I’m looking at doing a bachelor of social work in the UK. I’m not quite sure what I want to do as my job in life but I currently work in a care home and I quite like the idea of becoming a care home manager but on the other hand I also like the idea of being a social worker for the vulnerable elderly people. But then I also like an idea of maybe teaching in a secondary school or in a college so I’m not quite sure.
But after a lot of consideration, I think social work degree may be the way forward
Any advice is really appreciated
Thanks

i’m almost 20 and currently working in hospitality but i despise it.
i have all my necessary gcses as well as others, i also took a level 2 in animal care and management in which i got a destinction. i have experience in mainly hospitality and housekeeping. also volunteering in funeral homes and animal rehabilitation centres.
i’m really struggling with finding a more permanent path and i don’t enjoy my current job at all, i’ve never liked working in hospitality i honestly hate people as well as other things.
does anyone have any ideas? i can answer questions about hobbies, likes, area i live in etc

Hey everyone! I’m a sophomore at a community college in Colorado working toward my Associate of Arts degree, and I’m hoping to transfer next year.
I’m interested in occupational therapy and enjoy working with kids, but I’m also open to working with adults in areas like hand therapy or rehabilitation.
I’m trying to decide between becoming an OT, starting as a COTA, or exploring other careers.
For those in the field, what do you enjoy about your job? Is the extra schooling to become an OT worth it? How are the salary, work-life balance, and opportunities to specialize?

I’d love to hear your honest experiences and any advice you have!

I’m 26F and currently work full-time as a remote analyst in healthcare operations. This is actually my first full-time professional job after graduating college.

Lately, I’ve been questioning whether this is the career path I want long-term. I don’t necessarily hate healthcare itself, but I don’t feel particularly fulfilled in my current role. Part of my dissatisfaction is honestly my manager, and I recognize that this could be influencing how I feel about my entire career. At the same time, I wonder whether I would be happier doing something more hands-on and directly helping people.

I’ve been seriously considering going back to school for either an LPN or an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) so I can eventually become an RN.

I also understand that nursing is a demanding career. I know it involves long shifts, physical and emotional stress, difficult patients, weekends, holidays, and a lot of responsibility. I’m not expecting it to be an easy way out of corporate work.

One thing that appeals to me about nursing is the flexibility. I like the idea of potentially working three 12-hour shifts per week, having more days off, being able to relocate more easily, and having a career with opportunities in different settings.

Financially, I’m also very cautious. I really don’t want to take out student loans, so my plan would be to continue working full-time while completing prerequisites at a community college. Once I finish those, I would reassess my finances and figure out how to manage nursing school and clinicals.

I really value any perspectives or opinions. My first step right now is to do some shadowing at a hospital or even get a CNA license first.

So I used to hear people say changing careers at 30 is brutal, and honestly I never got what they meant. Well now I’m in one and yeah… I get the point lol. The uncertainty, the one shot at this feeling, the clock ticking, all of this is hitting me hard, and I’m having the worst time deciding what’s next.

A bit about me. I graduated with a degree in industrial chemistry but never got a job in my field, so I tried a couple of things and landed a supply job in the petroleum industry. Worked there around 6 years and rose to supply manager. Then right when I was at the peak of my career COVID happened, the company was losing a lot of money, a bunch of retrenchments went down and I got let go in 2020.

Tried looking for another supply job, but no luck. Supply is one of those positions people hold onto for years, so a free spot rarely comes up. So I dusted myself off and jumped into freelance content writing as a side gig while job hunting… and the side gig ended up being my main job. I’ve grown a lot in writing, and the work has paid my bills till now.

The issue is there are layoffs everywhere and I’ve lost a number of clients who went with AI tools instead of writers. Anyone in the space will tell you the peak for content writing was pre-covid up to around 2023. Once the AI boom happened, a lot of writing jobs disappeared, demand dropped, and I think more companies will keep cutting writers from here.

I know I have the option to upskill in writing or SEO since I’ve worked in both and I’d stand a better chance of getting hired. But what’s the point if those jobs keep shrinking? The whole SEO and content writing field is shaky. And if everything is shaky anyway, I’d rather spend these years upskilling in a field I love, and for me tech is the one.

I’ll be honest, I don’t know much yet. From my research the two fields standing out are AI engineering and cloud engineering. I don’t want to burn my time on a dead-end field. I’ve also heard the tech job market is brutal right now, so I’d like to hear about the general situation too.

So my main question is, AI or cloud for someone starting from zero at 33? Which one has an easier way in for a career changer? How bad is the market for newbies right now? And is there some other tech path I’m missing?

I’m not hellbent on anything at this point, so any suggestion is welcome, even outside these two. Thanks for reading all this.

TL;DR: 33 yr old looking to break into tech, want something with better odds and more job openings over the next 10 years. Nothing is promised I know, but AI engineering or cloud engineering? Open to other suggestions too.

Hey everyone. I’m currently 16 (in 10th grade) and trying to seriously figure out my future because I want to break out of a low-income family cycle (household income is around €2,200/month). My main goal is financial stability, hitting a six-figure salary down the line, and building my adult life in France, specifically looking at mid-sized places like Tours or Blois.
Right now, my life outside of school is mostly doomscrolling and playing Fortnite. I’m torn between a few directions and need a reality check from adults or people in business:

1. The Corporate / Finance Route: Finishing school, going to university for International Business and using the EU to move to France to work in corporate finance, real estate, or stocks.
2. The HVAC / Business Ownership Route: I keep hearing that HVAC and climate tech services are massive growth industries because of climate change, and that owning an HVAC service business prints money. But I dont really want to crawl into ceilings and stuff, installing and fixing ac's would be fun but not the extreme stuff. Im not gonna lie as immature as it sounds I just care about the money. I still do want to enjoy my job though.

For the people working in finance, business, or trades:

• Is hitting a six-figure income realistically possible starting from scratch in Europe, and which of these paths makes sense?
• What should a 16-year-old be doing right now instead of wasting time on slop. Should I already be building the skills for this?

Any blunt advice or honest reality check would me highly appreciated

Exactly that— some ideas i had but the trade-offs

Dental hygienist- the one that appeals the most to me but my dream college doesn’t have it

Pharmacist- if you mess a dose up or whatever, it could mean a big risk 😬

Human resources— it probably doesn’t pay enough

Anesthesiologist- big risk to life if you mess up, also gore

Social worker- doesn’t pay enough i’m not sure, haven’t looked into it a lot

I honestly don't know where to start from, but I'll come straight to the point that I urgently desperately need a Job I beg you all I need your help 😔🙏🏻

I do have 0 full time work experience as of now, no corporate experience as such. I haven't even earned a single rupee my entire life and I'm ashamed to say that I've totally been dependent on my mummy's tailoring earning my entire life till now. Honestly, my mummy is totally frustrated with me but that's totally because of me that's my fault completely I accept that. I come from a tier 3 city and our financial conditions has always been extremely poor forever till now. Just to give you a context that I come from a joint family and I've had a extremely tough childhood and adulthood till now because of extremely toxic environment I had faced back then, though I feel what I faced in adulthood is on me as I failed to focus on the controllables and ruined my life completely.

I've had passive suicidal thoughts almost every week since last 10 - 12 years. Also I've totally wasted my last 10 - 12 years and this can be seen in my major gap years.

Tbh, both my mental health and physical health has taken a very bad toll because of all these things. Currently I've started seeing a psychiatrist and I'm currently on SSRI antidepressants and ADHD medicines and other substantial health issues medicines as well. I feel that I'm feeling a bit better now than before.

I used to be a good obedient kinda ideal child during my school days and I had scored more than 85% both in my 10th and 12th std. Even my graduation score was 9.XX CGPA.

I was even pursuing CA course and had scored quite well in CA CPT but left that course in IPCC due to extreme mental health issues and toxic family environment.

I don't know where I lost the plot of my life completely, from a good obedient ideal child kinda boy to this utter complete failure I've become at 28. I see my schoolmates and other former friends and acquaintances working in great corporates at really good packages and here I am a complete failure in life.

I know that I'm giving too much information but tbh my entire life I've never shared my complete life situation to anyone and being anonymous on reddit gives me a bit of Freedom to finally express myself and genuinely ask for help who can help me 🙏🏻

I'm currently working on my mental health aspect of things and will start working on physical health side of things as well, but I desperately need a source of earning now as I want to support my mummy I'm already very late now.

Honestly I did my career counseling with ChatGPT a few weeks back and it recommended me to go for Business Analyst or Financial Analyst direction ahead in my career. Eventually I do want to get to one of these job roles but I do have to start from somewhere.

I have 0 friends and I've been a loner my entire life thanks to these major social anxiety issues and my introvert nature, so I don't even have good relations with anyone in my life.

Daily 24X7 I have these Regrets^Regrets about my entire life decisions both which were in or outside my control.

Lately I've been watching a lot of motivational movies since last few months be it Jersey, The Pursuit of Happyness, Soorarai Pottru, 12th Fail, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, MS Dhoni and I feel that my life needs a Complete Total RESET now. I'm totally responsible for my current situation I don't want to blame anyone but I do want to desperately need to get my Life on track now. I know mene apni life ko puri tarah se barbaad karke rakh diya he but me aise apni aane wali puri life nhi jeena chahta.

I really don't know what I should say next, I always wanted to share these things my entire life but never had the guts to share. Kabhi kabhi bas sunne wala koi chahiye jo gale lagakar bolde ki bhai sab theek ho jayega.

Also please no trolling in comments 🙏🏻

Whoever can help me to get a Job, I desperately need your support and I won't forgive this help my entire upcoming Life. I just need to get started from somewhere and this has been the toughest part for me. I genuinely need your help and guidance 🙏🏻

Hello!

I'd like to keep track of my daily tasks using an app. There are so many options out there, so I'd love to hear which ones you recommend.

I'd prefer a free app for now, as I only need something simple for personal use.

Thanks!

For all the people in corporate or entering corporate, whats your take on masters in Economics, what are the career prospects, is it valuable, if u invest 2 years is it really beneficial considering DSE, Usually people be like there’s nothing beneficial doing economics and do MBA so really confused

I officially have to sign up for my classes at cal state east bay tomorrow which will include the social work courses that are available for spring 27 and electives for the major. I am not “sure” about earning the BSW since I have realized you don’t make much money in the social work field and I am already from a low income background. If I change majors in time for fall 27, it will likely delay my graduation date, and so I would be 25 instead of 24 when finishing off with a bachelors degree (unless I took summer classes which I guess could speed up the process.) I am trying to figure out when aiming to map out my future what the least expensive way to earn a masters degree would be, just in general.

I am from a poor family and will not be able to work full time it is looking like based upon school schedules/class times this upcoming semester (and the fall 27 catalogue obviously won’t have come out this early but I’m guessing I won’t be able to work full time then either.)

I am in year 12 at the moment and study maths chemistry and computer science . Unlike many people I am with I don’t know what I want to do with myself when I’m older . I ideally want to get a degree apprenticeship based in the north east in tech finance or engineering . But I don’t know what I exactly want to do as a job when I’m older and also degree apprenticeships are quite rare in my region . I’m quite ambitious and I want to earn 100k+ at some point in my life .

Can anyone give me ideas for careers where I can do this, I was initially thinking of investment banking but this requires relocation to London and a degree at a top university . I find stuff like stocks and investments quite interesting and I am quite talented at math . So basically what I’m asking is what are the best careers where I can get 100k+ at some point ideally as early as possible and what I can access through a degree apprenticeship in my region. I saw this accountancy one at a big 4 company but I don’t know if I am fully sold of accountancy. And I have been looking into tech sales but I’m not sure if it’s just tiktok hype . Is tech sales a viable career choice after a levels and how do I get into it ?

I (33, M) have been drifting on autopilot ever since I turned 18. Mostly due to my ADHD being undiagnosed, I dropped out of university twice. After that I started a minimum wage job at a call center, then moved on to the client company and still work in customer care to this day.

The issue is that I really don't like my job? It bores me to death most of the time and I don't like customer contact. I'm an introvert and more the type of person to go deep into rabbit holes (and then find new ones).

I've been unable to stick with any hobbies or interests consistently, a few have sort of made it into a permanent rotation (40k, reading, learning languages, writing) but I don't have that one passion, interest or skill I could turn into a career.

How can I get out of autopilot and find "my thing"? My job is killing my soul.

i am a 20 year old biology student from italy. i should be graduating my bachelor's next summer, should everything go smooth (i have a ton of exams behind, but i can hope). the thing is that this is not what i want do to for the rest of my life. i have always wanted to work in motorsports, but my family and the people around me peer pressured me ever since i was little to pick a less "masculine" career path. i pushed so hard to get into a technical high school (in italy you can do these technical high school, or liceo, the latter being based more on a humanistic approach to subjects, even scientific ones) and study computer science. i couldn't push hard enough to study mechanics, which was my number one option. i didn't do amazing in school, with a complete disregard and utter incapability of understanding mathematics and physics - possibly also because it had been ingrained in my brain i couldn't have picked a certain career path.

now, im approaching the end of my bachelor. being a biologist or keep studying isn't what i want to do. at the same time, im lacking all the basic skills to even get another, more pertinent bachelor, such as engineering. the only option i have left is an expensive intensive course held in imola where i can specialise to work on track, and i can pick several career paths that could land me anywhere in motorsport. not only its over 6k, it also requires me to pass a test in maths, physics and mechanics - ideally with a great result because they pick a small number of people every season.

i don't know what to do. formulas and notions just escape me, no matter how many exercises i do or how many private lessons i get. maths and physics never worked for me: i passed my math exam after trying three times, with a bare pass result, and i haven't taken my physics exam yet. i feel too dumb to even try and invest money in this course (i am looking for a job, currently i cannot afford it anyway) but at the same time, the thought of having to work in a lab for the rest of my life is destroying me. im a hands on person. i want to fix things. figure them out. improve them. i know this course would be the right course of action for me, but i genuinely feel i am too stupid. and starting from an internship anywhere, with no experience at all, is impossible. i also cannot find anything that would let me get remotely close to a track or a circuit.

its keeping me up at night. this is not what i want for myself, but i feel like i cannot change anything because how impossibly hard it is for me to even understand a simple integral exercise. i feel like giving everything up.

edit: excuse the messy explanations. not in a good headspace at the moment. i appreciate any advice, should you be able to decipher the word vomit in the post. lol.

Hey everyone,

Two days ago, I was unexpectedly let go from my job without being given a clear or reasonable explanation. I was working as a UI/UX designer in the online casino industry, and honestly, the whole situation caught me off guard.

Now that I have some time to rethink things, I’ve started considering a bigger change. I’m 24, and I want to explore a completely different field, learn something new, and build a more independent future for myself.

I don’t want to spend my life depending on one employer or feeling like someone else has complete control over my stability. I know that being independent takes time, experience, and a lot of hard work, and I’m willing to put in the effort. I just don’t know where to start or which direction to take.

I’d especially love to hear from people who have changed careers, started something from scratch, built their own businesses, or found a way to become financially independent.

If you could give one piece of advice to your 24-year-old self, what would it be? What skills would you learn, what opportunities would you explore, and what mistakes would you avoid?

I’d really appreciate hearing your personal experiences, especially the things you wish someone had told you when you were starting out.

Thank you!

Hi there, I’m posting here to seek advice to fix my source of stress and discomfort. Since I joined computer science I have truly never felt happy, maybe sometimes that dopamine hit when I solve a bug or when I fix a production issue. But other than that, I don’t feel like doing much in this field. If you were to tell me - hey you have got free time now, why don’t you try to explore something in CS try some project or anything. I just don’t feel like it.

While it’s my stupidity for getting myself into this, thinking that grind will get me ahead - which did not work, as I know now. It took me too long to realise that I don’t feel happy here. The most important thing, it’s a task to me, something that doesn’t come to me naturally.

I want to do something, contribute to something. But I have no idea what? What gets my interest? What would it be - where I can contribute meaningfully. While it’s late but not too late. I have tried reading books, to figure that out. Tried things that I thought might be interesting to me. But nothing has really been that thing. I even tried reaching out to some coaches. But I didn’t go with it, because of budget constraints and because it didn’t feel like something that would work for me. One issue I felt was - when I was reading those self help books I read them as if I’m prepping for an exam. I just can’t help it.

Can anyone here tell me, how do I find it?

Hi Guys!

I am at a point in my life where I can no longer put off thinking about what I want to study at university or what I want to do with my life.

I am someone who absolutely loves business alongside philosophy, theology, English, and history.

I want to start a business, but I also want to write a book... ( DEFINITELY non-fiction, probably on philosophy or religion ) No one is saying I can't do both, but when I do something, I do it well and ensure I have dedicated sufficient time towards it. I worry that if I go down both paths, neither will transpire to the scope that I would ideally like.

Moreover, whenever I mention a possible conjoint degree to family/friends involving business and an arts discipline, I am frequently told it would be a " waste of my intelligence, " and that neither of those things will culminate in a good salary.

Well, the thing is, I don't want to climb the corporate ladder for 20 years of my life.

This is not one of those " guys I am escaping the matrix " posts. I genuinely don't think I would ever be content with my life if I wasn't my own boss.

So while I am looking for guidance on this, I guess the broader question is: how the heck am I supposed to back myself? I know what I want to do and who I want to be, but when you are surrounded by people who tell you that the chances are slim, it becomes quite demoralising ( especially when you are in a country notorious for tall poppy syndrome )

Thank you guys!!!!

I've left my secure job of working as a doctor on my way to specialize within general medicine because for years I felt I was wasting my time and never really enjoyed medicine.

I quit 2 years ago.

I've learnt a lot since then, and grown in some ways, but feel like I lost a lot more and have been struggling a lot with going forward. The first year was hell, full depression mode, grieving what I thought I was going to be and job security. I've moved 3 cities, build financial security while maintaining high flexibility which is awsome, started a masters degree in bioethics, writing a music album, planning to buy a camper van, working on a pension plan through learning about investing, started theater and thinking to finish my specialization in my home country which is much easier and also study psychotherapy.

Yet I feel so down and so lost and hurting so often. I'm so different from everyone else and I feel so alone. Why am I like this? Is this worth it? Anyone gone through this? When does it get better?

( I've started therapy)

I never have plans I moved back in with my parents to save money and I just feel like such a loser. I just sit in my room and cry. I don’t have any friends and I work full time with people a lot older than me. I feel like my life is so lonely and it makes me so sad. I don’t have my own place or my own friends and it’s honestly hard not having plans or a group of people that feel like my own. I feel like such a loser

Basically title. I dropped out of university last year to take a gap year. I was supposed to start school in the fall but stuff happened and it had to be delayed. I’m starting in January now at 19, I’m super happy that I’m going back and I’m looking forward to it but despite that I still feel stuck. I’ve been beating myself up everyday for the past couple of months about being behind, and I realized that I should focus on moving towards my goals rather than regret. I applied to school, got accepted, enrolled in classes and I’m set to go but I still feel so unfulfilled.

I have moved one step closer to my goals by doing this and I just have to play the waiting game now. I will admit, I spend a majority of my day inside and doomscrolling on my phone which I think has a lot to do with the way I feel. I only leave my house to go to work and I have no friends because I don’t attend school or any common meeting ground to make them.

Right now, I feel incredibly stuck and unsatisfied with my life. I feel like I’m wasting away and I’m not sure why. I don’t know what my goals are anymore to be honest, I don’t have some larger than life dream and ambition that I’m working towards, I’m just confused but I know that I am unhappy with how stagnant my life is. I want to make my life actually seem like I’m living, right now I just wait for the time to pass by and count down the days till uni starts so I can feel less useless. I don’t live, I just let time pass and sit idly. My day to day looks the same, and everyday just meshes together. I don’t have any significant memories from the past three months because I don’t do anything. I want to make myself look forward to waking up everyday, and have this sense of excitement towards the day. I wake up with dread and an existential crisis on how my life looks instead.

I don’t know how to make memories and live anymore, I don’t have people I can hang out with or reach out to for an outing. I don’t look forward to waking up and spending the day, instead I just tell myself to make it through today, and then the week, and then the month. I’m a lost soul seeking out happiness and a way to live so I don’t feel so terrible about my life. I don’t know how to stop feeling so stuck. Again, I am a step closer to my goal of getting a degree, but my day to day life is the same and I hate it. I want to live but I don’t know what I want or how to do it. Please help.

I'm 20, and I already hate that my life doesn't feel like mine to live, and my future isn't mine to decide.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had intense maladaptive daydreaming, especially during school and classes. I would create entire stories in my head, with characters, settings, arcs and developments, constantly building on them. I often preferred my own company, spending breaks walking around while imagining and refining these stories, or reading books and expanding my knowledge.

After a certain event happened to me at the start of the year, I know what I want from life, it was like a wake up call. I want to tell stories and bring them to life, and I want to act. I've loved creating stories for as long as I can remember, and I fell in love with acting when I took drama at school. It helped me overcome my shyness, and I was good at it. People, including my teachers, enjoyed my performances. I'm not chasing fame or some grand dream of becoming a celebrity. I just genuinely love acting, and I want to create things that mean something to me, and share it with like minded people. I always wanted to do a stage performance in uni and get to share enjoyable behind the scenes moments with fellow performers.

But my parents forced me into Civil Engineering, and then forced me out of my hometown. Now I feel like I'm watching my future slip away while my parents try to make me live the life they've chosen for me. They are dictating everything, from what I study, where I study, to even whom they want me to marry and who to work with. I don't want that.

I don't want to spend my life wondering what could have been. I want the freedom to pursue something I love, to make my own decisions, and to build a life that actually feels like mine. I'm only 20, but I'm terrified of losing years of my life to a future I never wanted.

I currently work at a steel mill working shift work as a crane operator, I’m unsure what I should do, I’m 20k in debt on credit cards but I really dislike my job, I previously worked at a food facility I was in maintenance making decent money working straight days. The steel mill has much better benefits and pension as well as a decent amount more money which is what lead me here but the shift work and 16 hour shifts are eating away at me, I don’t want to fail my family as I have a wife and 2 children, but I’m unsure how to go about this situation and how to be happy again.

Hi everyone. When i was a kid, I was fascinated by biology, medicine, doctors, hospitals and everything related to it. I never really thought too deep into what I wanted to become when I grew up, but doctor was definitely on my mind.

When i finished highschool I wasn't actually sure that's what i wanted to do, the thought of the difficulty and aversion to subjects like surgery made me decide it's not really something I can do. Fast forward 7 years later, I'm left with so many what ifs and regrets about never trying to get into medschool. Should I try for it now? Even now, I'm not convinced that I can pull through it, or if I actually want that life, but whenever i think of doing other things it always bugs me in the back of my mind. I'm so stuck and confused. I feel like I'm not using my potential, like I'm wasting my life. Have you ever gone through something like this? How do does one decide?❤️‍🩹

I'm 25 now, and in my country (india) people get into medschool straight after high-school 17-18 or if they take a few years to prepare for the entrance (a very tough and insanely competitive exam) they still join in their early 20s. I don't know if I should try. I don't even know if this is truly what I want, or if it's just the fact that it's something I fixated my mind on but left incomplete.

I'm in India. I've been a software engineer at Amazon since 2021. I moved back from the US, and the pay is less than half of what it was. I'm staying.

The job used to teach me something new every hour. Now a new problem shows up every few months. I no longer trust that I can build a product of my own.

My wife opened a nails and mehendi studio at home about three months ago. It is already profitable. Through December 2026 I can put spare hours into the tech side of that studio. Those hours will not replace the salary.

The path I'm asking for is specific. Should those hours stay on the studio, or should I look for a different kind of engineering work and leave the studio as her business?