Is it possible to switch to a different career?

Question

I have been working System Analyst in the IT line for more than 10 years now. I am bored and I have not much interest in it anymore. I want to switch to a new career.

Answer 1

It is absolutely possible, and often essential.

Find out what you love, something you can be passionate about for a lifetime and still pay enough of the bills (whatever that means).

People who do what they love understand it better, pursue it longer, and harder and stronger and deeper than people who do it for money or pride. In the end the people who are serving money or pride move elsewhere. Its true, you can only give your heart to one thing.

Find out where your hearts desire is, and pursue it with all your strength for the rest of your life. You have a moral obligation to yourself and to humanity to do no less than that.

Answer 2

Most people change careers 4-7 times in their worklives. (Funny how no one knows that!)

And I suspect that will increase here in the US.

You may need to go back to school - depending on what you want to go to. If you already have a 4 year degree, usually you only need to take the major coursework to get a second Bachelor's.

There are a couple of good books on the subject - but it seems to boil down to this - 1) figure out what you want to do - spend some time on this! 2) figure out what transferrable skills you have - things like, you must be able to analyze things in your current line of work - how would that apply in your new career?

Best of luck!

Answer 3

It's never too late to switch to a new career, but you must look at what you are willing to sacrifice. I went to business school with many people who had engineering backgrounds, they sacrificed two years of salary to be able to use their experience to land them a management job in other industries. If you are looking to completely start over you may not be able to use your previous salary as your basis for a competitive position. You should research average salary of slightly experienced level positions in your desired field and metropolitan area. My suggestion would be to find what may interest you and somehow figure out how your previous experience will help you in that field. It could be as simple as team building exercises or corporate strategy which can be leveraged across many different career focus areas.

Answer 4

I had the same problem I was working in a job that I was just sick of. But I felt stuck and was sometimes depressed. 9 months ago I started with a company called Xango and it has changed my life I no longer have the job that I hated and now work at home on the hours I want to work. I see this is only the beginning for me and I am always looking for more businesses to start.

Answer 5

Do you just want to start over and go to school? Well that would be you best option you can go to school part time go to you local college and look at a catalog and see what you are interested in. If you don have any local colleges were you are check in to on line courses. Hope this helped you out.

Answer 6

Anything is possible. Try talking to some of your coworkers in different departments about what their jobs are like on a daily basis to get ideas of something that you may find more enjoyable. And/Or if you're religious, pray about it.

Answer 7

My best friend was a RN she got tired of it she decided to totally switch her career. She now works as a realtor. She loves it.

Answer 8

in this country everything is possible... there is not a way that anyone can make you do anything.

Answer 9

of course is possible girl .... Dr Phil did it ....