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Hi All. I'm a month away from turning 53 and need to do something completely different for work. I know 53 doesn't sound old but 60 is only 7 years away and I'd like to be at least semi-retired at that time. I just know I cannot keep doing what I've been doing for another 7ish years. I've mostly worked in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing in various Quality Engineer or Compliance Specialist roles. I don't necessarily need a career. I just am sick of waking up each day with the same "I can't wait until the day/week is over" thoughts. I've thought about non-profit sector for a more fullfilling job or data analytics due to general interest in numbers and coding. I'm just not sure how to make the transition at this age since I would be starting basically at square one leveraging whatever I can from my past experience.
My mom is your age and a school teacher and wants to be a flight attendant when she retires from teaching in a few years.
Don’t know anything about what you like, but if you like travel and hotels maybe that can be viable for you ❤️
I’m an ex engineer in grad school to be a therapist. Hope you find your thing and kudos to you for driving a change
I didn’t like it at the company I was at. And with the market going somewhere smaller with better support would be difficult. I didn’t want to pour so much recruiting work in again into something I didn’t actually want to do. So I did UX for a bit then pivoted out entirely to something I feel really aligns better with me
She worked with adults with severe mental disabilities before working with kids (a classroom of like 24, 5 year olds from lower income families) ! I think she is honestly very built for demanding, people facing jobs that might try your patience.
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Total side note I know someone whose company just got acquired by Pfizer. Small world.
One door closes another open. What is it you like to do? Remove practicality from it for a second and just like daydream about what sounds interesting? 🥰