working outside of your disciplineWho here has gone to college for one thing, but are doing something totally unrelated to your bachelors degree field? I have a B.S. in medical technology, but I am sooo over this job. In fact, I dont even want to work in the healthcare field anymore, period. There are a few things Im interested in. Id like to work for an airlines, and in florida, english/spanish is a requirement, "no exceptions". So Id have to learn spanish, which would be great, Id like to do that. I dunno, I guess Im just getting heebeejeebees about starting over. Id like to work for certain retail stores. I got a dui two years ago, I know this is going to hurt me. What I need is a superduper resume. Ive been doing the same thing for 7 years. All Ive done is what I went to school for, and thats to be a medical technologist. I want to do something else. It's not *that* uncommon to switch careers several times throughout your lifetime...gone is the day that if you have a degree in the medical field, that's where you'd be your entire life. Saying that, it's still easier to stay in your field than to entirely switch fields--you have to build that "super duper resume" for your new field. But if you can use related experience, background, training, whatever--you can get there. It's not impossible.
hi and thank you. from your response, it occurred to me that I need to focus all my energies on playing up my related experience, such as customer service, mult-tasking, etc. I DO think that working in the medical field entails alot of random skills that are useful everywhere! Ive just got to make it known. Only thing, Ive been doing this for 7 years, so my resume is rather monotonous. At least its shows that I can commit. It beats having a string of jobs for short periods. | |
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