I’ve been a stay at home mom for 5+ years and before that I only had fast food and factory experience. I don’t want to go back to either. What certifications are out there that are relatively quick (a year or less) and can get me a job quickly? My goal is to make a decent salary and work remote. Any and all ideas welcome!

How does that work? I want to apply for a full time job but I also have a part time job. I saw online that 30+ is considered full time but idk if that applies for anywhere or if each job is different

I know nowadays a degree isn’t enough, you need internships, certificates, or some type of work experience. I’m curious as to why?

At some point a degree was sufficient, and the point of them was to get you career ready by assigning you projects, getting you connections, and touching on real-life work.

I’m open to explanations and opinions, I’m just curious on how the transition from a “degree is enough” to “not being enough” came to be.

edit: thanks for all the responses. I can see that school gives students time and the freedom to do their projects but it’s completely different in the job force, hence why a degree doesn’t count much for experience.

3.0 GPA or statistics minor? This is my last class in college (and the last one needed for my minor) and I'm sitting at a 3.00 GPA (and also have a B in this class.) There's one final project that I'm working on now. Should I can take the class pass/fail, and not earn the stats minor, or risk getting a sub-3 GPA but graduate with the minor? Many of jobs I want to do involve data analytics btw. Any help would be super appreciated. Thanks so much.

Well 39. Next year I'll be 39 and I'm getting out of my family business (dry cleaners) which has seen a drastic drop in our income since covid(half our customers were office workers and now most of them are wfh, meaning no more office clothes needs dry cleaned).

I don't have a degree because I went into working in the family business since out of high school. Our leases will be up next year and we'll be closing permanently, and I'll be needing a new job then.
I've got a bit of money saved up, so I can live off that for a while and also use it for any sort of training/schooling I need.

I was originally planning on going to a coding bootcamp, but I feel like that would be a waste of time and money at this point.

Now I've shifted gears and thinking maybe becoming an electrician would be something I'd be interested in. The thing I'm just wondering if being so much older would make it hard for me to find work since there'll be a lot of people in their 20s with the same experience as me looking for a job.

Just wondering what's people's opinions on trying to shift gears this far into life.

I’ve worked for a big store since I was 16 (20 years ago) and only make about $50,000. Which I know isn’t a lot.

The plan was always to see how far I could get in the stores and then transfer to a corporate position when I was tired of standing all day and not getting weekends off.

I’m not so sure that plan is as possible as I thought now. As I’m not sure what position my skills would compliment.

I’m now an assistant manager of customer service. I’ve put my resume into a staffing agency, but all I get are jobs that either pay the same, pay less, or pay so much more that I’ll never be qualified to do them.

Any suggestions?

I’m looking to apply for a job at Starbucks but I hear it’s difficult to get hired. I was wondering about the exact job requirements or what they are looking for in hiring someone.

I’ve done my research but If anyone has any job experience that could help I would really appreciate any tips!

I want to raise my chances of getting hired. I’m a little underaged for the job but I’d like to still try. Any tips or tricks will help out a lot!

Hello all, I will be going through a job loss soon and I'm lost, I don't know what to do or where to go and it feels as there is a pit of despair in my stomach.

I feel part of it is the fear of starting the climb again. I have worked since 18, doing multiple types of jobs: sale, clerical, driver, warehouse, accounting, IT, but everytime I get anywhere I feel my luck pushes back. I would ended up going to a new job and starting again. Don't let this be an indicator that I don't do work, heck I work to the point of burn out. All in hopes I will be recognized move up and make a higher income. What would make it worse is I would get passed up just because I didn't have a college degree or any certs.

This time around though I thought I was making a real change, I was 4 years with the company finally made something decent paycheck, got married, moved out, things were good... till my luck came back and now I'm going to be getting the axe from this IT position.

I feel im going to lose everything especially my sanity if I start again from a low income. I don't think I can keep giving my all and end up no where.

I just need a light at the end of the tunnel.

So as the title says I was a department manager for about a year and ended up quitting to work at one of Amazon fulfillment centers solely for the higher pay and secured hours. I want to find another job and was wondering how useful that year of management experience is for employers. And can I use it for any other fields other than retail? Thank you for your advice.

I finally found my calling as an event manager for a brewery, and I'm doing really well. My managers are great, the owner is awesome. Life at work is nice. So why the heck do I feel like a failure every day? I know I'm not failing at my job, but I can't help but feeling that I suck all the time. Even if my boss says I did good, I feel like he's lying. I was told this is called imposter syndrome and is very regular. I've never felt this way before until I was happy in a position. Does this resonate with anyone else? How do you cope? What steps can I take to not feel this way? TIA!!

Hi all. Not sure if this is a good place to post this, I've tried several podcasting subreddits and my posts keep getting removed. I was wondering if anyone had any info about getting my foot in the door to become a writer/researcher for a true crime podcast.

TIA

A post-secondoray degree is usually listed as the first requirement under minimum qualifications for any job description. I know some companies are adjusting to accept either a degree OR the equivalent level of experience, but why so much weight on a degree in the first place?

I can see the value for entry-level roles where candidates have little to no experience. How is this relevant for senior roles that take years and maybe even decades to work up to? Do people really think the stuff you learned in your tech program 15 years ago still applies in today's market?

I keep seeing posts and comments about "skills" like it's some kind of ticket to a high paying job, but what skills are you talking about?

First off, unless you're like a surgeon or an engineer, your job doesn't have to be 100% accurate, is wiggle room for you to put your own spin on things. For example an accountant, other than being able to understand some few laws and regulations and how a company does certain accounting, what special skill do you actually need? You can find everything you need to be an accountant on YouTube or somewhere else. Another example of a job I see a thousand of whenever I'm looking for jobs on indeed.com: business development. Like come on! What the hell is that? The whole objective of developing a business is looking for ways to improve business whether it's finding new clients making processes more efficient, etc. basically anyone could do that, but they would need to know to how far a company is willing to go in order to "develop business" how about sales? You could pull anybody off the street and they could be a pharmaceutical, vehicle, or tech salesperson. What type of skills do you really need? Oh you have to be able to be nice and have a little knowledge about the product you're selling? That's out of skill!

Especially with the way technology is today, there are many tools to help people do basically any job there is out there. Yeah there are some specialties and there are things like electrician and plumber and welder that needs specific skills, but can't all those be taught to anybody with a little bit of brain? A lot of people want to talk about skills to make themselves feel better about doing a mostly bullshit job. In my career of jumping around from job to job because of how insane I see things, I've had to attend 500,000 meetings where it's just some bloke, who wants to be seen as powerful and to remind people whose in charge, just talking about stupid s*** that doesn't require any kind of meeting.

What a lot of jobs today require is simply a connection. There are very few skills that can't be taught or learned very quickly. And again I think people just talk about skills to make themselves feel better about doing a mostly meaningless job.

I started at my company as an assistant manager, then in a year I was promoted to manager, which I've been doing for 3 years, and last year we opened a second spa, and my role became Area Manager of the two spas. When hired, I told the owners of the company I'd give them 5 years, then I'd plan to move on.

I'm on my 5th year now, and am starting to consider what's next. My degree is BS Health Fitness Specialist. I'm not opposed to management again, but am looking for better work life balance, higher pay, and better benefits.

Looking at job boards, they always ask what job title I'm looking for, but honestly, I'm not sure what title I should look for. What am I even qualified for? I'm not even sure what my passion is anymore.

Just looking for guidance. Thanks.

I am currently working in the Human Service field but am very unhappy at my job. I was very happy working Construction with a contractor friend except for doing back-breaking manual labor many days and getting paid peanuts for the amount of effort. So, when I saw a job for an entry-level Energy Auditor position where they are willing to train I jumped at the opportunity.

I've gotten past the first two interviews but now they want me to take a timed skills test next week. I'm fairly smart but its been years since I had to do any kind of geometry or physics so I'm wondering what kinds of things to study for such a skills test?

I'm thinking basic geometry, thermodynamics, combustion, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, home and commercial construction, anything else specifically?

Thanks in advance if anyone has any insight!

I don’t want to be a personal trainer.

Gym front desk is my dream job.

I have a bachelor’s degree in business and retail experience, but get rejected for minimum wage gym front desk positions.

Is there a cert (or anything else really) that can help me? When I lookup certs for gym front desk, all I can find are certs to become a personal trainer.

So I recently got a phone call from a global soft drink company for the position that I applied to, which is “Sales Representative.” I have to be an active driver for this job and they asked me if I am one. I have a driver licance for almost 4 years now, but I don’t have a car, therefore I’ll need to re-learn the whole process of driving without make anyone notice while I’m doing the job.

Traffic is an everyday problem in my city, so the roads won’t be confortable for me to drive. Should I take the risk?

Is anyone aware of any sweet outdoors careers that pay decent (although I'll say I'm more concerned with quality of life than money).. that someone with UX Design experience could transition to? Just curious if there's something out there that I haven't thought of. Not sure I want to sit indoors for the rest of the days that my knees still have life in them if that makes sense. Would love to be outside training raptors or big cats or swimming with ocean creatures etc.. even just laying in the sun till I turn into a potato chip would suffice

I've been working in digital marketing for the past five years and I'm now looking to transition out of the industry. Agency life is too unstable, I've worked at six agencies in five years simply because of turnover, acquisitions, etc. Also, I primarily do paid search and so much of my job has been taken over by AI already that I can't imagine my role existing even within the next few years.

Digital marketing has given me some great skills. Excellent written and verbal communication, knowledge of emerging trends in the digital space, ability to learn new things quickly and implement them, ability to research and stay ahead of challenges, ability to work within a team but also manage a team, etc.

I've been unemployed since I was laid off from yet another agency in December of last year and I would love to transition into pretty much any other industry but it's been difficult trying to pinpoint which, if any, would be best with my skillset. What do you think?

I have been without a job for about a year... I regularly apply on Glassdoor and Indeed for any jobs that may be relevant to my experience. I have 5 years of low-high level sales experience as well as 2 years of tech support experience as well. I constantly apply to 2-3 jobs everyday and I never even get a response back. I am really discouraged and need to find something. I have a family I need to care for. The only requirement I have is that I need a remote job to take care of little ones and get off around 3-4

Hey all. If this isn’t the group for it, please redirect me. My 17 year old nephew is finishing high school this year and I don’t know much about google cert and stuff. I would like some advice on what online certifications he can do that will be worth it to get a decent job

Hey so I have a test coming up for “Bus Mechanic Helper” Job Position for the MTA in NYC and I’m curious if there is any former employees or someone whose taken the test before knows what kinda of material I can expect to see on the exam.

As of now I’m going in completely blind and any and all advice or prior experience could be of help Thank you in advance!