Quote from ZedSometimes I find you too American to be enjoyable, but every now and then you come out with something which makes you worth the effort. Good catch.
Right now I work at a pizza delivery company which my contract forbids me from identifying online (but it's the best one). I'm a PhD student and delivering pizzas pays my rent, while tutoring pays my tuition fees. Tutoring is a fantastic job which pays way more per hour than I am worth, but only gives me five or six hours per week, whereas delivering pizzas pays me much less than I am worth to the company (because I'm amazing) but is much better in terms of hours. I love both of my jobs. Honestly I would happily deliver pizzas for the rest of my life if I could earn enough money from it to support a family.
In the long run I'm not sure what I want to do. My PhD is in Philosophy, and if I can get a permanent teaching job at a university that will be amazing, because it's about 12 hours a week work on a respectable salary. But the market for philosophers is exactly as competitive as you imagine it would be, so I'm prepared to fall back on my undergrad in Economics. All of my undergrad friends have gone into banking and it's something I'd be happy enough doing. How much I'd want to make from it would depend on where I ended up living - if I end up in London I'll need about 20k per year more than anywhere else because it'll cost that much more on accommodation and food.
In the past I've worked in telemarketing for a financial brokerage come debt collector, and that wasn't so fun because I had to have the same conversation thirty thousand times (that is not even an exaggeration) but I wouldn't mind working for the same kind of company so long as it wasn't on the phones. And I don't regret my time there, because just listening to the other people in the office was amazing experience in business finance.
Damn.
It always surprises me that I used to talk with you. A teacher. That's amazing.