Hi! I have 5 years of experience in retail (3 years as an assistant manager) and a BA in Economics from a UC. I want to break into the fashion industry (commerce), most specifically I am interested in becoming a buyer or working in marketing. Despite my experience in retail and my degree I feel like I’m still lacking in practical hard skills and having been looking to get an MPS from LIM college. Any advice? Should I instead get a general MBA in marketing ?

Title. I have the skills to do more work within my company but I would not enjoy doing it at all. Starting gives .50 an hour raise. Then 1$ after a year. And then two years later they give $1.50. Am I being naive to not get extra money because I think it should be worth more than that? Its not a new skill or anything regarding resume building. There is also another difficult task I could learn with the same pay scale for learning it but again It just seems not worth it in my head to get paid so little for learning something difficult. (Hydrostatic testing on pipes). Any advise is appreciated. Thanks!

After 4 months of searching for a new role, and leaving my job without any PLAN B, I finally got an offer! I'm so happy!

I learned so many things during this whole strange and stressful period:

- Please don't apply to any random job just because you're waiting for anything to hold onto. I know it can be tempting when you're stressed, but it just drains you.

- Taking a risk really can pay off. Don't let people convince you that you've ruined your life, and try not to get pulled into talk like "no one is hiring right now." That kind of talk will keep you awake until 2 a.m.

- Use the extra time well if you can. Finish the things you've been putting off in your life, organize your space, go to the gym, take walks, run if that works for you, and spend time with your friends/family.

- Decide what type of company you would genuinely be excited to join, and then focus your search around places like that instead of sending applications everywhere.

- Talk to people on LinkedIn when it makes sense. I tried it and honestly it didn't lead anywhere for me, but I know it can work for other people depending on the industry.

- As soon as you get an interview, don't treat it like it's guaranteed. Keep applying and keep talking to other places until you sign the contract - honestly, even until you start your first day. Nothing is real until it's real.

As title states, I have no idea what to do in life. As of now, I am 38 male working as a forklift driver on a zero hour contract. For those who don't know what that means, it means I have no guarantee of work. Even though I have been working 40 hours a week for the past 20 months, I rarely enjoy my work. I want to learn some computer based skill, and get a job working with computers. But I don't know how to go about it. Ever since I left college, I've been working in warehouses and factories, and I don't know how to get into anything anymore. My question, what should I learn in order to get on the right path? I hear AI is the way forward but there are soo many different courses available that even searching on Google leaves me overwhelmed and I just stop. I have Adhd, on waiting list to be medicated.

I’m very thrilled to share that I got a job offer in the railway industry! 🎉 I’m excited to be part of one of the first major railway projects here in the Philippines.
I have 3 years of experience in maintenance and supervising people, but my background is more on electronics, so railway systems—especially the 3rd rail system—are quite new to me. They’ll provide training, but I’d like to prepare beforehand.
For those in the railway industry, what electrical and mechanical concepts should I refresh or study for a 3rd rail system? Any recommended resources or topics would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 🙏

I'm being somewhat intentionally vague on the off chance one of the hiring managers is reading this, so I hope this makes sense.

I was laid off from my job due to budget cuts about a month ago. I started applying about two weeks ago and have had a first interview with two companies, and they've both scheduled second interviews for next week. I'm pretty sure I don't want to take Job A, so I'm sort of taking that out of the equation but I'm going to do the interview because I think it's good practice.

I applied for Job B sort of on a whim and they reached out within 24 hours to schedule a first interview. I really liked what I heard and it seemed like a great company even though I really hadn't considered it before now. They must've liked me as well because they went a second interview next week.

Now for my dilemma: I really want to work in a specific sector of my industry, and I applied for a job in that sector, which I'll call Job C. Applications for Job C don't close until this Wednesday. Someone I know on that team told me their boss wants to reach out to me this week when applications close.

I've also had several people who work in the Job C industry put in good words for me. Job C is definitely first choice, but Job B sounds like a good option as well. I'm scared Job B will offer, I'll accept and then Job C will offer but I'll be locked into Job B. I know that's presumptuous and of course a second interview doesn't mean I'll get the job, but I'm unsure what to do. If Job B offers, do I tell them I need some time to think about it and then see what Job C does?

Thanks everyone.

Hello guys,
There is a lot going on in my mind right now. I am in my mid-20s and still don't have a stable job. Like many from a middle-class family, I am currently preparing for a Government job. However, I constantly find myself asking:
What if I am unable to secure a job? What will I do then????

My Background:
I am from Commerce background plus….
I have hands on experience in marketing.
I previously worked at a startup where I handled end-to-end marketing from creating ad campaigns to posting and managing everything across social media platforms. At that time i was learning and somehow i had to leave that job because that company was not paying us as they were ran out of money so i left that job and start preparing for govt. Job to have better and secure life.

My Concerns:
Right now, I am incredibly stressed and confused about my future. I am worried about the growing gap in my career history. More than anything, I am deeply concerned about my parents and their expectations.
Has anyone else been in this situation? How do I deal with this career gap, and what should my next steps be if my government job plans don't work out? I would really appreciate your guidance or suggestions.
Thank you!

Hey so basically idk what I’m doing with my life exactly. But I basically got a bachelors degree from toronto, with a low GPA, and got accepted to a masters program, so just graduated a year ago from my masters. This program was in a Spanish uni, the course was on Supply chain and logistics. My résumé is really good, because I have prestigious schools and fairly large companies. But since graduating the masters, i wasn’t able to find work. About a year after graduating, i settled to go back to the same position in my old company. Now I’m selling internet door to door, and I’m happy with the job, but still looking for other solutions to leverage my education. I’ve thought about launching my own business, offering AI based solutions, which I can operate on my off time, but the full time work has been so busy, I barely get time for my entrepreneurship ventures.
What I want to know is: should I continue to search for other work, while I am at this job, or should I focus on my business?
I have a niche selected, but I lack experience as a B2B person. Currently I sell B2C.

One more thing, since being rehired, I saw that my ADP software says I’ve been employed all the while when I was actually gone for two years - so my employment of 9 months now looks like 2.5 years in the system. I wonder, does this help me if I want to cover the gaps in my résumé? I did some other jobs in the meantime but they were small and contract based.

Lately, my family and friends have been encouraging me to put my organizing skills to use. I’ve helped some of them organize their businesses, workflows, information ... and apparently I’m way better at this than I realized. I’m not talking about just keeping things tidy either. I'm talking taking a complete mess and turning it into something structured, logical and easy to manage.
The problem is, I have no idea how to present this on a CV. Saying “exceptionally organized” just sounds generic and like another useless bullet point. Even though I have a few projects and people around me who can vouch for this, I still don’t feel like that’s enough proof. I also have a degree in economics and other skills (ones that are on the higher end of the skills ladder but I'm just passionate about organizing it's messing with my head), so I’m wondering: what kind of jobs actually require someone who is REALLY good at this like crazy crazy good ? how do I actually land jobs like that? Should I be looking into operations, process improvement, business analysis, workflow/process management ... ? And how do I position myself so I’m not just saying “I’m organized,” but actually showing that this is one of my strongest skills?

I wanted to share this because, honestly, I was shocked - I've never had anything like this happen to me before. I applied for a role where the posting said I would be in one location, with about 10 hours of travel per week, and the rest fully remote.

During the Teams interview, the interviewer started mentioning the names of several cities. I asked her to clarify exactly what the travel would look like, and she said the job required me to go all over the eastern part of the state - about 85% of the time!!!!

I told her that this didn't match the job description at all, and she said the listing probably needed to be fixed. That was enough for me, so I said I wasn't interested in continuing and ended the call.

I was completely done with it at that point! In the end, I accepted another offer a few days later, but I still wanted to share because the whole situation was very awkward.

Hey, I’m 26 and I’ve been a painter for 2 years, I’m looking to transition as I’ve been becoming disoriented with the dangers and lack of safeties companies seem to have. Ideally I’d like another job within the trades or something where I can put the skills I’ve learned to good use.

I’ve been looking into cabinet making as that’s always been a dream of mine but found getting into it ( finding a job) especially apprentice level near impossible. I’ve also looked at lumber sales having worked at the lumber section at Home Depot so maybe there’s some experience there.

I don’t really have an education besides graduating high school. Both my college experience ended badly as I just didn’t end up clicking with the program or getting screwed over by the school.

I also just moved to another province, so I’m not sure if I have it in my budget to start a new job at a lower salary, can anyone give me advice, point me in the right subreddit or just anything at all would really help.

Thanks

I’m 21 years old, a soldier in the Florida National Guard’s Logistics Corps, and currently work in the logistics/trucking industry, which I genuinely enjoy. However, my current job is a traditional 8–5, Monday–Friday position, and I’ll soon be moving back in with my parents for about half a year before i leave for a few months for army training, making my commute about an hour each way.

Since I also have monthly drill, AT, and the possibility of hurricane or other military duties, comes the part of telling my employe i need days off for these events, which in turn makes them less willing to give time off for personal reasons. Anyone in the guard knows firing / discriminating against someone for military obligations is illegal, but still happens and is a hard case to make against an employer.

I’m looking for a career path that gives me more flexibility and control over my schedule. What careers or opportunities within logistics could allow me to maintain a good income, continue working in an industry I enjoy, and still have enough freedom to enjoy my early 20s? I considered truck driving but i heard inter florida isn’t great money to live off on, but am open to suggestions. Thank you!!

I have a degree is sustainable landscape design. While in school, I worked in coffee shops, target, a cat cafe, and did an internship at a botanical garden. After school, I worked as a horticulturist, then moved to California and worked at a plant nursery for a few months. Moved back home and got a job doing landscape maintenance work. I loved it, but the physicality of it left me too drained to do anything else. I got a promotion with that landscape company and have been working as an account manager for three weeks. I didn’t expect the insane amount of stress that would come with this job. I have 15 accounts now, but will work up to around 90. I handle residential clients, so the landscapes are emotionally fueled. I don’t know what I’m doing, and I keep telling clients slightly wrong information. There can’t really be a strict training regimen with the company because the other account managers are already operating at 110%. I can never turn my brain off or stop worrying about what I have missed, who I told what to, learning what their contracts include, figuring out how to communicate necessary info to the production team, learn how and when to sell, how to identify pests and disease, learn irrigation and lighting, learn how to create proposals, etc etc. they should have hired an account manager with previous experience that could actually help the team, instead of me, who is the youngest on the team by 6 years and has had no prior managerial experience.
I’m grateful that they trusted me with this, but I am feeling so sick and overwhelmed. I don’t know if I can live up to the expectations that they need me to live up to. A coworker is going on maternity leave in November, and I will likely be taking over her bigger clients. I’m terrified.
If this job doesn’t work out, what am I supposed to do? I would love to work as a horticulturist or in a botanical garden, but I cannot afford to make $19/hour for the rest of my life. I need a stable salary above 55k/year, but it feels like if I want that, I have to sacrifice my life and soul to a job that makes me go crazy.
What are my options?

Should I address my founder’s communication style after only six weeks?

I started a job six weeks ago at a 20-person company. I like the product, my coworkers, and the work, but communicating with the founder often makes me feel like I’m walking on eggshells.

A few examples:

• During my first week, I was late responding about an insurance form. He messaged: “We want autonomy and proactivity. We don’t do babysitting :)”
• We once had a long, tense exchange in a team chat because he sharply challenged my interpretation of an analytics document. Eventually, we realized we had meant the same thing.
• I was asked to monitor SEO performance after a multilingual website migration. I shared a pre-migration checklist because I wanted to understand what was being implemented before becoming responsible for auditing the results. He replied publicly that my message looked AI-generated and that generic AI content wasn’t necessarily relevant. The checklist itself was based on legitimate concerns such as redirects, hreflang, and high-traffic pages.

He also frequently challenges my recommendations about advertising campaigns. However, he recently told me to be more confident and proceed with my ideas when I believe I’m right—even when he pushes back.

He says he’s simply direct and doesn’t have time to waste. He generally has good energy, but other employees have also told him that his written communication can come across as harsh.

Should I tell him something like:

“I like the company, the product, and the team, but I think we need to find common ground in how we communicate. Sometimes our conversations feel more confrontational than collaborative, and it makes me feel like I’m walking on eggshells. I’d like us to find a way of communicating that helps us work effectively together.”

Is this reasonable feedback, or would raising it after only six weeks be a mistake?

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So where I live you can do both of these after highschool.

The anesthesia tech undergrad is 4 years whereas a pharmD is 5 years.

(I am willing to pursue further education as well)

I just want to know which one offers

• higher job stability

• higher potential for salary

• higher AI resistance

I've seen people saying anesthesia techs and assistants earn a lot straight out of college but I searched a bit about their job on Google and it seemed a bit boring? Whereas a pharmacists job in a hospital seemed cool.

Also I feel like a pharmD opens more doors (like drug discovery, pharmacy informatics, clinical pharmacy, qa/qc, cosmetic pharmacy, etc)

If anyone works in these industries I'd love to hear your pov <3

I always wanted to do BSCS but i did not qualified the admission into a uni for CS . Now i have options to study data analytics or buisness or any other major. I feel so worried all the time i feel like not being into science degree will make me feel stupid in people eyes when i have always studied science.
I am studying buisness now two weeks ago i have joined uni and i am too much depressed. Someone suggested me to keep working on your skills be good at it but dont wait for a degree of Cs. I always wanted to join armed forces or police now i feel like no one will value me because i am studying not a stem degree 🥺.
Kindly give me some good advice should i change university?

Hey i am a engineering student ( civil engineering to be more specific ) i am in my final year and i dont have any skills to flaunt this is my last year and i dont know anything about my branch . It is very difficult for me to find what to do next , i want to learn some nrw skills which may be beneficial i learned etabs few weeks ago but not properly , i want to earn money as i am not that financially stable neither is my family .pl give some suggestions what should i do how to start where to start i dont have much time left i want some serious advice . I will be sitting for tge job interviews in few months

I graduated in mechanical engineering in 2022 with 8 cgpa. Afterwards I worked in a software company where I have developed utilities for attendance and also have done implementation and support for almost 2 years. I was not serious about my career the whole time.thwn worked in bpo around 7 months and took a 8 months career break. Now joined in the institution as technical faculty mechanical.

I do not know what to do with my career in this job market.

What should I do and how should I start to rethink and go forward? What companies will hire me?

NB: currently doing a BA course to start in ai solutions.

Looking for multi disciplinary roles in the long term if jobs exist.

… Help me understand.

I use to have a hard time with my job when I first started. Thrown into it, no proper training.

Over a year in, I am very good at my job. My role is basic admin work. I type very fast, and technology has always been easy to me.

Since I’m working in a clinic, I find myself rapidly running through the e-mails, now with AI, it’s a quicker tool (amplifying my speed).

Within 2-3 hours per day, I already have everything done, e-mails all done, no new patient messages, and when I do I respond within minutes. Our phones have been quite dead the past 2 months, and we’ve been slow (reflection of the economy, evidently).

I do other tasks (sending out the patient recalls, etc).

I find myself with nothing to do, besides refresh a page, over and over. There are times where (majority, actually), I’m doing my co-workers job, so I’m in the back dealing with sterilization, etc because I’m fighting falling asleep at the front.

My boss isn’t happy, claiming I’m not proactive, which I’m dumb founded by.

I have driven the business with hundreds of 5 star reviews, shocking the expectation as previous staff struggled. I rapidly go around cleaning the entire clinic sometimes because I have nothing to do. Before I was fixing things, and handling a lot more on my plate.

I genuinely work my ass off, and I take care of everything, which even my co-worker acknowledged. Yet my boss sees this as nothing “done” and ? I’m not proactive, which is shocking me.

Can someone please tell me why the hell is me being efficient an issue????

And don’t ask your manger for permission. That’s the best advice I can give but I have lots more advice for people who actually want to have a career. Deleting this at 3 am

I am looking for some outside opinions I have asked a couple friends and family members. But would like options from people outside my circle.

I have been at my current job for two years. I work as a graphic designer for a very small town company. It is only myself, my manager, and the owner. My dilemma is that I am not paid enough at my job… I make $18 an hour. I live in the state of Oregon and currently life at home with my parents. I pay rent to them, pay for my bills, and help out with groceries. However, even living at home, and only making $18 an hour, I am saving up no money to be able to move out on my own in the future.

My current boss has made comments before about the shop needing to make more money before myself or my manager will be able to get a raise. He has even made comments before that myself and manager are making more money a month than he as the owner is… I’m not sure how true that is. I have spoken to my manager before about needing to make more or I will unfortunately need to look for a new job because the pay here just isn’t enough. Plus not medical insurance, sick time, or PTO. I’ve wanted to talk with him about a raise for a few months now, but from June - beginning of September is our busy time and he can be pretty difficult to communicate with when stressed… those are two other reasons (aside from pay) that I have been considering a new job. During our busy time we are spending just about every other weekend at events that last all day for multiple days. It makes the summer just about impossible to plan anything with family and friends. Even planning a family bbq has been a struggle. And it is nervous racking to have a hot and cold boss, my manager and I have both talked about how frustrating it is to tiptoe around him on certain days. However the job is pretty flexible with appointments. Instead of having to request weeks in advance, we have normally let him know a few days ahead of time if one of has a doctors appointment in the morning and come in later that day.

I recently applied for a new position and have a video interview in a couple days. I wasn’t expecting to find something so quickly, I was told about the position through a family member. This new position is for a larger company and sounds like it would have a possible $4 pay increase. Plus having insurance, paid sick time, and PTO. However it is not a graphic design job (which I went to school for) but does have opportunities to learn and move up on the job. I would be a little bumped to leave what I went to school for, but there is always freelancing and possible opportunities in the future.

So what I am looking for advice on is, should I talk to my current boss and see if he would give me a $4 raise? And if he says no, then let him know I will be looking for another job. Or he could say yes to a raise but only be a $1 or $2. Which would not help my financial situation.
Or not say anything, go to this interview, and if they offer me the job just tell my boss I was offered a new job with a $4 pay increase and give my 2 week notice?

Thank you to anyone with some insight! :)

UPDATE:

Update for anyone interested lol. I was given the job offer!! Now time to put in my 2 weeks at my current job… wish me luck! What I was the most nervous for was having this conversation with my current boss.

I have been unemployed for the past year and am at a loss for what to do next. I have zero funds for school and am already drowning in student loans so I can’t do loans.

1. Restart the CPA exams. I previously passed half of them but stopped taking them during my divorce. All of my life was hacked. Credit cards duplicated, social media hacked, passwords changed constantly. I gave up registering for my third exam because NASBA couldn’t get me logged in.

My credit is screwed from the unemployment which will make getting an accounting job difficult. Also concerned about AI overtaking the accounting industry and not having a job. I was also experiencing massive corporate burnout and hate being tied to a desk now.

Pay would be good and I could pay off my debt. I have to take 6 more college credits to sit in my current state so I’d be door dashing to stay afloat while studying

I have an old disgruntled coworker that said they would make my life hell with the accounting board if she ever found out I got licensed.

1. Become a teacher. I have been subbing and enjoy it. The pay is horrible and I would NEVER be able to climb out of debt even working three jobs. NC pay scale is horrible and with inflation I’d be making less in years to come.

Would need to go back to school but the county helps reimburse.

1. Work my way up a retail ladder…this is probably my least favorite.

Hi all,

I come from an architectural background and have been studying architecture for the last six years, including a bachelor’s and master’s. While I do like architecture and designing, I’ve always had an interest in fashion and styling in the background.

At the moment, I mainly style myself and post my outfits on TikTok and Instagram. I’ve realised that I’d like to explore fashion more seriously, particularly styling, but I honestly have no idea where to start.

I don’t have any formal education or professional experience in fashion, styling or design. I’m not a fashion designer either, although I’ve recently started learning sewing. My background is primarily creative and technical, with experience in visual communication, concept development, research and design through architecture.

I’m wondering if anyone here has successfully made a similar transition, particularly from architecture or another completely unrelated creative field into fashion/styling.

How would you recommend I start building a portfolio when my only experience is styling myself? How do you actually get opportunities to assist stylists, work on shoots, or connect with the right people? And is formal education in fashion/styling necessary, or can you realistically break into the industry through experience, networking and building your own work?

I’d really appreciate any honest advice, especially from people who have made a career pivot into fashion without a traditional fashion background.