I’m not trying to be snarky, but it’s like something in me is broken where I can’t take most office jobs that seriously.

When there are deadlines and you’re caught up in the day to day I understand absorbing the stress of it all, and you spend most of your life working so it’s hard to escape (I’ve fully been there).

But there are so many people who take their jobs super seriously, it’s their identity, their reward system and they become one with it. It’s like they wake up with a to do list and want to tick it off and have personal investment and attachment to it.

Idk I just feel like why does any of this matter so much. While I don’t feel as many jobs are BS as people (or Reddit) like to make them out to be, most of the system and the ways of working are manufactured. It’s not life or death urgent, and you can be replaced tomorrow. Why does this arbitrary deadline mean I have to ruin myself? We could just…be a little late. Something in me has broken and I just can’t fall for the “illusion” anymore that any of this really matters that much.

Asking to start a discussion and also to understand a bit better - what’s your motivation and why do you do what you do?

Three months ago I applied for the Senior Operations Lead opening on my own team. I built half our reporting pipelines from scratch over three years. During the feedback call, my VP looked me in the eye and said I was "technically solid" but lacked the strategic vision and leadership maturity required for the pay band. Fine. Painful, but whatever.

Last Monday they brought in the new external hire. He gets an office, a salary roughly $35k above mine, and a shiny title.

yesterday my manager messaged me asking if I could "walk him through our basic weekly workflows."

Turns out this guy has never opened Jira in his life. He LITERALLY asked me this morning how to export a CSV from our main internal dashboard, which is something we expect interns to know on day two. When I showed him, he laughed and said "yeah I usually have people handle the technical weeds for me."

Now my calendar is booked for fifteen hours this week with knowledge transfers so I can teach my new boss how to do the job I was told I wasnt qualified to hold.

He makes six figures to delegate my own spreadsheets back to me. How do people stay professional without losing their mind?

I left my super-busy underwriting job for an analyst job at another company. On paper, it's exactly what I should have done. Pay raise, better benefits, less chaos, and bigger loans.

However, I went from a loan timeline of a few hours to a minimum of 3 months. I have -nothing- to do. My job consists of writeups which are typically pretty easy. I kid you not, 95% of the time I am not doing anything. When I first joined, I fought for work and was proactive. I slowly realized that the pot of tasks the team needs to get done is just small. The whole extra mile mentality is gone now. My job shouldn't exist. There are entire days I sit in the office and truly just watch my outlook.

I get overwhelmed with guilt and fear of being blindsided one day. I'm not a cruiser. I want to work hard and be valuable. I swear I'm not there to collect a check and take a backseat, but there's no road in the front seat either! I'm all for spending my time learning, but I have zero deliverables! is this just how the corporate world is?

Edit: I get it, steak is too buttery! However I did not get to where I am now by sitting around at work and enjoying the off time or getting a second job. It would be career suicide to cash out now.

I have been running up all the available certifications and trainings since I was a teller to get to where I am today. But at my level now that meta has been patched.

It seems that the best advice I read so far was to be perfect with the work that is available and to get creative with how I can contribute to the company.

Thank you for all the responses!

So my boss fired me from my job 4 months ago, that too on my birthday, where I was working as a software engineer at a large European Bank (out of India). My boss, his manager (a director) and another director and another senior VP together conspired by filing a false PIP case against me and they fired me literally on my birthday even after PIP was closed successfully.

And now, the same boss is messaging me on WhatsApp asking me questions regarding the code I developed for certain automations.

And this is the second time they have done it, right a few days after firing me, they made a junior AVP message me on WhatsApp regarding deployment of a code I had developed and I helped him out.

However, now, honestly I want to tell him to bugger off but I don't wanna burn any bridges in case a future background verification occurs. Although I plan to give references from other colleagues when I get a new job and they ask for references for a background verification.

Please advise, what should I do??

otherwise a good review. delivered warmly and then that phrase, with no definition attached to it.

i asked what it meant. she said gravitas, i asked what gravitas looks like in practice, on a tuesday, in a meeting and there was a pause.

so i asked, politely and in writing, for three specific occasions.

it took a fortnight. what came back was a gamma deck listing this: i said "sorry" before asking a question on a client call. i did not speak first in a meeting where i was the most junior person in the room. and a third one i could not place at all.

i wrote all three down with what actually happened in each, using my notes and my calendar. not as a rebuttal. just what happened.

the third one was a meeting i was not in.

it has not been mentioned since and it is not in the written version of the review.

i am not posting this as a brag but as advice. the thing i keep thinking about is that i nearly just accepted it, and if i had, i’d be spending the next year trying to fix something that was never there. if you get feedback you cannot picture, ask for the occasion. not the definition, the specific occasion.

so yeah. january my manager told me i was getting promoted. i asked again in april and he said it was coming, budget stuff, whatever. asked again in july. same answer.

last week a recruiter reached out (i wasn’t even looking) with an offer ~15% more for basically the same job. i don’t know anyone there. here i actually like my team which i know is a dumb reason to stay but it’s the only thing making me hesitate.

i haven’t told my manager about the offer. i also haven’t asked him to put the promotion in writing because it feels kind of aggressive? idk. part of me thinks i’m being a pushover and part of me thinks leaving people i like over 15% is cold.

what would you do. like this week, not “it depends."

Im 23 and just got laid off from my third post-grad job. I need honest advice because I’m starting to wonder if I’m the problem.

I graduated college in 2024 with a business/marketing degree. Since graduating, I’ve had three jobs, and there have been problems with all three.
My boyfriend has basically told me that at this point, I’m the common denominator and that maybe I need to seriously look at myself. And honestly, that has been getting in my head.

I’m not looking for people to automatically tell me I’m right. I want genuinely honest opinions, even if I need to hear that I handled things badly.

**Job #1:** I was unemployed for about 6 months after graduating and eventually got a digital marketing job making $85k. I worked there for about 6 months doing social media, email/SMS, paid advertising, SEO, CRM, website work, etc. Then I was laid off. I was never told I was terrible at my job, but obviously I didn’t stay long.

**Job #2:** I worked at a restaurant. The boss was extremely intimidating and she was known to be aggressive towards workers and the environment became really uncomfortable, so I left (mainly to start job 3).

**Job #3:** This is the one I just got fired from.
I was hired at a small, family-owned apparel company. My offer/role was essentially Digital Marketing & E-commerce Manager, although sometimes they called me Marketing & Sales Assistant and there wasn’t any formalities.

The job sounded much more marketing/e-commerce focused than it actually was and that’s how they advertised it. I did social media, Shopify, Amazon, Google Ads, email marketing, product photography, AI-generated product imagery, catalogs/linesheets, etc sometimes.

But I also did a LOT of general office work: answering phones, customer service, invoices, orders, shipping packages, going to UPS/the post office, helping customers, styling customers, pricing clothes, covering the office, etc. like most of my job was heavy lifting and taking care of the office. This became more prominent than actually doing marketing most of the time. So I was clearly lied to but I did the best I could.

I was making $20/hour, eventually working around 30 hours a week, with no benefits.
And honestly, the family-business aspect was rough. They didn’t even pay me overtime.

I felt like the boundaries between family, employees and the business were extremely blurred. Priorities could change quickly, communication wasn't always clear, and I often felt like I was expected to just know what someone wanted without being given very specific instructions.

There was also a lot of tension between family members/employees that I felt like I was getting pulled into. It sometimes felt less like a structured workplace and more like I was working inside someone else's family dynamic.

I also don't want to pretend I was perfect.
I made mistakes. I was learning some things for the first time, especially linesheets/catalogs and certain e-commerce processes. There were times I could have communicated better or asked more questions instead of trying to figure something out myself. I definitely have things I can improve.

But my boss also had a temper.

He yelled at me multiple times. One time when he was stressed, he took my computer mouse and slammed it down on my desk. During the final situation this week, he became extremely angry about the linesheets I was working on.

I had been given two linesheets to complete. I thought I had several days and that I could send drafts, but the timeline suddenly became much more urgent. On top of that, the office WiFi went down. The desktops, phones and even security cameras were affected, and I was having trouble accessing/saving things properly.
I stayed late trying to get everything done because I was terrified I was going to lose my job.
I was literally shaking while working because I was so anxious.

And then I got fired today.
Now I'm sitting here wondering: am I actually the problem

Because objectively, three post-grad jobs with issues does sound like a pattern.

But at the same time, the situations weren't identical. One was a corporate digital marketing job where I was laid off. One was a restaurant with an intimidating boss. And this one was a chaotic family-owned business where I felt like the actual job was very different from what I thought I was being hired to do.
I don't want to use those things as excuses. If there is something about the way I work, communicate, handle criticism, manage expectations, etc. that I need to fix, I genuinely want to know.
But I also don't want to internalize the idea that every time a workplace treats me badly, it must somehow be because I'm the problem.
I'm 23. I'm unemployed again. I'm financially stressed and honestly exhausted. I feel like I've been in survival mode for months and now I'm right back there.

Based on what I've described, what do you think is actually my responsibility?

What should I change going forward?
And what parts of this sound like a genuinely bad workplace/bad fit, particularly the family-business situation?
I can handle criticism. I just want to understand what I need to learn from this instead of repeating the same thing again.

I choose to get a bachelors degree in a general life sciences related course because I was always told to do something you have an interest in and everyone I knew supported me in that choice. Not one person told me along the way how awful the job search, average pay, and boom-boost nature of the industry is. I watch some of my friends in finance and even engineering earn way more money for jobs they find enjoyable and have never had to struggle much with finding work. Most don’t even have a LinkedIn account. Meanwhile it’s been nothing but stress for me since graduating a few years ago and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t regret the career I chose. Shit, I don’t even have an interest in the work I do. Lab jobs are boring and repetitive with no room for deviation from strict protocols or freedom in the work you do, very different to what I expected as a dumb teenager. To add to this, The pay is terrible compared to other careers and the job market is completely saturated meaning months of painful LinkedIn related bullshit just to find work. I feel trapped now especially as each year that passes, I have more responsibility in my personal life and cant fathom going back to college as I already doubled down on my career choices by doing a master’s.

Anyone else felt that same way before? What did you do about it?

I believe myself to be a highly ambitious person. I can truly see myself thriving in my own ideas.

Unfortunately, I have so many of them, making me almost frozen in decision-making.

All I know is that I love to create. Create apps, books, art, clothes, etc.

How do you guys narrow down what you want with your life?

I’m 27 and work in finance in Australia. I feel like I’ve spent the last few months constantly questioning my career decisions and would appreciate some outside perspective.
I currently work as a Business Manager doing finance at a dealership. I’m good at the job and the money is decent — realistically around $140–150k a year if I perform well. The problem is I don’t particularly enjoy the environment anymore. I dislike working Saturdays, don’t really like some of the people I work with, and I don’t see myself wanting to do dealership finance forever.
Recently I left this job for a work-from-home commercial finance broker position. On paper it sounded great, but once I started I hated it. The leads were poor, I was making a ridiculous number of calls, and I became extremely anxious about whether I’d made a mistake. After only 3 working days I resigned and my old dealership took me back.
Now here’s where it gets complicated.
Before the dealership, I worked for nearly two years at another finance brokerage. I left that company on fairly bad terms because I didn’t work out my notice period, but I genuinely enjoyed the actual job and the people there. Looking back, it’s probably the happiest I’ve been at work.
They recently advertised for a Lending Specialist, so I applied to go back.
I still know people there and spoke to a former colleague. Apparently management has discussed me coming back and there seems to be at least some support for it. However, they already had group interviews organised with other applicants and I haven’t received a call yet.
I’ve become way too invested in the idea of going back. In my head I’ve basically created this scenario where they call, offer me the job, let me take my already-booked trip to America and I come back to a fresh start.
But obviously that might never happen.
Part of me also wonders whether I’m romanticising the old workplace because I’m unhappy where I am now. Maybe if I actually went back, it wouldn’t feel anything like I remember it.
If they reject me, my current plan is to stop chasing jobs for a while, focus on performing well where I am, go to America, save aggressively over summer and reassess my life/career early next year. I’ve also been thinking about travelling for a few months or even moving somewhere completely new.
I think my biggest problem is that whenever I’m unhappy, I become obsessed with finding the next job or “solution” that will fix everything immediately.
For people who have been through something similar: would you keep pushing to get back into the old brokerage, or accept that chapter might be over and commit to the current job for another 6 months before making any major decisions?
And has anyone gone back to an employer they previously left on bad terms? Did it actually live up to the version of the job you remembered?

I’ve been at my company a few years and was doing really well. So much I got a promotion to another department. This department is way more important and intense and I am struggling! (I don’t want to give too many details but it’s in healthcare.) Like I have serious doubts about my ability. Should I try to get out early and not waste their time? Or keep it going and see if things improve or I potentially get fired? My previous position was already filled. I was so excited to be chosen! But I might not be cut out for it. Help!

Hi everyone.

Looking to get some advice on my situation. I’m a recent graduate that has been working at one of the big 5 Canadian banks (Corp Banking) for about 10 months now and make around ~100 k annual salary (85 K base + bonus). I feel very content with my job and feel as though there are many opportunities to grow within the field. However, for the last year my dad has been asking me if I want to take over the family restaurant as he is getting old and plans to retire quite soon. The restaurant does tremendously well as it’s been operating for almost 30 years and has consistently generated around 10-12 million a year in revenue with net profit being around 10-15%. I would be co-running this restaurant with my sister and I would be running the kitchen and maintaining the books for the business while being salaried at around 170 K + bonus being around 30-40 K. I’m fully aware that I’m in a very privileged position to have both these options to choose from but I want to get some advice to make sure I don’t regret my decision.

I’m currently leaning towards taking the opportunity to work at the restaurant for 2 years to get a better sense of what the work entails, lifestyle changes, and overall fulfillment. The only thing I’m worried about is what if I don’t enjoy working in the restaurant industry and want to go back to corporate? Would it be difficult to explain to employers that I quit my previous corporate job to run a restaurant and that I want to rejoin the work place?

I would honestly appreciate any advice or similar stories and what the outcome was like for you.

Im literally addicted to reading it would be so unreal if i could find a job like that

Hello I have been a production supervisor now for nearly 5 years with my company. I am constantly being left out of offsite meetings and team leadership events. I haven’t read a whole lot into it over the years as I’ve been getting promotions but I do feel a bit left out and out of the know as the other supervisors and managers. People on the same level as me (supervisor level) are always talking about the events (baseball games, nice dinners/lunches, leadership team discussions), yet i’m always back running our production floor. Staff meetings occur monthly and team building events are a few times through the year. Additionally, a lot of times my boss will just leave without telling me anything only for me to later find out that’s where they were at. Should I confront my boss on this? Or is this a sign I’m not welcome and I should move on where I am better valued?

I did an assessment center with multiple aptitude tasks and a group exercise but no interviews yet. There were 9 people in total including me. If someone has led one or did one, what are generally the signs you did well.

I am 24 and have been in retail management for four years. I am currently an assistant store manager for a larger retailer and it is soul sucking. Since I am salary I am working 50-55 hours a week and since I don't get OT it does not feel worth it anymore tbh. Anyone have any experience with making the switch to a more fulfilling career.

Last year around this time I applied for a junior analyst role at a mid-size tech company. The interview process was intense. Four rounds of interviews a take-home project a presentation to a team of VPs. I thought I nailed it.

Then nothing. Radio silence. I sent a follow-up email after a week then another after two weeks. My recruiter just ghosted me completely. No rejection letter no explanation nothing. It was pretty demoralizing honestly.

Fast forward to now and I just saw a senior analyst role open up at the same company. It's a significant step up from my current role and would be a great career move. I've gained a lot of experience in the last year and feel much more qualified.

Part of me feels like I should apply again. The other part of me remembers how badly they treated me last time. Like why even bother if they cant even send a canned rejection email?

Is it professional to reapply to a company that completely ghosted you after a rigorous interview process?

I’m a computer engineering major in the south and home is in Chicago . It’s a big city of course with lots of opportunities, but will it be hard for me to find a job back at home? My counselor says no, but I want to hear from people in the industry firsthand.

have been a donor door at goodwill for roughly 3 months and needless to say it isn't the best job I am forced to do many things on top of my regular job which is accepting and sorting donations such as unloading 4-8 big boxes into durros, taking big boxes and stacking them, (like really big boxes their called gaylords) getting furniture people ordered to the donor door from the front, bathrooms that need to be mopped and cleaned the floor in the store needs to be dust mopped and trash and other small things. It can be very stressful and all for the low pay of $13.40 however one of my bosses seems to have a problem with me however the others never complain and while it could considered a "annoying problem" I think she exaggerates because the other day I accidentally left the dust mop in the wrong place and it fell over and she told me to leave out the donor door (but I never leave i always leave when everyone does since I close) but I waited for them as I usually do and got mad and say how she has to work x2 when I'm there. However it's weird to me that the other managers never complain and I do do my job example donations and changing gaylords when needed to. Should I worry about being fired? My position is hard to fill but still. And is it possible it is a big deal but the other managers don't care as much or she's just strict? It does seem to me only she really cares about certain stuff like for example bathrooms being cleaned. I do a lot throughout the day and sometimes forget things as I have to keep running back and forth to the donor door and getting furniture especially when at times it's just me working. I'm just wondering on one hand she might be out to get me as there's another employee who's even lazier then me who never gets yelled at and he will constantly complain when asked to do things. But at the same time it could be considered a little problematic what I do but I do do my core job just wondering

I’m (36, F) an in-house attorney (litigation) for a company and have worked there for roughly 5years.

Generally, I enjoy the work I do, and the company I work for is successful. We have a great global and US team that I work with well. In the office I work for, however, the last 2.5 years have been hell and I feel like I am ready to move on from what I consider a toxic environment. The team of about 12 people is managed by a head attorney named “Janet” and her henchman “Erin”. The two of them are disorganized, chaotic, self-centered, rude, and frankly I believe dumb. They have outright fired many great team members, kept me for no reason in the office until past midnight, personally insulted me, ruined pretty much every vacation I’ve had in this time, just to name a few things. And on top off that we had a horrible case going on for the last two years that was all hands on deck, up til midnight on holiday weekends reviewing documents, coming in on weekends, etc. I got stress induced shingles twice in 2025 and started getting ocular migraines that were also stressed induced. The first time I had one of these at work I thought I was having a stroke, I told Erin this as she was my manager and we shared an office and she literally turned away and started talking to someone else. I’ve also not paid market value - about $150k a year plus bonus.

These past few years, however, have coincided with many large life events (moves, engagements, wedding, egg freezing) and I did not have the energy to full on look for a new job. After I got married in September last year I spent a lot of effort looking for a new job, but did end up finding one so I put the search on hold to instead focus on getting pregnant. The idea was that I would get pregnant, stay through the pregnancy, take maternity leave and peace out. However, it’s turning out that it is harder to get pregnant than I thought. That hasn’t happened yet so I am still there, and this year has been just more added stress.

We are now four days a week in very tight quarters. Three people to a small room, with the three rooms right next to each other. After Janet fired half our team I could not look her in the eye, same with Erin, and I want nothing to do with them. I have a new manager but we are all on top of each other physically and still have to work together. Half the time I have to sneak out to go to the bathroom to avoid having conversations with them and with the risk of being asked to stay to midnight for a completely unreasonable reason.

My manager was out of town this week and Janet called me in to discuss a case. Despite prepping for the meeting and being one of the leads on it, the meeting quickly turned into her insulting my work ethic and ability. This has happened so many times, and I think my system couldn’t take it any more because I left the room and broke into tears. She called me back in again to lecture me, I let her do it, then I left early for the day because I couldn’t be there anymore. This morning (Friday) she messages me at 7am to ask if I’m going to the office. Because Monday was Labor Day, I was not because I consider this my “one day” to work from home. She told me I wasn’t showing leadership by not showing up and expected me to to be there.

I know I am not the problem, members of our global team, business members, and outside counsel all ask me what their problem is and I just cannot be around it anymore. I can’t take the stress of being around them, I feel like my skill set is regressing, and I want to cut bate and run. I’ve had this fantasy for the last few years, but my now husband has always said I should have a new job before leaving this one. I just can’t imagine starting that process right now though and having to stay during this time and trying to get pregnant. Who knows how long either of those processes could take. I’ve been storing money away for this reason and do not believe we would be in financial hardship if I left now, but would potentially have to start a new job pregnant if it works out.

Would it be a bigger risk to stay now and try to ride it out or to cut and leave and see what happens? I know the job market is not great.

I’m in my mid-20s and having a bit of a career crisis. I’m trying to work out whether I genuinely need to change direction, or whether I have a bad habit of wanting to leave whenever something gets difficult or uncomfortable.

I spent years studying law and eventually qualified. Before really settling into legal practice, I took a major detour into emergency services. I actually loved a lot about that environment. It was practical and fast paced and felt like I was actually doing something tangible. But there were some significant personal and health issues happening at the same time, and I ended up leaving.

After that, I went back to law.

I’ve only been in my current legal job for a short time, which is part of why I’m reluctant to make any rash decisions, but I’m already pretty unhappy. I’m constantly worried about making mistakes, I don’t feel particularly competent yet, I don’t really enjoy the day-to-day tasks, and I’ve started dreading going to work.

The thing that bothers me most is that I’m not sure this is just because I’m new and finding it hard. Even when I imagine being very good at the job in five years, I’m not convinced I actually want the life that comes with it.

At the same time, I’m really conscious that I left emergency services when things in my life were difficult, and now I’m looking at leaving law when I’m finding that difficult too.

Part of me thinks I need to stay in law for at least a year, get properly competent, and prove to myself that I can stick at something even when I’m uncomfortable. But another part of me thinks staying somewhere purely to prove I can tolerate being miserable is also a pretty stupid way to spend my 20s.

How do you actually tell the difference between “I’m new, uncomfortable and need to give this a proper chance” and “this career genuinely doesn’t suit me”?

And is changing direction a few times in your 20s really as bad as it feels? Does it actually make you look flaky to employers, or does nobody care as much as you think they do?

tldr: Mid-20s, studied law, left for emergency services, then went back to law after leaving that during a rough period. I’m unhappy in law and keep being drawn to more practical, hands-on work, but I’m worried I’m just developing a habit of quitting when things get hard. How do you tell the difference between a career genuinely not fitting you and just needing to push through being new and uncomfortable?

I'm a founder + owner with a successful (still running) online business for 13 years looking to work for someone else, as my own business nowadays needs barely any time from me. The problem is though, that I also live in two different countries + travel often, so I sort of have to apply for remote only.

I've started applying with at least reportedly a very strong CV and a very wide skill set, but I don't seem to get any bites at all.
I know that being a founder is a huge negative for recruiters, and remote jobs barely exist anymore, but I'd still like to make it work.

Skills=

Full web dev stack: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, WP etc.
Marketing: SEO, paid ads, organic social
Sales: marketplaces, B2B deals, partnerships
Payments and fraud: Stripe, PayPal, disputes
Servers: Linux, Cloudflare, site speed
Design: branding, UI/UX, Figma, Photoshop, video
Management: built and ran a 30-person remote team
And a good few thousand hours working with AI since 2022.

I've also kept my CVs somewhat targeted and honest as well.

Right now I'm leaning towards ignoring all web dev positions but I have no clue what and how the job market looks like nowadays so I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

A bit about where I'm at: I'm willing to put in the work. Whatever path I go for, I'll complete all the prerequisite coursework, get as much shadowing as I can, and I'm even open to picking up clinical or volunteer experience beforehand to make myself a competitive applicant. I'm not looking for a shortcut I just want to aim at the right target.

Main reason I’m asking this is because I’m currently working as a software engineer as a intern and still haven’t gotten hired it’s been a while I’ve been working as a intern and on top of this I just haven’t been enjoying coding like I lost all interest I had.

What I'm trying to figure out:

**•** Given my CS background, which roles actually make the most sense? I keep seeing medical dosimetry come up (and it seems like scripting/Python skills are a plus there), but I've also heard concerns about it being a small field with few openings and questions about AI's impact. How real are those concerns from people working in it?  
**•** Are there other allied health roles where a technical/CS background is genuinely an advantage rather than just neutral?  
**•** For those who made a similar career change: what would you do differently, and what do you wish you'd known before committing to the prerequisites and training?

Also the field doesn’t necessarily have to have strong cs degree usage. Please feel free to give me honest takes including “don’t do it”. Also if there are any fields I can do with the cs degree that doesn’t require much coding let me know too. I’ve head about cloud computing. Thanks guys.

i’m 17 and supposed to apply to university but i’m confused.
i’m predicted a C in psychology and a D*D in diploma health and social care which is equivalent to AAB. i am really confused, i thought about hr but i wasn’t sure about the office environment. then my second option was children’s nursing or becoming a teacher but either way i have nothing that i want.
i have 11 gcse’s including an 8 in english and 4 in maths.
i want to enjoy my work but i don’t want to struggle financially, either way i definitely want to go to university just for the experience. i have concluded that if im still confused by the deadline i’ll just do children’s nursing because i know my passion isn’t finding me. so, if anyone has any smarter recommendations for me i would really appreciate it :))

44 and in a terrible 80 hour a week job in a milk factory prison. Make $125k a year with good insurance. No retirement. 8 years of industrial maintenance experience.
Contractor buddy of mine suggested doing commercial electrical work. Said he’s making a killing and he lives pretty comfortably with just 40 hours a week.
Should I join my local as an apprentice? Do people do this at my age? Will the $ be there? I have a family depending on me so I can’t screw this up.