#CareerChange #TechIndustry #Healthcare #LawEnforcement #Finance #RemoteWork
Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever felt like you’re stuck in a rut in your current job and dream about switching to something completely different? 🤔 Well, that’s me right now. I’ve been working as a systems analyst in the tech industry for the past 7 years, making a comfortable salary and enjoying the perks of remote work. But here’s the thing – I’m bored out of my mind. 💻😩
I’m seriously considering making a career change into healthcare, nursing, law, construction, finance, or law enforcement for a more exciting and fulfilling work experience. However, whenever I mention this to my friends, they think I’m crazy for wanting to leave a stable tech job.
Has anyone else experienced this dilemma of wanting to leave a tech job for something more stimulating? Have you successfully transitioned into a different industry and found it to be a rewarding experience? Or is this just a case of the grass always being greener on the other side?
I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences on this topic. Let’s discuss and share insights on switching industries and finding fulfillment in our careers. 🌟
Possible Solutions:
– Explore job shadowing opportunities in different industries to get a feel for the work environment
– Consider pursuing online courses or certifications to gain skills in your desired field before making the switch
– Seek advice from professionals who have successfully transitioned between industries for valuable insights
Grass is always greener.
While you might be bored, that seems easily fixed by playing games or finding something else to do at home.
Many of the jobs you suggested, you never sit down. You are on your feet for 50-60hrs a week.
Another chunk of the jobs you suggested will require you to go to school to get into those careers. Again this is something you could do online while you are bored.
Construction is always ready for new hires, it’s a great field that is constantly keeping you on the road. You’ll just have to surrender a lot of luxuries. But if you can hang in there the construction industry is booming. Great place to make fast cash too.
Maybe look at this as more of a question of what does it take for you to be personally fulfilled and happy? The careers you’re describing are high stimulation, high energy, and very popular with people who need that in their lives because of how their brains are wired. I’m one of them, which is how I landed in the freelance photo world.
I would love the financial stability of a remote 9-5 tech job right now. Maybe look before you leap and see what kind of salary you could expect in one of those industries, and if the change in lifestyle would be worth it.
I’m in the same boat. Do you have ADHD? Desk jobs with meaningless boring tasks are hell for ADHD folks. If you’re like me and want to cry every day after work, look into switching careers and start doing whatever you need to get hired. Really do research, because there will be tradeoffs.
Everyone is different, and remote cozy desk jobs can be amazing for some and horrible for others.
what’s it like being a systems analyst? what do you do? is this more along applications administration, managing user permissions, etc or this is deeper than that where you have to use Linux?
Hahaha it seems like a humans paradox. Most people want to have that „thing“ which they dont have atm. Same to me. I want a job, fully remote so that i can work from different locations and relocate from my current country or move more to the country side while still working remote.
How did your friend transition from nursing to tech?
Remote work isn’t for everyone. I was remote since before Covid gave everyone a taste of WFH and it was not for me at all. Would much prefer a short commute to engage in person with my colleagues than to sit in the basement in front of a screen all day.
Tech work is boring. I had one job in IT as an entry level job so I left. Luckily, I made shitty money so it wasn’t a hard decision (barely made $25 an hour).
Hopefully you have money saved up, invested, & debt free. It’s hard to find a job that pays close to 6 figures. Make yoir exit plan strategic. You have it good but I know tech is soul sucking and boring.
It depends heavily on the industry but being on your feet and actively working can get physically exhausting at times so transitioning from that to a more computer-based role has definitely improved my well-being.
I wouldn’t consider anything you listed but law, as the others all take a huge toll on you for less compensation. After law school you will be able to make your own assessment if you are still up for reinventing your wheel.
Don’t do it.
Healthcare is pretty dope. Job security and plenty of jobs.
CRNA here and my salary is 300k. I don’t have to worry about climbing the ladder. The work is rewarding and I learn something new everyday.
I’m in the same boat – personal finance – Spent 3 years in the industry, almost 6 years trying to get the job I now have… Now that I have it I kinda hate it.
Applied to a community college to snag a 2nd bachelor’s, even if I end up making less – later in life my pursuit is less about making money and more about chasing happiness. 🤷
Edit: Grass is always greener, but I honestly say I started in personal finance (About have my CFP) to chase the $100k-$200k salary. This “entry” role I now have at $70k has me thinking the stress may not even worth it at $100k… I could focus on physical fitness/health (my actual passion which I realized too late) and be happy at $70-$90k. 🤷 Just want to NOT carry work home, hang with the wife more, etc.
Yes your crazy, next question
I gave up a remote tech job recently to work a much harder job that requires a lot of in-person days. I felt that it was good for my career progression and offered experience with different technologies that I wasn’t going to get in my current role for a few years.
Do you think there are in-person or hybrid opportunities you might be more interested in? Depending on your skills, you might be able to work on tech that is adjacent to your current skills that also push you towards less boredom while moving your career forward.
OP your job description sounds ripe for a permanent layoff to a 2nd or 3rd world overseas company. If this is true then yes I would be looking to start over somewhere else ASAP. If false, yeah just stay there don’t ever leave.
Several segments of Engineering & Construction for the built environment has been on fire the past 20 years and will continue to be on fire the next 20 years at least. Obviously your skill set will not translate over you’ll have to start over at the bottom just like any other new industry, but if you’re young you have time on your side to easily make the transition.
I feel you bruh.. it can get boring but I kind of find a personal project I want and go balls deep when real work is slow.. it’s definitely gotten me better at programming and be able to build new projects… although still lonely 😬
What you described is basically all corporations. I worked in the food industry (brand manager for ice cream) and it had all the same issues of sitting in front of a computer, politics, cliques etc. but sometimes we’d eat and study ice cream during the work day so that was fun!
But having a desk job is also one of the best possible lifestyles. My friends in healthcare are often drowning- on their feet all day and paid very little. My life is extremely easy compared to theirs!
You should be over $100K so it’s time to make moves.
You’re definitely not crazy for wanting to leave your tech job. It’s probably boring and unfulfilling.
My advice? All those fields you mentioned are super fulfilling but they all have unique brands of bullshit. Research the current downsides for them and decide on what you’re willing to put up with.
Honestly? You just seem ignorant as to the stress involved in other jobs, and maybe you forgot what it’s like to make less than six figs.
You’re currently sitting in the most comfortable position possible, romanticizing what it would be like for you to work a lower paid more stressful job.
You’re not crazy you’re just out of touch and if you need to work a shittier job for a while to remember that idk whatever go off and do that
I left my tech job to become a pilot and can tell you. Stay where you are, the politics never leave from job to job and it’s best to stick to the beast you know rather than the one you don’t.
At least for the construction bit you mentioned, are you prepared to wake up at 4 am 5 days per week to work 10 hours days in a building with no heat in the winter and no ac in the summer while surrounded by some of the most vile people you’ve ever met? Oh you wanted to become a journeyman in the trade you chose? Well that takes 2-4 years of night schooling depending on what it is that you have to do while also working. You’ll most likely get started at the $15-$20/hr range to start and will get incremental raises of $1-$3 for every semester of schooling you complete. Wanna take 4-6 years to MAYBE get back to making the same amount of money you do now while sitting at a desk? Shut the fuck up honestly and go back to lamenting being bored.
I (45M) was miserable at my tech job. I was making just over $70k. I finally had enough and quit.
I tried and failed at a couple ideas. I tried to go back to tech. After 300-400 applications over several months, I finally gave up and took a job at a tire shop. I now make around $50k. Because of inflation, cost of living increases,and my landlord selling the house I was renting, I ended up moving in with my parents at age 45. I work in the heat and work much harder for my money. I’m completely miserable.I’m still sending out applications into the void. But, based on my experience, I don’t recommend leaving until you figure out what you really want. I’d give up one of my lungs to have your job right now.
Dude…we’re (me too) in tech. You can work in the healthcare industry as a systems analyst and make decent money, you don’t have to start from square one.
Tech is the only industry that pays well relative to the amount of education required. Law and medicine will take 4+ years and expensive education before you can make money. Tech you just need a decent degree and a few certs to make 60k+ a year.
Talk to people from the industry you are considering moving to.