Did you ever realise that you chose the wrong career?

Long story short - i'm 25 years old, nearly 26. I chose a degree in accounting and finance for the wrong reasons. I was influenced by my family an also by the job security/money.
Having spent a few years in the accounting field i think it's safe to say that i hate it. I feel pretty annoyed that i've wasted so much time in a career and a job i don't like. I've hardly made any progress in my career as i have no motivation to improve or do better.
It's starting to hit me now. I don't want to go back to uni but at the same time i don't really know what else to do. I don't really have any passions anymore.
I've done a few career tests online but i seem to get varied responses. Each test seems to give me different answers.

Has anyone else ever been in a similar scenario? how did you find out what you wanted to do as a career?

Comments

  • +1

    The word transformation and automation will be more and more prevalent in the coming years. Blue and white collar jobs will become more and more automated. Look around there are currently driverless vehicles in mine sites, and the Metro to robot building houses (see Fast Brick Robotics). Mundane accounting and auditing work will be transformed and automated by AI. Even traditional sales will be automated. Stockbrokers are replaced by high frequency computer AI traders. No hard feelings its just to please the shareholders and the bottom line.

    You will hear more and more about MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) in the media as young and old becomes unemployable and the wealth gap increases. Social and civil unrest becomes the norm, look at Hong Kong and in Chile and don't forget Venezuela.

    • Universal Basic Income please.

  • OP, this little fellow here is a career pie Porg.
    Spare a thought :(

  • OP, very few people actually find a job they enjoy and are passionate about. I think a lot of people are stuck at jobs they dislike due to fear of the unknown especially if you have mortgage/bills coming in its really hard to just do a career change or go study something else. If you aren't in this position then I suggest you go find something you enjoy, you still have plenty of time.

  • Hi there,

    After reading many helpful comments/advice and your responses on them, I truly think you should spend more time on your own, reading some self-help books (I recommend Mastery - Robert Greene). It looks like for me you don't like working in an environment where it's too quiet and not social, while many other people may enjoy it. So the point here is that you need to get to know and understand yourself much more, know what you like, what pushes up your energy, what excites you and write them all down. Moreover, it seems that you are not willing to study and seems regret about your choice of getting into accounting but I think this is definitely a mindset that needs to be changed. Even though you finally will find something you love, you will need to keep studying and improving on it. And I believe you will find what you studied will somehow be helpful one day even when you found something totally in different field. The bottom line here is getting to know yourself better coz if you don't know yourself, when who will?

    • Well said

    • thank you
      I really don't know who i am anymore. It's true.

  • I’ve got a good idea of what I want to do, but I’m employed in a large government department that owns me. I’m on a 6 month secondment at a fantastic agency, but I’ve got to return ‘home’ sometime next year. Just thinking about returning makes me want to resign before I have to do such a thing.

    I suppose you know what you don’t like now, and you’ll be able to avoid it like the plague in the future.

  • Don't get too financially committed. The more commitments you have the more difficult it is to change direction. Don't have a family either until you are relatively settled either as when you have others relying on you, you can't drop the 100k a yr job to become a barista..

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