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Career in Architecture. Introduction to the career:
By: Shashi Dream Foundation
Tags: Career Counseling, Jobs, Career Advice, Architecture, Career Change

Career in Architecture

Introduction to the career:

The architect’s prime role is to play, design, and oversee the construction of spaces for the residential and commercial areas. The profession of architecture is ever-changing and evolving. There is a lot to learn in this field, and applying the learning by innovative ideas and analytical skills would help you to reap the benefits from it. This field requires to have a lot of skills to succeed.

Introduction to the speaker: Dr. Harish Tripathi

Dr. Harish Tripathi

Dr. Harish Tripathi is a principal Architect at Architect Harish Tripathi and Associates, New Delhi, India. He served as Project Architect in Design Plus for two years. He completed his Bachelor in Architecture from Government College of Lucknow, India. Further, he completed his post-graduation and Philosophy of Doctorate in Architecture from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Indian Concrete Institute awarded Dr. Harish Tripathi for the EPFO project in Bhopal. Furthermore, he received Honour for Excellence from the Russian Centre of Science and Culture. He has all the required skills, which make him distinguished from the others.

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Eligibility for the career:

A career in commerce requires having either a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree. To attain a bachelor’s degree, an aspirant needs to have an educational pattern of 10+2 years. He/ She should have a minimum of 50 percent in the higher secondary from a recognized board. The compulsory subjects of Mathematics and English need to be studied in the 10+2. Further, the candidate must secure goof marks in NATA and JEE Mains.

Further, for a master’s degree, the aspirant needs to have a bachelor’s degree from any stream but needs to have a recognized university or college degree. Further, some colleges take admission based on the performance in the entrance examination.

Skill required

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Government Colleges:

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Private Colleges:

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Job Opportunities:

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Top Recruiters:

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Conclusion:

A career in architecture would be attractive, high paying, and provides much potential in terms of growth. The demand for an architect is currently high, and if you have the required skills and qualifications, you would be a successful architect. There is immense scope for the architect in India, being India a developing country. An architecture role is challenging, fascinating, and inspirational.
My Bio: Why I Write to Heal and Encourage Others
By: Emily Jennings
Tags: Self-awareness, Writing, Healing, Bio, Career Change

My Bio: Why I Write to Heal and Encourage Others

Photo of Author in Jeju Island

Hi, I’m Emily. I have always known I was a writer, ever since I was a child. I have been writing fiction for years. Now I write self-improvement posts on Medium. I keep things positive in my writing because I truly believe that humanity has a bright future if we all change our mindsets to healing ourselves and this planet.

Find my popular posts about consciousness, spirituality, healing, and meditation in the following links:

I like making websites, too. Since waking up to the unified consciousness, I decided to take action by using my skills in web development to heal others. So, I made the Awakening Journeys website. I am also planning to become a holistic healer in 2021, and offer people ways to begin healing their mind, body, and spirit.

I am currently a software engineer, but I’ve been through a very non-traditional journey. I studied philosophy at a university in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I started learning formally about metaphysics. I stayed there for five years and got a master’s there. I became a teacher in Jeju Island in South Korea at some point after that, and stayed there for five years, too. Then I had a baby and came back to the states.

I am a single mom, I live in Maryland now, and I know my true inner purpose. Life is beautiful.
Remarkable journey of determination and perseverance.
By: Ilana Golan
Tags: Leadership, Coaching, Job Hunting, Career Change, Personal Development

Remarkable journey of determination and perseverance. The way you built your reputation and network in the last few months is nothing short of impressive. Was wonderful having you in CareerLeap and a big part of our LEAP Network!
What I’m Doing Now: My First Steps in Becoming a UX Designer with Ironhack
By: Lauren Caitlin Fawcett
Tags: Tech, Ironhack, Ironhack Paris, UX Design, Career Change

In July 2020, I got my degree and thus began the hard realisation of what working in the cultural sector in France was truly like.

After months of job applications without even a rejection, trying to network while living in a rural area of France where nothing ever happens and becoming too accustomed to a lifestyle which you should only be living when you have chosen to retire in the country, I found myself in need of finding a job to be able to get out of the house, restart my twenties and start putting money aside in the hopes of being able to pursue a masters degree in September 2021.

One thing that is important to note in terms of the music industry, and more broadly the cultural sector in France, is how difficult it is to find a job because of how saturated the market is. I have been volunteering in the associative sector since I was 13, have organised my own events, have networked a fair amount in my short life and, all of this considered, my experience and measly bachelors were not enough for recruiters.

I started working in a small chain of restaurants in the city of Lyon in October, just to be let go of a couple of weeks later because I had been in contact with someone with COVID and informed my colleagues, going against the orders of my boss.

This led me to be forced to leave my new life, apartment and friends and go back to square one. This is where everything changed.

After a week or two of going through the motions, I had the realisation that for the first time in my life, I had all the time in the world to learn what I wanted to learn and do what I wanted to do.

My parents being people who are particularly at risk in COVID standards and the numbers growing ever higher in France, I decided to put the job search on hold and concentrate on learning Norwegian, a language that I’ve wanted to learn for the better half of a decade but also take the time every day to learn more about Graphic Design.

Meanwhile, my friend Clara (check her out) was working her way to becoming a web developer and had mentioned the Ironhack Bootcamps a couple of months earlier because she had received a scholarship during their partnership with Vinted. I started studying with FreeCodeCamp since I had learned a bit of HTML and CSS at university and to understand what was making her so happy. A friend we share is also in the tech industry and works as an art director and UX Designer in a startup in France. While talking about graphic design, he told me, since I had also shown interest in applied design in coding, to look into UX and UI as an option.

A week later, an email arrived in my Gmail’s junk folder from Indeed, telling me about a partnership they had with Ironhack. The coincidences were too much, I applied, passed the Technical Test and Interview and was one of the 10 people to receive a 50 % scholarship for their UX/UI Design Bootcamp.
Before deciding to pursue Cyber Security Career
Tags: Careers, Career Development, Career Advice, Cybersecurity, Career Change

Working in Cyber Security field is never for the faint of heart. It requires lifelong constant learning and experiments in addition to 9–6 job. Lifelong means it is really a lifelong — 20, 30 years from now as long as you work in the field.

Learning on the job may be limited as most of the times you may be applying what you’ve learned. No companies may give you enough time to study for each assigned project. You may be offered yearly 5-day bootcamp training which is definitely never enough.

Cyber security professionals do not disclose their worklife balance to the public. In fact, we don’t really care about worklife balance. We simply keep showing off our achievements, certification, CVEs, Hall-of-Fames, and bounties because we’re proud of ourselves.

Thus, one should only pursue this field only if he is driven by passion. Passion is the only driving factor for all cyber security professionals.

For those who like to switch to this career or want to try it out, one must ask the following questions and think carefully.

Can I commit to ongoing learning, research, experiment? This includes your personal time after work (both weekdays and weekends). You can rest some time but you will still have to go back to this default time spending. Why do you need to learn lifetime? We’re living in digital world and our economy is largely digital driven. There are always room for improvements which makes new technologies to be evolved. In digital world, the possibility of creation is boundless. With everyone accessibility to education materials at low or no cost, the possibility of learning is boundless. These two facts create endless creation. With each creation comes with insecurity. For each insecurity, you can’t attack stuff unless you know the basics of creation.

2. Can I commit to renew existing certification or take evolving new certification as per job requirements (every 3–5 year)?

3. Can I handle work stress and work hong hours in long term?

4. Can I handle relationship problems for not being able to give enough time to my partner? Can he/she accept the nature of job requirement?

5. Can I handle frequent work life balance issue?
Best IT Skills to Learn in 2021.
By: Anis Hasan
Tags: In Demand Skills, Best It Skills, Career Change, Technology

Best IT Skills to Learn in 2021 and Give Wings to your Career.

Looking to change fields and get into tech, but don’t know what skills you need to launch your career? Maximize your marketability by pursuing tech skills in demand for the future!

Regular or Continuous Learning is the most important thing, it will help you to keep updated with new skills and technologies and also help keep on track of the latest technology trends.

The world of technology is growing rapidly, and 2021 is going to see even more of a demand for IT skills and IT-related jobs.

It won’t be too long before technology starts to have another dramatic impact on the business world, and we are even starting to see the seeds of this being sown now.

As you know now, Information Technology (IT) is a very broad field and it keeps growing day-by-day, so there are lots of options you can take to start a technical career.

Companies know that in order to keep up with the latest in the field, they need to hire individuals with the relevant Technology Skills.

So, it is the right time to start your career in Information Technology, you can just start with basic technology skills that will help you to open doors to your career in technology which results in the increment of your salary as well.

If you are looking to switch your career to technology but don’t know which technology skill you should learn to launch your new career path.

Here are 15 in-demand technology skills you can learn and give wings to your career and start flying in 2021 and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Cybersecurity Data Science and Analytics Cloud Computing Internet of Things (IoT) UI/UX Design Mobile Development Extended Reality (Virtual Reality — VR and Augmented Reality — AR) Blockchain Product Management Robotics Salesforce Quantum Computing General Programming Languages

You can check this list at www.digitalstock.co.in in detail along with detailed facts, statistics data, average salary for each skill set, future prospects of each technology, etc.

You can select any among the above listed skills set or technology which will suit you to quick start your technology career in 2021 and beyond. Having competency one or a few of them can set you on the right career path.

So investing your time and money in learning them can be extremely rewarding based on today’s market demands and dynamics. Plus you keep reaping dividends from them in years to come.

Happy Learning.!!!
Changing Careers: How I Became a Software Engineer
By: Emily Jennings
Tags: Self Improvement, Careers, Software Engineering, Career Change, Software Development

Changing Careers: How I Became a Software Engineer

Photo by Fionn Claydon on Unsplash

I watched every episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley while on maternity leave in Jeju-do, South Korea. It was 2016 and I had been overseas for almost five years teaching, while the new concept of a “tech startup” developed back home in America. After watching this show and seeing how much fun these “coders” were having, I wondered, what’s coding?

I never imagined I’d be doing it.

If you’re worried about changing careers but you feel you need to try something new, it’s never too late.

I moved with my daughter back to the states later that year and began to find a new job. I thought I’d like to work in tech, so I tried to combine my education background with something in the tech scene. I eventually landed a job at a coding bootcamp as a campus manager, and moved to Philadelphia.

In my new role, I forged partnerships with local tech companies and helped students change careers. Watching the students land jobs as software engineers after intense study over just a few months, I learned how I could do the same. I knew what a career-changer needed in terms of interview skills, resumes, and networking.

A year later, I landed a job at another coding bootcamp doing enrollments. In this role, I had access to their entire online software engineering curriculum as an employee. A few months after I started working there, I made the decision to commit to the program. I had a toddler and a full-time job, so why not?

I studied on my own for months. I knew that the most important aspect I needed was a portfolio to showcase at least three projects. I used Ruby on Rails to create a school registration site and React to create a game about space. Most importantly, I created a personal website that was eye-catching.

Since I had helped coding bootcamp students land jobs for a couple of years at that point, I knew how to apply for jobs and format my resume. I already knew about preparing for tech interviews, too. That doesn’t mean it was easy. I just knew how to get to my goal.

I interviewed for many jobs, and eventually landed an entry-level position at a tech startup, and the rest is history.

If you’re worried about changing careers but you feel you need to try something new, it’s never too late. You’ll never know what you can become unless you try.
Why did I leave?
By: Christian Pearce
Tags: Career Development, Reflections, Career Advice, Software Engineering, Career Change

An insight that occurred to me during my evaluation about my career was how the environment, unchecked, will shape it. I joined as a senior infrastructure specialist. The infrastructure specialist role is corporate speak for “I work on servers”. When you add the word senior it means I have been around long enough to fix more problems than I created.

I had the fortunate opportunity to be promoted to cloud architect. This position gave me a lot of freedom to set the technical direction for the company, and allowed me to work on projects on my own terms. It resulted in a lot of great skill building which ironically led to me leaving the company.

The difficulty I faced was that Hershey’s culture is essentially focused on managers and teams, and leaves very little room for independent contributors rising to higher levels of the organization. As a result there are only a couple roles I could be promoted to. Unexamined you think those are the roles you want.

I am not one for titles or promotion as a sign of value or identity, but it is a measure. I worked hard and solved a lot of very tough technical problems during my time. It was difficult to witness a management track that could reward people accordingly and a technical track that doesn’t match the same progression.

All that negativity aside, I decided I didn’t want any company holistically to shape my career. I allowed myself to be lured into the path of “what is next” by what the company had to offer, not what can I offer the world and what can the world offer me. I was easily enticed by the company’s career path because the first promotion was rewarding.

It is a poor reason to consider leaving just because you feel a technical promotion won’t happen. But it is a good reason if you have grown, and the relationship is no longer mutually beneficial. One of the things I wanted was corporate experience, but I need to work with people who understand my technical capability and how it can be applied regardless of my title.

On the other hand, allowing an environment to shape me can also be a force of good. I felt my skills were getting stale. Even though I was adopting new skills, learning cloud providers like Azure and AWS, working with infrastructure as code tools like terraform, and automating builds with CI/CD pipelines, those skills were underutilized and not well understood by others in the department. I needed others around me who wanted to solve the problems with code to continue to challenge me.
Table Stakes: Goodbye Executive Recruiting, Hello Furniture Making
By: Andrew Levine
Tags: Careers, Life Lessons, Work, Career Change, Second Act Stories

Table Stakes: Goodbye Executive Recruiting, Hello Furniture Making

Sheldon Myeroff is a true entrepreneur. He launched Direct Recruiters, Inc at the age of 31 and successfully grew the business into a major, executive recruiting firm.

But after 37 years at the helm of the company, he embarked on an exit plan — turning over the management of the company to a group of partners.

“They wanted to grow. And they wanted to have their name on the front door. So, one day I just said, ‘Okay, let’s just sell this place and you guys will buy it.’ And they worked out a beautiful buyout. They didn’t have to put one nickel down and they paid me everything for 10 years. I trusted them and they came through.”

That’s when Sheldon installed an elaborate wood shop in his basement. And over the past seven years, he has turned a hobby of work working and furniture making into a booming business called Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.

The business had a rough start. According to Sheldon, “I tried to be everything to everybody. So, if somebody said they wanted a bunk bed, I built them a bunk bed. If a guy said he wanted a stereo cabinet, I built him a stereo cabinet. So, I was making all these different projects, didn’t really know what I was doing. I hadn’t been in a manufacturing business ever in my life and didn’t understand the concepts of how to make money in the furniture industry.”

But one day a client asked, “Can you build me a wooden table with resin down the middle?” When he asked his production manager, the reply came back, “What’s resin?” So they went on the internet and figure out how to build the table.

Today, Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture is the #1 manufacturer of custom-made “river tables.” A river table is two pieces of natural wood with a “river” of epoxy resin flowing down the middle. According to Sheldon, “It quickly became 80% of our business.”

The company has moved out of Sheldon’s basement into a 6,000 square foot workshop with nine employees. And the Covid-19 pandemic has actually been good for business. “We deal with a lot with baby boomers and they have all the money right now. They have saved and they’re going into their retirement homes and they want to live a nice life. But they can’t travel and they can’t visit their grandkids. So they buy a nice table for their house.”
Navigating 4 Career Situations with the Help of a Career Expert
By: Kavita Neelakantan
Tags: Career Paths, Careers, Career Development, Career Advice, Career Change

Just like every individual is different similarly, every career is different. So, how you approach a career will depend on your situation. A career expert can help you navigate your careers in a more efficient and successful manner. In this article, we share with you what career experts mantra is to negotiate certain career situations.

Pursuing your passion: You are fortunate if you are in a career that has been your passion. At one end, it sounds fantastic, but it may not always be rosy. It can be a lonely and bumpy road, but remember that it is what you love to do. So stay strong and keep moving forward. And if you are planning to take the leap and are scared or confused, then just ask yourself whether it is worth it? Can you live without trying? If in case the answer is yes, then go ahead, be bold and take the risk. Not in your dream job: Maybe you are not in your dream job, but that is okay as well. Every job teaches you something, the skills you learn prepare you for better opportunities and strengthen your resume. Besides, you may also not be aware of what your passion really is? So, it is better to try out different kinds of careers until you find the one that you want to pursue for the rest of your life. Just keep working hard and learn to appreciate your responsibilities, you may actually start to enjoy what you are doing. To be the best at your career: A positive attitude along with hard work is the best advice that a career expert will offer to you in such a situation. Get rid of doubts that prevent you from taking charge and more responsibilities. No opportunity waits for you. If you do not take it, someone else will. So, stop hesitating and waiting for the perfect opportunity. Just grab as many opportunities to excel as possible. Make the best use of your strengths instead of trying to do everything. Other qualities that you need to inculcate include patience, tenacity, perseverance, and confidence. You should be able to take criticism and learn from feedback. Make as many contacts as possible as it adds value to your profile. Looking for career transition: There can be many reasons why you would want to change your career. It may be a voluntary or an involuntary decision nevertheless, career transition is possible if you approach it smartly. The first step is to make up your mind and commit yourself to the transition. Next comes evaluating your goals, skills, interests and building a skill map. Once you have this, you will become aware of what are your skill gaps and key transferable skills? Then you can identify opportunities to overcome the gap. Do not forget to network and connect with peers in the industry you aim to join.

Final Words

If you still have doubts and need clarity, sign up to a session with a career expert. The expert will try to understand your situation and equip you with the best tools to move forward successfully!
Making a career switch: From Marketing to your Own Sustainable Brand
By: Fashion Musa
Tags: Career Paths, Careers, Career Development, Marketing, Career Change

Have you heard that changing careers is the new normal? Many people argue that the era of specialisation is over. Having a broad range of experiences that create a unique skill set is considered valuable in a world that changes at the speed of light.

Just because you are working within a certain department does not mean that this would be your end goal. Either acting as an intrapreneur or entrepreneur, the sky is the limit when it comes to what you are passionate about.

Not sleepwear, smilewear.

This is the case with Tatiana Anufrieva, Marketing Manager and founder of the sustainable brand HappyPijama.

After 20 years of experience in marketing and general management of International companies and being enriched with different culture experiences — living in Russia, USA, Netherlands and Belgium, she decided that it is the right time to implement her own dreams and ideas.

You can get in touch with her through her business page here.

All her professional and personal life she got energy and happiness from people around the globe, art, design, fashion and technology. She also always wanted to create something that could combine all of that and would make people feel happier.

Lots of brands are trying to do that, you would say. But not many think and offer fashion which would make us happier when we are at home and sleeping.

So, she thought, it would be great to have not just sleepwear, it would be great to have smilewear. The wear which would be good on my skin, but also would be good for the planet, that would make me smile and feel better at the moment of going to bed and when opening my eyes in the morning.

That is how the Happy Pijama idea was born.
Building Software as Full-stack Engineer with Hana Aliyah Mufida
By: Girls Kode
Tags: Women In Tech, Girlskodestory, Digital, Career Change, Technology

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Hana Aliyah Mufida is a Fullstack Engineer at ION. Last week, Girls Kode has a special opportunity to hear Hana Aliyah Mufida’s journey from herself. Here’s the journey:

From Geology to Coding

Do you have any interest in changing your career in the middle of your study? No worry! Hana also experienced that, but not when she still in university. Once graduated, Hana has several jobs before working as a full-stack engineer. At that time, she still doesn’t feel like she fit the job.

Although she was graduated from Geophysical Engineering from ITB, she learned about full-stack engineering from a Bootcamp program. After joining the Bootcamp, she realized that there are many opportunities to have a technology and digital career.

Trial and Error type of learner

Not only from Bootcamp, but there are also many various Full-stack learning sources. Some of them are w3school and online courses. It might cost a bit, but it worth the gain.

“Since full-stack engineers do both front-end and back-end, I suggest everyone who wants to learn full-stack to understand front-end stuff and its language: javascript.”

Javascript is preferably easy and used a lot in full-stack engineering. Not only the computer and programming language but also foreign language such as English is important. Communication is the key to success.

“By doing it, we can also know what’s wrong if there’s an error. So, never give up!”

Studying programming is by doing and analyzing which works and doesn’t. After learning some new stuff, do practice to strengthen the memory.

Vacancy is everywhere

Online has been a trend. We can know every information we need just by clicks, so does job vacancy. LinkedIn is a hot spot for everyone to post or look for a job vacancy. Hana gets her chance as a full-stack engineer at ION from LinkedIn. Yes, skills and competencies speak! Even though she isn’t graduated with a technology and digital major, but she has the skills and competencies for the job.

“Just Do It”

Where there’s a will there’s away.

If you want to have a different career from your study, you can look out for an online course, Bootcamp, or another learning source. Set your goal, give your best shot, and have confidence.

Crave for more insight? You can check it on our IGTV. Let’s get IT!

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Follow Your Dream
By: Alycia Matthews
Tags: Career Development, Career Change, Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Dreams

I am at the stage in my class work that I have to begin thinking more about the future. I remember getting a book by Dr. Seuss from a teacher when I was graduating called “Oh The Places You Will Go”, but who knew I would be deciding on what restaurant to go to, to get my kitchen experience in order to complete my dream of earning a culinary certification? So I lost a lot of sleep researching every restaurant that was on the list that the school provided. I have a few things that of course creates a bit of anxiety for me.

The externship must begin in October 210 hours

I have a fulltime job to work around, so my availability is limited to weekends, and evenings if I can get to the city in time.

I am selecting a restaurant that is located in New York, so the commute is another challenge

Finally, I am used to going into interviews confident that I have work history to back up what I say, and in this instance I have to call the contacts that the school provides and set up a “trail” at the restaurant.

A trail is basically working a shift at a restaurant for no monetary compensation, and it serves as an interview for both parties, me deciding if I am interested in working at this restaurant, and them deciding if I am skilled enough to join their team. Bottom line… its an audition.

I recognize this post seems slightly whiny and not as exciting as the past posts sharing my journey, but I think it is important to share the great moments and the moments of uncertainty. This is just the reality of making my dreams come true, it is not all fun and tasty food, it is about difficult decisions and discomfort, and just processing and deciding my next moves. Ultimately I know that I will be where I need to be, and if it were simple everyone would be leaping toward their passion.

I have selected my top 3 places that I would like to get my externship, and now it will just depend on my schedule and the restaurant’s flexibility with my schedule, once I impress them when I trail :). I know that the reward at the end will be worth the discomfort of a few more months.

This past couple of weeks have been focused on breakfast and sandwiches. I will share some of the photos from those lessons to end on a more exciting note.
Burnout Relief Strategies
By: Shawna Lake
Tags: Bored At Work, Burnout, Job Stress, Career Coach, Career Change

Are you suffering from burnout? Whether it is caused by work issues, stress at home, relationship challenges, or a combination of all them, it can cause a frightening feeling of hopelessness!

Burnout often causes a feeling of numbness and not knowing how to get your life headed back in the right direction.

Take heart — hope is not lost! There are some strategies you can utilize to overcome burnout, once and for all.

Try these techniques to get relief from burnout:

1. Do not blame yourself. Life is hectic and stressful, especially with all the intense demands placed on our shoulders. If you are feeling burnt out, rather than blaming yourself, be proactive in getting back in the saddle so you can feel like yourself again.

· Remember, you are in control of your destiny. Focus on what you can do, not what you think you should do.

2. Stop being so serious. With the stress and responsibilities, you carry daily, you may need some plain ol’ silly time. Release your inhibitions and have some fun!

· Whether it be dancing in your living room or swinging on the swings at a local park, take some time to find your inner child again. This will help you let go of your current stress level, even if it is just for a little while.

· Making time to have fun will give you a chance to refocus and get your life and priorities back to where they need to be.

3. Stay healthy. It is important to stay in peak physical condition when you are under constant stress. Eat many servings of fruits and vegetables, drink large amounts of water, and exercise.

· Fit exercise into your busy schedule by making an appointment with yourself to exercise, and then keep your appointment!

4. Improve your time management skills. You may be burnt out because you are trying to fit a week’s worth of stuff into a single day. Unfortunately, that is impossible! Learning how to budget the time in your day more effectively will relieve a lot of this time pressure and stress.

· Good time management will lessen the feeling of being overwhelmed, as well as enable you to have the time you need to do what you want to do.

5. Get enough sleep. This allows your body to rest, rejuvenate, and start the upcoming day with more energy. You can also deal with stressful situations better when you are alert and focused.

· If you adhere to the 8 hours per night rule, you will find yourself more focused, levelheaded, and patient.

Final Thoughts on Burnout

No matter how you may try to sugar coat it, modern life is not easy. It is no wonder that sometimes we feel like we cannot juggle everything anymore!

Although these feelings are normal from time to time, they can escalate out of control.

Before we reach that point, it is important to get our lives back in the right direction. These burnout strategies and tips will enable you to better handle every-day stresses so you can enjoy all the amazing gifts life has to offer!
Post- 3 Work
Tags: Career Change, Work Life Balance, Working From Home

Post- 3 Work

In August this year I started a new job. To explain what I actually do would take far too long and would put an insomniac to sleep. Suffice to say, I work in operations for an investment firm so I do financial admin.

I have been told I have a good job. But what makes the job good? It has the benefits of a pension scheme, health insurance, a healthy bonus scheme (or so I’m told) and an above average salary. So by those measures it is a good job. It is also currently taking up approximately 60 hours of my week, and I cant say that I wake up every morning excited to sit at a computer and track the ins and outs of the funds for hours on end each day. So maybe not such a good job then….

Did you ever look back and wonder how you ended up where you are? I’ve been doing that a lot lately, both personally and professionally. In college I was quite good with accounting and finance. I kept choosing those electives because I could boost my average grade by getting high marks with minimum effort. I also enjoyed being able to figure out financial problems and come up with a solution. When I found an elective called financial markets, I envisioned myself making my millions on Wall St.

See when it comes to my intellectual ability I have a bit of an undeserved ego. I can often think I’m smarter than I actually am. Luckily I’m also quite quiet and usually only pipe up when I’m sure I know what I’m talking about. So I quietly went about my business in this financial markets class, got a good grade and found I was actually interested in the markets. This lead me to signing up for a MSc in UCC specializing in investment banking. This was much tougher than I’d like to admit and I would say I struggled at times. I got my 2.1 and got out of Cork.

Then it was time to find a job. I remember while I was in college my brother slagged me for doing Business Studies. “What are you going to do with a Business degree? Become a business man? Sure anyone can do that”. So I wanted to get a job that used my degrees and paid well to prove college wasnt a waste of time.

A google search lead me to a job in Wexford with a large American bank. I spent 7 months in Wexford and met some great people but I was never settled there as there isnt much going on. Luckily I was able to transfer to the Dublin office.

Fast forward 6 years and I decided to leave the bank and take a job with one of our clients. The reason behind this move was to push myself to a new challenge. I was bored of what I was doing in the bank and wanted a change. And a change is what I have gotten. The new role is a big change from my last.

The question I keep asking is, do I really want a challenging role that takes up my entire week. Do I really want to dedicate this much of my time to a career I’m not excited about? Is money really that important, or would I be happier with a different job and more free time to enjoy my life?

I’m starting to think the latter would be a better option…..
Great article about changing careers!
By: Dr. Derek Austin
Tags: Careers, Working In A Pandemic, Life Lessons, Work, Career Change

I’ve talked about losing my dream job because of Covid-19, which led to me going all-in on a career switch to web development from physical therapy:

But I knew by the time I finished PT school that the degree cost way too much, all the more so for not having improved my actual clinical skills:

Then I got fired from a company after a disagreement with my manager about scheduling, so I ended up moving across the country for travel PT work, but there I experienced bullying and harassment:

Thanks for sharing your story and the great advice! Best of luck in healthcare management, and please feel free to connect on LinkedIn!
So, I find myself here.
By: Evelina Berg
Tags: JavaScript, Bootcamp, Women In Tech, Technigo, Career Change

Technigo Code Starter Kit

Not in the middle of nowhere, even though it sometimes may feel like it.

No, I find myself here.

In the middle of code.

In the middle of an intense Javascript Boot Camp, taking most of my so called free time.

In the middle of things I’ve never heard of before.

In the middle of new people. Of new conversations. Of new jokes and hints.

In the middle of tech.

Sorry, did I just say that? No, I’m definitely not in the middle of tech. I’m more or less standing at the gates, looking in on a new arena. Waiting, patiently. Struggling to find the courage to actually take the first steps onto the field.

Here.

In the middle of code.

In the middle of an intense Javascript Boot Camp.

In my beginning of tech.
Who is Rubin Ritter and why is he leaving his job?
By: Rejoice Denhere
Tags: Support, Zalando, Career Change, Business

Who is Rubin Ritter and why is he leaving his job?

Image by Mediamodifier on Pixabay

If you have never heard of him the latest news headlines will by now be filling your news feed. He is the CEO of fashion retailer Zalando.

Rubin is stepping down from his position as CEO to support his wife’s career. They apparently agreed that her professional ambitions would take priority. He has also said that he would like to focus more on his growing family.

Would you resign from your job to support your partner’s career?
It’s Never Too Late to Start Over
By: How To Become The Vip Of Your Life
Tags: Self Love, Success, VIP, Career Change, Switchon

(Don’t Quit!)

More and I coach the more I discover that people are more willing to endure nearly any pain voluntarily to keep from starting over… especially when it come to their dreams for their future.

Everyday or two I will speak with someone stuck in a life, job, relationship or “situation” that has them looking for a way out. The more of these conversations that I am a part of these conversations the more I realize that fear of starting over is the biggest reason while people remain in the place that they are in. What is even more intriguing is that most successful people have taken huge risk that resulted in them being forced to retool or restart; and this is usually what they consider the turning point of their journey.

So why is that with all we not know about the pathway that the big winners in the world have taken, do many people find it so hard to risk starting over to reach their dreams? I would say that the key for me was understanding that this was not the problem, it was a symptom of a larger problem.

What I mean is a Tylenol can help get rid of a headache but it cannot tell you the reason your head started hurting or stop you from doing what is making your head hurt. What it can do is mask the real problem. The unwillingness to start over is like Tylenol for the headache created by the struggle to survive without your dream. Avoiding starting over kills the pain of regret and lack of fulfillment that forces other to do anything to make it go away, including starting over from day one.

I am not advocating starting over for the sake of quitting or that it will be easy. What I am saying is that the unwillingness to make it a viable option can dull the pain you need to feel to get to live the life that you may feel is slowly slipping away.

So you make excuses to keep the progress you have made, regardless of its actual value to the journey of your dreams. You hold on tightly to your “worn out tools” instead of risking it all “at one turn of pitch and toss” ready to “never breathe a word about your loss.” These are quotes from Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If.” The poem eloquently shares the secret to possess “the world and all that is in it,” if you can follow the simple advice that it prescribes.

How simple life would be if we could embrace our future opportunities without the burdens of the past weighing on us so heavily that they fan the flames of fear that is burning our future to the ground.

I did a short video on this topic that many have found helpful. Let me know what you think?

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From biologist to web developer
By: Teodora Pesic
Tags: Self Improvement, Motivation, Inspiration, Career Change, Web Development

Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash

I believe many people struggle with themselves to make proper decisions. We need to navigate our way through the world. We have to make complex choices at young age.

At the end of highschool, I was not struggling where to continue studying.

I remember that I was clearly against going to Faculty of Electronic Engineering. It was a school for boys (in my head), and to be honest, I didn’t think that I was smart enough for it. I was doing good with biology and I thought that was something easy for me to learn and someday I would work as a scientific researcher.

Going through five years of college was actually easy for me. I know how to study hard, so I was getting good grades which led me to the scholarship.

When I was on my Master studies, I got more realistic picture of the world. In my country there were not many jobs for natural scientists. I started working on my master thesis and then realized that our laboratory doesn’t have equipment like it should. We had little choice which experiments to work on.

Regardless, I hoped that somewhere is some scholarship for me to go study on college in another country which is more developed than mine.

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash

From day to day, I was surfing the web and found out that more and more people were learning web development on their own. I knew nothing about web development back then, so I searched Google for tutorials and that’s when I found W3Schools. There I gained some basic knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3. What I didn’t know then is that was not nearly enough for call it “basic knowledge”.

At that moment I needed to finish my master thesis, so I put learning web development for some other time. Luckily, a few months later I met my present fiance who is a senior full stack developer and he directed me where to learn from.

Now, I am working in a Software company as a junior software developer.
I’m Starting a New Career in Nigeria
By: Brynn Mahnke
Tags: Twitter, Humor, Satire, Career Change, Fashion

HUMOR

I’m Starting a New Career in Nigeria

Fashion is my new game

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf. While in the past, I’ve spoken about my inability to use Twitter as well as my lack of fashion sense, the time has come to embrace my new calling.

A new follower on Twitter was kind enough to announce my new career as a budding freelance fashion designer.

Twitter snip, credit: Author

Now that the world knows the truth, what choice do I have but to join the ranks of unisex fashion designers all over the world?

December is the perfect time to leave Nebraska. The winter that makes your face hurt when you leave the house is still a few weeks away, and I’ve heard Nigeria is warm this time of year. I just finished up my second to last college course, too, so the timing couldn’t be better.

Why Nigeria? I think the better question would be why not?

Fashion and beauty are in the eye of the beholder, honestly, and I think I could be great at making clothes that everyone will adore. Who cares if I can currently barely manage to put together a matching outfit?

And who better than a tomboy from the Midwest to design unisex apparel that will appeal to Nigerians? Asked, and answered. Look out, world, here I come!
Switching Careers From a Career You Love
Tags: Self-awareness, Careers, Coding, Music, Career Change

People rarely talk about the emotional investment that is made when switching careers. Considering the myriad of different reasons someone might feel the need to change lanes, I’ve found there to be a black hole of support when it comes to the difficulty of re-directing your whole life in a different direction.

I’m 31 years old and I’ve been a musician my whole life. For about 20 of those years, I’ve been a working guitarist. In April, 2020 (the best year so far, I think we can all agree) I decided to learn how to code. I couldn’t really see myself navigating whatever the music industry is right now and continue to put food on the table.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, being an artist is just brutal to begin with. In my mind, performing has pretty much made the struggle worth it, but I have often felt a nagging reminder of the lack of longevity most musicians have. Of course I have wondered in the past if I’ll be able to do this full time for my whole life, and what it would mean to try something else if the gigs dried up. These thought experiments really never lasted that long, because I always had to snap out of it and learn the damn music for the gig I had that night.

I’d say that this year, the gigs finally dried up. I really never thought that would happen, and it’s surreal to see it in writing as I type this. I mean, who could conceptualize such an idea? Entire industries falling to their knees, seemingly overnight? It’s been hard.
Finding New Life: From Writer to Funeral Director
By: Andrew Levine
Tags: Careers, Life Lessons, Work, Career Change, Second Act Stories

Finding New Life: From Writer to Funeral Director

For more than 30 years, Amy Cunningham worked as a writer. She worked on staff and on a freelance basis for a wide range of top magazines.

But she often found the work difficult. “I don’t think I enjoyed my life as a writer. I was very hard on myself. I tortured myself. I had such a hierarchical view of what writers were ahead of me and better than I was, and I would turn that on myself, and nothing was ever good enough.”

When her father passed away in 2009, his funeral had a profound impact on her. “It was a music-infused, well-rehearsed, gorgeous funeral event in his honor, and we felt that it represented his values really well. And we were hugging people and sort of basking in his legacy at the end in a way that sent me back to Brooklyn thinking about it and how sad I was that he had died, but how enthralled I was with the way the funeral had gone that it left me with this feeling, ‘Wow, that’s really beautiful work.’”

When she returned to Brooklyn, she had an epiphany during a kitchen conversation with her husband.

“It was like a lightbulb came on above my head. I was already 54 years old. My kids were in high school and I was getting instructions for them to be a little less of a hovering mom. And I had been praying and trying to conjure up a new direction because I felt like I had the energy to do something meaningful and new, but I didn’t know what it was going to be.”

Amy enrolled in mortuary school to become a licensed funeral director. After graduation she did a yearlong residency at the Greenwood Heights Funeral and Cremation Services. She then stayed on for three years working as a full-time licensed director.

Ten years later, Amy owns and manages Fitting Tribute Funeral Services in Brooklyn, New York. And she has built a name for herself as an advocate of green and sustainable practices within the funeral industry. She has been profiled in The New York Times and a range of trade publications.

Her work as a writer continues. But now she is writing her own industry blog called “The Inspired Funeral.” “Once I began to write about the funeral industry, the words just flew out of my fingers, and I had no anxiety about what I was about to say and how to say it. It was like a miracle. So you could describe it as I found my beat, I found myself.”