New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I find a new career?
Ask HN: How do I find a new career?
7 by notsurenymore | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I was laid off from a SaaS company a year ago. Since then, I’ve been unable to find employment. Prior to that, I worked for a variety of non tech companies mostly doing enterprise crapware for internal business processes: a lot of legacy stuff, and low effort, low priority, poorly organized projects. I’ve learned and played with a lot of things outside that, and certain things gave piqued my interest before, but I can never take it far enough to be useful. I have no education, suck at CS, no deep business domain knowledge, and have zero math intuition. I’m decent at figuring things out ad-hoc, but that counts for nothing. I hate programming. I thought I liked it as a kid, but even then I knew that if tried to turn it into a career it would ruin it for me. I only ended up taking it up as a job because my immediate post high school plans feel through and I didn’t know what else to do, but at this point it seems the only reason I was able to pull that off was because of the ridiculous market conditions of the time. Now no one will hire me, not even the sort of companies just described I used to work for. I’ve even been rejected from shitty fast food jobs for a variety of reasons at this point. I just feel lost. I don’t know what I want to do or what I can do anymore. The risks and time costs of going back to school are too expensive, no do I believe I have the cognitive ability for any “useful degrees”, and I’m not particularly in the shape to do hard labor. What are some options I might be overlooking for finding a new career?
7 by notsurenymore | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I was laid off from a SaaS company a year ago. Since then, I’ve been unable to find employment. Prior to that, I worked for a variety of non tech companies mostly doing enterprise crapware for internal business processes: a lot of legacy stuff, and low effort, low priority, poorly organized projects. I’ve learned and played with a lot of things outside that, and certain things gave piqued my interest before, but I can never take it far enough to be useful. I have no education, suck at CS, no deep business domain knowledge, and have zero math intuition. I’m decent at figuring things out ad-hoc, but that counts for nothing. I hate programming. I thought I liked it as a kid, but even then I knew that if tried to turn it into a career it would ruin it for me. I only ended up taking it up as a job because my immediate post high school plans feel through and I didn’t know what else to do, but at this point it seems the only reason I was able to pull that off was because of the ridiculous market conditions of the time. Now no one will hire me, not even the sort of companies just described I used to work for. I’ve even been rejected from shitty fast food jobs for a variety of reasons at this point. I just feel lost. I don’t know what I want to do or what I can do anymore. The risks and time costs of going back to school are too expensive, no do I believe I have the cognitive ability for any “useful degrees”, and I’m not particularly in the shape to do hard labor. What are some options I might be overlooking for finding a new career?
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