Changing Your Career Isn’t Easy

What happened

A career change is a risk, and the people who care about you tend to project their fears onto you. Right now is a strange time to be in engineering, or knowledge work in general.

YouTubers are telling you to become a plumber or a goat herder. Outside of the primary social media feeds, the internet is full of free and paid communities on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sites.

Reddit works, too, if you can stomach the trolls, because there’s valuable information buried in there. Many of these spaces are flooded with people trying to break in, so look for the ones full of people who already do the work and talk openly about what is and isn’t going well.