My Career Advice For Anyone Feeling Stuck In Life
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- I wasted my 20s. No one spoke anything positive or beneficial to me early in that decade, and I had no clue what to do with my life, career-wise.
Unfortunately, that continued until I was 34. At that time, however, I came across a diagram that changed my life.
In this video, I want to share that exact diagram with you and show you the power of all the questions it answers.
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At risk of being laid off as an app dev, I am transitioning to going back and complete nursing school. Ironic you used it as an example as this is the exact situation I am in
Wow interesting. I'm a software developer, and I've been thinking about the same thing (changing careers to nursing). AI and competition with cheap foreign devs working remote is the medium term reason for this. Short term is high interest rates and section 174 (I think these two issues likely will go away next year).
@@eyeofthetiger7 just out of curiosity, where are you based?
@@eyeofthetiger7 are u describing the situation in north america or....?
Definitely an informative video. I turned 30 this month, and have been in and out of jobs my entire life. I too, have a passion for computers, and have wanted to pursue them as a career for a long time, but being alone has made it impossible. I've definitely become a negative person, and my advice to people would be that you need a person to support you. You can't make it single in this world anymore, it just won't happen. You'll be living paycheck to paycheck, and probably doing something you hate. My girlfriend recently got promoted at a job she loves, and is now making great money. She wants me to work only part time to have time to pursue schooling for computers. Without her support, I'm fairly certain this would be my last year on this rock. Being alone for so long, it makes you see only the worst in everything. Find someone to love unconditionally, and you'll develop a reason to continue rather than rationalizing your acceptance of the end.
Behind every successful man, there is a wonderful, understanding wife. I love sales and developing software - a pretty uncommon combination but I found people are willing to pay for stuff :)
Fascinating.! Could you share your background n years of experience?
@@lobo-92 Sure, started as a programmer in 1998 doing Y2k projects on mainframes - had zero idea of coding. Learned everything just because someone believed in me. Then 6 years IT infrastructure stuff like setting up PCs, servers, routers, some SQL stuff on databases. Since 2006 specialized in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. Been in consulting, pre-sales and sales roles since then. Founded me own company JetHire AI with 47 with a bunch of great people I met on Linkedin and never met in person.
I will soon be 31 years and struggling to make it through life. Started web development few months back, not easy to study on my own , I do my best. Love that IKIGAI summary.
It's hard, don't give up! You will make it!
same here.. but after few months I got a mentorship and its quite helpful
Same here brother.!
I know what exactly you are going through. You are doing best that you can do to change your life so don't give up, coz I know sometimes we second guess ourselves. But remember, it's always better to try your best than to regret later for not even giving yourself a shot in life.
make sure you don't rush, you are already 31, so saving a few months by rushing it will not be worth it, build a strong foundation and learn slow.
Trust me you are still young and have time to switch careers. Just set clear goals, have a plan. I am 39 and looking for career shift as well. Good luck 😊
Love that concept! I realised that I am wasting my time by wanting to be perfect and putting too much pressure on me when it comes to the transition to being a web developer or developer in general. I love building things, talking to people and finding good solutions. At the same time I often feel like "it's too late for me", being 38 years old. That's ridiculous, I know :D ... I now challenge my negative beliefs about "not having enough time" and "being too old" to get into tech and actually really helping people with my services to foster their businesses.
i just started looking for career advices as soon as i just graduated and baam your video pops up. This really is clearing my vision, Thank you !
I got broke. No job, all savings paid for rent and expenses. Its a terrible feeling of knowing you have last few cash left..
Maybe your experience has given you so much wisdom. Each time I watch your vids, I am awestruck at how much I can take away or how much I can relate to what you say. You are truly a gem!
Ignore the haters, you’re an inspiration for me I’m glad I found you in my early 20s. I love videos like this and the AI one you made before highlighting realistic routes. I always watch you in dinner I check hmm has travis uploaded today. Love your voice to man! :)
This is how i pictured career choices as well. Thanks for the nice diagram
Really appreciate your videos. You are positive and helpful, your videos are well thought out. Thank you.
Thank you, Travis. I'm sure your audience will appreciate this video. I sure do. It's a simple concept that seems obvious once you learn about it, but it isn't something most of us would figure out on our own. I'll be spending a few days meditating on this.
was just watching your videos for the first time and subscribed to you an hour ago, i have no job right now, exactly feeling like "stuck in life" and there you read my mind. :🙂 amazing videos by the way. 👍
Just fantastic ❤ thank you
Really helpful , thanks
I fit all three categories. I got a computer in 6th grade to play games on but then started programming with it. It's a hobby that led me into being a 20+ year software engineer. I do side stuff just for the fun of it like programming on the side, etc. My hobby became my career.
It's always worth listening to you sir 🌟
Lots of respect & love from India ❤️
The skill set aspect is a massive one for myself. I was always 'good at computers' growing up. Started in programming roles, but was never 'good at it' I also had a passion for business and seeing how companies applied IT to help their business, long story short, I am in IT sales. But now lement the fact that I have no 'tangible skills' and looking to piviot back to things that I can rely on. What i realise watching this video is that I need my passion for IT and skill that I do have in it alinged to an industry I am passionate about also.
Hi Travis. Nearly 10months back , i started devops job preparation. I completed Linux--Bash--Ansible--Git--AWS SAAA (Stephene's course).
Next : Terraform, jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus.....Its really exhausting
I think you’re right, through the chart I can see myself in the center right now. But the whole team now laid off, except me makes me know about my list of “things I want to learn” in my bag. I will spend time to invest into those items more.
Nice video!! Greetings from Perú
I'm a lot like you. I have always enjoyed computers in middle and high school and did BASIC programming on my Commodore 64 (this was the 1980s and 1990s). I struggled after high school, dropping out of college due to poor grades and working multiple blue collar factory jobs. Those jobs were depressing because I was surrounded by people with low self esteem and little desire to improve their life situation. I finally graduated with a Genetics degree and immediately starting doing what I loved, which was computers. My first job was as a Pascal programmer, then Delphi programming, then MS Access Basic, Visual Basic, and now 20+ years later I am a senior software engineer at a national science lab in Berkeley, CA. You may have seen it in the movie Oppenheimer. After 20 years I still love programming and can't believe I get paid for what is effectively also my hobby.
Thank you very much for this video!!! It's very encouraging as I am 53 yrs old and making a pivot to Cloud Computing after years of Help Desk and network engineering. Be well, be safe and Cheers!
I always liked computers, but at the time, I imagined that software development was boring. I became a software engineer 15 years later and don't think it's boring. If I had gotten some good counseling, a logic course, or a computer science course maybe I would have discovered it sooner.
It's not boring for 10 or 20 years. then you realize it's the same problems over and over and everybody has a new mouse trap to solve them. And then one day you'll realize computers are soulless. Enjoy the people side of it, not the technology side. That's my advice.
I love the diagram. It does resemble the Ikigai Concept from the Japanese culture. An extra circle on that diagram for finding something that does contribute to society, that I think its very important. Great video.
Loved the video. Just checked myself as software engineer which ticks all three boxes.
Hi Travis, I am 35 years old. A few years ago I bumped into your video and decided to pursuit a career in software industry. I got my first job as an entry level java developer and I hated it. I hated people there and there was no set working hours. People worked from 8 in the morning to 12 am at night everyday. They didn't even train me. After this experience I quit. Maybe IT industry is not my thing. Anyways I enjoyed your video and thank you. Currently I am doing repetitive copy and paste replying job at minimum wage. I imagine it is similar task that you did in number inputing jobs. Anyways thanks for the video.
Right now I have a job I’m great at. I’m 35 and have been a cook/chef for almost 20 years and am one of the best at my position at my place of employment. That said, I wake up absolutely miserable everyday because I hate it. The way the industry works is completely screwed, the customer are awful, the lack of passion amongst 95% of the employee base is just crippling to trying to effectively run the business, it’s just terrible. I’ve always loved computers though and am doing everything I can to learn web development and change careers. Really hoping it pays off in the next couple of years because to be honest I don’t know how much more of this business I can handle, and I’m fairly well stuck in it. I have a kid on the way and I can’t just take a pay cut for crappy but less miserable job.
I am still in school and will be done in December, I am thinking of spending my summer redoing my resume and applying for jobs. I hear cybersecurity is not so easy to get into and so I am giving myself that extra time before graduation to see what is out there.
What is stopping me is the fact that I feel like I'm not proficient at anything
is there some sort of constant comparison within you or outside ?
"I wasted my 20s. No one spoke anything positive or beneficial to me early in that decade, and I had no clue what to do with my life, career-wise."
This line, these words, completely relate with me, as the early responsibility of home and family members, i put myself into a money earning focused approached and didn't realized about the future being in the technological era.
"Unfortunately, that continued until I was 34."
This has been still continued as i am 35, and now my life is in the Boredom spectrum.
The worst part is that i want to change but the situation or fate is not in my favor.
"At that time, however, I came across a diagram that changed my life."
But i am determined and will continue and achieve my inner peace.
Im a software engineer , but i hate frontend , Im transitioning into backend and blockchain development.
Thank you Travis, im 34 now & im in my 2nd year as Fullstack dev. Thanks to your video 2 years ago. Your content do changes people lives globally and im from Malaysia. Keep up the positive content, im going to start my own channel soon to give back to community.
Thank you a lot for this video! 🌠
I have sent you a question on instagram and I really appreciate your advice! 🌹
Do a video on time management. You have time to do vids, work and have a family. How?
Will do
Your diagram falls flat immediately. Most people do not have "passion" for anything particular.
Study business and applied technology. The really smart guys study finance, a technical skill, and business. They work their asses off for 5 to 10 years, make a ton of money then take that money and start their own business and go from there. One of the best things about colleges and corporations etc is If you go to a good college or work at an engaging company, you make connections when and where you meet other smart, ambitious people. Get together with them and create networks. There's an approach to life that these folks understand and it makes sense to gain lessons from their success. You don't have to go to Harvard to make connections with other bright people around you or the entrepreneurial people around you. People with ideas, people that want to go places, and people that want to do things. Very few people can do it all on their own. The wealthy don't do it all on their own either.
Some of the fields you mentioned have a market, but they are small, felt it was wrong to say there is no market at all
Hi Travis! curious to know if you read the book ikigai? That diagram reminded me of the book.
he might not have heard it but whoever refers to such a diagram, it's most definitely based on this book.
Run from anyone who says passion.
Why?
how do you go about figuring out what there is a market for? do you maybe have any resources for that? thank you
Hello, Travis,I'm 18 years old and living in Ethiopia. I have a strong interest in becoming a Machine Learning Engineer. This interest began a few years ago when I took a crash course in Java. Although I haven't had access to a laptop since then, I haven't let that stop me. I know that to become an ML engineer, I need strong skills in both math and English, so I’ve been dedicating myself to learning these subjects.I'm excited to share that I hope to gain access to a laptop in about a month. Do you think I can achieve this dream? I have a deep passion for this field-it's more than just a passion; it feels like my calling.What do you recommend for someone in my position? Is there a roadmap you can suggest?Thank you for your guidance and support.Best regards,
Thomas
I'm at the stage where I am not quite proficient making some profit and passionate about what I am doing. I guess it's like you said, you need to go quite deep into it then you know whether you're passionate about it.
IKIGAI book being referred here
Hi,im 28 ,I'm learning devops , is thus good career , i'm overwheled by all the AI tools and learning journey ,
Please suggest
I am 37 and stuck in the boredom phase, i am getting paid but poor, not proficient , didnt upgrade myself , working as L1 in IT Support for 11 years now, want to grow but at this age i feel my doors are getting closed and feel am i good enough to move on further ?
What's your thoughts of someone on the wrong side of their 50's learning software dev and getting a job ?
Go for it
I’m a biologist, 2 MSc degrees and a PhD in neuroscience struggling to find stable positions I don’t want to continue in academia..l I’m good at science of course, experimental design, advanced statistics, I am teaching myself R, python sql but haven’t reached the professional proficiency yet… I’m a few months away… I think data science might by my calling finally… but I still need one opportunity outside academia…. Any advice would be appreciated.
You are talking about Ikigai. That's a very old japanese principle.
What do you think about IT/programming industry its not always in demand & fluctuates, up & down there are many people being laid of in 2024.
I love programming and don't really have any other skills (self-taught too). It had been my hobby for years before it became a career. But sometimes I really hate doing it, mostly at a job. I really enjoy coding my own things that I build for myself or my family/friends, but not so much when I have to write some ugly glue code or work on an existing ugly AF code base wrriten by someone else, it just demotivates me that everyone else doesn't care about code quality. I guess programming feels more like an art for me rather than a means to an end, maybe that's the problem...
Ikigai
I am 40 yr developer. Does there opportunities for this age group ?
Yes
You have 20-ish years of "real-world" experience that a 20 year old doesn't have. Be sure to use that to your advantage.
Why do you talk fast or make the videos faster ?
Attention spans are ever on the decrease. Such is the nature of all this tech advancement
I love your logic here!
I love programming, I believe I am good at it, and I know it is profitable.
For me it's just a fun thing to do!
And I really would love to have a job doing it!
I like your videos a lot, so far as what I have seen.
I think you are very down to Earth, humble, not puffed up in any way, and think a lot about the things that you say.
These are great qualities!
But do you know what would tie them all together?
Love.
Which comes from God the Father.
Did you know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died on a cross for your sins?
Because He did!
And He loves you very very much!
So much that He laid His life down for you and the sins of the whole world!
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I love you as a person, in imitation of how God loves you (as I am trying to fit the mold).
But I ask you, do you know where you will go if you died today?
Because it is a very serious question.
And it requires a serious answer.
I hope you come to know Jesus Christ.
Because to know Him is to have eternal life.
God bless you,
Call upon the One who created you!
His name is Adonai, Father God, YHWH, I Am.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
"...if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Sir do you earn 160k dollars a year? Plz reply. Thanks a lot.
Weird question
Very specific question! 🤣
How much did you earn in last year?
To be fair, there are not endless opportunities
AFTER BEING CODER/SOFTWARE ENGENEER ,NOW YOU ARE MAKING UA-cam VIDEOS FOR EARNING MUCH MORE THAN EVERY INCOME SOURCE OF YOUR LIFE🤣
Man, I wish I could find someone like your wife.