I am studying Economics and Marketing and I'm just several weeks away from completing my degree and graduating. I'm thinking of doing an MBA later down the track...but right now I'm done with study. I am mentally exhausted and have reached a point where I just want to focus on other things in my life that aren't career related.
At the moment I work in Marketing. It's a very shitty job which i took at the beginning of September. The only real reason why I took this job was because, like you, i needed money to finance my extravagant playboy lifestyle. Just kidding. Since Middle January i was living off my savings accumulated from full time work in 2008.. and naturally I pissed it all away without doing anything productive with the money like investing it, or using it to expand my horizons by travelling overseas and getting my balls tongued by some foreign putana's.
But oh well, that's life. I'm just frustrated because i'm doing menial tasks, well below my potential, am being paid considerably less from my previous job, and my responsibilities are considerably less than my previous job. It bothers me because i feel as if i have taken a step back rather than progressed.. But I guess I needed the money.
The biggest downside is now the lack of time i have for anything. I cant even enjoy wiping my own ass anymore. I work full time, am juggling part time uni, and am trying to maintain a healthy social life, and also a partially demanding girlfriend. But it's all good nicca.
Buttt right now I think that as soon as I graduate, i will quit my job, find something part time, and then just gain some cash so i can do the traveling I want. It's like a beast within me that needs to come out. The career bullshit can wait.
Gotta work to live not live to work.