change my career

I’ve always chased the interesting jobs and taken a pay cut every time I’ve changed jobs – and I always end up stuck working in isolation on something that few people care about – motivation leaks away, morale leaks away, and then the contract ends with nothing glowing to put on my CV. I need to get into something that involves working with people much more, where there’s no chance of being stuck in a corner doing something esoteric. I put a high value my privacy and my time alone, but always working is isolation just doesn’t get me the sort of life I want, and doesn’t bring in cash either. I think it’s time to find a career counsellor.

of healthcare by the time I’m 40. That gives me 5 years and 2 months.

Doing physical work is hard and I’d like to give my bod a rest. I’d like to no longer be considered an “essential employee”. This means if there are snow storm all week, you’re still expected to come into work even if the busses aren’t running and the rest of the city has shut down.

I want to try something new.

I am so glad to have found this side and to see there are more people out there that feel like me….I finished my business degree 6 years ago and have worked in 5 different job since then.

I get bored so easily and feel it is all completely pointless. I have a few ideas on what I would like to do but those jobs are really badly paid and I am so worried it won’t work out and I will end up working in a horrible badly paid job for the rest of my life because I didn’t make any use of my degree.

I went travelling this year and almost didn’t find a new job after wards because people noticed I wasn’t really interested in the job to start with. The situation gets worse and worse and I am getting older and older and I don’t really know the way out. Any suggestions?

I wish I had never done my law degree, it just gets me jobs I don’t like.
I went to a career counsellor for months when I lived in the UK, I will go back to another one, I won’t give up.

I know people say it’s too late (I’m nearly 35), but I don’t care: I want to find out how I could be happier.

I really am dissatisfied with my present job. My supervisor and I just don’t see eye to eye anymore. She would never admit it, but I think she is jealous of my friendship with a mutual friend. I think that is one source of our continuing conflicts.

Maybe I would stay in my present position if my relationship with my boss was good, but I am not sure if I am even happy with my career choice. I work in the accounting department for a credit union, which I have been employed at for the last 7 1/2 years. I have been working in my present field for the last 12 years. I have not been having as much success as I would expect for someone with my degree and my experience. The job, I must admit, has become boring to me. I desire a more exciting career choice, but I have become confused as to what career path I should choose. I know all these experts advise not to change jobs or careers in the current economy. But I have to say this, what is the point of my staying in a job/career that I know in the back of my mind has virtually come to a dead end? Would I not be better off in a position/career that excites me, motivates me to want to succeed? I have thought about what it would be like to work with animals, since I love animals so much. I would rather work with animals than numbers. I could go back to school to become a vet tech. I also love making handcrafted jewelry, and I am currently looking into becoming a jewelry designer. Why not do what you love and love what you do? I will never be successful at something I dread getting up in the morning and going to work to do. I just hope I can hang onto the current job long enough to figure out what I am going to do with the next phase of my life. I feel like I am caught between a rock and a hard place.

I’ve done a lot of office-based work (typing, secretarial, etc) which has mostly been unsatisfying. I’ts taken me most of my life to figure out what I actually want to do as a career. I met an OT on a course I was studying and the more she told me about her work was the more I realised that this was what I wanted to do. I wanted to find out more, so I visited some OT departments at hospitals & best of all, I got an opportunity to shadow a trainee OT who was visiting clients in the community. It was great.

I’ve now been accepted on a training course, which starts in September. I’m really looking forward to it, but I’ve had a few setbacks in the past, so I’m also a bit nervous that something might happen to stop me from succeeding.

So, I’m now at the stage of doing paperwor, getting vaccinations updated, etc. Watch this space…

In 7 years since I have graduated with my BA, I have climbed up the ladder and obtained my MS. Unfortunately, it took me a while to realize that I am not well suited for my position. It is corporate and political and I am diplomatic so I have survived, but it is not a fit in the least. I am going to 2 different counselors to try to find out where I should go next.

Let me know if you have any ideas…or have been through a transition.

Myers-Briggs – INFP
Holland Code – SAR

I’ve been in the IT Software field for 14 years. I got into it because I knew it was a field where I could make money. However 14 years later I’m miserable and realize I should have gone into a creative field. That’s where my passion and strengths lie. But to be honest at age 36, and making a really good salary, I don’t know how to go about this. I am married and my husband works a job he loves with a pretty good salary. But we do have some debt that we need to pay off, so I feel selfish wanting to change to a career that pays less money than I currently make. But I’m so miserable I know I have to change something soon.

It took almost a year to change careers – but I’m so glad I did! I found a great job that I’m enjoying, and I feel like every day I’m really learning a lot.

I need to start studying the things that will help me get a new job. And I need to stop doing the things that are distracting me from doing my job better. Because otherwise I’ll keep doing what I’m doing now, which is not what I want. Firstly I need to read a good book about it. Then improve my maths.