HELP: Need a career change. Do you have a job you love?
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free skin care · Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:24 pm

sweet28 wrote:

I am completely torn between staying in my current job/industry or jumping off the deep end to try something very new. Confused

I have a background education in biology and I've worked in labs and with computers (dealing with research data). I am so tired of it and desperately need a change! Problem is I don't know where to start or what else is out there for me.

In the past, I was a very shy and quiet girl so people thought I was well suited for research and lab work. Working in the lab means dealing more with 'things' and data rather than people. Now that I am older (in my 30's) I don't find it very satisfying. I am a different person and much more 'social' than before. Plus, I really don't want to be working in a lab (or maybe even the industry) for the rest of my life. I'm feeling very depressed about this. I always thought I knew what I wanted in my career and I went after it. Now I find myself lost at 32 years old and possibly starting over again in my career.

I want to find a career that makes me want to wake up in the morning and that I feel passionate about. I am looking for something that will inspire me again. I am willing to change industries and learn new things if it is a rewarding career path.

I would like to know what inspires people on this forum and those who...

1) love what they do (job/career) and why
2) how they got started
3) credentials/education needed

or anything else you would like to add.

I really appreciate this and thank you for reading my post.

I think it's absolutely wonderful that you decided to listen to that little voice inside you. I think finding a career in something you love is the one of the ultimate goals for most people while here. That and finding the perfect mate for them. That being said, not many people realize that goal for several reasons. Which is sad because everyone should be so lucky.

I think you need to ask your-self what makes you the happiest and see if you can make a career out of it. I wish there was an outline I could give you; that if followed, will lead you to where you want to be.

I totally understand your depression and fear but 32 is still very very young.
If you have this calling in you; I think you should follow it.

This song always jump starts me...

"Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say"-P.F.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

free skin care · Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:33 pm

I'm definitely one to say follow your heart. I have had countless jobs in my life because my view was, that if I was not happy, life was too short to stay where I was. And I've never had a single regret - even when I took advantage of an opportunity that was too good to be true only to find out it was. It could be that you really did love your job at one point but now you've outgrown it. It's called growth, change and evolution. It was suitable at that point in your life but now that you are searching for something else, I say go for it. Better to risk and try then to look back at life 20 years from now thinking "what if". You may find something you really love or you may discover everything else sucks and you really love your lab work and go back to it - but at least you'll know! Take a leap and trust faith - you'll be glad you did. There are no mistakes, no regrets, just chances, risks and lessons.

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