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For all things job related. How is your job? How is your job searching going? Have questions related to those two things?

Change subject if you are looking for advice.

I can take a full time CELTA course at the end of the month if I quit my salary job now. I hate my job, have been wanting to escape basically since I started 9 months ago - not had much luck with job applications. I taught English abroad previously and really enjoyed it, but in a country that didn't require CELTA certification or anything. I'm thinking now about building my career more in TEFL and going abroad again, or at least teaching here in the US (full time jobs are apparently hard to get but there are part time possibilities).

Problem: I have expensive rent, not a lot of savings, and the class is expensive. If I didn't get a job right away I'd be pretty fucked, but if I got a part time job I might be able to coast just a little. I'd be willing to do a few part time jobs, if it meant getting out of my current horrible work situation, and my optimistic side says getting a CELTA might help pad my resume anyway.

Basically I need to decide tomorrow, because I'll need to put in my two weeks in order to start this course.

Anyone done CELTA? Or taught English in the US or otherwise have TEFL-related career?

If you liked working abroad, I'd get your CELTA and try to get another job abroad.

I have TEFL certification and I haven't done jack shit with it so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But it sounds like CELTA may give more job opportunities? May as well go for it.

I've been feeling like I need to change careers but I really have no idea where to begin. Going back to school sounds so exhausting (I already spent too long in school) and I wouldn't want to go back without knowing what to do anyway.

I just don't know what I want to do at all and I have no hookups to get me anywhere so it feels like my life will just end up being depressing unemployment and being underpaid.

What career are you in now?

I am currently working for a small business (for past three years). In the course of that job I've done a little bit of everything.

I started working there as a fulfillment person (taking wholesale products, adding barcodes, and then packaging them to be sent to Amazon fulfillment centers). Then moved to packing individual sales for shipping to buyers on ebay and the company's private site.

I started listing new products for sale on Ebay, Amazon, personal site, and walmart (including using SEO keywords and doing basic photoshop editing of products).

I've also been the "IT person" because I know how to install virus protection, troubleshoot computer problems, and possess basic HTML skills to edit a website.

Most recently, I've been working on a specialized machine that is used to cut a product we sell. I've also trained half a dozen other people to use the machine after we got a second one. For the most part, I've had to train myself on the intricacies of the machine (the actual trainer only taught me for about seven hours).

That is what I am currently doing now and I hate it, hence the resume building.

I mean that can all be put under your skills depending on how you organize your resume.

But if there is a specific job you are going for where some of those skills are not necessary, you can add and subtract as you feel fit.

I'd also say if there's anything you downright HATED doing and it's not even applicable to the job you want, don't put it down as a skill. Resumes are supposed to be brief anyway and if there's something they need you to do that isn't on there, it's their job to ask.

Okay! I think I will focus on my supervising and communication skills. I don't want another hard labor job.

I'm doing temp work at the moment and will be out of a job in two weeks (probably) and I'm trying to weigh my options. I have an associates of general science so it wouldn't be a full four years if I'd go back. I'm living with my parents and they have a college fund that I could use if I decide to go back to school. I'm only willing to go back to school if it basically guarantees a job once I graduate.

My communication skills aren't the greatest, I can't multitask well, and I'm terrible at getting my foot in the door. I'm otherwise very professional and do not show up late, give short notice, use my phone at work, or any other complaints I've heard given to people around my age. So ideally I'd like to work would be repetitive and deals very little with people.

What I would prefer is going into a job field that requires some basic training so I don't have to meander around in school, but I am willing to get my bachelor's if that's what it takes.

My goal is something that makes around 30k full time, is low stress, and I know what to expect on a daily basis. So what I'm considering is lab tech, pharm tech, nurse assistant, and data entry. Any other ideas? Or concerns with my current ideas?

Pharmacy tech. I think that would be your best option.

I'm not sure I'd consider pharm tech or nurse's assistant low stress, tbh. Anything with patients tends to go tits up whether it's retail/doctor's office, and especially hospital.

Hi, pharmacy tech here.

If you're really serious about not having to deal with people, then you probably want to go with the data entry job. Lab tech, pharm tech and nurse assistant jobs all pretty much deal with people and the general public. But if you do want to go into a pharmacy tech job, get your PTCB certification and apply to work in a hospital. In the hospital you'll mainly have to deal with your coworkers and nurses and physicians, but you won't have to deal with the public for the most part.

What skills would say are required to be a pharmacy tech?

As a hospital pharm tech, some of the nurses are WORSE than the patients, in my experience. The great nurses are amazing and we need more of them, the shitty ones make me want to bang my head against things many times a day.

My brother used to be a pharmacy tech and he said it was a very busy, fast-paced job and I know he was constantly dealing with people, including stressed-out people, elderly people who couldn't hear or understand well, and people on psychiatric medication. Also, he was stuck in the back of a Walgreens all day. Getting the job was easy, though, and he didn't need additional schooling - he got on-the-job training - but that was 10+ years ago.

Data entry or lab tech might be more like what you're looking for, but I have no personal experience with these.

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