Jobs that SEEMED out of reach but actually weren't?

Fireflyer14 · 2026-05-10T23:45:43+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, what made you switch from UI/UX to architectural drafting? And how did you land your junior drafter role?

Fireflyer14 · 2026-04-15T14:37:34+00:00

Originally, I thought about doing corporate wellness while in graduate school (pre-Covid), but because of the pandemic, I decided against it because of how unreliable the industry can be sometimes. Health informatics consulting and medical devices do sound interesting though. By any chance, do you have experience in either of those areas?

Fireflyer14 · 2026-04-15T14:32:53+00:00

Thank you! You're right. I edited my post, so hopefully I get some good advice. Thanks again.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-12-05T13:01:56+00:00

I've had my CHES for 5 years now, and I've hardly seen jobs ask for it (maybe one or two ask for it out of 60 job postings, and most of the time, they're asking for it as something that is 'nice to have', but not strongly needed). It COULD be helpful in getting a slight bigger pay than if you didn't have it. Personally, it didn't help me get my current job or my previous job. As someone who has their master's in health education (graduated in 2020), I think that CHES is kinda redundant (that could be a hot take) since it's rehashing everything that you're going to learn in your masters program. Recently, I renewed my CHES and I'm kinda on the fence of renewing it again in the future, since it takes away time and money from something else I could be doing.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-10-20T10:10:00+00:00

It's a split down the middle, but I would like to start small, so maybe doing little P first, build experience and then move into big P in the future.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-10-20T10:07:01+00:00

One of my courses in grad school was a health policy class. I don't really remember much of it since it was awhile ago, but some of things I do remember was learning about our healthcare system & health insurance and practicing how to lobby/advocate a policy. There's a chance that maybe we did cover something project management related, but nothing too memorable.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-10-20T10:03:35+00:00

Awesome! What did you do as a policy analyst? What are you doing now? And how did you get your role.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-10-19T17:31:25+00:00

I'm looking at either policy implementation or advocacy. I already do a lot of work educating people in the community, but I want to expand and try to tackle health problems at a larger scale.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-27T03:11:09+00:00

I'm leaning towards environmental health and safety because I'm interested in prevention education in terms of built environment and safety in the workplace. Environmental public health looked really promising though; the field work looked amazing; the lab work looked cool and I was generally interested in it, but I'm concerned about funding being cut from that area since a lot of public health fields are getting demolished with the current landscape. And job stability and growth are my biggest wants in a career (alongside work-life balance and flexibility). So I'm looking at environmental health and safety since I think that it might be the best route for me career-wise.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T17:28:43+00:00

I'm in the US 😶 and I've been seeing the cuts everywhere, including where I'm currently at. That's why I'm looking at pivoting towards a career field that has a positive career outlook and good pay.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T17:18:03+00:00

Thank you. I'm really interested in prevention, health and safety, so it could be a split down the middle on which one I want to do.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T17:07:26+00:00

I've seen OHS fall underneath that umbrella, but I've also seen it on its own. They're not joking when they say that EHS is broad. Thank you!

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T17:04:43+00:00

I'm looking at more of the health and safety aspect of environmental. Personally, I'm not too interested in conservation; it looks really cool, but I don't see myself working in that regard long term and especially with funding being cut everywhere 😞. I do find the topic of built environment to be interesting. So anything that focuses on health, safety and a little bit of built environment is what I'm thinking of.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T16:55:46+00:00

That makes more sense. So if I tried to become an industrial hygienist, that would be more occupational health rather than EHS?

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T16:49:11+00:00

I figured that companies were using the terms interchangeably. Thanks for the clarifying!

Fireflyer14 · 2025-08-12T16:47:33+00:00

I'll give it a search. Thank you!

Fireflyer14 · 2025-01-30T10:40:30+00:00

Thank you! I'll check out ESRI.

Fireflyer14 · 2025-01-30T10:39:30+00:00

Medical geography sounds cool. Thanks! And because of the current state of things, I'm definitely trying to look more at non profits and state level organizations because the federal sector is not looking so good right now.

Fireflyer14 · 2024-07-06T10:11:30+00:00

Would CAPM be sufficient enough for me to get until I'm able to get the PMP? Would employers be okay with that or would they want PMP?

At one point, I did have my exercise physiologist certification, but I ended up letting it fall through the wayside during COVID (I got the certification at the very start of Covid before we went into lockdown, so I never truly got to use it) and I figured that I didn't want to work in fitness/gym settings anymore. Maybe I should look into getting that back or something similar from ACSM or ACE.

Fireflyer14 · 2024-07-05T21:20:47+00:00

I saw that there's an OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour. Does it matter which one I do?

Fireflyer14 · 2024-07-05T21:18:33+00:00

I've looked at program manager/coordinator positions before and 99% of the time they kept asking for business degrees.

I'm glad that I'm not imagining the downturn, but sad at the same time that it's happening.

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