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Career advice

  • 09-10-2003 12:26pm
    #1
    IrishPug106GTi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭


    I just finished a degree in Business Information Management which I studied at by night. I was a business dgree with some IT thrown in. The only problem is that now I dont know what I am qualified to do. I have seven years experience with Intel in manufacturing and 2 years experience with Intel and Bax Global in Logistics/Warehousing. I need to get away from Bax/Intel into something completely new as I am very bored in my current job as a Warehouse Operative, despite the fact that I am running my own off-site w/house.

    Any carrer advice would be deeply appreciated and just as an added bonus, I wouldn't mind getting away from Logistics/Warehousing altogether.


Comments

  • #2
    pebble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭pebble


    I think you have to decide what it is you would like to do.
    From there you are going to have to plan the route you take.
    Make small goals for yourself to achieve, and at least then you have some sort of path to follow as opposed to aimlessly hopeing for the dream job to come and get you.
    Opportunites will always fall your way, because to be quite honest, you make your own luck. I've been where you are now, and while I could never be bothered to spend a lot of time going to night school (fair balls to you sir for that) I knew what I wanted to do, and I got the jobs that would put me on the first rung of the ladder. That got me the training to get the next job I needed.

    Just remember that career advice is subjective, and to really get any use out of advice, you need to know in your own head what it is you want. Random advice to someone who doesn't know what they want is useless. So, while you have many years in manufaturing, unless you are going to start up a new Fab out in Lexlip, is fairly useless as experience. You have a degree now. go out and use it. You did business. Forget manufaturing and warehousing. Get out of your comfort zone and go after what you want. Should be hard for someone who can dedicate four years of their life to getting a night degree.


  • #3
    p.pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭p.pete


    For those who don't actually know what they want to do, there is a book by Barbara Sher, stupid title, something like "I could do anything if only I knew what it was".

    I'm only half way throught the book and I haven't gotten too much from it so far - not too much of a recomendation, you can read the reviews on amazon, maybe it will be of some interest to you....


  • #4
    IrishPug106GTi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭IrishPug106GTi


    Pebble:
    Thanks for the excellent advice. I am trying to become more focused at persuing the area I would like to work in. I have a meeting next week with one of my lecturers for some career advice and I can finally say that there is light at the end of the tunnel.


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