Looking to try to change career. I’ve been working for the same company since I left school at 18 in a technical R&D role (now 27). Very enjoyable for a while, but my boss is messing me around on a long-overdue promotion and sapping my enthusiasm for the role, and now lots of my friends are resigning.
Feeling a bit stuck and ready for a change, but I don’t have a strong idea what I want to do, and worried I won’t have the skills for a career in a different field. Would be very happy to step away from full-time work as well, but that’s probably not financially realistic for me.
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Probably two watershed moments in my career:
1. Taking a bit of a chance, and taking an interesting job with a tiny firm 55 miles away from my house. Loved that job, loved that company and had a lot of fun there.
2. Going self employed and into freelance consulting.
In terms of a lifestyle change. Getting married and settling down.
Surprising in that, if you’d asked me in my early 20s I would have said I’d never do that. But now I’m older and I have, I absolutely love it.
Keep chasing that promo, even if it means a higher role at another job. I worked in a role as an engineer for 10 years. Great pay. Got let go during covid. Moved back to my home country. Did a casual role in the same position which offered fulltime. But I held out and got a role two rungs up as a senior engineer/ station manager. I get around the same pay. But it’s a 20 hour work week. The main reason I took the job? Wasn’t the hours or the pay. It was the position and ippurtunity to learn new skills, which although had new responsibilities, would teach me how to run my own business one day. Invest in yourself. Pay check is a consideration. But know where you’re ceilings are.
I did a four day week a while ago. Had Wednesdays off so I was never more than two days from a day off. I absolutely loved it but wasn’t quite financially stable enough at the time. My goal for my next move is to find a 4 day a week role that pays in the ballpark of what I’m paid now.
I always wanted to work in TV and media production and studied in college and university for a long time.
Struggled financially in university and got a part time job for a major distribution company just unloading trailers. I’ve since been promoted into highly responsible transport law and legislation role and it’s so interesting, I never imagined anything like it
It wasn’t by choice, but being mostly WFH.
Prior to Covid, I would commute 5 days a week into an office and spend stupid amounts on food (I was too lazy to bring in food).
Since March 2020 I’ve mostly been WFH. It took me 2 years and revamping my bedroom to get used to it but now I absolutely love it. I get 10 hours of my life back due to no commute, I like waking early and having a slow morning, I exercise more, and I can keep on top of chores and life admin. I’m also saving ~£250 a month from not buying food and paying for transport.