Changing Or Sticking
Life is unexpected. There's multiple roads and sometimes you just don't know where you will end up. For example, in the past I was crazy about Japan and wanted to go study and live there but somehow I ended up going to Malaysia. Anyways I want to focus on the topic of career for this. Should people just stick with one career in their life or should they go through multiple?
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with either. Some people know what they want to do and what they want to be and they are happy with that career. For example, I have seen people love children and teaching so they become teachers for elementary school ages. They are happy staying as a teacher until they retire. On the other hand, some people don't like a certain job or want to explore different jobs to figure out what they like. For me, my first job was at a grocery store. Honestly, I didn't really like the job but it was a job to get money. I looked at Mark, the manager of the grocery store, and thought to myself is that going to be me in the future. It took me two and half years to realize that. After the realization, I decided it would be better for me to go back and study first. After studying and trying different types of jobs, I think a career path I want to go down is being a content creator. I want to mainly focus on web3 gaming but for my blog here on Hive I can go with a lot of different topics like music, food and life.
There are definitely advantages and disadvantages between focusing one or going through multiple careers. If a person sticks with one, usually they are the "senior" and "more experiences" as if a person changes to a different career, it's likely they will start back at the bottom. Sticking with one career also leaves stability where as changing career might not be stable in terms of financials. There are many more reasons and in the end it's up to the person to choose which is right for them. There is no right or wrong in having one single career or having multiple careers. I believe that if a person loves what they are doing and gets paid for it, that's the most ideal scenario.
Personally for me, I prefer the multiple careers in life. Although I'm working on being a successful content creator, I don't think that's the end game for me. I also want to try to start some businesses or communities in the future and that would evolve into a different career something higher. I think as we go through life there has to be a sense of progression so being able to change careers can help with this individual growth as sticking to a single career will eventually cap out on the development as the ceiling can only be so high.
Currently, I'm a Wayfinder in the Wayfinder community as a platform where I can grow as a gamer and content creator thanks to the founder, Spike.
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I wished I had ventured into something as excited as yours in my past. I started in a humble computer shop as a part time technician when I was 15. It's not even a legal employment age. Then a french style restaurant as a barista, supervisor, manager and got myself fired for committing something really stupid. All these happened at a very young age before my 20s. It's even more exciting when I started diving into CFD trading. CFD, is a good tool for small player, but the leverage can be a two sided sword. I gained a BMW during the 911 incident, and lost the BMW for a broken air-condition. Today I'm still heavily invested (stuck) in one of the (used to be) Malaysia top steel company Perwaja Steel, despite the company wind up. Without selling the share at deficit is not loss right 🤣
I've been a quality assurance officer at a steel factory(has nothing to do with how I ended up be a share holder, its an entire different company). I have started a nasi lemak stall and ended up close shop due to my car engine blown. Am so broken I had to borrow money from my dad.
I got a second chance, becoming a telephony at the government tourism management arm, and then got a job offer at the insurance company as a computer guy. The computer guy job has an extremely fancy title, something like system administrator cum network administrator, procurement and logistic manager, IT engineer.... Aka do everything 🤣
I've been a sales and marketing person after the last IT job in the insurance company, and that was 14 years ago. At some point, things started to shift towards stability, and I am no longer willing to risk anything more than my monthly salary. Shit, I am writing a post already. Gotta wrap this up.
I'm saying, you need to find the way at an earlier age, especially to get out of the employment stages. I've been blindly changing careers too damn often and ended up stuck with a bloody JOB. I'm always wondering why a job is a job, does it has anything to do with the JOB in the bible?
wow that's a lot of changes in careers. You have experienced a lot. I understand the stability but have you not had any ambitions to do your own business or turn something you're passionate into a business?
All those changing jobs didn't make you tired from starting at the bottom or learning the new skills/knowledge was worth it?
Now you're also a translator on Ecency too right or did you change this job as well. You could always try to teach crypto and onboard people since you have some slight interest in. I see online people selling crypto courses so expensive like 10k lol. u make a more affordable one and do then maybe got chance to do this as a business. start small and maybe you can blow up
People who can't make it, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. I feel emphatic towards those who pay thousands to the "crypto masters" to lose their hard earned money, I don't intend to be that money sucking crypto master.
I'm taking a break from my translation work due to many small revisions and minor updates. I wanted to wait until it become a giant pile of translation lines, then only I step in and do it one shot.
I did it because I like it, if you understand how much it paid me, you'll understand why there's no second Chinese translator wanted the job.
As for my previous career changes, it's just many silly mistakes and various bad judgement leading me jumping from one hole to another. Writing it down can probably run a 400 episodes of vomit blood drama whom nobody cares to read.