What Do You Do For Your Job / Living • Page 9

I work as a Technical Account Manager at a Cloud Hosting company. The work isn't super enthralling, but the facility I work in and people I work with are pretty awesome.

 

I'm a CPA but work as a financial analyst.

I'd like to make a dramatic career change but 1. I don't know what i'd rather do and 2. I'm pretty risk averse

 

Bravo on the CPA! I'm an Accountant(Sales Tax) myself but don't plan to ever work in the Public sector.

 

I actually never worked in public accounting. Spent my first four years out of college in internal audit at a private company. Then transitioned over to an analyst role.

Public accounting is definitely not for everyone. I can't imagine working 60-80 hour weeks 4-6 months out of the year and be nothing more than a warm body to your employer.

 

What are you planning on focusing on? I only ever looked into it for makeup, which is a lot scarcer than schools that focus mostly on hair

 

Mainly just hair. I'd like more to be a hair color specialist rather than just cutting hair, which is my dilemma because hair color specialists require additional training. So I don't know whether to go to a community college for basic cosmetology and then try to get in somewhere like Aveda or Paul Mitchell to do their specialists programs or just go to one of those places from the start

 

I had that exact dilemma tbh with wondering about cc first or a specialized program. I ended up seeing a guidance counselor but she spent the entire time trying to talk me out of it instead of being helpful lol. Good luck bb! Focusing just on hair coloring seems really fun!

 

I work a few blocks up on Park Ave doing marketing and sales strategy for a healthcare startup. Small world.

 

I know CPA's not in auditing working 45-50 hours a week. It's a pretty boss life for the pay.

 

I have a friend looking for a WordPress developer to redesign his website GeekTi.me. Anyone here a WP Dev or know one that is available for hire?

 

Got my first job awhile ago on an army base nearby working at an Arbys there...after this I never want to work fast food ever again. Only doing it to save up for a apartment with my boyfriend.

 

I feel like everybody should have at least some retail/food service job experience to truly know the depths of how awful humanity truly is.

 

100% agree.

 

I am not nor do I know anything about this but he should hire me so I can leave my job.

Please and thank you.

 

i also work on park ave! at an ad agency too!

 

I'm getting out of the oilfield finally. Thankfully with all of my limbs intact. Minimal scarring. I'm down to 8 fingernails, but who needs those.

 

Yeah, that's tough.

How about, you are a culture and media writer for Chorus LLC, which you own.

 

Anyone here work in a career for 5+ years and then switch to something completely different?

 

Does retail while in school count?

 

I've been in my industry for exactly 5 years and am thinking of switching to something completely different. It's daunting to think about.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of after you went to school, got your degree in whatever, and was working in that field for a period of time...but then you realize it's not fulfilling and you hate it and want to do something entirely different.

It is...I have no idea how to go about doing it. The hardest part is trying to figure out what I'd really want to do. And would someone even give me a chance in something completely different than what I've been doing this whole time.

 

Yeah, same page. I don't know what industries you're considering switching to, but for me the best plan I can come up with is doing some projects on my own time to build the skills I need to make the move. Once I'm comfortable enough, maybe I'll do some freelance work to build a portfolio, then apply somewhere bigger.

Another option is to go back to school, but for me that's financially unfeasible.

 

I've worked in the mental health/psychiatric field for five years and am currently trying to switch to the IT industry as a technical writer. It's harder than I thought to get a job, but it better work out because I spent the last two years getting a fucking master's degree.

Edit: My bachelor's is in psychology and my master's is in technical communication.

 

Technical writing's a field that's interested me for a while. If you're trying to switch to the IT industry, is it a requirement to know how to code? And is it something you can only really do if you're located in certain cities with a big IT presence?

 

I keep wondering why I never decided to go into something computer science-y. I could be making at least double my current income. I have a useless Advertising B.S. & also my Elem Ed certificate which I've been using. Ugh.