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need advice on potential career change

  • 26-02-2009 04:40PM
    #1
    PGL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭


    I am an unemployed Chartered Engineer with over seven years in the Irish private consultancy market. It appears that work relevant to my skills are thin on the ground. Hence I need to consider a potential change of career to get through this recession. Can anyone offer perals of advice on changing careers, or can anyone advise of fields of work which I could go into and successfully secure employment?

    cheers


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  • #2
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    go back to college?

    go to FAS.

    take on low skilled job. security/bar work/etc

    head to canada.

    it's bleak!


  • #3
    Ellechim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Ellechim


    Look at what skills you have and what you enjoy doing: the book 'what colour is your parachute' by Richard Nelson Bolles is really good: you can do a workshop in it run by this guy: I have attended his classes in the past and found them good (no affiliation) http://www.brianmcivor.com/index.php?page=workshops.

    I did his weekend workshop about 8 years ago and came out with a list of 16 jobs I might be suited to : it was up to me then to go and explore them........

    Just a thought, best of luck with it...........


  • #4
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Ellechim wrote: »
    Look at what skills you have and what you enjoy doing: the book 'what colour is your parachute' by Richard Nelson Bolles is really good: you can do a workshop in it run by this guy: I have attended his classes in the past and found them good (no affiliation) http://www.brianmcivor.com/index.php?page=workshops.

    I did his weekend workshop about 8 years ago and came out with a list of 16 jobs I might be suited to : it was up to me then to go and explore them........

    Just a thought, best of luck with it...........

    +1 on this book


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