What do you do?

[kevost]

I'm in mortgages, I would suggest any other career path.

Same. Hence the reason for the thread.

 

[Ext. 55]

My primary job function is to convince people to hire my company to build their project, and then spend several months budgeting the project only to come to the conclusion that they can't afford to build it.

So you suck at sales? I'm confused.

 

[Bootleg11]

I'm a landman/project manager in the energy business. We provide "land services" for oil, gas and renewable energy companies.

I also coach football at the high school/middle school in my town.

A ton of well paying careers in the renewable energy sector FWIW.

 

[RedSeaRising]

So you suck at sales? I'm confused.

That's what I'm good at actually. Just a tough time in construction, developers & contractors have finally reached an impasse where there isn't free-flowing cheap money to justify higher construction costs, so things are in a weird place right now

 

[ChocaEgg]

Considering changing career paths at the ripe young age of 36.

What do you do and can I do it? Full disclosure, I'm greedy and like money. Does your career path have anything to do with your degree (if you have one)? I'm just mostly curious about what everyone does.

I worked in telecom/IT for 13 years and made a change about 3 years ago. Considering going back or making another change.

Sorry if this has been done, didn't feel like searching for it.

What kind of IT job did you have?

 

[Alcaus]

So you suck at sales? I'm confused.

I wish industrial sales had the close rate of OnlyFans

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

In college I ran a fireworks store, and that would've been a great settling job. hard to beat getting paid to play Skyrim in the winter.

 

[RedSavage]

I'm a financial advisor. One of my co-workers came from the oil fields in North Dakota prior. Definitely a career that can be done with minimal background if you have a foot in door with someone and get good training. I say you need a foot in the door with someone because it takes a good amount of time to build connections and be able to build a book of business that you can live off of. That's why most people don't succeed as advisors. The big companies churn and burn employees.

Personally, if I were to make a career change, i'd look at computer science. There are jobs everywhere for coding and the like and you can learn it in a couple years from my understanding. Plus, it pays quite well.

 

[Ext. 55]

That's what I'm good at actually. Just a tough time in construction, developers & contractors have finally reached an impasse where there isn't free-flowing cheap money to justify higher construction costs, so things are in a weird place right now

Ah...construction. Yeah that makes sense then. Ugh. It's a weird time right now. Hang in man!

 

[Ext. 55]

I wish industrial sales had the close rate of OnlyFans

True dat! Life would be goooood

 

[Frogsker30]

That's what I'm good at actually. Just a tough time in construction, developers & contractors have finally reached an impasse where there isn't free-flowing cheap money to justify higher construction costs, so things are in a weird place right now

Kiewit?

 

[HCFord1]

Management consultant for a large international professional services firm. If that sounds vague it’s because the job is fluid; basically I try to identify client’s business problems, sell our company as a partner in either a strategic advisory or executional capacity, and then oversee the engagement/project. I work with healthcare clients currently, but our company works with basically every large company in the world.

Edit - you either need relevant industry experience or a MBA to break in unless you’re joining directly out of college.

 

[...TrueColors...]

Compliance (specifically privacy) is going to be a huge field pretty much everywhere b/c that regulation is only going to get worse and every country does things differently. Public tech companies pay above market salaries b/c you have to keep up with the Joneses, even in a non-technical role. Even though there's been some correction in tech salaries+benefits, it's still way better than anywhere else in the market.

I agree with this.

For OP, find a role in a tech start up with company equity grants.

 

[RedSeaRising]

Kiewit?

Once in my career, but never again. Company I'm with now competes with them in certain markets but our core business is still vertical construction

 

[HuskerGarrett]

After college I worked in HR and Talent Acquisition, mostly for construction companies. During Covid my dad and I bought a FedEx Ground contracting company so I’ve been running that with him since.

 

[RedSeaRising]

Ah...construction. Yeah that makes sense then. Ugh. It's a weird time right now. Hang in man!

It's weird as shit because my district historically does $300-400mm a year in revenue and we have over $1b on the books for 2024 already...but just don't know how much of it is real.

I'm too dumb to do anything else so I don't have much choice but to hang in there

 

[RedSeaRising]

After college I worked in HR and Talent Acquisition, mostly for construction companies. During Covid I embarked on a meteoric rise to power by building the premier Husker football message board, so I've been doing that ever since.

FIFY

 

[Baron Winnebago]

After college I worked in HR and Talent Acquisition, mostly for construction companies. During Covid my dad and I bought a FedEx Ground contracting company so I’ve been running that with him since.

Running it into the ground, amirite?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I do data things

 

[BingoDingo]

I do data things

I do data things to data to help people who use data things do data things. I no longer do data things, though.