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Getting out of retail management

  • 07-04-2017 07:16PM
    #1
    curry_person
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭


    Hello!

    Hope someone can advise me on a good path. I've been working now as a retail manager for 3 years and working in retail over 8 years. Sadly never went to college, but currently completed first year in business degree which I do in evenings. I want to escape retail but I dunno what avenue to take. I want really a career a company that I can grow with where prospects of moving up ladder are possible. What kind of career paths are possible for someone like me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


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  • #2
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,247 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    curry_person wrote: »
    Hello!

    Hope someone can advise me on a good path. I've been working now as a retail manager for 3 years and working in retail over 8 years. Sadly never went to college, but currently completed first year in business degree which I do in evenings. I want to escape retail but I dunno what avenue to take. I want really a career a company that I can grow with where prospects of moving up ladder are possible. What kind of career paths are possible for someone like me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    there are "supervisory management" qualifications you can do part time / distance. It would be quicker method of gaining a qualification and match your relevant experience.. It should get you in at the bottom in manufacturing, team leader, junior supervisor role where you could work up from and in a manufacturing company people find all sorts of opportunities


  • #3
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,793 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    curry_person wrote: »
    Hello!

    Hope someone can advise me on a good path. I've been working now as a retail manager for 3 years and working in retail over 8 years. Sadly never went to college, but currently completed first year in business degree which I do in evenings. I want to escape retail but I dunno what avenue to take. I want really a career a company that I can grow with where prospects of moving up ladder are possible. What kind of career paths are possible for someone like me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    What about Lidl/Aldi, yeah you may need to do a store manager role, but you could apply for the Area manager role, they will progress if you are good enough..


  • #4
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    I was in a similar situation, but it was hotel management. Although management skills are transferable, you will normally have to start at the bottom of another industry and hope your skills shine through and you get promoted.

    I went into IT, did a degree and won't say I started at the bottom, but not far off it, so the pay cut is well over 50%, but in IT I can have a career and importantly for me, a good career without having to go down the management route, which I am done with.


  • #5
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Finished my law degree last year and was set to go to the Inns this year but things have set me back another year but anything is possible OP. I find dealing with hardened criminals much more pleasant than many retail customers!


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