Rec | YOUR DREAM JOB MAY FIND YOU

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Rec'd on 😃 IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A DREAM JOB ANYMORE?

I am one of those lucky fucks who loves their job and I am here to tell you it is possible. I don’t do glamorous work and I would hazard a guess that most people wouldn’t want my job — even I didn’t five years ago! My 20 year old self would never have dreamed about the career path I ended up on. My job is challenging, my colleagues are interesting and kind, and every day I get to do my best (and I always get to try again tomorrow). What more could I want? I recommend pursuing challenge, mentorship, craft, and mastery in *whatever* you do and let the rest take shape. You definitely have aptitudes you haven’t discovered yet. Let them flourish!

@cilantro

19h ago

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@yagababa

wow this is a really awesome hopeful answer thank you!

13h ago

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You picked a tough career choice riddled with zero aging out, nepotism, and freelancing

I mean your pre frontal cortex isn’t even developed and you’re trying to layout a 10 year path. If you’re really passionate about it you’ll find a way. Or go corporate and fund your love that way. Dreams don’t need to happen now, it’ll be a good goal for you when you’re working alongside people whose only goal is to provide shareholder value.

@snorlaxonzinc

Mar 26, 2024

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It’s time to take inventory

I don’t have any degree and in another life I worked in restaurants and at CVS. Customers would grill me about my career aspirations and straight up beg me to go to college. I got sick of it pretty quickly and sat down and asked myself what I would want in a workplace and what skills I had that I could use to do something else. I had some freelance experience and used that to enter my current field and continued pursuing organic opportunities for growth and learning. About a year ago I started working at a company that prioritizes employee development and internal promotion and I’m in the process of gaining enough experience and connections to be able to do something new again! I definitely think it’s possible for people who don’t have a bachelor’s degree to find these opportunities; you just have to be strategic about it and get your foot in the door at the right places. There are so many transferable skills you gain in retail and food service that are beneficial in other professional fields like communication, multi-tasking, attention to detail, etc. So you can take those and add them to whatever skills you may have gained at your current job. Ask yourself what it is that you’re better at than anybody else, the things you would want and definitely not want in a workplace, the kind of tasks you like doing, and kind of guide your search from there. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you’re lesser than others just because you have less formalized education than they do and remember that people hire likable people they want to be around—even that will take you far! best of luck! 🍀

@taterhole

Sep 5, 2024

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not Letting a career become a major part of your identity

growing up i felt compelled to have a job that i felt contributed something "important" to the world. there is a lot of background pressure that a career should be a "calling" or something you feel so passionate about that they couldn't not do it for a living. a really useful piece of advice i got a little over a year ago (meant to apply to scientific academia but applies just as much to humanities, arts, etc.): jobs that use the language of a "calling" do so to exploit labor. if your job is your passion, why shouldn't you burn the candle at both ends until you have nothing left but passive indifference (or, even worse, resentment) for something you once thought interesting enough to devote your entire life to? i think a bit about what my life would be like if i just did undergrad in computer science and got an avg boring programming job. lots of choice about where you live, pays pretty well, work is intellectually interesting enough, and it actually ends at 5pm so you have enough free time to explore other things you enjoy. a few friends from college chose this path and it definitely has its downsides, but its worth considering, esp. if you are really uncertain about what you actually want out of your life.