Hi Reddit.
Seeking advice on how to get my career on track, if that's even possible in this day and age where 30 seems like a lifetime gone by. I've been a top student throughout my academic years and graduated from top five national and international unis, but there's been little to no sustained job history to speak of owing to the vicissitudes of life and a gradual, worsening breakdown that followed the passing of my only parent and life spinning out of control thereafter.
I am now married, and finally at peace with the fact after years of resenting it and the man that came with it -- both decisions made for me as is typical of a conservative, traditional household in our part of the world -- and mother to a 2 month old boy who came after years of wanting and yearning and suffering. These years have cost me dearly. They've left me with the vestiges of a shattered confidence and of a strange, unshakeable ennui settled somewhere bone-deep, all my skills somehow fallen by the wayside as I grew increasingly convinced that I would be terrible at the things I once did with fluid ease.
I'm also the girl-who-would-own-the-world manque, the kind that's now shunning reunions & loathe to face her peers because they're leagues ahead while she's mired in the middle of nowhere, lost and uncertain and in desperate need of guidance and a plan. I imagine they'd be baffled if they saw me now, given how far I've strayed from expectations and yearbook superlatives alike.
I hold degrees in Economics and International Development, have worked as a schoolteacher and briefly as a student consultant with an international organisation. I can cook better than anyone I know, and I'm a self taught photographer and painter. I'm a history buff, great with makeup, and an excellent writer. I learn quick, and I thrive when I'm challenged. As such, I'm seeking a career in consulting or the like: multifaceted, dynamic, knowledge based. however, my resume & credentials, in my own estimation, do not measure up.
Reddit, please help me. I've been raised in a way that equates nearly all self-worth to career achievements and prosperity -- that's extreme, I know, and I'm trying to work around the shame and despondency that it brings me in my current situation -- however, I know I need to do something to keep from feeling like my entire life, and all the effort spent in my more optimistic days, has amounted to naught.
I'd appreciate your guidance -- other subreddits you could point me to, strategies, advice, anything constructive. I'll try and provide more information where needed.
You have my sincerest thanks for anything that can dig me out of this awful, hollow pit.
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