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Theone · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:29 am Post subject: Career confusion

Hi

Let me start off with a little about myself Im 26 years old Ive been in the transportation industry on the carrier side and the brokerage side Ive also owned my own trucking company.Ive also worked in the mortgage business when it use to be good.Im usually very hard on myself and thought I would be a millionaire by the age of 30.Ive come to a point in my life where Im sick and tired of being in the transportation business because of the stress associated with it.Now I know allot of you are going to say that Im still young and have time but it's more then that I just feel so confused about what to do that I am making myself depressed.I quit my job a few months ago and now Im barely making ends meet so I have to do something even though the thought of going back to transportation raises my blood pressure.Now Ive always been told to follow what I love doing and the money will follow but when you have an empty back account and are in dept to your eyes you cant really do what you love.So what Im here to get is some advice from some of you on if any of you ever had these issues and how you dealt with them?

Thanx
Tony

lexa10881 · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject:

You did not mention what you truly love, just that you despise the thought of going back to doing transportation. What do you love, and does it require schooling? If you have to, recognise that fixing a problem is not always immediate. You should follow your true love and understand that it may take a few years to rectify things in your life to the point of perfection you desire. To begin things, you have an empty bank account. If you have to go back to transportation, do so with the intent that it is to fix your financial situation while you are at school bettering yourself also. Try to be as patient as you can be and to persevere. There will be a day when things have worked out exactly as you want them to be right now, you just have to recognise your goal and work hard for it.

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Pauloz · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

Tony-

Actually at your age is exactly when you need to make these decisions, before you're committed for life. You do still have time to change course, but don't leave it forever.

From the sound of it the stress levels are way too high. Some stress is normal, too much is dangerous, and can wreck your health. If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Reading what you've done, I'd say your skills could adapt to some other business or industry, like import/export, property sales, anything where "situations" aren't the problem.

If you've got skills like accountancy, business management, the sort of related skills that went with your transport work, you could use those to find another career.

You could also try transport in some other form. You know the business, you speak the language. You could try a job in the industry where you're at a distance from the things you hate. Admin, sales, anything but what's been bringing you down.

You could also do part time, bill-paying stuff, just not doing it to the point of being a real daily problem.

Note: casual work in things related to freight and distribution can lead to permanent, and might be a way out. If you can do basic bookkeeping, warehouse, despatch, orders, etc, you've got a few options there. That way your skills are working for you, and you're out of the danger zone.

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