How can I escape the cycle of feeling trapped in dead-end retail jobs without the right skills? #careeradvice #jobsearch
Have you ever felt stuck in a job that makes you question your intelligence and potential? #motivation #selfdoubt
Are you struggling to see a way out of low-paying, dead-end jobs and into higher-paying, fulfilling careers? #careerdevelopment #opportunities
Do you feel unskilled and inadequate in today’s tech-driven job market, unsure of how to level up and find better opportunities? #skillsgap #careertransition
Have you ever found yourself doubting your abilities and interests, unsure of what career path to pursue next? #selfdiscovery #education_goals
Choose a field of interest and pursue that. You can always take classes at your local community college and learn the tech side of things. I’ve been thinking about doing the same recently. I’ve been in a rut for far too many years.
First of all, every job necessary. Yes, some pay a lot more than others and some people think they are more important for having them.
However, without people like you, we wouldn’t be able to go shopping or get our groceries. Please don’t ever feel bad for doing a job and trying to earn an honest living.
If you do when I get out of retail then maybe you could take a few courses. Maybe get your forklift license! That is a job that would pay more than retail and certification can be done in one day.
Most important is for you to do some research and figure out what you want to do next do you!
I never did this… never that… I have no skills in this… Listen – I understand, it can be overwhelming when others have great career and plans and you are stuck. But truth is that you can start your better life any day, just stop asking questions, thinking about it, start doing things. Find courses, make different courses they are pretty cheap. Try out few things like programming, front end development etc and check what makes you engaged. Your life will never change if you will sit and ask questions, especially if the next step is so easy and you don’t even need to leave your house.
Look into the trades. Good money less educational. After you learn a trade, contact a union, and they can point you in the right direction.
Damn, it feels like I wrote this LMFAO. Currently working a minimum-wage job I don’t like as well so I applied to college to escape from it and give myself a chance to work a better higher-paying job in the future. Don’t like math either so I’m pretty avoidant of jobs that involve it and don’t have any in-demand tech skills because I’m not interested in Trades, CS, IT, or STEM. I’m majoring in political science because it’s genuinely what interests me and luckily the major isn’t math-heavy at all. Plenty of jobs I could do with that degree like working at a nonprofit, higher education, government, etc. If that doesn’t work out I’ll just do one of those accelerated entry-level job programs like sterile tech processing, 911 dispatcher, etc.
You dont need to be smart to make good money, people out there bringing in 200k hauling trash people are out there bringing in 6 figures picking up dog shit. I make more than plenty of college graduates and im just cleaning pools
I can tell you this: there’s no point in comparing cause there’s always someone who has it better. I’ve got one of those nice indoor office jobs you mentioned. But I look around and see my friends with degrees clearing 6 figures and looking at houses and feel embarrassed that I’m not doing that. But then they turn around and tell me other people in their company make way more and have doctorates and it embarrasses them.
We’re always looking at what we wish we had that we forget to be proud of what we’ve got. You’re gainfully employed, working hard to pay your bills and provide for yourself. That’s nothing to feel bad about, and I bet there are people out there that wish they were in your shoes.
Do. not. ever. be. ashamed. of. doing. work.
Seriously consider trade school. Skilled tradespeople can get good jobs and build really useful things for the rest of us.
Do you have a price checking gun? Well, get yourself a smaller price checking gun, strap it to your ankle, then go on a price checking gun, price killing spree!
Life is what you make it.
My mother taught me one thing while I was growing up which I can’t exactly translate in English, but it is like this:
‘Having a job is not an embarassment’ meaning that no matter what you do as a job, you’re a valuable member of society and you should be proud of who you are, because you have a job. While I was in the military, and we didn’t have exercises to do, our jobs where to clean our toilets, so clean our shit and other people’s, wash clothes, peel potatoes, clean the restaurant, clean the barracks, pick cigarette butts off the ground for hours, even go around on a garbage truck picking up everyone’s garbage. None of us were ashamed of it, and it taught us a lesson in life.
No matter how you’ve grown up (I have a Master’s in Economics as an example and I’m coming from a middle class family) at some point in your life, you may have to clean shit and load the garbage truck with bins full of bloody tampon pads and vomit bags and as long as you have a job, you should be proud of who you are, no matter the job.
That doesn’t mean ‘don’t strive to do something better’. That’s a separate discussion. But never forget that ‘having a job is not an embarassment’.
If your workplace doesn’t give you opportunities to work upwards, just keep changing jobs. There’s no such thing as a dead end job in my opinion.
Not being good at STEM doesn’t mean the end. I was an engineer who realized I wasn’t into technical stuff and pivoted into business development.
You aren’t your job. Forget about titles and try to get the best income to quality of life ratio you can. There isn’t a clear path because the maps people have followed for ages have largely been thrown out since the 2008 recession.
Comparison and negative self talk are the first things that need to go. You need to believe you can do something before actually doing it and you’re placing yourself in the idiot box most C-Suite execs should be in. Stop that.
It’s great you are in community college. Think about what you enjoy doing and also what you tend to be good at. Also make sure you research the types of jobs you can get with a specific major and how far you have to go with your education. You can google a lot of it but once you start really becoming interested in a specific path you could maybe cold message people on LinkedIn or ask your teachers if they know anyone in that field that you can do informational interviews with just to understand what the field is like and if you would like it. I truly think education is a great route to a better career
Edit: oh and by the way, I have a PhD and had a great 6 figure job but recently switched careers and I am still trying to get to a career I actually enjoy. Of course it is nice telling people you have a fancy job title and making tons of money but I wasn’t actually super happy or as interested in my job as I would have hoped. I am currently taking some community college classes here and b there to try to gain skills to try to get to a position I enjoy more. So yes even some of these people with great careers are not happy and need to make changes. Hang in there and keep working at it and you will get there as long as you commit to keep growing and to not just accept being miserable in your job.
Stop working dead end jobs..
How old are you ?
You are making your own money pulling your own weight with honest work.Â
There’s nothing wrong about that.Â
Office jobs aren’t as cool as you might think and people are slowly waking up to that. Have you considered learning a trade? Plumbing, carpentry, electrics something like that? You could make good money and feel really useful with that.
The trades are awesome. Like really.
Electrician, plumber, carpenter, welder, you can even get your CDL and become a truck driver. It’s not the most glamorous profession but people make a decent living doing it.
I’m being serious here- You just have to believe in yourself.
Stop saying you’re dumb and stupid. You create your own reality and that’s not helping. Change your perspective of yourself. You can find a job you like a lot more. You’re not beneath them or anything for working a different job. Just start making moves in the direction you want to move in. Or set the intention to figure out your direction.
You also don’t need to be tech savvy to make money.
cyber security. Believe in yourself, you can do it.
Man, I feel you on this one. Dead-end jobs can really take a toll on your self-esteem. It’s like you’re stuck in this cycle, right? And seeing everyone else doing these cool remote gigs or cushy office jobs just adds salt to the wound. But hey, don’t beat yourself up about not being a tech whiz or a math genius. There are plenty of paths out there, and community college is a great place to explore them. Maybe give IT or healthcare a shot—sounds like solid options. And trust me, you’re not alone in feeling lost. We’ll figure this out together, alright? Keep your head up!