bit fed up now, no jobs/careers that interest me. how do you choose a career?

adam515

I worked in tech support for financial trading services. After working my back side off doing stupid hours, dealing with horrible customers, working through lunches I got an incurable disease, lost my job after the recession, got another incurable disease from the treatment to treat the first incurable disease and I've been unemployed for several years since.


The other posts offer good advice and suggestions so I'll just say, make sure you leave a job which makes you physically and emotionally unwell, or if the job is full of mean people like mine was, don't put with it like I did. Hell, pretend to work, wing it, blag it until they catch on to you then do a runner applying for other jobs.


If you like travelling or want a big change you could Teach English As A Foreign Language abroad?

bernsteingirl

I would also say, don't get hung up on 'deciding' a career or even the idea of a career itself. It is more important to find things you enjoy doing for now, and do them day by day.
At uni, my friends were all engineers or had similarly obvious vocations. I felt pressure to find something specific too... 10 years later I've realised I probably never will find one thing that is enough to keep me forever. So in the meantime I have used what skills/experience/interests I do have to work overseas, and just be happy on a short term basis. This has served me well as I have fallen into an area - like others - and am probably growing into a role without even realising it, but at the same time keeping my options open. I feel very free and flexible.
With all the jobs I've had, it's opened up way more doors, and even if I'm not earning a lot of money and have no 'direction', I have felt paradoxically very fulfilled or at least happy in almost all my jobs - even if they were not THE job for me in my mind...
Volunteering has opened up many doors for me too.
Good luck!

lozzb

i deal with being in a rut by not forcing myself to think about what i want yet until the light comes on. it was awkward last year as was in a rut after leaving uni. when ideas come in do research and ask people in the business, keep going until someone lets you in.

i have been a factory worker, bar staff at a well known racecourse, holiday rep, events and conference assistant and waitress. i have been a housekeeper as well. i now work for two well known premier league clubs and lots of interesting venues.

my fave job was holiday rep and events/conferences
worst job factory worker and retail assistant for a supermarket (not the supermarket it was the people that made it bad)

Tigsteroonie

I'm mid-40s and haven't had a career. I've been fortunate to be successful in jobs that involve a computer and a lot of data, in a variety of environments. If I've ended up somewhere I don't like (which I've done twice), I'll apply elsewhere. But I don't need a career to validate my life, so I'm not looking for one.

85meowmeow

Can I ask what people's definition of a career vs job is??

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85meowmeow wrote: »

Can I ask what people's definition of a career vs job is??

Career is something you become a master in, you develop and learn, a role you'll have a long or substantial time


Job is just about earning money to be able to pay the bills and sad to say there might be a little I don't care going on


I remember in one interview, I was asked if I was looking for a job or a career? That was only last year.


I said goodbye to someone recently with over 20 years of working at one company, they were always joking they would have got less for murder! - I wanted to ask the secret about how they were never tempted away and done all those years of service, although first up they whispered I had done well to survive working there for the short stint I'd just done, that I was doing the right thing in getting away bless them - got me thinking can you work somewhere so long you take things for granted?