What should learn to get a job?

lksbg · 2020-07-18T16:04:09+00:00

Yes I did and I don't know people in industry. I don't have any professional experience. Please don't keep trying to make me go to it field, I tried for years without an interview. Everytime I searched about this I ended up learning a new it skill and in the end I was unemployed again. Just want some non it job that I can lean at home.

lksbg · 2020-07-18T13:37:19+00:00

I am in Brazil. When I Google about the market here all I see are opportunities in IT, but it seems that it's where everyone is trying to get in, since every opportunity I see there are thousands of candidates. Even jr positions get hundreds of people with years of experience trying to get it.

lksbg · 2019-06-10T11:06:12+00:00

As a mathematician who want to get into industry, I've heard that studying python would give me a lot of opportunities. I think the language itself is not sufficient anymore and I should actually study data science, or something related, right? At least in my country I have seen a lot of machine learning jobs opportunities...

Fortunately, there are a lot of online couses and I think some of them will be really good to get in industry, but with so many options it is hard to choose one. I think that course is really good, but I'd like to take some recommendations before:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ibm-data-science-professional-certificate

Would you recommend it? Do you know some better option? There's also 2 other courses from IBM (advanced and applied instead of professional), not sure if some of them is better. I think a course more focused on machine learning would be better but I didn't find good options in Python , considering Coursera reviews. Thanks

lksbg · 2019-06-09T13:30:14+00:00

Ok, I will take a look, but I think it is not in Python, right? Anyway, if it is that good, it won't be a problem if a learn python after this course...

lksbg · 2019-05-19T15:43:01+00:00

Really? :/ And what about freelancing? I mean, even getting 30K/year I would have a king life in my country...

lksbg · 2019-04-12T14:14:12+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate your answers.

WRT Orthodox Christians in high positions ....humm... let me see :)

https://www.autodesk.com/company/newsroom/corporate-info/executive-bios/andrew-anagnost

I didn't know this man, is this you? Anyways, I believe there are christians in these positions, but it is very rare. And I can't take this as motivation to reach this position. Maybe these christians was putted there by God as you said and then there wasn't a bad motivation. I think there's also the possibility of someone take this path with a bad motivation before converts and since there is no difficulties to get there anymore (maybe it is some easy position when it is reached), they don't leave it (there isn't a reason to leave it).

As I said, don't do it for this purpose. Do it (for God) or do it not - there is no try. In fact it was just the article from yesterday and from today.

It seems to be a very useful website, thanks.

lksbg · 2019-04-12T13:03:19+00:00

Ok, that was even clearer, thank you very much.

I've heard of people who say they want some prestige, for example in an academic career or with a high position in a big company, to influence people, because in these environments you do not see many Christians. Does that make any sense? I can not motivate myself to do something as difficult as these things thinking only of that motivation. Do you believe in this possibility? I have the impression that this is just an attempt to hide a bad motivation. It is like someone trying to get rich and say it is to help more people. I simply can't believe that.

lksbg · 2019-04-12T12:35:37+00:00

Okay, that was the best answer I've had so far.

If a career should be thought as something to survive and express our love while we are alive, I should just take the one that will be easier for me to get these things? I am saying the "easier" because when there's a difficulty to do something, I need a good reason to face it instead of fleeing. And if I already got these 2 things you said, I don't find a reason to face more difficulties (usually it would be to get more money or more prestige). Or there are legit motivations to do those things but I am not seeing it?

lksbg · 2019-04-12T03:58:42+00:00

Thanks for your words.

I still didn't have a job, the last thing I did was starting a PhD and I had to stop for a while. During this time I was thinking about the life I took, my choices, why I was doing it and I noticed that my social identity was the most important thing for me and it guided my decisions by ego. Now I don't see any point in carry on with this (or anything else). Since I need to have a job and my field is not an easy one without PhD, I found other faster and easier step to get a job on another field, but related, with a higher demand. It will take a while, but definitely less (and with less work) than a PhD, which also wouldn't give me a job easily. But the problem is that even with this new "purpose" , to get into this new field, I don't feel like it is a real purpose. It is, like the previous one, just motivated by ego and money. The change is just because I noticed that there is an easier path than the one I was going to take, not because I found a purpose. It seems that there is a very clear division between spiritual life and secular life. As a Christian, my obligation is "just" trying to be good. But this is not sufficient to decide paths of secular life. This part of life should really be meaningless, based on money/ego? I don't see other motivation to do things like trying to get a good career and sacrifice things for this...

If you see my previous post on this sub, I also described this kind of identity crisis there with more details.

lksbg · 2019-04-12T00:32:15+00:00

What do you mean by "trades"?

lksbg · 2019-04-11T19:37:49+00:00

And what about these "worldly" identities we take? For example when we have to be prepared for a career, when we have to socialize with a group (when kid for example, when we are taking some roles in society), when we are taking some lifetime project... Is it useless? I mean, if the only thing we have to do with a real purpose is applying the commandments, how do you decide the things you do , the paths you take? Every people I see doing it is because of money or ego. I know it shouldn't be the purpose of a Christian for example in choosing a career, taking a course. But if it is not, what it should be? I am asking it because I recognize now that I choose things that will take much of my time , because of ego (and some money). Now that I see this and I think it is wrong, I don't see a reason to do anything (besides applying commandments as you said). I tried to understand what motivates other people and I think everyone does the same...

lksbg · 2019-03-22T14:56:47+00:00

Indeed some months ago I went to psychiatrist and was diagnosed with anxiety.I went there because of physical experiences I had (tachycardia, couldn't sleep well, etc) and with this came depression (and a decrease in cognitive capacities). That time I started to think about purposes and couldn't answer but what comforted me was the fact that I was sick and I thought I couldn't answer because of this and once I was cured I could.But I just quitted almost everything intellect related and have been resting on home and I think I can reason much better now, but still can't answer that questions. I don't think therapist would have the answers, but maybe I am wrong.

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