Is 35 too old start thinking about what job to do...

RedfordML

and what challenges do people face when starting a new career, new skills and starting at the foot of the ladder, at 35 when people are assumed to be settled, in management roles etc...


I am often told I should have found my career by now, especially as I have a degree and plenty of my friends with and without degrees have found roles they are now successful in!


I do find myself looking at others with career envy. Hopefully soon, I will find myself in a role, which offers job satisfaction and is reasonably well paid!!


Here is to fresh beginnings in 2016!!

DCFC79

Whats your degree in ?

Do you want to go into a role that's linked to your degree ?

I don't think 35 is too old, not everyone is able to find a career that suits them by 35. I'm in the same boat albeit without a degree.

Hope you find a career you like.

RedfordML

Possibly, although its a sports degree and its a heavily saturated market. I didn't go to Uni to study something I wanted to do for a job role, I went to get out of the working situation I was in and I love sport.


Very naïve really, but at the time 23, I didn't look beyond my first year at Uni!


I now see Uni friends in successful careers, wide range, Police, own business, teachers etc but I don't seem to have found my career.


Good luck to you to, not always about qualifications. So of my oldest friends left school with 'nothing' worked there way up in jobs other didn't want to do and are now in management and earning quality money!

Paully232000

35 is not too young to retrain or start a completely different career, even at the bottom of the ladder. You potentially have more years ahead of you working than you have had behind you, so why not?

tgon

You only have one life - reinvent yourself as many times as you like.

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I don't think 35 is old but

Being a new person gets harder, to a point it's unexplainable
Potentially going in on less money, lesser terms as that is what you can expose yourself to in replace for 'training'
last in, first out mentality for while I hate this word "obvious" reasons
Nor do I believe proper skills training exists in today's industries
There are still people out there who think if you've haven't made it by x age then you never going to
Depends on the hip, hop attitudes of the industry you seek to join
Being in the poor house, isn't my idea of fun
I've no idea where you stand with dependants and responsibilities

I've respect for my current boss started as a milk man, now runs a depot, quite fierce at times, puts the graft in, but ain't half got very old fashioned views, have to keep reminding myself I'm probably considered the 'apprentice' lol! It's hard when you were nearly top of your game in another industry sometimes to then be the Junior.

Why_oh_why

I seriously hope not because I'm 38 and in the process of closing my company I have no idea what to do now but 'hope that there is still hope'.

SailorSam

You hear people say that todays job market isn't like the time you left school and went to work in the factory or office, up the road and you were there until you got a gold watch the day you retired. Today people can change jobs and even careers, over and over again.

Mersey_2

I'd say 35 is a perfect age for a career change.


Good Luck with whatever you decide.

pinpin

Of my 300 or so friends on facebook, i'm just about the only one without a 'career'. It sucks, but i've never had a clue what to do, so it didn't make sense to go to college and then try to go to university.
In hindsight, I wish I had just got some sort of qualificaiton....anything!

Instead, I've just spent the decade or so since leaving school doing minimum wage work. I've had jobs, but i'm often reminded that I don't have a 'career'
I feel rather inferior.
A decent percentage of my friends genuinely earn about 5-6 times what I get!! lol

Hopefully it's never too late, but I guess I could easily die before knowing what I want to do for a 'career'.

Good luck, OP!

Topcat1982

So what would be your ideal job?