Anonymous
ID: j6mVXM7b
7/26/2025, 5:05:44 PM No.60693960
>did a physics degree in university
>went into boring bureaucrat jobs after university (but not finance or anything with actual hard skills)
>now 30 years old and totally bored with my job despite pay being ok
>could potentially move around in my company from my current position (kind of a project manager) to a more "prestigious" position (like strategy or some nonsense) but the skills are even less real and transferable to other companies
>would be the best route to promotion but in all honesty I am a sperg who will never have the social skills necessary to be in senior management
I'm extremely unfulfilled by what I do every day. It feels like my options boil down to:
1. Spend all my free time trying to learn to code, but then I'd have to take a big pay cut even if I got a job and had the will to use up all my free time.
2. Do some sort of 1 year cash cow masters degree but then I'd have to start at the bottom somewhere. Paying for more education in 2025 would feel pathetic.
3. Some big career change like law or medicine but the first would likely not give me a good job and the latter would take me out of the workforce for at least 3 years and then leave me at the mercy of the NHS.
I lack all conviction and yet I am not one of the best.
>went into boring bureaucrat jobs after university (but not finance or anything with actual hard skills)
>now 30 years old and totally bored with my job despite pay being ok
>could potentially move around in my company from my current position (kind of a project manager) to a more "prestigious" position (like strategy or some nonsense) but the skills are even less real and transferable to other companies
>would be the best route to promotion but in all honesty I am a sperg who will never have the social skills necessary to be in senior management
I'm extremely unfulfilled by what I do every day. It feels like my options boil down to:
1. Spend all my free time trying to learn to code, but then I'd have to take a big pay cut even if I got a job and had the will to use up all my free time.
2. Do some sort of 1 year cash cow masters degree but then I'd have to start at the bottom somewhere. Paying for more education in 2025 would feel pathetic.
3. Some big career change like law or medicine but the first would likely not give me a good job and the latter would take me out of the workforce for at least 3 years and then leave me at the mercy of the NHS.
I lack all conviction and yet I am not one of the best.
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