r/Career

I’ve been working in IT/tech for around 5–6 years, with a Computer Science degree from about 10 years ago.

Lately I’ve been trying to move into a new role within the industry and have had a number of interviews, most of which have gone well, but I’ve fallen just short at final stage.

I’m now considering whether it makes sense to leave IT altogether and move into a different field. I’ve been offered (or am considering) a role outside of tech that pays more than my current job, is 5 minutes from my house, and is hybrid (2 days office, 3 days WFH). It’s also in the civil service, so offers more job security.

At the moment I’m in a fully remote IT role, but I’m feeling quite stagnant and don’t see a realistic path to a pay increase where I am.

Looking for advice on whether it’s worth leaving the IT industry in this situation, or if I should keep pushing for another role within tech.

Can someone experienced comment or DM to guide me on choosing the right career path (especially in finance, consulting, or business or any high paying sector), share real-world advice, and help me understand opportunities, networking, and growth, as I've just completed my 12th (Commerce), feel confused about my direction, and don't have people around me in real life for proper guidance?

please I will be really grateful for you✨❤️‍🩹

How is the market currently and what is the future of this field ?

Hello!

I have an internal interview coming up this week for a manager role. I’m currently a Sr FP&A Analyst in a hospitality company.

I am interviewing with some of the Directors on the team as well as the VP for 30-60 minutes. These are all people I currently work with and know well. As such, I’m not sure exactly what to expect, so looking to mentally prepare. Thankfully this isn’t an external interview, so I do feel pretty comfortable with them and don’t expect to be too nervous. However, they all have lots of industry experience and my knowledge isn’t comparable to theirs. I’m not expecting a long, technical, exam-like experience, just want to make sure my bases are covered. I applied on the internal careers site and from a technical perspective, I tick all of the boxes for qualifications and responsibilities as a lot of it is stuff I already do, maybe in a more abbreviated fashion.

I am going to dress as if this was a traditional interview and come prepared with copies of my resume and the job description.

Wanted to ask for some tips and insights from those who have been in a similar position.

Marketing for 8 years. I like marketing. The problem is marketing at a 2000 person company means I spend 90% of my time in approval chains and stakeholder alignment and 10% doing actual marketing. I used to build campaigns. Now I build slide decks about campaigns for people who will never run them. Same career. Completely different job depending on where you do it. Anyone else stuck in similar situation and figured out how to deal with this?

Im doing my second year in Information Technology and came to the conclusion that this isn't for me. Too much admin, too much studying, it feels like my brain is splitting. My mom is paying for my degree and she say I should just weather the storm. Idk what to do, school is making me miserable. Im so clueless half the time and I always have to play catch up. What should I do?

Couple weeks ago I was offered a job at a small window and glass company starting in about a month once I was finished a contract at another job, during that time I found another better paying unionized job that was more in my field of carpentry so I took it . By this time I was supposed to be starting with the glass company in a few days I reached out right away and told the owner the truth and apologized . Today he Emails me and asks what the name of the company I just started working for is . He seemed like a very nice guy when I met him for the interview but I can’t think of a good reason he’d need or want to know what company I went with .

I am 35 and trying to figure out if I should try another career pivot. I graduated with a BA in Political Science, worked for an LSAT prep company for 9 years, and then got laid off. I got a certificate in instructional design and have been working freelance as an instructional designer/Elearning developer for a few years now. I have been successful in terms of getting gigs and have been told my work is really good. Unfortunately the whole industry is in a slump due to the economy and AI, and my work has dried up. I am trying to figure out if I should just work on my portfolio and keep trying to make it work in this industry or pivot again.

Does anyone have suggestions of industries or jobs I should consider? I’m generally pretty fast at learning new things. My expenses are pretty low, and I’d be willing to take a lower hourly rate for consistent work.

I have considered law school, as I do find the law genuinely interesting, but the thought of going back to school for three years feels exhausting. It would be doable though as I think I could get a full ride to a decent school in my area thanks to my LSAT. I also wouldn’t want to work 80 hour weeks, but since I wouldn’t take on loans, I could potentially work at a lower paid job with more reasonable hours.

EDIT: I really like thinking and learning new things. That’s one thing I like about instructional design, I have worked on projects for different companies on a wide range of subjects and am always learning something new. Taking in lots of new information and synthesizing it, working out puzzles and creating something new from what I’ve learned/figured out.

Hey, I'm quiet in my learning era . i can do data entry ..any simple work or even complex one if u can just teach me how it happens then i can perform well and also i can be ur paid listener.. dump your trauma on me or anything that's been troubling u ...or any work that I can do .

the only thing is that , i need to collect money within a week ..so I want to get paid daily or after a week , depending on the work .

and hey suggestion and recommendation for the kind of work I can do is open..

Hi everyone,
I’m a 25F currently working as a bank teller and have been in the role for about a year. Before this, I worked as a store manager for a retail flagship store.
I made the switch because retail management was very stressful, but I’m finding that being a teller is also quite draining for me in a different way. I like the stability, benefits, and the work itself isn’t physically demanding, but I get very overstimulated from constant customer interaction. After a workday, I feel mentally exhausted.
I’ve been trying to figure out what my next step could be, but I feel a bit stuck. I don’t have a bachelor’s degree and I’m not currently pursuing one, so I’m trying to understand what realistic career paths are available to me with my experience.
Outside of work, I don’t have many strong “passions” career-wise—travel is something I really enjoy, but I’m not sure how to turn that into a stable job path.
I guess I’m looking for advice on:
What roles I could transition into from banking that are less customer-facing
What jobs are realistic without a degree but still have room to grow
Any advice from people who’ve moved out of teller roles into something better aligned for them
Any insight would really help. Thank you.

Hi everyone! I’m a 23-year-old student, and I recently graduated in Chinese Language and Culture with a focus on Economics. I don't have a specific job title in mind yet, but I’d like to work for a reputable company, ideally in Export/Sales Management or Marketing.

Unfortunately, I’m really not good at math, honestly, I’m a total disaster at it. Initially, I wanted to pursue a Master’s in International Business because I read it’s a great starting point for specializing or finding a job. However, it seems like there’s a lot of math involved, and I’m completely hopeless with it.

Does anyone know what else I could study to get into these fields without needing strong math skills? I can handle basic math, but things like algorithms, matrices, and derivatives are beyond me. I don’t mind memorizing rules or formulas, but that’s about my limit.

For those of you already working in these sectors, could you suggest any programs that focus more on the theoretical side (e.g., Marketing, Customer Behavior, etc.)?

Not sure if I'll be able to respond to everyone but surely I'll read it all, thank you in advance

Hello! I am going to be interviewing for this position soon! I have a lot of presentation experience as well as a bachelor's in education, so my resume is kind of tailored to this. I spent a lot of time with orientation at my university as well as conference assistant, and many things were a lot of it was being a representative of my university and talking to high schoolers. With that, I want to wow the interiviewers so, I was looking for any tips or things I could do to increase my chances. Also, for anyone who has worked a position like this, what are some things you recommend doing as a presenter that engage high schoolers more?

7 years doing what i do. It's a good role. People would take this job from me tomorrow if i posted it. Two promotions in this seat. But I also realized last week that i haven't recommended my company to a single person in over a year. Used to do it all the time. Don't know when i stopped.

I told a friend last month i was going to leave and she asked me where to and my mouth just opened and nothing came out. So i made a joke and changed the subject.

the thing i'm afraid of is quitting and ending up in the exact same job with a different logo. That's the version where i'm writing this post again in year 9 having moved sideways for nothing. But staying here just because i can't name what i'd move toward doesn't feel like a real plan either. It feels like giving up and calling it patience.

Trying to figure out if this is role fatigue, company fatigue, or just what year 7 of anything feels like.

So this is the first job I’ve had where this sort of work politics has come up.

I’ve been at this job for less than six months and my boss has really gone out of her way to make me feel supported. She took me out to lunch during my first week. She took me out to lunch again on my birthday. Her birthday is tomorrow and I want to acknowledge it. Should I treat her to lunch? Should I just bring her a cupcake or a card or something?

What makes this awkward is that I’m a man and I’m afraid of any gesture like those I listed above being seen as inappropriate.

I‘ve only ever worked in situations where having a friendly and supportive boss in this way couldn’t (or just didn’t) happen, so don’t know what to do.

Help?

I was thinking about this the other day. We often talk of relaxing jobs. While the role of a job has an impact into whether or not a role is relaxing, other factors such as decisions from leadership, company culture, proper onboarding, having a knowledge database, the "landing" you're given to figure out your tasks, etc. also play a factor.

Additionally, what you are certified in may also play a role. It may open up jobs to you that have a higher tendency to be more "relaxing" or "boring" without micromanaging, timelines changed on a whim, no knowledge base, etc.

So what certifications will be able to provide one with a higher statistical chance of being in a "relaxing" or "boring" job? My job provides learning opportunities and alot of certifications, from financial to CRM to programming to data analyst.

Hello All!

Little background. I am in the IT space. Currently, I am a one man team for a local company. Probably paid a a bit under market for what I do.

Recently, I was contacted by another local business on LinkedIn. Same industry I work in currently. They have had a position open for 2 months. They wanted to see if I would be interested in applying and interviewing for said position. Even though I am fairly happy where I am at, I am hearing them out. I have an interview later this week.

This position would be a lateral move by title. Probably lateral/downward move by responsibility. It would also be a bump in pay, potentially up to 30% pay raise. This other company has an IT team of 3 or 4 based on research and what HR told me.

If they extend an offer after my interview this week, I expect that I will be in a great position to negotiate compensation since they are apparently having issues finding quality candidates.

Ultimately, my question is, how do I handle quitting my current job. My currently company is great. I report directly to my CEO. They are extremely flexible. Have a doctor's appointment, go ahead and leave and come back. No need to use PTO. Need to work from home, go do it. Want to take PTO time, just put it on the calendar, no approval needed.

On one hand, I want to give my current employer the chance to match the offer. The other hand, will they feel I owe more productivity because of the significant pay bump and grow to resent it.

The other thought is just resigning without giving a chance to match. Because I am a team of one, and I care for the others on the admin team, I don't want to just leave them high and dry on a two week notice. I was thinking to give maybe a 1 month notice, Try to get a new hire in and oriented to the company and try to get them up to speed.

What are your thoughts?

Hellos I’m 23 I’m currently a MA for a home and only make $18 an hour, the nursing field is so toxic and mentally draining I’ve been doing this for about 2 years and I don’t wanna be doing this for the rest of my life does anyone know any jobs that pay good and don’t need degrees?

Graduated near the top of my program and then immediately got humbled by office work.

In school I could pull an all-nighter, write some giant paper, sound smart in class, and people loved me for it. Then I got my first real job and suddenly I was the person forgetting attachments, missing tiny details, misunderstanding instructions, taking an hour on something everyone else finished in 10 minutes.

My boss was actually nice about it, which somehow made it worse. The vibe was basically “you’re obviously intelligent, but you’re weirdly unreliable sometimes.” I had never heard that before in my life.

The thing that hit me later was that school rewards effort and depth. Work rewards consistency. Nobody cares if you had a brilliant thought at 1am if you forgot to CC the client or sent the wrong version.

I started building little systems for dumb mistakes because I realized my brain was not going to magically become organized on its own. Stuff like forcing myself to repeat tasks back to people, checking emails in the same order every time, breaking work into smaller chunks instead of doing the “panic sprint before deadline” thing that got me through college.

At the same time I realized my resume sounded just as messy as my workflow. Everything read like “completed research project” or “assisted with X.” Completely lifeless. I rewrote a bunch of it to focus more on outcomes and actual decisions instead of academic-sounding filler.

At one point I had Resumeworded and my friend’s edits all open because I genuinely couldn’t tell anymore whether my resume sounded competent or like a sleep-deprived student trying to cosplay as a professional. helped me notice how much my bullets focused on effort instead of usefulness.

Honestly the hardest adjustment after college wasn’t intelligence. It was accepting that being “smart” and being “dependably useful every day” are not automatically the same thing.

Last month, I started working as an Email Marketing Coordinator for a Students' Union at a top University.

The work? I quite like it. I'm learning a lot, enjoying the work, always busy.

The culture is more the problem. Everyone's very chatty, opinionated, outgoing. I'm not like that. I'm introverted, quite nerdy and very involved in my work. I'm not a hermet, but not very outgoing.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I made a poor decision joining. On one hand no - the work is good and I'm learning HTML/CSS, analytics, testing, segmentation etc. On the other, the vibe is...not me.

I previosly worked in Communications for 2 years before this (although I was at that company for almost 5 years in total).

What do you think? What would you do?