What to do if you're 40 and you've realised you can't stand office work at all because you have #ADHD, but the only job experience you have is 13 years of being a software engineer?
Add to that the constraint that you can't go to school to re-educate yourself because school is just office work you don't get paid for?
What kind of job can you even get in that situation? I've been thinking about that for 4 years now and I don't have any good answers. 🤷♂️
EDIT: I did not respond well to medical ADHD treatment. Bad side effects. Many people get those, but it's not talked about much.
So every 3 months I redo my resume. I've been doing it for close to 15 years (I have copies of my resumes from high school).
And, well...
I just realized my resume hadn't landed me a single job.
Ever.
Papa John's? Paper form. Working for politicians? Referral. Non-profits? Referral. Current gig? I was recruited!
Do... do resumes work? Like, I've been giving advice to folks on careers (once in a while), but, well, do resumes actually get folks jobs? #Careers#Resumes
"I want to die on stage" is the romantic thought of every musician until they realize that most of what they can tentatively call a career will be spent in clubs that don't have stages, let alone stages big enough to hold the corpse of a grown man.
Do you have an in-depth knowledge of EU institutions? Do the EU’s legislative and #policy processes tickle your interests?
We are looking for a Public Affairs Manager with excellent analytical, English language and writing skills to join our EU Liaison Team in #Amsterdam and bridge the gap between policy and practice.
Since it's reflection and retrospective season, I'm resharing a favorite older blogpost I wrote, during the founding of the Dev Success Lab, about the role I see for applied research in tech, our relationship with our "zombie luggage," and my own personal journey to always love what I do even when it's been very difficult for the wider tech industry to understand it.
Need an AI- and automation-proof career? Go into kitchen cabinets. Apparently, finding someone able to do kitchen cabinets is one of the most difficult things, per multiple people I know, my insurance adjuster, and the restoration companies (at least, while people can still pay for kitchens). Heck, maybe I will go into kitchen cabinets, LOL. #careers#jobs
“Job security” is an illusion created by corporations — A company’s only concern is how much money the company can make.
Companies are not “families”, they're businesses, and their goal is to make as much money as possible. If they can make more money by laying you off, they will.
One of the biggest risks in life is depending on only one source of income. It's more important than ever to create multiple streams of income.
What #careers exist in the #space sector & how do you find them? How do you improve awareness about the variety of #SpaceCareers? Cara Waters, Martin Archer & Simon Foster explain all in today's #EGUwebinar at 13:00CET!