Are you working in your dream field (ex: luxury goods, tech, culinary arts, health, etc)? If so did you get in right out of college or worked your way in?

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I have zero idea what my dream field would be - I work in a niche segment of the healthcare industry which I fell into as I search desperately for a job after graduating in 2003. 21 years later, I wouldn’t swap it for anything. But I didn’t worry about the field then and I would suggest not worrying about it now. I couldn’t imagine anything worse than wanting to get into a specific field as you list only to hate the field/company/role

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It took me 6 months of working for free to get into my dream field, and it wasn’t all that I had thought. Don’t romanticize work

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I’m not, I’m just curious

Yes, marketing at a tech company, worked my way in for about 5 years

How did you do it? What field were you previously in?

I think the concept of dream field is a corporate myth. I wanted to work in B2B tech because I believe it’s where value was the most appreciated as a PMM and it turns out it’s all the same bs. I did sports nutrition, professional services, and consumer services before. It’s all just a job at the end of the day.

Hang in there!

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