Who's Done A Career Change?

[istoo]

Me too, I studied architecture worked in oil and gas land designing Living Quarters and also hoping back and forth to commercial architecture with a few firms. But did homers of an evening back in the 90's producing CGI animation. Oil and Gas land was getting boring, i got sent offshore over xmas in 99 as a staff guy, NO uplift, boss was a c**t. That was my catalyst for change, do what i love doing. Then got a job as a CGI artist for a design house, then became the design manager within a year. Was good to do, management i picked up in O&G transferred over rather nicely. Was happy doing that for 2 years until the company started getting flakey, i got dragged into the QA side of the business and was doing audits for a year. So started getting homers engineering & designing... Company folded after 3 years. Got offered jobs running other design studios or hopping back to engineering.

So went for plan C, starting on my own. f**k it why not. Motivation was easy. I was 29, had just moved house, mortgaged to the eyeballs, no discernible savings what so ever as i earned fcuk all (but was happy), wife was pregnant with second child. Necessity helped me enormously. Work came to me, which was humbling, and still is, won a 2 years contract on open tender as interior architect for a new north sea platform (Buzzard for anyone that cares), more work came in that i could handle within six months took on staff. That was 13 years ago, i grew the CGI side of the business, 50% oily clients 50% construction to the point it became self sustainable. 2007 nailed the construction industry work almost overnight so I took engineering jobs to prop up the hole in cash-flow. CGI work grew again pretty quick, ass we directed that towards other sectors, but i wasn't doing the work anymore. However was enjoying the engineering design work. Roll on oil price crash, it hit us eventually at the end of 2015. To keep my wandering brain active, we are in final throws of engaging in cruise ship interior design for one of the big players in that market as a fledgling company.

I am weird in that i have no specific career, but live by the 'better to have tried and failed than never tried at all' mantra. My missus always says i do too much but i get bored very quickly and do most things at a million miles an hour. But its how i am wired... i guess at a deeper level, if i hadn't done the above i would not have got to know myself as well as i have.

Its never too late, for anything...

[rawsco]

Leveraging! No, no, please . I work in IT and project managers who spout Americanisms like that, along with de-risking, learnings, SME, productionize etc etc are one of the things which make me want to get the hell out

We should touch base to solutionize some blue sky initiatives for the hyperconverged asynchronous collaborzise initiative. Cloud

[rossybee]

Why don't you just fry some ideas in the brain wok?

[Ferg]

Leveraging! No, no, please . I work in IT and project managers who spout Americanisms like that, along with de-risking, learnings, SME, productionize etc etc are one of the things which make me want to get the hell out

We should touch base to solutionize some blue sky initiatives for the hyperconverged asynchronous collaborzise initiative. Cloud

lol. Well, feel free to replace with the less imaginative 'use' if I makes you feel better. But thanks for that..... Thankfully I'm not a project manager

Edit: had to look it up so I could fix it.

So based on Oxford Dictionary this is fine and should satisfy the pedantry. But I will actually ensure I don't let the 'ing' re appear.
"You should be able to find a new path where you can leverage your experience "

[PhilA]

funny, thinking same myself - change career.
ive done 18 + years in software development at same company (web, sql, servers, cms, crm).

i fancy building something that makes me money.
dunno what yet

[mwmackenzie]

funny, thinking same myself - change career.
ive done 18 + years in software development at same company (web, sql, servers, cms, crm).

i fancy building something that makes me money.
dunno what yet

Time machine will see you raking it in or a teleportation device......

[PhilA]

funny, thinking same myself - change career.
ive done 18 + years in software development at same company (web, sql, servers, cms, crm).

i fancy building something that makes me money.
dunno what yet

Time machine will see you raking it in or a teleportation device......