#HelpMeFindMyPath #CareerAdviceNeeded #StrugglingToFindMyCalling
Hey everyone, have you ever felt stuck in a rut when it comes to finding the right career path? 🤔 I know I have, and I could really use some advice.
I’ve tried applying for different jobs, but the ones I’m interested in always seem to require experience that I don’t have. And the ones I don’t hate as much? Well, I didn’t get hired for lack of experience either. It’s like a never-ending cycle!
Even though I have my Associates in Liberal Arts and Sciences, I still can’t seem to find anything that truly sparks my interest. The only thing I’m really passionate about is becoming an author, but I know I need a stable job to support myself.
So, what am I supposed to do? 🤷♀️ Here are some thoughts that might help:
– Consider internships or volunteer work in fields that interest you to gain experience 🌟
– Network with professionals in industries you’re curious about to learn more and potentially find opportunities
– Look for entry-level positions that offer training or development programs to help you gain the experience you need
I know it can be tough, but don’t lose hope! Finding the right career path takes time, patience, and perseverance. Let’s help each other out and share our experiences and tips in the comments below. 💪 #CareerJourney #FindingYourPath
Start a MLM selling voodoo or just be an influencer and sell “self help” books. Or if you wanna be extreme about it, go be a priest.
More practically though, just fake it till you make it. I’ve used made up experience at a business that shut down not long after I graduated and they can’t/didn’t bother to verify my experience and just took my resume for it.
You don’t have to do what you love. That’s a lot of baloney. I assume you want to pay your bills, eat, and have a place to live and some money beyond that for fun stuff. Well, in order to do what you want to do, you need to do what you don’t want to do. If you want stuff, you probably will have to do something aka a job to get that stuff. So, if you can find a job that has some things about it that you can tolerate, endure or even not mind or enjoy some aspects of it, then that’s a good thing. So, the reality is most all of us have to earn an income to live. If you don’t want to live under a bridge, then try to find something that isn’t terrible. Maybe you like fixing things like plumbing. Some like using those kinds of skills to solve a problem. Maybe you would rather work in an office and file papers, etc. Kind of decide what kind of job is more suitable and look for that.
I chased this for a long time. Was determined to find the career I loved. Eventually, I open my own business doing the thing that I thought I loved, and I ended up, hating it, and I sold it.
Then I met my wife, and I learned that a career and the money made from it makes it more possible to live a certain kind of life that we enjoy together. I like to be able to leave work at work and not bring it home with me, Travel, vacations, camping equipment, our animals, date nights in the city, planning for a kid, etc.
You have to weigh the pros and cons, and be prepared to have your priorities change. A nest egg is beneficial.
I’d go for whatever job allows you to stack cash so you can afford the things you love to do, and plan for the future.
The only thing you have to decide is if you would rather work outside, with your hands, with people, or with computers.
I also want to be an author. That’s why I went into teaching. I thought it would give me insight, experience, and the kind of schedule that allowed me to write during the summers. That was total bullshit. Let me tell, you teachers who work other jobs and find time to write novels are super human.
Anyway, I left teaching and struggled to find something to pay the bills for years. I wrote freelance and made ok money but not enough to get me to my goals. That’s when I found a cushy office job by accident. I enjoy what I do on a mental level but I’m not passionate about it and I don’t “love” it the way I love literature. I find it tolerable, though, because it’s not physically demanding and I work for a super small company where I don’t have to deal with a lot of people. Plus, I am not constantly exhausted when I go home and I can write and travel a little.
Set aside the idea that you need to find a job that you LOVE to pay the bills. All you really need is grit and determination. Being an adult means doing things you don’t enjoy doing because you know they need to be done, like cleaning the toilet, doing the dishes, or getting up in the morning and going to a job that doesn’t make you fall over with excitement. And then pursue your passions in your free time. It will be easier to do this if you don’t have kids, btw.
I did a degree in something I enjoyed. Found jobs in the field, and ended up hated the field all together. Now I work in pest control and I’m like..well this isn’t so bad and it pays pretty well.
Find something you can tolerate, then figure out your next steps. I find fulfillment being an educator and helping people, so I’m going to aim to be a public school teacher. But if I work pest control forever, it’s still fine screw it. You’ll find something you can tolerate and pay the bills 🙂
Doing what you love is a myth. That’s what you’re personal time is for. Do what you hate the least, and provides the most money to make that personal time the best it can be.
There are millions of memes, songs, articles, videos about work sucking. It’s the way of things, and will be until we reach the big reset. 🙂
What do you like about “being an author?” Do you write on your spare time?
Drawing an assumption from wanting to write books, there are good jobs for people who can write well. Levels of government, big corporations, hire comms, policy, correspondence roles that mostly write and edit. Technical writing, UX writing, marketing/SEO.
If I understand your post correctly, you have an associates in liberal arts, but you applied as a plumbing apprentice and at an engineering firm? I have been under the impression that in order to get in on the apprentice level, you need to have gone to a trade school for what you are applying to. I guess that may vary from state to state, but an apprentice plumber is a licensed plumber in my state, who works under the supervision of an experienced plumber for a number of years, and usually an engineering firm wants you to have some educational credentials to get in on their entry level positions.
I don’t think you are being realistic about what entry level looks like for you. If you hate plumbing or engineering less, maybe go to school for those things so you can get in on the ground floor. It sounds like you want something good to happen for you, but you don’t actually want to do anything to make it happen.
Find something that you tolerate and that can pay the bills
As a kid I wanted to be a doctor but I decided against it in undergrad. As an adult I feel like I don’t have a dream job, more like dream people.
I don’t care what I do (within reason) as long as the people I work with are incredible. The example I always give people is watching pain dry, pretty boring right? If you watch paint dry with people you don’t know well or get along with, then it’ll be miserable. Watch it dry with people you work well with and enjoy their company? Will be the best thing ever.
I currently work in government, but my favorite job was at a call center for a credit union, not because of the job, but because of the people.
If you can’t do the stuff you love, do the stuff you can tolerate and if that fails, than do the thing you hate, that will give you the experience do do the thing you can tolerate.
Do what you can tolerate to work full time for. This is a means to do what you actually love. If you have expensive lifestyle, then you gotta do what it takes to find a tolerable job that pays well. If not, then you can find a job that has less requirements and pays you less.
These people saying “do what you love is a myth” are insane and unhappy. If you want to be an author, write some books and publish them. If they’re successful— great. If not, work harder on them. Create content about writing. There are so many ways to do what you want. If you live with your parents get a day job in the interim while you work. You dont have to go push tables to make a living, you can do anything you want to do.
Get over it like the rest of us
You apply again, and again, and again. Call up a plumber and ask how to get into the union, call up another sheet metal place, and so on.
Most people don’t really want to work. We just enjoy being able to buy food and all that jazz.
You don’t have to live a job, but if you hate every job, as you seem to, it is going to show. No one wants to hire someone who has no real interest in working.
Don’t take doing what you love as in a dream job or something like that, and don’t expect to love every aspect of a job. Instead, when you are working, what tasks do you find yourself hating the least and why? When you narrow down traits you value in a job, you’ll find something you “love”.
Example: if you value travel and enjoy talking to people, then sales could be a great avenue. If you value being outdoors, there’s plenty of careers that require field work. If you value creativity, there’s avenues like website building, interior design, and architecture.
I had the same dream of being an author as you, but for me I’m too motivation-based to write professionally and copy is hard for me. If you can be dilligent and disciplined, copywriting is a viable path.
Get a meth habit, then you won’t give a fuck ..or suck it up, get a job doing anything, something until you get the chance to move on and up
You sound like an early 20s young man and seem to be flip flopping a lot here. If you want to be a plumber there is 100% a way just call around plumbers ask for some part time beginner work, they need the help just find one who is likeable and well-rounded enough to actually be able to work for.
Also as for the plumbers union refusing you for an apprenticeship, the quiet part they don’t mention is a lot of glamorous unionized job gatekeep beginner positions for anyone not a family or friend of exisiting members.
The engineering thing is hit or miss sometimes you need formal education in the subject unless you find certain positions where you can become an engineer by trade.
Writing is difficult for a career. You should still pursue it but be aware you probably wont make much writing creatively. A lot of novelists now need to substitute marketing with tiktok. If it’s any interest to you my brother was able to get a good gig as journalist in the air-force If you’re looking for military.
Other than that don’t stress too hard your first couple years in the work force is supposed to be the time you figure out what’s best for you. So stay ambitious but it come to you soon enough
For the record, I wouldn’t put that you have a Liberal arts degree on your resume because that’s like a running joke among conservative types of people. You’re also giving off overqualified vibes to others. My recommendation is to tailor your resume for the job you’re applying for. Also, you’re more likely to get a callback from handing out resumes in person than online. There are temp agencies too if worse comes to worse, but it’s better to get a job with the companies that contract hiring out to said temp agencies.
Start the revolution.
I got a Google certification in project management, launched a consulting business, busted my ass for years, and then sold it.
I’m now launching my next business, which is a gaming company. We’re aiming to purchase a literal warehouse to host gaming tournaments.
We want to have the largest gaming facility in the world.
Care less.
If the one you hate the least is lucrative…pursue that…..otherwise it’s the cliche “start your own business” line
Very few people “love” their job….but it’s a means to pursue what they love. Work to live vs living to work. Just find something “tolerable” and brings in decent money (harder these days for sure)
I always get confused when the interviewer ask me what my goals are and what I see myself doing in 10 years and why you want to work here. Sir, I need the money. You are offering a job. Ten years from now, I will be working.
In the same vein don’t turn a hobby into a job if you do something you love too much into a job you will hate it
Getting experience is challenging. I got my career started as a volunteer while in college. I worked volunteering for a youth movement, and I did that for five years, I loved it. After that, I landed a job at a private school.
But, I have never made that much money, so what do I know
Accept one anyway.
Either suck it up and deal with it like an adult, or collect Welfare