Consider your career carefully (employer, job, companies, pay)
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I've been at my present job for a little over 2 years and I'm already bored with it and ready to move on.
I can't even begin to imagine 30.
I think most times it all comes down to money. I mean if your at a job for a decade making 65k it probably isn't going to make sense to drop back down to 30k as an entry level plumber or something when you have a family and whatnot.
At least if you can get promoted or do something different everyday that would help. I've seen (or heard really since I'm still young) people do the exact same job for years on end.
I work in a warehouse now and my sole job is on a forklift. Pretty much the same day in and out. I loove when they throw me on a different piece of equipment or a different department. Something different at least from the norm. Hell I would like if everyday I walked in and they said I was doing something different every single day. Call me the warehouse Bich....at least I will enjoy my day!
Let's pause for a minute to wonder - why aren't we being told about all of this? Simply put, it isn't good business for people to know this and come face to face with it on a regular basis. [/b]
Who isn't being told? Just about everything you have described is common knowledge among most people. High school and college students today are told upfront that most of the technologies they'll need to know when they graduate haven't even been invented yet. Most people under 40 understand that they will have several career changes throughout their lives. I realize that you have good intentions by attempting to facilitate a conversation about this, but you haven't shared anything new. It's the Late Babyboomers who feel they are too old to change careers yet are too young for SS benefits who seem to not understand this information.
If people don't know this, they need to yank their heads from wherever they may be lodged. None of this is a secret. Life should be about continuing to progress and grow. The rapid pace of our world forces those who want to stay ahead of the curve to continue career development efforts. Those unwilling to do so will be left behind.
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I've been at my present job for a little over 2 years and I'm already bored with it and ready to move on.
I can't even begin to imagine 30.
While I have only been at the same job for up to 17 years, the way to keep it interesting is to get some outside education/training and move up and/or laterally to do something more responsible or different at the same company. Staying 30 or more years is great for retirement income, as well as accumulation of sick leave and vacation time.
If I was in high school today, I would focus on either technology or a trade. There will always be a need for welders, technicians, mechanics and the pay is good. Or the medical field, nurses, anesthesiology, specialists are in high demand and will continue to be.
A lot of people act like it's next to impossible to make a decent living nowadays and that no career field is worth pursuing. That's a load of crap.
I'm an accountant. I just got an 8% raise about a month ago and the company I work for has hired some additional accountants recently. BTW, our jobs haven't been replaced by a computer. We just use computers now to make our jobs easier. The computer can't audit by itself as there are many, many issues that we encounter on a daily basis that require human judgment. The number of brains needed to do the work has not gotten smaller.
I would love to agree with you and today may be the case but expert systems are coming. It is enviable.
Actually, I can think of something which doesn't take much money to train for that you can do with a computer at home. Many people who have trained in medical billing have taken a somewhat divergent path in becoming patient financial advocates. This would be a freelance career in which you would learn medical billing and then begin a small company
Patient financial advocates use their understanding of billing procedures to reduce huge hospital bills or work out more equitable repayment plans for their clients. For example, say a woman finds she has cancer and has to spend a long periods of time checking in and out of the hospital. This drains her savings and her energy and finally she loses her job. She is left with $300,000 in unpaid medical bills. Your job would be to advocate on her behalf with the hospital billing department. Hospitals are so happy to receive any payment in cases like this that they are willing to reduce their fees by quite a lot. Another area that is lucrative is hospital billing mistakes - you can screen patients bills for redundancies or errors and reduce their bill in that way as well. It's not a career for everyone, but if you enjoy autonomy, don't mind learning a new skill and would like a job that truly helps people, this is in my opinion a pretty good choice with low overhead. You would be paid by your client and you would have to work out terms before hand, but this is becoming a more established field and I'm sure you can search the internet for typical fees.
Thing is, employers don't like seeing multiple skills on one resume which is retarded. I take pride in the fact that I can do a lot, but apparently its bad to employers if you continue build skills in all areas apposed to only the one you work in.
IMO, its valuable to have developed hands on skills as well as building skills with current technology. On top of that, for some reason a lot of my friends (i'm 26 btw) do not want hard labor jobs. I'm the only one who gets a kick out of it.
For the past 10 years, the U.S. population has risen 30 million, yet non farm payrolls have remained largely unchanged. That about says it right there.
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