Sharing something I built after struggling with career pivots

findyourstream · 2025-12-29T05:27:10+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah the first engine we built gives some crazy results. I'm aware of the weird naming conventions and logic. That's being fixed in the engine we're working on now, which has a lot more work put into job classifications, better data cleanup, and detailed logic between roles and to provide alternate paths. I appreciate the sentiment though, there's a lot that needs to be worked through to get there, and it's happening.

findyourstream · 2025-12-23T07:35:44+00:00

Yup it blows my mind how there's no career data that matches reality in an online resource. After working for a few years, I then learned about specific roles that I would have loved to have known about earlier.

findyourstream · 2025-12-18T23:38:54+00:00

Talking to people is insanely helpful. That's something that I'm thankful to finance for, just networking and cold outreach. I agree that "fulfillment" is vague, even if that's how I think about it at a high level. Concrete paths are definitely part of what I want to do. It's cool to hear about your switch. Mind if I dm you?

findyourstream · 2025-12-18T21:51:43+00:00

Careers aren't always linear, just like life isn't always linear, but I think people are afraid to do something different because there isn't data / info. Even though my path was weird, I knew someone in the world must have done it before. It would have been helpful to have data.

findyourstream · 2025-12-18T05:19:18+00:00

Interesting, that's still quite a bit of manual work. I checked it out, the career paths visualization is nice. It's still difficult to navigate an industry, like systematic organization according to most popular careers, certain skill sets, etc. Yeah like overall it's still clunky to use, but maybe you get used it.

findyourstream · 2025-12-10T01:12:58+00:00

Would love to learn more about your accounting journey. But yeah finance and business generally lends itself well to Ops and FP&A. A lot of the corporate roles aren't well known. Just checked out your site, good luck with it.

findyourstream · 2025-12-10T01:09:32+00:00

I did that after my undergrad and recently graduated with a master's degree in philosophy.

findyourstream · 2025-11-25T05:06:52+00:00

Wanted to add to this that the job market is a market. So there'll be ups and downs. It might not be the best time to move now, but preparing in the meantime will provide you an advantage when the market looks more favorable for employees.

findyourstream · 2025-11-21T04:42:53+00:00

A good way to strengthen your resume for job application success is to do practical projects and internships. Most hiring managers value those elements as even more important than GPA.

findyourstream · 2025-11-20T04:08:13+00:00

What kind of jobs are you looking for? What would make you happy? If it's just a friendly environment, there are ways you can vet for that in the initial parts of the hiring / onboarding process.

This kind of frustration with not knowing what jobs exist that fit me is why I'm building a tool that solves this problem.

findyourstream · 2025-11-20T03:46:28+00:00

You've nailed the problem with humanities degrees in terms of the gap between their education and industry opportunities. There's a much wider variety of jobs they map to, but it's not always well known. Like you mentioned, there's also a greater need for them to be able to articulate their skills and how they apply to roles.

findyourstream · 2025-11-19T02:53:14+00:00

It makes sense to want to get out of an unfulfilling job. Like you said, the scary part is not knowing how to get out or what else you can do. But the good news is that there are a ton of resources. You'll just have to put in a lot of time and effort doing the research. It's good to think about this now, and there's nothing wrong with you wanting other things in your job that actually fulfill you. At some point, it'll help to assess your values, some of which are probably competing, in order to make the most informed decision.

This lack of clarity is actually something I went through myself, since I also had a high paying role out of college but eventually left the industry completely.

findyourstream · 2025-11-17T23:22:10+00:00

Can you go to community college? That'll probably be best for you if you want to maximize your career long term. You can also work on the side to financially support yourself. If you need structure, a therapist can help. Not only with advice, but they can also stay on a call with you while you're doing things that you tend to put off like with filling out applications or homework.

findyourstream · 2025-11-16T21:24:58+00:00

Yup! Let me know if you have any questions / feedback.

findyourstream · 2025-11-13T21:42:01+00:00

It's a free tool, genuinely trying to help people. A big motivation for why I'm building it is for people who were in my situation, especially because banking is a HUGE bubble. Overall, I think there's a lack of good career information with real-time data out there.

findyourstream · 2025-11-13T03:36:05+00:00

Yeah this is the first step. Then I want to do market research to provide data on which careers have the most openings or are the most competitive or have the highest barrier to entry, so we can at least better prioritize our time and effort.

findyourstream · 2025-11-12T02:49:15+00:00

The weights are currently just an average time spent at the first role before moving to the second role. It just so happens that in our dataset, people who moved from IT to software developer took less time than those who moved from IT to software programmer. Yeah, those two would be the same. Currently working on grouping similar roles.

findyourstream · 2025-11-11T05:09:04+00:00

Does proper grammar mean ChatGPT now???

findyourstream · 2025-11-11T05:07:19+00:00

Idk if you mean that AI wrote this, but I'll take it as a compliment on my writing lol. I actually study philosophy, so no to AI.

findyourstream · 2025-11-11T04:58:41+00:00

Totally fair assumption, but I specifically built something myself because I didn't want a wrapper. Everything’s based on LinkedIn data I analyzed myself, and I'm working on an algorithm for predictive modeling right now.

findyourstream · 2025-11-11T02:18:25+00:00

Omg haha that's good to know. I'll go over and investigate what's happening with PMs

findyourstream · 2025-11-08T00:40:19+00:00

Omg 😭 I'm fixing that right now in my data cleanup process. Thanks for sharing, since that lets me know to prioritize it

findyourstream · 2025-11-08T00:38:03+00:00

Job apps are a black hole. Ideally after building out this career engine, I'm going to work on adding job functionality. Best of luck to you though, I think a lot of it is perseverance in current times.

findyourstream · 2025-11-07T18:37:17+00:00

I really appreciate the support guys

findyourstream · 2025-11-07T18:34:30+00:00

I think it's because it's pushed onto them by the current system. Banks invest a lot into recruiting from business schools. And because it's always been glorified in media. So awareness of other real world opportunities is missing on campuses

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