Comment on Which career to pursue?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’m one of the few people here working in the trades and I’m not the tiniest bit worried about being replaced by AI or automation. I also like that at the end of the day I’ve actually manipulated the physical world and objectively made it better. Yeah, I might not be coming up with cure for cancer or influencing world politics buy granny over here has a working faucet now and she’s immensely thankful for it and I also get cookies (not the digital kind)
I’ll work manufacturing until the doors fall off, but trades would be next. Something not at the mercy of mad kings in the USA.
At 35 years old, what should I do? My brain isn’t as elastic now. I failed at welding prior to this. Electricians is oversaturated here. I was thinking HVAC or Plumbing. Those seem like they’ll always be in demand.
I’m plumber by training but started my own bussiness a few years back and now work as a so-called “handyman” Now plumbing is only around 5% of what I do. Painting seems to be in high demand.
Noted. I’ve seen another 2 commenters’ steer towards business and economy. I do have a knack for economy myself. But I didn’t pursue that line of study. In my country, students have to choose 3 branches of study line, after completing a specific class. Science( this includes all the possible subjects related to Science; Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry etc), Commerce( Everything about Economy and finance) and Humanity( Everything about History, facts, philosophy etc).
I’m in such stage of my life where I’m kinda regretting choosing Science. Not that I cannot continue the subject I’m in now, but, I get the gut feeling that, I could do so much more being in finance than being in Science.
Also there is an added hard-built societal perception onto my psychology by my parents and Society. I was determined to study in Science branch by my parents and Society.
I remember having interests over so many different things and subject as a child, but, as I was forcefully being molded into a scientific genius, I forgot which things I had interests on.
I kept blaming myself for not being able to concentrate on my study, I even forgot that I could just explore different interest myself.
And now that I’ve gained a bit clarity over my mind, I’m still psychologically bounded by the societal perception and capitalistic vision.
Blaming myself, I tucked myself inwards so tightly that I can’t make up the courage to consult to someone in real life who is an expert in these career choices.
But I will approach someone soon. The main purpose of this post of mine is to receive all kinds of different opinions and perspectives to let my constrainted mind see the bigger picture and eventually hopping out of my own negative perception and be direct, clear and knowledgeable about my will and vision.
The world is everchanging. If I decide something to be my one and only career now, there will still be way more choices for me to persue. Life is everchanging, choices are too.
No matter what I choose, I’ll have to first accept it myself and work on it. As I will get better at it, I’ll eventually get introduced to other choices that will meet the educational criteria and I’ll be enough intellectual by that point to either shift my work or stay in the same work. This is what I understood from all the comments so far. And thank you personally for enabling me to think this way.
My mom always said "don’t try to decide what you are doing for your life, just decide what you are doing for the next 5 years and commit to doing it for 5 years, you can always change. "
I do accounting, and some sysadmin stuff, I like accounting because you can do it at any company in any industry, or government, or whatever - nearly everyone deals with money. I do not try to go up a career ladder but it’s there if you want it and are good with people, as you move up that gets more important than the numbers!
The kids, a mix of medical, science, military, and one who I think will become an electrician. The oldest who stayed in military and quickly rose through the ranks is rolling in cash, so if you literally have no ethical concerns, that is one way to really rake it in. Second highest earner (and balanced life) is a genetic counselor, so a medical specialist but not doctor.
I think you are taking the right approach, mostly here to say that it’s really ok to just have a job that pays the bills, especially if you like writing, finding something that gives you enough money but also enough time to work on that might be a better life, and really what you are trying to do is build a good life, yes?
Yes. I’m trying to build such a life that when I turn 50, I can still be cognitively active, I can feel proud with all the knowledge, achievement and skills I’ll have built over the years and that I can thank God for being with me in my journey.
zout@fedia.io 3 days ago
I went to trade school in the late eighties/ early nineties to become a plumber. When I finished school in 91 there were no jobs for plumbers, so I did extra schooling to be an electrician. Still could't find a non temp job, so in 96 it was working in a chemical plant as an operator, and studying to eventually get a degree in chemical engineering.
All this just to say that the job market can't be predicted. Working in the trades is great, if the jobs are available. Unfortunately, they usually are among the first jobs to disappear when the job market goes a bit slower.