Change of Career
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@spitfiredealer - hope it works out brilliantly - looking forward to seeing you tanned and (even more) fit soon!
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Thank you everyone. I will report back in a few weeks and let you know how a office worker adjusts to hard work!!
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I'm finishing up my degree in supply chain management. I'm looking for employment opportunities everywhere, networking with professors, studying for the APICS CPIM, as well as volunteering with the organization. I really love the subject but I also am very creative. I enjoy creating something I can call my own, that I built, and that reflects my character. I also work retail which sucks! As a side note, I remember in Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers" that in order for a job to be satisfying it has to have the following three characteristics:
1. Autonomy. You get a role in deciding what you do every day. Even if you might not always get decide exactly what you do, you can choose how to get it done.
2. Complexity. It must be an intellectually stimulating challenge. As the book states, it should “engage both your mind and imagination.”
3. Connection Between Effort & Reward. The harder you work, the greater your income or recognition (at least eventually).Also, if you're looking for lifelong learning I would check out edX. Its a great website and the courses are taught by some of the top universities in the world.
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I can relate to what most of you have been saying. I am now 50 and am going back to what I loved in college. I spent my post school years and most of my twenties not knowing what to do. Was nearly thirty before settling down to a mental health nursing career and having a family. Didn't nurse for long before getting into policy for a decade, then into research based jobs. I chucked in office work in January to retrain as a psychotherapist. It's the best decision I think I've ever made. Partner thinks I look ten years younger since I stopped work. If there's something you love doing, just do it if you can take the risk. My kids are grown up and I no longer have to be tied to a monthly pay check. Every day now I feel so lucky to be in this position.
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I appreciate reading threads like this.
Great stuff
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and am going back to what I loved in college.
Me too. Fishing and drinking…..(My first degree was Fishery Science, but I got chucked off that - probably because of the drinking.......)
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Excellent choices, but Giles you're a denim/clothes geek and have turned something you love into a way of making money. You run a fantastic business and part of that is your passion for the products. With time to do other stuff you love doing, like drinking and fishing. You're living the dream, as they say and whilst this isn't always easy it's extremely rewarding.I have met and come across many people who have managed to do this in third wave coffee, in food, in cycling and motorcycling and all sorts of other stuff I'm geeky about as a consumer. My partner is a journalist, she saved up her pocket money when she was twelve, bought a typewriter, taught herself to touch type and made a career doing what she loves.
I also have lots of friends who are not passionate about their jobs, they are extremely unfulfilled and unhappy.
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What did you decide on…… ?
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I just spotted this thread, and it's relevant to my interests, as I'm in the midst of a job change myself. I left my last job last year, and I'm in school full-time studying Industrial Design. For those who don't know what an industrial designer is, they're the ones who designed the shape of your cell phone, your car, that chair you're sitting in, your electric toothbrush, your lamp, your coffee maker, etc. It's a really interesting industry, and I'm really enjoying the educational journey.
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Have you read “The Design of Everyday Things,” @seawolf ?
It’s kind of ruined me. I look for affordances everywhere and get irritated when they’re missing. Like when a pull handle or push plate is on the wrong side of a door.
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Have you read “The Design of Everyday Things,” @seawolf ?
It’s kind of ruined me. I look for affordances everywhere and get irritated when they’re missing. Like when a pull handle or push plate is on the wrong side of a door.
I haven't! But we talk about stuff like this in school a lot.
