Their problems come from them spending their time trying to do work that they find boring. If you find your work boring, it’s very likely that you should be doing something else.
Because the market is marvelously set up so that for every single thing any human being may want to do, there are buyers. Allow me to stay skeptical here.
Finding likeable AND marketable things to do is an art in itself.
Here is how it tends to actually happen (esp. if you live in the more credentialist type of cultures): you study something because it looks like a good idea at that time. You are lucky and manage to get hired without experience, and gain experience. From that on, nobody will ever hire you for anything else, ever, because you are mentally boxed into that category.
For example there is this woman who went to gastro school and worked for 12 years as an industrial or breakfast cook, waitress, these kinds of gastro jobs and got really fed up with it. She always like plants, and she was the kind of rural girl who grew up gardening/farming so she figured she could work at that kind of company, raising flowers, it is just a generic skill every rural person can do. I even helped lied a bit on her CV—renamed her experience at her parents rural garden/farm as experience at a local flower and vegetable raising business. Still nobody hired her for a year, people just looked at the resume and did not find an agriculture school degree + they were like what does this cook/waitress want here after 12 years of doing that kind of job? There were not even answer after about 40 e-mailed applications (there weren’t more of these business around) nor from the city (applying to take care of flowers in public parks) so she sighed, gave up the dream and went back to greasy world of industrial kitchens.
This is how it usually works. In most industries there are more than any capable people with proper degrees and even relevant experience. They will not hire a profession-hopper.
I mean, OK I would hire half of LW into an ERP software job even if their background is something like medicine because I know they are smart and would learn it in 3 months, but that is different, the difference is knowing they are smart, having this semi-personal knowledge. But the typical job application process does not convey it. It is just a name and credentials and list of experiences.
Because the market is marvelously set up so that for every single thing any human being may want to do, there are buyers. Allow me to stay skeptical here.
Finding likeable AND marketable things to do is an art in itself.
Here is how it tends to actually happen (esp. if you live in the more credentialist type of cultures): you study something because it looks like a good idea at that time. You are lucky and manage to get hired without experience, and gain experience. From that on, nobody will ever hire you for anything else, ever, because you are mentally boxed into that category.
For example there is this woman who went to gastro school and worked for 12 years as an industrial or breakfast cook, waitress, these kinds of gastro jobs and got really fed up with it. She always like plants, and she was the kind of rural girl who grew up gardening/farming so she figured she could work at that kind of company, raising flowers, it is just a generic skill every rural person can do. I even helped lied a bit on her CV—renamed her experience at her parents rural garden/farm as experience at a local flower and vegetable raising business. Still nobody hired her for a year, people just looked at the resume and did not find an agriculture school degree + they were like what does this cook/waitress want here after 12 years of doing that kind of job? There were not even answer after about 40 e-mailed applications (there weren’t more of these business around) nor from the city (applying to take care of flowers in public parks) so she sighed, gave up the dream and went back to greasy world of industrial kitchens.
This is how it usually works. In most industries there are more than any capable people with proper degrees and even relevant experience. They will not hire a profession-hopper.
I mean, OK I would hire half of LW into an ERP software job even if their background is something like medicine because I know they are smart and would learn it in 3 months, but that is different, the difference is knowing they are smart, having this semi-personal knowledge. But the typical job application process does not convey it. It is just a name and credentials and list of experiences.