Fellow fish 🐟 anyone do a complete flip in their career choice and are now reaping the rewards from it?

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Exited big-4 after 9 years, doubled my salary, halfed the hours. Learning more, doing what I like doing and overall more content.

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This sounds like the dream! Way to go.

Went from marketing to software engineering, doubled my salary and love my new career!

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Wow! That was a big step. So glad you are liking it. We love a doubled salary.

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Went from a construction worker and on-site technician in the pool industry to software developer in an IOT startup to where I work now as a senior ui developer working on internal insurance and credentials software. I had the opportunity to build out an entire new ui module and php middle tier api endpoints for it. The past 2 years have been amazing at leveling me up. I have increased my quality of life 10 fold and finally do a job I’m excited to do!

In total from start to finish has taken me 7 years of hard consistent work.

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Thank you for your kind words. I’m just thankful to have a job that still supports a middle class income with no college and that tickles my brain. 🤓🤓🤓

went from chasing medical school for 5 years to now being a security engineer and I never looked back!

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Mom's cousin went from working as an electrical engineer for a couple years after his EE degree to becoming a doctor.

Thought I wanted to be a Deloitte-lifer (7 years there), saw past the smoke and mirrors and got into Google. Resting and vesting now

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Already gave notice and start my new job in March! Thanks :)

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I went from being a preschool teacher to a lead analyst lol Talk about a huge 180, and I'm in love!

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From Marketing to frontend developer here! I love being hands-on in my designs.

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Went from Finance into Engineering program management 2 years back. New role/team wasn’t amazing, worked my ass off and got promoted quickly.

Fast forward to now, finally go an internal offer to join my dream team and work closely with Product! 💫⭐️

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Went from product design to product management, getting way more into biz decisions now and have a higher earning potential, so quite happy with it

Not yet but I have been thinking about it tbh.

Went from doing biological lab work (college) to working a business-job in a software company. Glad I pivoted, I cannot imagine myself doing lab work for a living!

Yes, switched industries and added rental income.

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