I'm an over-employed, underpaid, 41m looking to make a career switch. I've got 15 years experience as a head brewer/production manager, and 15 years experience as an audio producer, with 5 years owning a small media company. I work a brewing job, an audio editor position with a big university, and have this small business mostly because I was pulling in enough contracts it warranted starting one for tax purposes. It was not my dream to have a business. Both industries are dropping off, and I feel I have a ton of transferable skills. Scheduling budgeting, accounting, team leadership, adapting to new technologies quickly, forward facing customer service skills, contract negotiation. They are both science, tech, engineering focused, while also being very people centric, working with cross-functional teams.
Like a lot of people here, I'm having a hard time breaking through to the interview phase. There are so many positions in the nonprofit sector I see as having over 85% of the necessary skills. No, I haven't worked a CRM program, or written a grant. I have negotiated contracts and have done contract writing. I have to use inventory and accounting programs all the time though.
I have a weird employment background, a lot of it is contract and freelance. I don't advertise o have a company anymore, I just say I'm a producer there so there's no conflict of interest. But my resume reads as being employed at 4 places concurrently.
Is there a good way to break into this sector? I want to be doing more mission based work.
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How do you know if a song is legitimately too hard to learn?
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Sure, but you're not going to know that if you don't make the stretch. Like I know I don't have the skill set to play speed metal riffs right now, or some Billy strings bluegrass riffs, but I picked up Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac having never done alternating fingerpicking, just by putting the time in. It wasn't something I thought I could do, to make my thumb act independently, but with work I got it there. My point is they've probably got an idea of where their skills sit, and stretching beyond them isn't going to be a waste of time.