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Been in Supply Chain / Frieght Forwarding for 6 years now and to be honest I've just had enough. The job is boring and the pay is poor.
I've considered trying to get a job in Supply Chain on the manufacturing side. Had several interviews but no success because I've had no experience in manufacturing. Tried the analyst route as have experience in reporting but seems not enough experience and Excel skills for an analyst role.
Kind of stumped what to do next. Are there any careers that are easy to get into and in demand (office based) right now after doing a course I could do after work maybe??
I've considered trying to get a job in Supply Chain on the manufacturing side. Had several interviews but no success because I've had no experience in manufacturing. Tried the analyst route as have experience in reporting but seems not enough experience and Excel skills for an analyst role.
Kind of stumped what to do next. Are there any careers that are easy to get into and in demand (office based) right now after doing a course I could do after work maybe??
nought2sixty said:
Ever thought about software development?
You can learn in your own time and the industry is absolutely massive and only getting larger. I spent six months teaching myself and got a dev job about a month ago.
Hows the best way of learning it. Did you do a course after work or pay for an online one?? Do you need to be good at computers to start with??You can learn in your own time and the industry is absolutely massive and only getting larger. I spent six months teaching myself and got a dev job about a month ago.
Sorry for all the questions just generally interested.
nought2sixty said:
Ever thought about software development?
You can learn in your own time and the industry is absolutely massive and only getting larger. I spent six months teaching myself and got a dev job about a month ago.
Which aspect specifically?You can learn in your own time and the industry is absolutely massive and only getting larger. I spent six months teaching myself and got a dev job about a month ago.
I buy software and professional services for large organisations, and I see most skills as a commodity in this area. Professional services firms offshore the heavy lifting. Programme managing and business expertise (consultancy), for example, or anything involving more creative aspects, are more valuable skills. Eastern Europe and India are cheap sources of basic development and programming skills. It's crowded.
If your job can be detailed in a manual, it's either going to be automated or commoditised (i.e. low pay and security). Jobs with creativity, ambiguity and problem solving are the ones that are valued.
Niches such as cyber security, cloud or automation enablement have better opportunities in the tech space in my opinion.
Edited by silent ninja on Friday 24th August 15:51
donnie85 said:
Hows the best way of learning it. Did you do a course after work or pay for an online one?? Do you need to be good at computers to start with??
Sorry for all the questions just generally interested.
Give FreeCodeCamp.org a try. It's a series of interactive lessons that you can do in a browser. It's not the best course there is but it's completely free and it'll give you a good taster to see if it's for you. Also check out r/learnprogramming and r/webdev, loads of good resources on there. There's also a site called Udemy where you can pick up amazing video courses for 10-15 quid each.Sorry for all the questions just generally interested.
You don't necessarily need to be good with computers to be a successful developer. It depends exactly on what type of development you want to do. Web development doesn't need a lot of computer science, embedded programming needs a hell of a lot and there's tons in between.
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