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Am I to old to find a new job? Are employees interested in a Mom? What is the best way to find a new job? What am I doing wrong? Well educated but a bad paid job. And more questions about a Career Change? Ask Paywizard.
  • How can I find a job where I can work less an earn more?
How can I find a job that will allow me to earn as much as I need to earn, but work less? I am very overworked, and my home life suffers for it.

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  • Is it ever possible to work around degree requirements for promotions?
Everyone at my job, including my supervisors, says that I show the knowledge and performance necessary to move up, but my degree is not the one usually required for the position I would be promoted to. I can't afford to go back to school. How much leeway are immediate supervisors usually given when it comes to promoting people without the usual educational requirements? I imagine HR would be the major obstacle.

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  • I've got a degree, skills, but didn't used them. I'm underemployed. How do I get a better job?
I have a master's degree in history and have many skills. However, I haven't used many of them in a long time and I have been underemployed for quite some time. How do I explain this to prospective employers and put myself in the best light possible?

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  • I'm a retiring IT person. Please help me start to search for volunteering opportunities for a high-tech worker in Asia.
I am at an age where I can look down the road about a decade and see retirement lurking. I want to be a volonteer (long term, i.e. make a multi-year commitment, not just be a two week voluntourist) somewhere in the developing world. The complicating factor is that the skills I have are pretty specialized, even obscure.

I am an IT person in a hospital. I run the PACS, a system that juggles all the different kinds of radiologic digital images created by all the devices that image your insides--the CAT scanners, MRI machines, Ultrasounds, etc. etc.--and stores them in a monster online archive, and delivers them to fancy hi-res viewing stations for the doctors to scratch their heads over. I know how to operate one of these thingies, how to fix it and how to put one together. (...) I imagine there are overseas universities and medical training institutes that could use an instructor with lots of digital radiography experience. I could help!

There are some prerequisites: there has to be *some* technology and *some* money--you can't build systems out of jute and copra. The country can't be totally undeveloped. The selfish constraint is that I would like to go somewhere in the Far East and experience a life and culture as different as possible from what I know. I'm good with languages and have plenty of time to become fluent in an Asian language. If I knew where I was headed I could start studying that language now, several years in advance. But where should I be heading?

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  • I'm 56 years old, have been doing the same thing for 22 years and loathe my job. Can I move into a new career?
Would it be stupid to quit my job of 15 years for which I’m not so passionate to start a new life? This is difficult for me since I’m 5 - 7 years from retirement but i don’t know if i can hold on.

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  • How can I find a job that is suited to my abilities?
I am currently in a job that is not suited to either my abilities or interests. I'd like some suggestions for determining what work that is well-suited to my abilities.

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  • Mid-life crisis: my work life is empty. Can I change my career after 40?
For the last dozen years, I have worked at a job in information technology that has not challenged me or required (or encouraged) me to grow my technical skills. Though my pay, benefits and job security are good, I feel that my skills are declining, and the possibility of transferring to a better (or equal) job is dwindling.

Part of the problem is that I am not really very interested in information technology anymore. It was always just the best-paying work that I could find. Now I am facing the fact that good pay does not equate to total job satisfaction.

I am middle-aged (46) and share with my partner and her children a lifestyle that would not be possible if I quit working to go back to school, to discover employment that really interests and satisfies me -- or if I started over in an entry-level job in a new field. Moreover, I have no real idea what that field would be.  Surely I am not the first middle-aged person to discover that his work life is empty. What is the best plan for discovering -- mid-life -- my true calling and pursuing it?

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  • Are employers interested in a mom who was quite some time without a paid job?
How do I overcome the fact that at 51 years old, I have been out of the workforce for 20 years - the first 14 as a stay at home mom - the last six as a full-time student so that employers are interested in interviewing and hopefully hiring someone like me?

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What am I doing wrong? I'm well educated but got a bad paid job.

I have a bachelor's degree, legal assistant certification, real estate license but still just make $12.50 an hour. I was unemployed for 15 months and finally took the only job offered to me after applying for approximately 350 jobs. I took this job and took a $12,000 a year pay cut. I can't even make ends meet. I lost my car. I really feel worthless. What am I doing wrong?

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  • What is the most effective way to find a new job?
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  • Why wasn't I hired?
I have been attempting to be hired as a Police Officer but I have been unable to do so. My question is how do I find out where I failed in the selection process when the agency will not tell me?

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Created by paulien
Last modified 2008-02-27 13:58
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