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In the thread below, tell us when you knew it was time to change careers?
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On my 30th birthday when I was celebrating but felt dead inside because I hated my former job so much :D
For me - it wasn't really career change, I am just close connected to IT most of my life, so yeah.
It was late last year when I started to notice I wasn't happy at the job I was doing and decided to have a career change.
I'm not looking to change careers, just upskill so I can continue to grow!
Never ever change. This is the best career life even though I fell into the hell of bugs๐.
There was no career to change from, I was studying while working part time. For me it was time (at the age of 32) to finally find something I really enjoy doing everyday. I am glad I found my way into tech.
Reading my teaching philosophy I wrote in college. When I was revamping my resume in 2013, I found my philosophy and read it over. As I read it, I realized I felt completely different about my philosophy. That got me thinking about where I was with my career and that's when I realized teaching wasn't the right fit for me.
I do not have to change careers. Found myself here and I am not going anywhere.
I went to school for civil engineering, and loved the iterative technical problem solving aspect of it during school.
Once I got into the workforce, it became all about implementing standards/manuals that were developed 10-20 years ago. It wasn't innovative, and I felt stuck and stagnant. I was no longer tackling complex iterative & innovative problems, and rather just reading and employing standard over and over and over again.
I craved the dopamine bursts from problem solving! Started self-teaching on the side, and after a few months decided it was time to leap!
All I wanted to do was design/develop things. I kept looking for ways to implement those interests into my old job. Eventually I just realized I would be happier doing that type of work all the time, so I made the jump!