5 Reasons why Career Shift or Career Change is for you

Career change or career shift is perhaps nonsense... for those contented in their current jobs. Are you? If not, what are the factors that you will consider to do this? Here are my ideas?

Career Change is needed if you are in a dying industry

When I was a kid, my siblings were fond of renting VHS tapes from video rental shops, and developing negatives from their still cameras.  My lolos and lolas too were accustomed to buy pandesal and newspapers every morning.  To date, they go digital in consuming movies, photography, and news; while their old gadgets and newspaper maybe lying somewhere. 

Working in a dying industry is like keeping an old gadget. If you don’t evolve or entertain changes, you’re actually embracing inconvenience. 

Career Shift for better pay/earnings

Of course your self-worth doesn’t depend on your salary. Money can’t replace happiness in doing what you love to do. However you should also mind the “amount of money you earn” or earnings too. Remember that salary is the exchange of your talent, TIME and effort. (#DoubleEntryAccounting #DebitandCredit )

-If your wage is too little for your needs (not wants or likes pa ha), what you have is starving wage.

- If you receive low salary for years already, your boss may undervalue you for years.

- If you're not getting enough, you cannot even survive the rat race.

On the other hand, there’s such thing as high paying and low paying jobs.  So if you like to get the salary that you desire or deserve, you may consider career shift.

Change for new life phase

Before I was conditioned that working should be about earning money alone.  As I mature I realize that your priorities and preferred lifestyle also matter in choosing a job. For example, single moms work in the evening to attend to their kids' need in the morning. It is same with OFWs who decided to go back in the Philippines to live with their loved ones.  

So it’s not about what field, it's the job or career that suits your personality, lifestyle, and necessities.

Shift Career if competition is too stiff in your field

During our titos and titas’ younger years, the in-demand courses were engineering (civil or electrical), nursing, and marine.  Many pursued those careers that in the long run there were no enough jobs to take. 

  

In Generation Xs’ time, being caregiver, nursing aid, and computer science grads or computer programmer were the in-thing.  But then again, when their population saturated their markets even working abroad became harder.

So what to do?

I believe you should not be hampered of “what you only learned in college.” You can always shift gears, learn new stuff, and do whatever you’re passionate to do. Realistically, we need to survive daily and what we’re really aiming for is happiness. So it doesn’t matter if you are ComSci or ECE graduate and work as a call center agent.   The important thing about a job is if it has purpose to achieve your goals.  

Changes in your career can make you Empowered, Expert Generalist   

I like the ideas of blue ocean strategy, diversification, guerilla marketing, and FIRE (Financially Independent Retire Early) movement. I like because they’re empowering strategies to achieve work-life-balance and financial freedom.

Based on what I understand, FIRE movement doesn’t focus only on earning and saving money. It’s also about learning practical skills that someday you don’t need to spend for something or someone.  

For example, I have experiences in being an admin support, customer service representative, and legal researcher.  Then I have some knowledge in driving, computer repair and crafting.  Imagine iif I retire or decide to try business, I don’t have to hire someone to repair my computer, decorate my wall, and do errands that I already know to do. ~ Phoebe Dorothy Estelle