u/PsychologicalPea1412

Hey all,

So last year I took a career break for personal reasons and after leaving my £55K (basic salary) job.

I transitioned career into a different field and since then I have send 120 job applications. Out of those I have had 8 interviews, 3 job offers.

Is my strategy working? Am I doing something wrong?

My student loans (Plan 2 + PGL) are fully paid off which makes the salary cut slightly bearable. I accepted one job that paid £25k as it was an entry level position but left due to several issues I found in the work place that challenged my morals and work ethics.

Anyone else?

I had an interview call booked with a Talent Acquisition Manager today at 3:30 but did not receive any calls. No emails or whatsoever about cancellation.

How unprofessional!

Hey guys,

I need a bit of advice.

I was let go from my job for not passing probation over silly stuff.

They agreed to pay me two weeks notice on top of the two weeks I’ve worked in June. They also don’t expect me to work the full two weeks notice.

Upon checking my payslip, they only paid me for the two weeks I worked and not what was agreed during the meeting.

Any advice please?

Hey guys,

I’m looking for a Filipino friend. Based abroad or in the Philippines. Ideally 30 and above.

About me:

I’m a 32 year old British-Filipino. I’m based in the UK. I was born in the Philippines but moved to the US when I was little until settling in the UK where I lived all my life. I’ve only been to the Philippines once in 2017.

I am happily partnered but I am looking to expand my social circle. We can talk about anything but all I request is to respect some boundaries. I love to travel and I would love to visit the Philippines again and explore more of the country. I’d also like to be more connected with my roots.

I’m pretty chilled and easy going in all honesty.

If you’re someone who is shallow or takes everything at face value, then please don’t bother. I’m looking for a platonic genuine friendship.

I need advice please.

I’m 32. Based in the UK. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care both from good universities. All my student loans are fully paid. I do however, have financial commitments.

I’ve worked as an RN for a little over 2 years and then moved on to non-clinical leadership and management roles. I then realised working as a healthcare leader didn’t give me any satisfaction so I then moved on to insurance underwriting, mainly with medical risk ratings. I did it for a little over 2 years but had to leave for several reasons, one of them being I was being micromanaged and bullied at work by my manager.

I decided to take a career break after it and whilst at it, I did a Data Analytics course where I have developed skills in SQL and Python. Prior to the course, I already had advanced MS Excel skills and was already using Tableau in my previous senior roles in healthcare.

The last 6 years of my career had been largely analytical and strategic in healthcare. I analysed data for the purpose of improve patient care and developing new services.

After my career break, I was employed as a Data Analyst which is my first job as a Data Analyst. I worked for a healthcare company. I was then let go for ‘cultural reasons’ and nothing particularly concerning about my performance at work after 4 months. My role was mainly insights and reporting, developing dashboards and reporting trends.

I have sent 31 applications, a lot of them similar to what I was doing in my last job. I have been ghosted several times by recruiters and have received several rejections from jobs with the same scope.

I feel at lost and I seriously don’t know what career I can get into. I have a lot of transferable skills but I am just so unsure what else I can do.

Does anyone have any advice?

Hi all,

Just want to ask a question regarding the Right to Choose Pathway for Autism Assessment.

Are we allowed to choose providers that offers virtual consultations for the ADOS and ADIR assessments from practitioners who are working remotely abroad (USA) but are still registered with the HCPC and that they only see UK based clients?

Thank you!

As per title. What are my chances of getting employment based visa to the USA?

I’m 32. I have a BSN and a PGDip. I’ve worked as an RN here in the UK for several years and moved into management. I have transitioned to be a Data Analyst recently. I have several years analytical experience but my current job is my first title as a Data Analyst. My previous roles involved a lot of analysis but it didn’t really reflect on my previous titles.

Is there a market for Data Analyst in the USA, particularly in healthcare and insurance?

My grandparents from both sides are Americans but they have passed away. Is there a route for ancestry?

Be interested to get advice from anyone. Thanks!

So I am officially unemployed.

I’m based in the UK and I was working as a Data Analyst for this private healthcare company that takes referrals from the NHS.

As part of their process, we are required to submit data to them. I noticed that my manager submits data WITHOUT reviewing them prior to submission. This means that we double charge the NHS for the cost of our services for duplicate referrals which happens a lot without the team realising.

I pointed this out and my manager said ‘they won’t know because we’ve never been pulled up on it’ apparently the company just issues the NHS with credit notes rather than giving them a full refund. I told my manager that I do not agree with this because at the end of the day it’s public money and the NHS deserves some form of integrity with how our data is being reported. And apparently it’s how they’ve always done it without the NHS knowing they are being doubly charged.

Fast forward to today, I was called in to be advised that my probation has been put forward due to ‘cultural disconnect’.

Any advice? With the job market at the moment, I feel lost and disheartened.

Hey all,

I am a little disheartened with my employer at the moment.

I am currently employed as a Data Analyst with them and I have been over hearing my colleagues that the company is currently recruiting for a Junior Data Administrator. I thought this was a rumour at first until I saw it live on our website.

I checked the JD and it is pretty much what I do at work. What's worse is that the salary is exactly the same as mine.

Shall I start looking and leave as soon as I find another job? Any advice?

As the title says.

I work for a UK company. I found out from a colleague of mine who works in our IT department that one of our Clinical Psychologist is working in Boston, Massachusetts. We don’t have any offices in the States and we also do not see any American clients. He isn’t a registered Psychologist in the State of Massachusetts either and does remote work seeing clients here. This was confirmed by my colleague when he told us that he has to mirror our standard 9am-5pm work day which means he logs in early in the morning where he is.

The Clinical Psychologist is fairly new to the company having only just started with us last June and started working in Boston earlier this year. It is known to the company that he goes in and out of the USA.

Assuming that he is entering the USA under ESTA, does this mean he is in breach of his conditions despite not actively working for a US based company?

Hey guys,

Needing a bit of advice here.

So basically two months ago, I started my role as a Data Analyst in a healthcare company. I was already working in healthcare previously as an RN (clinical front line for just over 2 years, the rest had been in strategic roles and insurance based roles).

I decided to fully transition and get into Data Analytics (I know saturated etc etc..) in September last year after leaving my previous role as a Product Manager (Insurance).

I took a boot camp course in Data Analytics and taught me all the basics during my career break. I applied to 60 entry level roles, got offered 15 interviews and 6 job offers including where I am now. Considering the job market then (January-March 2026) I feel that I didn’t do too bad.

I am now in my 3rd in my current role and I feel like my skills are not being fully utilised and feel more of an assistant to my line manager. The role I originally applied for was a Junior Data Analyst Assistant, they then changed it to Data Analyst after interview. I accepted because I needed a job then my other offers were a bit of a trek to get to.

My manager does not let me get involved in meetings where my strengths will be a great asset to the company, he doesn’t invite me or start inviting me to meetings that are most relevant to my job but rather relays some of the actions needed and passes on the hard work to me with little to no support at all. We handle very large and complex data sets and we all do them on Excel which frankly I am quite proficient in. Since I started, I created dashboards, analysed data and made recommendations internally to the company and our stakeholders. He acknowledges that my pay is very low (it is, slightly less than minimum wage. Prior to my career transition, my average income over a 6 year period was £52-£67k a year)

It is now becoming more and more apparent that I am being treated as another pair of hands because he has said numerous times that the reason why they recruited for my role was to ease the pressure of him as he was previously the only person doing what I am doing now.

He’s a nice guy but right now it is exhausting and I feel devalued and feel that my skills are better suited elsewhere.

Any advices? Shall I start looking again?

I am UK based and the I keep seeing lots of vacancies for data analysts currently.

I feel so stuck

Hey all,

So my partner surprised us a trip to Valencia this August and booked the package holidays through Iberia Holidays.

We credit al flights to our BA Club and was wondering if the booking will earn us based on spend based (total package price was £2580 for both of us) or will it be based on distance assuming BA will have no access to the price my partner paid.

Lastly, will the flights be eligible for bonus tier points? One of the flights will be domestic within mainland Spain

Thank you!

Hi all,

I am trying to upgrade one of our flights to Club World using Avios from WTP. We were quoted the difference of the peak price difference from both cabins which is expected but frankly shocked at the quoted £497 in taxes per person. We were expecting a rise in surcharges due to the increase in April but not quite what BA are asking.

I have upgraded many of our flights to CW from WTP in the past and don’t remember paying as much as what BA are asking now. In the last year alone, we have paid less than £100 per person for upgrades to CW flying to DOH, MEX, DXB and MIA. The Avios isn’t a problem as I am trying to burn more than 3 million Avios I have banked. Just shocked at the taxes!

Any advice?