r/Career_Advice 6d ago

Are you in India? Please head to r/IndiaCareers for better-fitting advice!

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Not to say we don't love y'all, but your area, jobs, salaries, situations, costs, education are all vastly different and this has always been a more USA/Euro group. I'm afraid most of our mods are Western based and experienced. Which means we are not effective to moderate for issues as much as you'd think.
You are absolutely welcome to post/comment here in general, but things specific to India is a better fit in an India-specific careers group with India-based/knowledgeable mods and policies!


r/Career_Advice Apr 01 '26

We are getting more and more "fake story with an AI tool recommendation" stories. Please report them!

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Lately, we've gotten a blast of "fake story with some sort of tool or job board recommendation at the end" posts, and I wanted you all to know that I remove them, with glee.
This particular group is very strict, No Self-Promo or Solicitation. This goes for "recommendations" and all. Here, we help each other from within this group and not outside of it. While some may argue that it isn't the most helpful to people - and by the way I agree fully with that, reddit is so very limited in that regard - I still respect the original top mod even though he is gone, and will for the rest of this year since I took over as top mod. After that, we as a community can decide what we allow.

Below is a story I just removed, with the tool name redacted of course, but it's provided to show you the pattern. Feel free to report things like this to me, because it is NOT possible for me to set up Automoderator to remove them - there are no standard keywords, every story is different, every tool name is different.
Also I'm looking for an extra mod to help me so I can be free to start doing stuff with Reddit's newest automoderation tools, if anyone is interested in removing posts like this with glee. Must be an active redditor (near-daily use of Reddit).

This morning I had a job interview for an IT support position at a clinic. The HR person I spoke with on a quick call had told me it would be a light 45-minute chat, so I figured it would be a standard, relaxed interview.

But when I arrived, they led me into a tiny office and sat me down in a chair that was crammed into a corner. I found myself sitting in front of a panel of six people - the hiring manager, a senior tech, and three HR interns - all of them squeezed into the room, uncomfortably close, and all staring at me.

From the moment I sat down, they started bombarding me with generic, repetitive questions about my CV and why I left my last job. I tried to steer the conversation toward the job itself, but the whole setup felt deeply disrespectful. No one had told me it would be a panel interview like this, let alone that I'd be sitting there as a spectacle for three interns.

I answered two or three of their questions, then I paused, looked at them and said: 'Frankly, this isn't a hiring process I want to be a part of.' Then I got up and walked right out.

The look of shock on their faces was incredible. To be honest, I was a little shocked at myself too.

I probably set a new personal record for the shortest interview of my life.

But honestly, walking out turned out to be the best decision I could’ve made. While job hunting afterward, I came across a remote opportunity and decided to give it a try. I used <coolname> tool that was recommended by a friend of mine during the interview to structure my answers and stay focused, and the whole experience was the complete opposite: professional, respectful, and actually felt like a real conversation.!<


r/Career_Advice 2h ago

Career advice

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Hello everyone. I am currently in my first year of B.Tech, but I don't attend college regularly. Alongside that, I am learning video editing and animation. I realize this is quite different from my college course, but I simply have no interest in studying. Could someone guide me on what to do? Also, I’m looking for skills that would allow me to cover my personal expenses. Thank you.


r/Career_Advice 1h ago

NEED ADVICE!!!!!!!

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I have done my under graduation in B.sc.(honours with research) in Biological sciences from Delhi University. idon't see clear path to move forward, choose as a career. Sometime feel like doing simply like others preparing for competitive examination, but that too doesn't feel like good option now a days. Not having some professional skills but good with camera anad knows how to shoot angles(not professionally but loves too) and because of which sometimes think like having a remote job so that ican travel and earn with that at the same time, that too in which field? that can provide me that, and sometime things quit this all and just go abroad but again that thing cam up doing what as a career?

From parents don't have that much pressure, they are stable on there own. but at the same they want idon't just stop studying and take admission in some college but ihave no clear picture and dont want to take anything i got as did in ug. Don't want to repeat same mistake further.

Open for every suggestions please tell.


r/Career_Advice 1h ago

Physiotherapy vs Integrated M.tech Biotechnology vs Integrated Msc biotechnology

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Im a neet dropper, pcb student Which program is preferable among Please consider factors such as demand, salary prospects, employment opportunities, and potential for professional growth. Clarify whether the inquiry perta


r/Career_Advice 1h ago

Physiotherapy vs Integrated M.tech Biotechnology vs Integrated Msc biotechnology

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Im a neet dropper, pcb student Which program is preferable among Please consider factors such as demand, salary prospects, employment opportunities, and potential for professional growth. Clarify whether the inquiry perta


r/Career_Advice 2h ago

Just give my your opinion

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Which job I learn to get a enough money to live?!
I’m 29 years


r/Career_Advice 5h ago

Should I pursue a career thats RISKY, but i truly admire? (Law)

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Everyone says law is time consuming, risk of financial debt, and long stressful hours. Theres various downsides that years of experienced lawyers can strongly agree on. (I am a young teen, who is still in HS.)

It honestly has strongly dismayed me, hearing these claims. although i cannot stop admiring this career.

Law, (especially where humans are at stakes,) are where my eyes just glitter. Politics overlaps law, and i love where soveriegnty is at play, to have a say in something powerful or negatively ambiguous stimulates me. Its let alone not just influental, but the thought process while doing the work, or talking about it. Where im allowed to critically analyze, without it being criticised as “overanalysing.” The words flow out, where my thinking is challenged, where morality and ethics are left ambigious or at stakes. Humans are puzzles, that my mind works overtime to solve. Ive always had a kicker for that, more than the average person.

When i was younger, and developing to a teen, i had a strong core value of morality. Not to be seen by others as an angel. But cause it consumed me the most, even when i didnt understand what morals even were. I was strongly sensitive when it came to ensuring fairness, (“Was what I did right or wrong? Why?”) Should i have let them say that to the other person?”) human rights, (“was that negotiable, or manipulation?” “Why cant they have what i have?”)
Now as a teen, i love to provide answers. younger me would just know its wrong. I still reflect much as now as when i was a kid but, in an absence that i challenge it even when it hurts my own ego,
Integrate a new idea, and are open to unfamiliar new perspectives.

I have a resilient, somewhat unshakeable psychological balancing action and thinking to offset bad behaviour. This was always an issue for me as a child/andteen, cause i couldnt seem to turn that thinking off. My metacognition is always on, regardless.

I also have a passion for writing. English classes were almost always never a burden to me, although i didnt read books. I liked debating, journaling, analyzing contexts, gaining meaning, or gaining more knowledge, even if it meant me being taught it and not the one demonstrating.

I always had a philosophical mindset since i was young. I was always critical, curious about small or little details; not fond of always sticking with my own opinion.
Now as a teen, it has really shown up in my literature, where my reasoning, and structure can really be seen.

Anyone learning law, teaching law, or is in this career space, what do you think? I need any advice i can get, thank you.


r/Career_Advice 11h ago

Urgent advice

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URGENT ADIVCE “I am a married housewife, and I have completed a BBA. However, after that I neither worked nor pursued an MBA. Then I got married, and now I have four children. But now I want to do something for myself. Please give me genuine advice about what skill I should learn or what I should study so that within one year I can become financially independent enough to provide a good lifestyle for myself and my four children. I want to choose something that has good future growth and long-term career opportunities. Please give me honest, sincere, and practical advice.”???


r/Career_Advice 11h ago

How should i choose my life?

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Hello everyone, you can call me SASIOVERLXRDDDD. I'm from China. I think my campus life is quite boring. We have been under the pressure of going to university since childhood. We have to keep doing unsatisfactory tasks all the time. We don't have our own time to discover what we like and do them. Let alone, we can't do them. When I was in university, I thought it would get better. But I found that I had no interest in anything. I spent every day immersed in video games. Also, there are many things to learn in engineering, and I often couldn't complete them. As a result, I didn't acquire any basic knowledge that would help me enter any industry. After graduating from university, I faced the pressure of finding a job. I chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination to avoid it. Although my first choice was not admitted, my luck was good and I was transferred to a decent school. But now during the summer vacation, I'm facing a serious problem. I don't know what I should study. I'm somewhat attracted to ML (machine learning), positions related to algorithms, etc. But I have almost no coding foundation (I'm not interested in programming either). I don't know how to learn them either? Currently, I'm more interested in music, nature, philosophy, science, etc. You can also share your job-hunting methods? Thank you all! Welcome to leave comments.


r/Career_Advice 16h ago

M27, 700k net worth, and no idea what I want to do in life

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**TLDR: M27, 700k in savings, living alone, no idea what career I want to have, although I see some of my strengths - advice needed!**

Hi there, I'm 27, based in Europe. I'm posting here because I genuinely do not know what to do with my life. 700k in savings sounds very privileged, I'm aware. Believe me or not, it gives too much freedom, and I didn't do anything to get that money - stay with me.

**With 12,** I started a YouTube channel and did it for 8 years as a hobby, while doing an education in the media industry. I never earned a lot of money with it, as the job "influencer" wasn't really a thing then, and my community was always small. I loved being in front of the camera tho, enjoyed the storytelling and video editing - all self-taught. I even landed a few roles professionally in front of the camera. But these were one-off gigs, if you land them you're lucky, but nobody hands them to you on a regular basis. I always thought I wanted to become a presenter. Important to mention here that our country is tiny, a very weird dialect, so not many opportunities in this field.

**With 20,** I did an internship at a local news station as a reporter. While I enjoyed the talking to guests and the editing, journalism is screwed. I saw in-person how our station got bought by investors, crunched together, and saw no opportunity to have a career there. People in their 50's with kids lost their jobs in front of my eyes, and I said to myself that I don't want to end up like this. I was really into politics and global stuff back then, and hence quite bothered by the local aspect, as we had to report about things happening in our little village I really didn't care about.

**With 21,** I started a bachelors degree and my parents kicked me out. They said they don't want to support me anymore, and said "go figure it out yourself". So I worked: Internship at a startup, later a role there. Sometimes still work in-front of the camera. The degree was very broad one (business and technology), and I knew very early that not a single topic interested me. To not disappoint myself and my parents, I continued, not knowing what I needed it for - I mostly did it in order to have a university degree, which you need if you wanna go abroad.

**With 23,** I had to quit the job because the startup got acquired (no money made here). I tried freelancing for some companies mostly in social media after, but it never really took off. I mostly lived off savings since then and occasional small contracts, while finishing the degree.

**With 25,** I wrapped up my degree and went to China to learn Chinese for some months - something I always wanted to do, although with no clear goal in mid. That's also when I inherited 700k in stocks from a relative I never met in my life. I didn't do anything to get that money, feels wrong to have it, never touched it, and it feels overwhelming. I really don't know what to do with it, as I don't want to screw it up. It also gives me a lot of freedom - almost TOO much freedom.

**My core issue:** I feel like I started so much, but it didn't lead to anything. I genuinely do not know what I want to do as a career and I would love to have a topic, a role or even a company, where I can invest my soul into it. I get up in the morning and don't know why I get up. I tried applying to jobs since I'm back, but no luck here and I have been unemployed for 4 months now. The only strengths I know is my communication skills (both in-person and in-front of the camera), my interest for languages, storytelling and global happenings.

I was thinking about going back to China to learn more Chinese, do a graduate degree (although no idea what), or even just some travelling - **but all this feels just like a delay of my big question**. Also, the more I slack around, the more money I consume, and growing up in a family with a tight budget, I feel really hesitant to spend it.

I'm aware this is a privileged situation and you can hate me for it - but I have never felt more stuck in my life, knowing that I could literally to EVERYTHING – it paralyses me.


r/Career_Advice 12h ago

Need advice

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I am an 18-year-old male, and I recently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I am really concerned about my future. I would like some advice on what I can do to get a decent job and build a stable source of income within the next 4–5 years.


r/Career_Advice 11h ago

Is this a possible path?

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Hey all. i’ve been interested in social work and nursing for a while now, and was wondering if this combo is possible. I’m interested in addiction, behavioral health, and patient advocacy, but I also need a financially stable career because of my long-term goals. (If someone could give a gen income for my goal job, that’d be great too).

What paths combine nursing and counseling? I’m leaning towards getting my RN and my CAC / CDAC.
I am open to any other suggestions.

A little more personal context: I also have lived experience with recovery, which is a big reason I’m interested in addiction and behavioral health. So, I’m looking for a career that values compassion, mental health awareness, and sustainability. Even if I slip up or need more help/higher level of care. Right not I just have my IOP and outpatient team.
I do best in environments where reasonable accommodations are possible, such as access to water, bathroom breaks, occasional extra breaks to reset, and small tools like fidgets. I’m not looking for an “easy” job, I do want a meaningful career where I can contribute, but need to take care of myself long-term. I also express myself through things like piercings, colored hair, and comfortable clothing, so I’m interested in healthcare settings that are professional but still accepting of individuality.

Thank you for your time. I’d love to hear from anyone in this area such as nurses, social workers, case managers, sober living staff, etc. Have a good day ya’ll!


r/Career_Advice 12h ago

Need advice or help on career

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I am 26M, i completed my engineering in ECE and joined a startup as web developer. I would say i am quiet a useless employee. I have been vibe coding for last 2 years. i lost the ability to generate a logical code. I have been deteriorate in my skills rather than improving. I am in existential crisis, i don't know what to do in my futur, don't know what to learn, don't know how to survive.

someone please guide me what to do with my future, i may say for name sake i have 3 years of experience but deepdown i know i am worthless compared to a fresher, i don't know dsa, system design or anything all these thoughts haunt me every night, i may have repeated few things sorry for that, but i am that clueless.

i just have 5-6 months to prove myself after that i may just lose my mind and do some stuffs.

i might look like a wimp for this post, but i don't have anywhere else to go.


r/Career_Advice 13h ago

UNDECIDED ABOUT WHAT TO DO (im a graduating student)

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hi guys, one of my professor offered me a job (which is to teach). messaged me on one of our channel and asked me about it. suddenly di nako nakapagreply kase i was really torn to accept it or pursue my dream job (or other jobs). nalilito ako kase knowingly, THIS is already an opportunity for me, and many others were having a hard time finding one. so im really can’t decide.
i need your advice.


r/Career_Advice 14h ago

Poor promotion

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I work at an insurance brokerage for employee benefits, a top 5 one. I just got promoted to the second highest position you can have on the account management side. We had a less profitable year with new leadership in their first year. They are giving associates 2-3% salary increases. For the promotion I got 5.5%. How should I feel? Promotion to the next level could take 2-3 years. In prior years I was getting a 4% merit increase. My direct manager said they would promise to take care of me when I said that is not a promotion increase. She added an extra 2k to my bonus which was 4K after. What do you think?


r/Career_Advice 14h ago

final year uni student cooked in tech

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hello, i’m a final year university student studying computer engineering.

right now, i’m feeling really lost about what i want to do in the future, or if i can even find a job. i initially picked this major cus i thought it would be fun (cus i had some knowledge of coding) but the reality in uni hit me hard.

throughout uni i’ve been struggling to do well in classes (second-lower), especially those more hardware related. i understand most of the time what the prof is teaching but when exams come, i realise i don’t know how to apply what was taught. when it comes to hands on projects, i also get lost pretty fast and often get hard carried by my group mates. i do ask questions, but they are either too busy to answer in detail or i just can’t seem to understand their explanations. i also tried searching online for help but most of the time it is too complex and i just don’t understand.

currently, i have only one internship experience (which i didn’t do much in) and wasn’t able to get one this summer. i also don’t feel as passionate and knowledgeable about tech as many others do.

i know an advice many people in tech give is to build projects to build your portfolio, but to be very honest, i don’t have the motivation to do so and i struggle with the thought of even being capable enough to do it. i have made an “app” with my friend in year 1, but it was 80% AI and i don’t even remember how we made it.

i feel like i’m not cut out for tech, but i also feel that i’m in too deep (4 years of uni) to pivot. even if i pivot, i don’t know what i want to do. can i get some advice please?


r/Career_Advice 14h ago

Which job should I choose?

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Hello!

I’ve recently been offered two jobs, and am having a hard time choosing. One is an entry level tech sales role, pays 55k base, with commissions on top, but offers pretty good career path (in my opinion) that could lead to a high paying skill down the road in sales. The other is an entry level consulting role where I would essentially be an excel warrior, but pays 75k with a 5k signing bonus.

I previously was an intern at the consulting firm and didn’t hate the work, but didn’t love it, it’s pretty mundane. At the sales role I like the work a little more, but it’s not exactly riveting either.

Both roles are hybrid, but consulting firm has 4.5% 401k match, and sales role does not. Kinda stuck here on where to choose, since I love the idea of developing a skillset to serve me better in the future, but 20k is a big difference for me as a fresh grad about to get married.

What would you choose?


r/Career_Advice 16h ago

25 and I really think i will fail at everything

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I wasn’t like this at all ..i still remember my brother telling me that “I’m gonna go to med school right ? “ so i said yes but i didn’t even get the pass score in college entrance exam (looking back it was because I didn’t know the study technique and it was my first time doing MCQ) ..i took gap years to study for the entrance exam (huge mistake ) then covid happened and my relatives knew i was preparing so they would pass subtle comments which got engraved into my head

i finally started med school at 21 but got heavily bullied since day 1 and my parents saw it so they wore crying because they thought I was a strong person …i tried to ignore those people but it got worst so i transferred school and i got bullied again within 2 weeks and it affected my studies …i failed (my school pass score is 80% but i got 77% ) so now I’m back home and completely paralyzed on what to do….i’m planning on pivoting to something else because i get anxious thinking of med school but i worry i’ll meet bad people again and i won’t be able to succeed

i also immensely regret letting people into my life . i should’ve never done medicine. i honestly deeply think im a loser


r/Career_Advice 20h ago

35 with no degree and desperate to get out of this stale Admin job into a serious career … What are some realistic options?

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I’ll try to keep this as short as I can to not bore everyone!

I’ve worked in sales type roles since I was 20; Account Manager, Customer Service, and most recently Sales Admin.

During Covid I tried picking up Web Dev but combining it with my previous jobs kept ending in burn out… I did create quite a few repos on github and hosted a portfolio site, but I always felt like my projects weren't complex enough, and that probably explains why I never got a job offer.

In mid-2024 I gave up learning Web Dev and have been coasting ever since, miserable at work and cursing on my way to work every day wishing for change.

My current role involves a lot of BI report generating, and using Excel to manipulate the data from those BI reports to track various KPI’s that I’m responsible for in my position, like average order volumes across X period, what stock has gone out and what’s left, who’s ordering what, etc… very few pivot tables, however!

I’ve got some idea of what I think I could try and pivot to, but realistically I’ve also no idea of what I could try and pivot to.

Any advice, please? 😅


r/Career_Advice 17h ago

What are some job options?

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Hi! I have my BFA in graphic design but I’ve been working in preschools for the last six years. I love working with kids and being outside. I want to be able to make good money though. What are some other options? For reference, I don’t want to go into an admin position and I would prefer to stay out of the design world.

Anyone have any good ideas for what I can do for work that’ll make 80k+. I’m open to more education!


r/Career_Advice 17h ago

I NEED HELP TP CHOOSE A MAJOR AT COLLEGE

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As a "nouvelle bacheliére", i'm having a hard time choosing between a major that i'm passionate about and another that my family is trying to convince me to choose cuz it guarantees me a job right after graduating directly .

It makes me super nervous and hesitant whether i satisfy myself and choose the thing i love and interests me which is biotechnology even tho i know that it doesn't give a stable job because i love research and higher studies and i have to work hard or just go for the safer option and choose ENS to work directly even tho i have no passion in teaching and i can't imagine myself teaching and repeating the same lessions for 20 years of my life cuz it's boring.

So please if u can advise me or u have a similar experience i would appreciate your help <3


r/Career_Advice 18h ago

Conflicted Paths

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25F, I am really at a cross roads at the moment, I joined a alcohol company after graduating college and my starting salary was 35k and went up to 38k with across the board increases however my role has dramatically changed since the last 3 years ago and I continue to take on more responsibilities with no pay. I have been fighting them on this for two years now. The company is in a bit of a precarious situation financially however the fact that I’m probably the most underpaid out of all the staff is insane . Because of the precarious situation I just got so pissed off I created an exit strategy for myself I took up a course in construction contracts management and due to finish this in August. Btw I am a supply planner / commercial in my current role I do both. So with the construction course I got an offer of a graduate program for 38k with a global consultancy working on large scale infrastructure projects in project controls. Now that being said I do enjoy current aspects of my job at present, plus everyone thinks working in an alcohol company is automatically the best job ever which makes this decision even harder and I get to travel as well this year I’ve been to Asia and Europe. Just at the last second a month now from potentially handing in my notice they decided to give me a raise to 45k which to be honest I was really disappointed with and it’s left me now with a big decision.


r/Career_Advice 22h ago

what career paths out there to pivot from a stagnant print job?

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hello friends from across the screens. 28f based in NJ

been at this family owned, small business print shop as a designer for 4yrs. Started at 18/hr now make 20/hr. Sadly this is the highest I have ever made. Previously worked retail and as a barista, a time where i was ecstatic to make 15/hr 💀 Anyways, there's no chance of upward mobility in an environment of 10 people total.

I'll save the backstory, but I truly believe I don't possess any design skills that are transferable to a 'real job.' I have a BFA in Animation and if you know that market... I settled for this. With the economy lately, I want to make more than a measly 20/hr and the owners aren't getting younger.

some skills I picked up:

  • pre-press and file set up
  • preparing files with die lines for printing and cutting
  • prepping files with print specifications based on finishes or bindery
  • adobe illustrator and indesign
  • and probably more

My other coworker likes to call herself a graphic desinger but the stuff we do here is anything but. I wouldn't be opposed to staying here if I was unioned like her, but alas the owners are cheap (and no I can't ask to join).

I don't see a future for me here, but I been out of the game for so long... I don't know how my skills can transfer to another job. I'm open to anything multimedia related and with some form of creativity. Open to options and biding my time, studying and building skills, then jumping ship when the job market (hopefully) settles.

erm I also have dyed hair, piercings and tattoos so a creative sector that isn't too uptight about that too, but willing to go covert if absolutely needed.

thank youuu🙏


r/Career_Advice 19h ago

advice for course

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can anyone tell me is there any option for job after graduation in b.a com app or is it good course or bad