I gave up on a study course after five years of hell and now I’m back at my parents’ house and must make a big decision on what career to pursue and find a job asap. But I just can’t decide, I can’t picture myself in 5/10 years from now and can’t even imagine what type of job I’d love, bc everything seems out fo reach and impossible, just like it felt when I was 20.
I’m from Italy, and I made my previous choice based on job perspectives here, now I’d like some perspective from abroad…
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business and economics This is a course in English, I also speak French and in an ideal world I would have studied foreign languages (but in reality, I would have found no job, here at least, or nothing promising). Studying economics in English would sort of fulfill that, I’d study other languages and strive to become an export manager with time. Other than that I could combine it, in THe future, with studies in cultural heritage, which would be my first choice if only I could live off of that. And find related jobs as I go.
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computer science. Never interested me that much, I had a basic programming course which wasn’t that bad, I think I’d be able to do that… But I don’t know if I’d really want that. I’ve thought about it bc I’m interested in data journalism, and I could combine it with data visualization, design, writing… But that’s more like an interest, I don’t think I’d like the actual careers I’d have access too… I don’t even have that much knowledge on what possible jobs would be like.
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management engineering Again export or project manager. I’d prefer economics, but bc of my age this might give me slightly better chances of finding a job asap?
Of course the careers I mentioned require years of work and I’m willing to do that, the problem is I feel very confused, I’m afraid of wasting time bc of my age, maybe studying and not finding a job and also how can one know if a career is the right one for you? You first have to get there…
Any type of advice would be of great help, thank you in advance
Unless you have real and actual interest in software development and computers, I wouldn’t go into it. I hire developers, and the good ones I don’t gleven care what or where they studied, they’re the ones that love tinkering with a raspberry pie, they’re the ones who love to work on open-source projects, they’re the ones that are self taught because they couldn’t wait for school or university to teach them.
From what you’re telling me, it sounds like a “well yeah I guess I could do that” which to me sounds like you don’t love it. I love my job, I go programming on a Saturday morning because to me it’s like building a puzzle. I love puzzles.
I might be mistaken here but I don’t think you’d love your job very much if you’d be in IT
No I agree, but I’m so confused and I don’t even know why. I can’t even imagine what sort of thing I’d like to do, lately I can’t even do anything enjoyable in daily life actually. It’s a phase and it makes me doubt about everything that’s why I can’t just put things to the side even though they’re probably not for me
Un mio amico è partito un po’ di anni fabper l’Olanda con zero conoscenze di computer eccetto averne montati un paio, ha incominciato a fare IT per le aziende mentre si guardava filmati su youtube per risolvere i problemi che gli capitavano e pian piano ha imparato. Nel frattempo ha preso lezioni di programmazione e adesso gestisce la parte software di una startup. Ovviamente devi trovare una situazione che favorisca questa cosa e in Italia ahimè ce n’è poche.
Install Linux
Find your nearest shady Street and get to trick’n
if you’re vaguely interested in and understand basic programming you could get into software QA.
it’s fairly easy to get into in my experience, you’re generally not bombarded with ludicrous CS questions at interview and you can move into other software roles later if you wish.
confident coders in QA are like gold dust imo.
That said the tech job market is in kind of a slump atm though so do your research
