David the counselor has suggested that I spend a little time trying to analize what I enjoyed in my last job and why, and compare that to the classes I'm taking. No problem, except I don't want to. I'm still bitter about a lot of what happened. I wish a few more people had listened to me a little earlier.
The good: It was very interesting. I learned a lot of new things, mostly in accounting and management: budgeting (the store was less than a dollar away from my revenue projections for three consecutive months, labour was exactly correct for four months), accounting (the auditors said it was one of the easiest audits that they had ever done for the students' society), personel management (mostly scheduling and the like - I think the staff respected me. I respected them), writing business proposals (all of them were accepted in some form or another), and just general leadership.
The bad: I didn't like not being listened to on a lot of things. I told you so: reducing the manager hours to 25/week, the evil boss that stole lots of money (twice, I told two different people), other department managers ineptitude, and more. Mostly, I felt that some of my ideas were being dismissed on first sight, without any attention. I don't think I can really blame anyone for that, sometimes I presented my ideas in a very aggressive manner. That doesn't excuse dismissing others.
Now, back in classes in university, I'm mostly working on small projects and assignments. Most of them will never be looked at by anybody except me and the marker (most times, the prof doesn't bother to look at the homework). There isn't much motivation to do well, other than the letter grade. I sometimes feel like I could earn better grades by simply repeating what I'm told.
I don't think I am getting any serious analytical skills at the moment. I should be, and I find that disturbing.