, I'll do it to the best of my ability as long as I get paid and it doesn't require me doing something I find morally objectionable.
Be a reporter/journalist? Would do it if paid. Paperwork in an office? You'll pay right? Shovel manure? If the price is right (and could you maybe throw in a mask too?).
However, rather than helping, as one might expect. My adviser said that this attitude caused employers to not want to hire me because they don't feel like I'll care about the job or put in any particular effort - my parents just think it makes me lazy not look for jobs.
My adviser (and therapist from university) also said that my indifference and "level-headed-ness" would make me unpopular and people not trust me because it would so strange and uncomfortable for them - to have someone so "calm and collected" in both good and bad things disturbs people apparently.
So I don't know what to think. On the one hand, I think its utter tripe, and that my joblessness (and other issues) is mostly to blame on other things - on the other hand, my lack of job (and other things) doesn't exactly provide a ringing endorsement.
So what do you think?