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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.
 
Do it. my mom is 54 and just graduated Law school.

My brother is 35 was a personal trainer and switch to being a stock trader at 32 and now is a bank branch manager.

Im 27 and have constantly changed what I want to do. kinda for the same way I like money. I work in sports and want to continue but want to go on a different side of sports that is more luxurious.
Sports is hard to get into but once you do you stay. I had my masters in SA for 2 years before landing a job in a sector I never thought Id be in nor do i still picture my self in it. but its a stepping stone. and unless you're a big executive there is no money in sports.
 
kevost said:
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.
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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.
 
Attorney. It's not the worst job in the world. There's some social status to it. I work at a family members firm so I have a lot of freedom to do whatever I want and take whatever cases I want. I don't make as much as a big law attorney (my brother works at a decent sized firm on the west coast, makes $150,000 after a year there). I don't want be an attorney for very long though, dealing with crazy peoples problems all day is tiresome. Also I can't stand most attorneys and I don't want to be around them.

I'm going to start a fitness related business or two in the near future, everyone in America is fat and there's a lot of money in that industry.
 
I'd avoid careers that are predicted to suffer due to the rise of AI

You have a technical background. I'd look into controls engineering myself if I'm ever forced to look for another job but I work primarily in production and focus on the material handling side of things.
 
My title is “Director of Tax Accounting and Planning”

Like @Jim14510 I’m a CPA, but he CPA’s for mom and pop shops in Nebraska (lol) while I do the fun stuff working for a corporate multinational in their internal tax department.

Could you do what I do? Sure, but you’ve gotta go to grad school (plus probably some more business and accounting classes if you don’t already have them). When I was in grad school at Texas, there were a number of students in their 30s going “back” to pursue this career path.

After grad school, you gotta slave away at a Big 4 for 3-5 years (minimum) before joining an internal tax department and working your way up there.

Obviously this job has to do with my degree.

The pay is, I think, pretty good. Will I ever be ultra wealthy? No. Do I make enough to live comfortably and have some fun? Yes. Tax is a racket. But it’s a really nice racket because it takes a special kind of stupid (like me) to get into it and no one else understands what we do.
 
KidsSeeGhosts said:
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.
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I second the compliance part! basically what i do in the sports world
 
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