Career change - how did you manage it?
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Having left uni with a mechanical engineering degree, i had several jobs as a draughtsman before getting bored of it and looking for a change.
My missus convinced me to apply for a job that I never thought I'd get and after 2 strange interviews where the MD and I spent the whole time chatting about cars, house prices and very little about work, I got the job.
So I guess my advice would be that you need to aim high and apply for everything.
My missus convinced me to apply for a job that I never thought I'd get and after 2 strange interviews where the MD and I spent the whole time chatting about cars, house prices and very little about work, I got the job.
So I guess my advice would be that you need to aim high and apply for everything.
Republik said:
I'm interested to know. I want to head in the direction of more design based jobs rather than being involved with technical drawing as I am now. Have any of you successfully managed to change your career and how?
I am currently in the process of changing my career to what I really want to do at the ripe old age of 35. My advice would be to decide what it is that you want to do, and then study, study and study to gain the relevant qualifications and try and get a job at the bottom of the ladder to try and gain some experience. I am doing 3 courses a week while doing a full time job so it euqautes to 17 hour days but next September I will be going to Uni to study computer forensics. If you decide to study then don't worry about your job too much, just get something easy that pays the bills and concentrate on what it is you want to do. Maybe not be any use to you but this is just my opinion..... Specify your goal or ambition, figure out what you need to achieve it, then work like mad to get it..sounds simpler than it is but then thats life..Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff