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I am a fullstack developer having 8+ years of experience,I was enjoying my work but now I think I hate coding.Currently I have changed my job.now I Am just fixing the bugs.nothing new.I started hating coding and also I can't take up stress.Now I have decided to change my domain.But not sure which domain to pick and don't want to go from start.Can anyone suggest something which domain to pick up.as I was thinking to go into techno-functional consultant or BA.can someone suggest
Hi, please help me to decide..
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IBM (lowest pay of all)
UST Global client Umbrella
CGI
Societe Generale
Bosch
Manhattan Associates
Horizontal Integration client Target, but Horizontal's payroll (highest pay of all)
Most are similar in package.
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I chose career options that peeked my interest, researched them and found maybe the top 3 that I was excited about. I then focused on the pay scale for each industry. Lastly, I spoke to ppl in the industries and made my selection.
Thank you for sharing!
I pivoted. I asked myself when do I feel the most inspired? When do I feel the most energized? I realized I like helping people and coming up with innovative solutions.
I did a lot of research and came upon Project Management. In the right company, I can support a team of people and figure out interesting solutions.
It’s not the end of my career growth, of course. It’s just the next step in terms of understanding myself and what I like to do.
How did you manage the pivot ? Did you have previous experience in project management?
I never really decided. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, and I'm in my 40s. I have a good network and have changed career paths within my company several times over the past 20 years. I don't need to love my job, but I do need to like it.
If you’re in the exploration phase, highly recommend checking out the book Designing Your Life.
I recently went through this and happy to share I have successfully pivoted. I focused on what aspects of my current role i enjoyed ( ex. project work, addressing client concerns one on one) and explored careers related to those aspects. I also looked in to the potential career growth, ease of changing companies, market demand related to my top picks.
Thanks for your answer, and congrats on pivoting!
How did you explore the different careers you were potentially interested in? I want to do that too, but I feel like there might be too many to try out sometimes.
I worked retail. Didn’t like the poor pay and weekends required.
I worked in sales. Could sell when I was excited about the product but just didn’t know how to be good at it. Pay was a little better, but not much.
I worked in inventory management. Pay was a definite improvement, but I worked 2p to 2a, 6 days a week. I looked around and realized that no one I worked with had what I wanted out of life.
I got a job in an office and learned how to do basic programming. Pay was better. Hours were way better. Got another job, this time as a programmer. Pay was a lot better. Rinse, repeat. Eventually I decided I could have a career at it.
Prove? I can’t.
When I interview, I am the best choice for the job. Period. My task, my purpose in life, at that moment, is to sell them on that fact (technically not a fact, but that’s part of the game).
For a long time, I took any programming job I could get. For a few years, it was all vb. Then it became c#. Books and ojt where were I got all my knowledge.
My basic assumption is that I’m the worst programmer in the room and everyone else has a CS degree from a well respected university, and knows more than me.
My imposter’s syndrome is a chip I carry around on my shoulder daring anyone to knock it off and petrified that I’ll be found out.
Luckily, I’m far more frightened by the thought of my kid going hungry and living on the streets. So (for a long time), I worked as many hours as it took to get it done. Luckily, all that effort also aided me at getting pretty good at what I do.
I know I’m not the worst in the room, regardless of how much that inner monologue may try to convince me otherwise. That particular battle never goes away for me, so I rarely stop trying to get better.
Interviewing is a skill that you need to be good at. What I lacked in technical legitimacy, I made up for in can-do attitude and a keep grinding mentality - “I will outlast my competition”.
Was I qualified? No. However, that voice in my head questioning me is not more powerful than my need to provide for my family. So my qualifications didn’t matter. Only that I got the job. Remember, at the time, I wasn’t being picky. I took shit programming jobs just to get better. I learned at every job I had - positive or negative.
I'm currently transitioning my career and to decide what I wanted next I reflected on my career and what parts of every job made me most happy, and which parts I liked least. Then I did research on different careers to think about which ones maximized the parts I liked and minimized what I didn't like.
Since you're so young in your career that might not help, but I would recommend doing informational interviews with friends, coworkers, friends of friends etc. in diverse jobs to see what the real day-to-day is like and see what sounds most interesting. What a job description sounds like on paper can be very different than what it really is once you're living it.
I did some research about what professional certifications are out there that interest me and went from there! I’m in the process of affordably continuing my education and honing in on exactly what I want to do next, but I’m feeling more optimistic about my pivoting than ever before and I’m super excited about the doors that I know will open!