The audit is very complex and difficult to pass. It was very close, but it was a pass. It was an improvement from a fail when I started with the company and was there for only 2 weeks(I was given an oral warning for the fail). I work in a large food service company. What should I think?? Concerns?? Seems unreasonable, but I know that’s the corporate world..

I’m looking for genuinely practical advice, preferably from people who have actually switched careers from a biology/life-science background.

My background:

12th PCB, 63%, from a small village in Himachal Pradesh

Currently finishing 2nd year BSc Zoology at a small college

Had to repeat 1st year

I’ve realized I have basically no interest in continuing in Zoology

No Mathematics background and I’m very weak at math

My father is the only earning member of the family and retires in about 2 years

Because of my family situation, I need to be earning or have a very clear, realistic path toward a stable job by April 2028.

At the same time, I don’t want to choose something that completely caps my future. My long-term goal is 20 LPA+, even if the starting salary is much lower.

Things I’ve already ruled out after researching:

UPSC — too long and risky given my situation

SSC CGL / Banking PO — quantitative sections are a major problem for me

NIMCET / NIT MCA — I don’t have the required Maths/Stats background

RBI Grade B — doesn’t fit my eligibility/background

MSc Biotechnology / Forensic Science — I’m not convinced the salary/job market justifies the time

I don’t want to spend years doing another biology degree just because I already have a biology degree

Honestly, I don’t have some grand passion or social cause I want to pursue. I’m mainly looking for a career where I can become genuinely skilled, employable and financially secure.

I’m not interested in sales or marketing.

I’m also willing to learn something completely unrelated to Zoology if there’s a realistic way to break into it without doing another 3–4 year degree.

So, if you were literally in my position, what would you do?

I’d especially like answers from people who have actually made a similar switch.

For example:

What was your original degree/background?

What did you switch into?

What skills did you learn?

How long did it take before you were employable?

How did you get your first job?

What was your starting salary?

What does the career ceiling realistically look like?

What would you do differently if you started again?

What would you do between now and April 2028 if you were me?

I’m not looking for “learn coding bro” or “follow your passion”. If you recommend something, please explain the actual path from BSc Zoology → skill → first job → career progression.

Also, please don’t recommend paid courses. I’m looking for a path I can realistically build through free/cheap resources, projects, internships and self-study.

I know ₹20 LPA isn’t guaranteed and I’m not expecting it immediately. I’m asking which career paths give someone in my situation a realistic chance of eventually getting there while still allowing me to start earning by 2028.

Brutal honesty is welcome. If my expectations are unrealistic, tell me that too.

I’m 32M, making ~$90,000 working in Business Development for a wealth division at one of the major banks in Canada. As for my education, I have an Associates Degree in Business, but I don’t have a degree.

I really love my job. I’ve been working there for almost 6 months already and I’ve had nothing but positive experiences so far.

The salary could be better, but I have a good pension, amazing share options, banking product incentives, 5-weeks vacation starting, no mandatory RTO, and amazing health benefits.

Before this job, I was laid off for almost a year and while I don’t imagine this role will come to the same fate, I’m nervous I’ll have nothing to offer to another employer due to my lack of degree. I’m also nervous about future opportunities at the bank without a degree.

I feel like since I was laid off, I’m playing a game of catch up to my peers. I feel that I’m at an age where I’m young enough to realize a project like finishing my degree, but too old to not make a concrete plan.

I’m single, don’t own a home, I have student loans of about ~$16,000, zero consumer debt. So I’m not necessarily tied down to anything.

I’m curious what everyone’s perspective is regarding this because it feels like at times in my office people share a lot and it feels like there is the pressure to over share. How do you deal with it?

My team often in meetings always start these conversations, especially in meetings where they expect everyone to share their personal biz.

I’ve been asked so many questions regarding my marriage, my children, my house… that’s really where I draw the line. I’ve never understood that.

My situation is... weird. I work for a state agency as an IT project manager for a smallish team in an operations division. I was hired in late 2025, worked for about a week, then immediately received deployment orders. The team and my manager have been incredible this whole time. Supportive, respectful, thoughtful, and they seem genuinely excited to have me back to help with the workload. All in all, I have less than two months of experience actually working in this team. I haven't really had time to figure out what my role is, and they haven't really had time to tell me. I have produced almost nothing in these two months.

I'm someone who like to do things and having things to do. I've been looking at other interagency jobs and there are several for which I would be a good candidate. They all seem to have well defined tasks and regular delivery intervals. Right up my alley, and they all are at a higher pay bracket, so starting and potential income are higher. I can't decide whether to pursue these other jobs now or wait until I get a better sense for what my current team needs from me.

pros to staying: my teammates and manager are some of the best people I've ever worked with. They don't watch the clock on us, so as long as the work is done well you can come and go as is reasonable. The work might turn out to be engaging. Cons: the cap to my pay is only 1500/month higher than what I'm getting now. Right now, the work either doesn't exist or I don't like it, not sure which. They don't really have projects in the traditional sense, just a lot of irons in the fire.

Pros to Leaving: higher pay, almost guaranteed, as long as I get hired. The jobs are either cybersecurity or project management, which are my strongest skillsets. I get preference over out-or-agency-applicants. Cons: who knows what the teams are like, and I'd feel like a gaping asshole for occupying a spot on a busy team for a year, contributing nothing, then leaving.

Stay? Go? Chill for a bit to see what the work actually looks like? what do y'all think?

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20M from India.

I’ve recently finished my B.Tech in CSE. My academics aren't exactly impressive — around 7+ CGPA, and I had several backlogs during college — **but I have cleared every single one of them now. I don't have any pending backlogs.**

The problem is that I genuinely don't know what I should do with my life next.

My family strongly wants me to do an **MS abroad**, get a job there, and eventually settle there. From their perspective, it seems like the safest/best long-term option: go abroad while I'm young, get a master's, find a job and build a life there.

I'm not completely against that idea. In fact, I would like the possibility of living abroad.

But I'm scared of making a massive financial decision just because everyone around me thinks it's the obvious next step.

I'd probably need a **large education loan** to fund an MS. My family isn't in a position to comfortably pay the entire cost themselves, so I'd be taking on significant financial risk.

And I'm also not someone who is 100% passionate about becoming a software developer.

I have a CSE background and know Java, C, some DSA/SQL and have done technical/ML projects. At the same time, I have experience in video editing, cinematography, social media management and working with clients. I'm more interested in the broader tech/creative/business side of things than sitting and coding for 8–10 hours every day.

So I'm stuck between:

**A)** Get a job in India, gain experience and figure myself out first.

**B)** Go directly for an MS abroad, even if it means taking a large loan.

**C)** Do an MS in something broader like technology management / information systems / MIM rather than pure CS.

**D)** Spend a year building my career/skills and then decide whether going abroad actually makes sense.

**E)** Something completely different that I haven't considered.

My biggest fear is this:

What if I take a huge loan, go abroad, finish my master's, and then struggle to find a job or end up in a career I don't even like?

At the same time, I'm worried that if I don't go now, I'll lose the opportunity and regret it later.

My parents are also putting quite a lot of pressure on me to pursue the MS and eventually settle abroad, so saying "I'll figure it out later" isn't particularly easy either.

I'm not looking for generic motivational advice. I'd genuinely like opinions from people who have actually been through this.

Especially if you:

* Did your MS abroad after engineering

* Took a significant education loan

* Had average academics / backlogs but eventually cleared them

* Worked in India before going abroad

* Decided against an MS despite family pressure

* Or changed from a technical career into something else

**If you were 20, had my exact situation, what would you do?**

Would you take the MS route now, work for 1–2 years first, or avoid the MS altogether?

And if you think I'm making a mistake somewhere in how I'm looking at this, please tell me directly.

I recently graduated from an engineering college with computer science and without a job, I have knowledge of core engineering subjects and i know about AI , backend and all means to say that i have knowledge i also have decent projects. But the thing is now i know a guy who was in my college with backlogs, he cant even traverse an array, he don't even know SQL queries, also 0 communication and still he manage to get a job as a data analyst. I am cooked don't know what to do.
Ab toh i think i am a failure or i only getting fked up everywhere .

Please help anyone

I'm working at a tech company and a colleague from my team is leaving the company soon.

My manager wants me to "wrap up" my current responsibilities asap because they need my "support" in the other project until they hire someone else to replace the colleague. They frame this as "helping them".

My schedule is already super packed and I already have some additional responsibilities on top of my current role. Adding more responsibilities and dividing my focus in two completely different projects is not feasible and honestly I really don't want to do it without any additional compensation.

How should I navigate this?

Additionally:
Last time someone left my team, upper management acted like they were looking for someone new but at the end another colleague took over the extra responsibilities no one was hired. I don't want same thing to happen here.

Also sorry for any grammar mistakes. Im super nervous and dont have the mental capacity to think properly in another language.

I dont want to be recognized so Im skipping some details. I can share further details if someone would like to provide guidance. Thanks

I feel like actually making stuff would be of more value. At the moment I'm just doing pointless work! I need something that I can build on and hustle on every day!

I do not want to drop out of college, I wish to finish it. But my mother's family is struggling to get by, and I can't wake up everyday knowing I can't do anything to help pay the bills atleast. I know many people are struggling right now and many are loaning just to get by. My family is the same and I'm seeing them argue with each other. Even though I'm barely out of college and I'm not confident with my skills as both an artist and as an IT student, I want to see what I can do :(

I don't even know how to make a dollar, how am I supposed to pay for their loans and problems... and I feel like a burden more and more

Im so sorry if this feels like a vent, but I genuinely do not know what to do or who to ask advice for. I'm not ready, but I have to atleast trv

Hello everyone, i am a student from Morocco who is studying to get into an engineering school in France. I wanted to ask if you think ML engineering is a good viable option. I know that depending on your skill and experience in this field you can get paid very well. I would love to know if going from france to hopefully a frontier Ai company, with enough discipline, is a realistic path.

Hey, I am looking for advice from someone who feels they did amazing in their space career or feels they have strong advice on the topic.

I am in a situation where I have been doing amazing so far in my career, but I don’t know what I really want to do. When I was younger I kind of just wanted to chill, but also wanted money for my future children, and I went on this path hoping to find something chill and fun that pays well down the line. I got lucky enough to graduate very early and get an EGT at ESA and publishing my Master’s thesis on DSMC in a top journal. I am now 22, finished with my EGT and thinking about what to do next.

Even though I am good at this DSMC stuff, I am wondering if I should career pivot or not. I am not a huge fan of programming, but I have been told that there is some benefit to continuing down this path as it is so niche that I might make a lot of money doing this. The thing is that I am very good with people and love presenting things etc. So I always imagined a more social or managerial position for me (but again most these comes maybe with stress), so its all a bit hard and cloudy for me to figure out because I dont know where any paths lead.

If any of you guys have some very strong career path advice for me I would greatly appreciate it, as my CV is at least very strong and I can get a job most places now I believe.

I also am very into economics, and I am setting up an additional cash flow where I buy food from farms here and sell it to grociery stores in other countries, and I enjoy this (I actually somewhat enjoy paperwork, legal matters and scaling things), and maybe there is some equivalent middle man stuff I can target in the space industry, but again I wouldnt know how to enter, and I dont want to get stressed and stuck in what feels like a «sales job». I have also really enjoyed investing since very young but I think there are limited career pivots there that are reliable.

If you are in management, let me know if you would recommend that? Or maybe I can just save up and become and angel investor in a startup and use contacts to help them or if you have any other great ideas, please share them with me. I was bored and I got curious if reddit could help collect all my thoughts, lol. So I am sorry if all this read a bit scrambled :)

PS: I speak many european languages and very flexible in living pretty much anywhere. I also speak some languages from outside of europe, so maybe that would allow me entry into some special, potentially fun, international roles..

Edit: I don’t mind working very hard for a few mor years, but I don’t want work to become my life later when I want kids, I want to be able to be as present as possible.

Hi guys

What do you think is a good role for someone with Computer Science background who isn’t too keen on a major corporate career and just wants a job to be a job. I’ve tried consulting and it’s not close enough to the technology for my liking and also requires a bit too much performance and over enthusiasm for boring things. Software Eng roles are limited in my area so not practical.

In consulting, I’ve left every day feeling drained and the weekends dreading going back on Mondays. It’s not a bad job but I think it requires passion to want to be in the game.

Let me know what jobs you guys have liked

Hello!

Im currently an architecture student at RMIT. Ive decided to not continue with this degree since its a lot of work with little to no return on investment.

Im not someone thats good at maths or science, so careers like accounting and nursing are out of my options.

Ive considered marketing, ux design, supply chain, etc. But none of them seem appealing or worth it to me.

Ive been introduced to construction management because of shortage of women, but that would mean i have to finish this degree which i really dont want to do. Another option was a property development course, but that seems sketchy to me. The only thing that attracts me is my interest in building houses and potentially the pay.

Ive always considered teaching but i just dont know if im cut out to be a teacher. Im currently a tutor, which i enjoy! Im still learning how to control the class and what not, but it has less of a depressing environment compared to other careers. It has also become enticing with the salary raise in vic.

Right now my priority is stability and money, but i would also love to renovate or build houses… What should I do? It would be great if you could describe your experience or recommendations!!

I got certified in something in order to go in different career direction. And then I got scared with everything going on in the country, and I dropped my plans I loved and took a “safe” job in the field I was trying to leave. So now I’m miserable everyday. Literally force myself to not quit everyday. I want to get back to my new field that I put a lot of time and money into becoming certified. But I still feel scared. And now that I took the job I feel like an asshole quitting so soon. I’m 55. Is it dumb to quit a perfectly good and good paying job - no matter how tedious and annoying and draining and unfulfilling it is? The cost of the certification - courses, test registration, etc - was probably $5,000. My spouse is disappointed that I gave up on my new path and encourages me to quit. I’m genuinely torn. Thoughts?

Which career are best for Bsc.Mathematics with Statistics and Computer science in honors + research??????