Career
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It's been a while since I've been thinking about changing work, but don't know where to go or if I am making the right decisions. I tried applying on one company and got rejected. I don't feel any remorse, instead I feel nothing. I'm scared of getting a new job, quitting my current work only to get fired on the new one. Career choices. I've done a reading on my own but still trying not to get biased on it.
Can someone please do a reading for me about this? Any help would greatly be appreciated.
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@raspberrygirl
This is something I could have helped you with face to face as HR was my thing. So hugs while someone else gives you a reading.
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I'll do a tarot reading on career for you
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@daliolite that would be a great help! Looking forward to your reading.
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@raspberrygirl ok give me a couple days one to draw one to meditate
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RaspberryGirl, do you want to change your career because of the difficulties you have been having at your place of work or because you genuinely want to try something new?
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@thecaptain personal growth. I wanted expand my skills. I want to try out on new things. If possible, travel while working. Achieve something. Something I can feel excited about.
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Do you have a particular career in mind?
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@raspberrygirl
do you have something similar to the following link where you live? https://www.prospects.ac.uk/planner. Forget graduate if you have not been to college but you get good ideas.
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@thecaptain yes. I've always wanted to be a screenwriter/novelist. I was writing since I was little, but now having troubles doing so. I have a lot of ideas, though. On the otherhand, I wanted to be an analyst on another company for a stable job, which I am having troubles in achieving.
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@jayann yes. In fact, even before we graduate, taking a similar test is a must.
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@raspberrygirl you will need to do a screen-writing course before you try for work in that industry, which is exceedingly difficult to break into unless you know someone who works in it. Even for novel writing, you will need a proven record of published work such as short stories as no publisher these days will take on an unknown, inexperienced writer.. So don't give up your paying day job until you have written and published some stories in your free time. Writers like Stephen King gathered hundreds of rejection letters from publishers before they made it.
Are you qualified as an analyst? Have you applied for that sort of job anywhere else?
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@thecaptain 4 years ago I submitted a novel to a publisher and it got accepted for publishing. After that, I never found the time to continue writing. For now, I currently work as an analyst for an international company. I've been here for 3 years. Though my manager advised me to apply for a leadership role within the company, I am thinking more of another company for multiple reasons. First is salary and workload - this one bears the most weight because I have a lot of goals and responsibilities and and increase in salary would be a great help and second is I am trying to move on from a failed love connection with a coworker.
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@raspberrygirl are you writing in your spare time? Because few people make it in writing well enough to give up any other job.
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@raspberrygirl
Having read what you and @TheCaptain have written I remembered something J K Rowlings said.
So I googled speech on writing and got.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/181377-13-writing-tips-from-jk-rowling-because-she-knows-a-thing-or-two-about-perseverance
https://freelancewritingteam.com/j-k-rowlings-top-10-good-tips-for-writing-a-book/
https://www.nownovel.com/blog/five-great-writing-tips-from-j-k-rowling/
I did not find the relevant article that I remembered but it was you must write something every day.
Do what John boy in the Walton's did.
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@thecaptain actually, writing is just a hobby to me. Earning from it is just a silverlining. My main focus for now is my current job. My ordeal is whether to stay in my current job or apply to a different company - these two have the same position but different compensations offered. I've been having this dilemma for quite sometime. Whether to stay on my stable job with heavy workload and low compensation or explore other oppprtunities on other companies with higher compensation but not sure for how long I will be employed in there. I am not sure if we all have the same employment policies, but here in my country a new employee will be under probationary period of 6 months to test whether they will be in for the long run or cut off.
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@jayann I will take some time to read these. Thanks!
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@raspberrygirl
you are welcome and I am looking forward to reading something you have written.
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@raspberrygirl can you not apply for other jobs while still hanging onto the old one (until you get a new position) to pay the bills?
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@raspberrygirl
Probation period of 6 months or more is standard practice in Europe for graduates.
make an appointment with your manager/supervisor to find out how well you are doing from their point of view. Also discuss how they can help you in the areas you are struggling,
update you CV/resume
see if you can get on a headhunter books so you can be headhunted, also know as Search and selection. https://www.emersonchaseprocess.com/42/188/headhunters-agencies-difference