#careerchange — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #careerchange, aggregated by home.social.
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Anyone have a job in the PNW they got without a degree or paying for certifications/training out of pocket?
If so, what is it, do you like it, and generally how do you feel about it?#oregon #PNW #jobs #careerchange #nodegreejobs #PDX #portland #salemoregon #eugene
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Hello fediverse, I need a job! I'm what you may call an unorthodox candidate. I don't have a college degree, certifications, or a resume that matches my real interests, and I'm principled. However, I'm also one of those people that constantly beats the odds and, when correct conditions are met, I seriously excel.
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#GetFediHired #FediHire #FOSSJobs #Hiring #remotework #lua #work #it #humanity #solarpunk #career #careerchange #coding #P2P #FOSS #climatechange #nonprofit #ecology #PNW #Oregon -
Hi friends, I'm looking to make a career change from my current job as VP of R&D in a early stage scientific instrument company. I'm hoping to find a mission-driven job which supports open source software/hardware, cooperatives, and sustainability.
I'll need to be more specific to find a job, but I need help to do that. I'm hoping to form a job search council, a support group of job-searching peers. Does this sound interesting to you or someone you know?
#careerChange
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🚀🤖 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that software is about people, not code! Who knew? Next, they'll tell us that pizza is about the taste, not just the dough. 🍕🙄 Meanwhile, thousands of developers are rethinking their career choices, realizing they've been misled by syntax all along. 🤦♂️
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/ #softwarepeople #careerchange #techhumor #codinginsights #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated -
Woman quits 6-figure job to live on cruise ships and discovers complicated reality 2 months in
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/woman-quits-six-figure-job-for-cruising-ex1-2/
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Meet Sarah Kendzior: The bestselling author who traded her writing desk for a $17-an-hour garden centre job and found unexpected joy | World News https://www.allforgardening.com/1887403/meet-sarah-kendzior-the-bestselling-author-who-traded-her-writing-desk-for-a-17-an-hour-garden-centre-job-and-found-unexpected-joy-world-news/ #CareerChange #CareerJourney #CnbcInterview #garden #GardenCentreJob #JobSatisfaction #MeaningfulWork #MinimumWageJob #PersonalGrowth #SarahKendzior #WorkLifeBalance
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Some know I was laid off recently. Some know I'm about to do probably the most foolish thing I've ever done — and if you know me, that's saying quite a bit.
After 20 years in corporate IT, I've decided to become a composer. No fancy pieces about unemployment.
I am going to write for independent filmmakers, theater, dance, and mixed media.
Here's a new video from my portfolio. Hope you enjoy it!
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AI Could Steal Many More Jobs Than Previously Thought Here’s Why
Getty Images If you ask ChatGPT if the technology behind it is stealing people’s jobs, the response is telling: “AI is changing the job market by automating certain tasks, which can reduce the need for some roles, especially repetitive or data-driven jobs,” it admits. Then it adds a positive spin that aligns with an idea AI hawks are promoting, noting that AI “also creates new opportunities in tech, Al development, and industries adapting to new technologies.”……..Continue […] -
A Fragile Collapse
A humid Sunday, a tree breaking under the weight of its own unpicked fruit, and a promise I've made once before. -
wastewater career change update:
with the help of a friend, i have managed to get an internship with a local engineer who has a lot of septic system projects.
i've completed a couple projects with him so far, and am in the middle of a third. yay!
i handle most of the aspects of a septic project. so far we've done site inspections together (which includes going to the site, doing percolation tests, taking any measurements, etc.). then he gives me some general direction and i do the (very simple) calculations and drawings. he gives me feedback on the drawings until they are correct. then i fill out the paperwork for the permit, put everything together into a pdf packet, and send it to him. if he sees anything that needs to be changed in the packet, i fix it, then send it back to him. he submits the final packet to the department of health. that's the job.
things were tough at first because i was using librecad to do the drawings, and i was struggling to make things look how i wanted. i ended up buying a refurbished thinkpad with windows, my dad got his architect friend to send me a mysterious copy of autocad that somehow works (i didn't even know he had an architect friend?), and now i'm up and running with autocad on a windows machine, so i feel like i can make much better drawings.
i'm still struggling with some aspects, like i don't really know how to decide where the septic system should go in relation to the house. i need my employer's guidance on that. aside from offsets (it needs to be a minimum of 5 feet from any buildings and minimum of 5 feet from any property lines), we didn't really get any instruction in our classes about how to place them. so right now for example, i'm waiting to hear from my employer about whether i've picked a good spot for the current project, and i kind of can't move forward until i hear from him (i've had to re-do several drawings so far because the placement needed to be changed, and figuring out what drawings depend on what info has been part of the learning process).
luckily, the standards for septic plan drawings seem to be much looser compared to actual architectural plans. i suspect that's hawai'i-based because they're processing a lot of these and as long as the drawings have the info they need, the details of how everything is formatted is less important. at any rate, my employer (yes, i'm getting paid!) has accepted my drawings with their inconsistent annotation formattings, and numbers that cross lines, and various other issues.
i'm getting better at autocad with every drawing and i'm very impressed with the level of documentation they have for solving all kinds of problems. i'm going to continue my learning so that i can do these drawings more efficiently. and in the category of "trying to run before you can walk", i'm already wondering how it might work to have a program where you input the dimensions of the leach field, what kind of pipes or chambers you're using, how many rows you want, and it generates some geometry for you. so i guess that's more of a "trying to fly before you can walk" situation 😅 .
anyway, things are progressing! my employer has accepted my drawings and he seems to want to continue working with me, which is already extremely surprising and marvelous! i am enjoying the work and time goes pretty quickly while i'm working (i feel sooooooo lucky that this is the case because this has been a problem in basically every other job and career i've ever had).
so yea, that's the situation. i just have to keep trying, improve my skills, keep showing up, and keep doing the work i guess.
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Limiting Factors
I would like to start approaching this blog like a weekly column, with each one having a theme. Have you ever seen Sex and the City? That show hasn't aged well in many ways, but I always appreciated how it was structured. Every episode would feature Carrie's column and how the events of her life informed her writing. I am a relatively young transgender professional trying to break into a new field at the age of 36. My goal is to work in the field of mental health, gaining a foothold wherever […] -
🚀 Oh look, another tech genius jumping ship after realizing that the grass is greener at Anthropic's lunch table. 🙄 Nine years at #DeepMind and all it took was a "recharge" to decide that doing "great science" isn't exclusive to Google's cafeteria. 🧠🔄
https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106 #technews #AI #Anthropic #careerchange #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
Three years prior to writing these words I was on the brink of a huge professional change. I’ve made a...
Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Poise Purpose
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Three years prior to writing these words I was on the brink of a huge professional change. I’ve made a...
Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Poise Purpose
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AI is pushing workers away from college and toward trade schools and entrepreneurship
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/ai-college-trade-school-shift/
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School/work update:
classes ended in may, and i just submitted my first draft septic design to the engineer that i'm interning with 🥹
i don't know if i did it right, but at least i did it in a fairly timely manner.
I was struggling with LibreCAD the entire time. during classes, I had a loaner windows PC from the school that was pre-loaded with AutoCAD. all of our instruction was in AutoCAD. But now that's gone, so i'm getting used to LibreCAD. I still haven't figured out how to do like a layout for print, with titles and a little scale annotation on the bottom 🤔
anyway, it feels nice to be working in the realm of physical things. i think that was maybe one of the (many!) things that i found frustrating about software: there was no referent in the real world. nothing i could hang my hat on. and i couldn't keep all the abstractions in my head 😖 . with these septic designs, it's like "ok, i drew the design for that part, what's next? ok i need to do the drawing for this part. what do i need to know in order to do that?" i dunno. maybe it'll get harder, but so far it seems easier for my particular brain.
As a bonus, here's a photo from the location where the septic is going to go. We went out there yesterday to do a soil percolation test.
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🎉 So apparently, #AI has "solved" everything from #animation to #academia, leaving us mere mortals to twiddle our thumbs and enjoy our cooked careers. 👨🎓🍳 Meanwhile, the AI bros are busy patting themselves on the back for their next-token prophecy, as if predicting the next word in a sentence is akin to solving world peace. 🌍🔮
https://pop.rdi.sh/where-does-next-token-prediction-leave-us/ #AIImpact #CareerChange #HackerNews #ngated -
There’s a real chance you will not have the same job by the end of 2027
https://www.elenaverna.com/p/youll-lose-your-job-in-2027
#HackerNews #jobsecurity #futureofwork #careerchange #workforce2027 #techdisruption
