S/O is struggling to find career path.. music major who has been pinned into admin assistant roles the past few years. Wants to move into ops, or something new, but struggling. Any šŸ  have (cont.)

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1) Internship (aka free labor) -> use good recs to move into FT role.

2) Get a new degree.

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PMP. It's basically the same job just with more respect and money.

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A startup perhaps? Iā€™m at one now and we had an receptionist help out with configs when we were in crunch mode. Would be in a much better place to lateral into an ops role if she wanted after that. Apart from that you have boot camps or starting a music school.

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Suggestions on areas she might look to get into or certificates/secondary education? Not entirely sure what she wants which is making it difficult. I want to be helpful but am not sure how. Chicago based, any suggestions welcome!

First, she has to decide what she wants. If she canā€™t speak with passion and conviction about what she wants to do, itā€™s going to be very difficult to break into something new. As someone who has made all sorts of weird career jumps, the best way is to seek out what you, want, be passionate about doing it, network like hell, and be incredibly persistent, patient, and resilient.

This is good advice & I agree and maybe I havenā€™t helped call out the importance to her quite enough. Thanks for your comment

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