Career Changer Struggles Part 2
Apparently, I’m a bit of a glutton for punishment. After leaving my 1st help desk job out of exhaustion, I decided to make a second go at it. Before you start yelling at me, please hear me out with my (lopsided) reasoning: -I needed full time “tech” experience if I wanted to apply for USAjobs.gov postings. Most of those jobs seemed to be looking for full time experience; -I still felt like I didn’t “know” anything. The nature of my help desk experience did not prepare me for any of the tasks that I wanted to do, and wasn’t relevant to the job titles that I was applying for. That’s…
Career Changer Struggles Pt. 1
Sometime last year, burnout happened for me. I found myself working and finally fulfilled (financially, work/life balance), but something was “missing”. I was tired of being a social worker. Not because of the job, but because of the workload. I worked throughout the pandemic. I witnessed the loss that people experienced. I was sad, depressed and sleep deprived. I decided that I wanted to do something different as a career. I wanted a job that didn’t follow me home or haunt me during my sleeping and waking hours. That’s when my husband suggested a tech field as a career change. He was wrapping up his degree in Cyber Security and…
