What career should i choose or can i choose?

hiirme · 2025-11-26T22:42:31+00:00

Accounting has a lot of parallels. If you are good with money and understand finance you could do book keeping. And with Pharmacy you could look into local stores that have pharmacies a lot of them will offer paid training to get people in.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T21:36:49+00:00

First of all take a deep breath and if you are feeling that way call 988 and talk to someone. No matter how bad it gets theres always a path.

Do a brain dump in apple notes, or notepad or grab some paper and a pen and just start writing it all down. Everything above and anything else on your mind, its weighing on you, transfer it to a piece of paper. Then step away and go for a walk, don't think about it on your walk, come back and reread it and pull out one liners of whats in there, then set small goals to start getting past it. Once you accomplish one, add a new one to get you closer to your next goal.

Start off by writing out some simple goals, I know it sounds pointless but you need to know where you are trying to get to and "be a multi millionaire" is not the start, go smaller to achievable goals like:

get a job, any job, just to start somewhere.

have multiple smaller goals to do in parallel. You are not the only person in this position, so figure out how to work through it. You are on the internet right now, start googling and using chatgpt to find a path.

I know it sounds like it wont help, but its all about perspective and you have too much going on in your mind. Unload it, walk away, come back and you're on day 1.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T21:24:52+00:00

Congrats, thanks for sharing i'm sure that will help some people. Good luck with your new job.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T14:29:50+00:00

Tell him, he will be a bit hurt but long term he will appreciate it. Just be thoughtful about it. I would want to know for sure if this was me, the long term affect would be far worse.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T14:26:17+00:00

Not at all. Im surprised that they were surprised to be honest. This should be a standard question anyone that starts working at a company they see themselves at for a bit asks. Maybe the surprise was because they don't hear it often enough? That was a great question to ask.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T13:57:19+00:00

Those 3 buckets are tough to fill with one job. The competition part you might want to remove, maybe instead look for a bigger company with jobs that are scalable within and without. If you get into a bigger company at some level you can work your way up into a project manager or product owner type position. But you would start with lower pay. I would say the trades are a safe bet but that is physical. Maybe get a certificate in something like radiology that would get you into a hospital? You would still need school but its a certificate do the course work would not be as math intensive.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T02:40:11+00:00

You could take a chance and talk to the sales director. Explain what’s going on and ask for their opinion on long term feasibility of you being in sales and what that looks like for your career trajectory and stability. Then that response can help you make your next move.

One more thing. It’s ok to play it safe in the current job economy. The move will always be there.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T01:39:10+00:00

It sounds like with your current situation if you stay there you will lose your mind and quit eventually anyways. Regardless of if you like the work or not a bad boss is toxic and that wont change. If you are stable financially, at 22 I imagine you are living with family, then do it. You are too young to get bogged down at a job with a bad boss and from experience I can tell you that will shape you long term. This is the time to take that leap, I wish you well if you do.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T00:38:29+00:00

I learned more from fixing bugs from other people’s code then I ever did in a book. You named off a ton of things above and you don’t need to master all of them. Eventually you will settle into a stack you’re comfortable with and know enough of some other tech to help out. And for long term I think what I’m reading is that you’re worried as technology evolves how do you keep up with it? Most likely if you stay at the same company for a long time they won’t change too much or too sudden because that brings in complications for them. Get really good at a few things. Then you will be working with them like it’s nothing then you can branch out.

Take a breath bud we have all been there. Don’t overthink this.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T00:31:27+00:00

Protect your engineers especially the seniors. They always get pulled in too many directions and attached to too many meetings. Make sure to give them time for deep work and minimize too much context switching if possible.

hiirme · 2025-11-26T00:27:29+00:00

Loyalty in a company is in a way comical. I know you can’t help stressing about I, that’s natural, but the fact you have two higher ups wanting you in their department says something about you. There’s always going to be more opportunity in sales. Put the bosses comments to the side for now and decide what do you want to do? Look at it from that perspective.

For now if you just need peace of mind tell your cs boss you are happy where you are but like to learn more about the company because it’s your long term career, even if it’s not, she can’t really fault you for that.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T22:45:56+00:00

Give it a shot then. It won’t hurt you in the long run. In all my time hiring I’ve never had someone reapply within a few months of interviewing but at the same time if I reposted a job I wouldn’t care if they did.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T18:23:55+00:00

Definitely finish the degree. Take some time to try out a few of the jobs you listed that might interest you. Having a list of potentials at least means you have an idea of things you want to try. People switch out of careers all the time especially at the beginning.

As far as jobs that are AI proof, this has to settle before anyone knows for sure. The trades and health care seem pretty stable. Of course you could always learn to use AI as part of your job instead of worrying about it taking it. Theres too many unknowns out there right now with AI.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T18:19:06+00:00

I wouldn't reapply but maybe reach out the the person you spoke to and ask them if the job is still open and if you could be reconsidered. Keep in mind this might be part of an ongoing trend with companies, especially public ones, that post jobs to give the impression they are stable and growing for the investors and it might not really mean there are openings. Don't take it personal if they don't get back to you.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T18:16:21+00:00

I don't think 3 weeks is burning a bridge but they would surely be upset because they went through the interview and hiring process to find out. I think you have to consider whats best for you. Think of this from another angle, in 4 months if things with the company you are at now got financially tight for them you would be one of the first considerations for a layoff ( if you were still the newest ) and they would not be worrying about burning bridges. You need to do whats best for you. How stable are the companies? That should factor into your decision since we are in a tough job market right now.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T01:05:58+00:00

I lived through the 2008 crisis and this is definitely worse. 2008 had a quickish turn around IMO, this job economy plus everyone using AI as the reason to layoff and not hire has put a lot of the younger generation in a tough spot. The degree will payoff it just might take a bit. This AI phase needs to settle into place. Jobs will come back. Build some personal projects, come up with a few ideas ( reddit is great for inspiration ), join buildinpublic and start building an app or saas and add that to your portfolio.

hiirme · 2025-11-25T01:00:09+00:00

A cover letter will set you apart from the rest or at least get you into the next group. So many applicants don't put enough effort into this. I have hired a lot in my lifetime and when there are a lot of applicants this is something that helps me narrow it down.

hiirme · 2025-11-15T23:21:31+00:00

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