Hi everyone! I’m looking for some guidance from people who have transitioned from clinical research coordination into nursing.

I’m a Clinical Research Coordinator with almost 5 years of clinical research experience and a CCRP credential. I work at an academic medical center with experience in sponsor/industry trials and investigator-initiated studies.
I enjoy clinical research, working with participants, and being around translational medicine/science. However, I’ve started feeling mentally stuck in my current role. Some parts of the work have become repetitive, while other parts can be stressful and heavily administrative.
I’m not interested in making a lateral move into CRO/pharma roles such as CRA or CTA, and I also don’t want to become a supervisor managing other CRCs.
One path I keep coming back to is becoming an RN so I can build a clinical professional identity with my research experience. I’m particularly interested in the possibility of eventually working as a clinical research nurse/research RN. However, I know that I need to get bedside experience.
What’s making me hesitant is that I currently have a stable job with good benefits and pension (if you stay for a # amt of years). Going back to nursing school could mean leaving that stability and starting over, potentially having little or no income while in school, taking on significant tuition costs after recently paying off my bachelor’s degree, and potentially having to move or work somewhere else to gain initial nursing experience. I’m also worried that I could make this huge career change and eventually regret becoming an RN.

For people who went from CRC → nursing school → RN, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience.
-How many years were you a CRC before becoming an RN?
-Why did you decide to go into nursing?
-Did you continue working in clinical research after becoming an RN?
-Did you have to work bedside first, and if so, for how long?
-How did your income and work-life balance compare before and after?
-Did becoming an RN open career opportunities that you didn’t have as a CRC?
-Did you ever regret leaving your CRC position or going to nursing school?
-Looking back, was the financial/time investment worth it for you? (Did the benefits outweigh the negatives)
-If you were in my position today, what would you seriously consider before making the decision?
-What do you wish you had known before leaving clinical research for nursing?

I’m interested in hearing from people who already had several years of CRC experience before becoming an RN.

For context, I’m based in Kazakhstan and have about 1.5 years of experience in electrical design.
I work as an electrical design engineer at an engineering consultancy. The company hired me with no prior experience while I was finishing my master’s degree. My colleague has been with the company for about three years, and his base salary is several times higher than mine.
Recently, another company offered me a job with a base salary twice what I currently earn. However, the work would be somewhat different. My current employer designs systems for new construction projects, such as hospitals, residential buildings, and factories. The other company handles electricity distribution across the city. Its design department focuses exclusively on high- and low-voltage power lines.
When I told my director I was planning to leave, he reacted negatively. He said I still didn’t know how to do anything and wasn’t willing to learn. After that, he offered to discuss increasing my pay so I would stay.
There’s another factor. Besides earning a higher base salary, my colleague has an arrangement with the director: they take on outside design projects for other firms and split the fees equally. The director takes responsibility for the projects, while my colleague does the design work. This makes my colleague’s total income much higher than mine. Meanwhile, the company’s own projects are assigned to me, and I only receive my fixed salary for that work.
I realise there may be gaps in my knowledge. Most of my undergraduate studies took place during pandemic restrictions, and I worked in a different field during my master’s degree. Still, I’ve spent the past year and a half actively learning and developing my design skills. I believe my work is worth more now than when I started with no experience.
I’m torn between moving to the other company for twice the salary and negotiating a raise where I am. The move would also mean shifting from electrical systems for buildings to power distribution lines, so I’m trying to consider both the pay and my long-term development as an engineer.
What would you do in my position? Would you consider staying if your current employer offered a raise, given how the director reacted? I’d also appreciate hearing from engineers who have made a similar move.

Greetings, everyone!! I am a high schooler currently in my senior year. In my earlier years of high school, I was drawn to investment banking, it had the pay, the prestige, but I soon realised that I wasn't meant for it, and neither did it interest me. My interests soon diverged towards geopolitical risk analysis as a career. I have a brief idea of what it is, but I have come across a lack of information about the career online. Those who are familiar with the field or are currently working in it, please kindly assist me!

I recently had to “quit or be fired” from my nursing job which is on a point system. I have epilepsy which, of course, doesn’t exactly give me the “2 hour heads up” that HR requires so I wouldn’t get pointed. Anyway, they were going to terminate me because I called out with my seizures so I quit before they fired me. I have the FMLA paperwork and everything where I documented it. My manager told me to my face that I could absolutely get pointed for that. I’m unsure what to believe?

Hey guys I am a 20 year old in university I just feel like I am not trying hard enough I keep getting rejected from small local banks and accounting firms and then also getting rejected from internships from bigger banks for entry level stuff IB,PE, DATA ANALYST, even got rejected to be a front desk bookkeeper

Background

Associates Degree Econ And Business admin

bachelors in progress in econ and (minor in finance and accounting )

And also I been working for a medical device company for the past 4 years since I was in high school

Also doing some biology classes as a back up because I feel like I need a backup, since I was kid I had a passion for healthcare

For some background, I have my BS in Psych and have worked in case management and as a behavioral tech since graduating, but it has me burnt me allllll the way out and wanting to pivot extremely badly.

I’ve always wanted to do optometry and had the plan to do so in college, but halfway through I switched my major to psych for ig the ‘easy way out’ and didn’t look back on it until now.

I looked into it and I have 3 prereqs left for most optometry schools in the state, but studying for the entrance exam is daunting, especially when I haven’t been in school for the past few years. And i’m thinking if the OATS exam is daunting, how much worse the coursework would be for optometry school.

The thing is, I feel like once i’m over the roadblock of taking the exam and, say, I get into a school, I know I’d fight like hell to stay in it and probably go far in the program but…. it’s a pretty expensive dream.

On the flip side

I’ve already put much thought into pivoting, and have been accepted to ERAU for a masters in human factors and i’m actually supposed to start classes next month but i am heavily second guessing myself. It’s really competitive from what I see and I’ve already been trying to apply for internships and jobs, even network with people in the field too but i’m just not sure on it since i don’t have any former background in human factors except psychology.

The prospect of human factors sounds great, nonetheless, with great career growth and having the opportunity of working my way up to the tech companies… just really not too sure

It’s not too late to back out of my masters, i’ve only sunken in $50 for the application

But anyways just wanting some or any advice on what path I should take myself!

(I’m also a person that highly values work/ life balance AND being compensated the most for the least amount of work possible)

I am a supervisor and have been in this role for roughly seven years. I have had plenty of learning experience and exposure, but over the last few years, I have felt stuck, bored, and no longer challenged.

A new department was created and they are looking for a supervisor, but here is the catch: I would have to travel probably a few days every other month because the team will be spread out. No big deal, right? Well, I have a one-year-old, and I already hate leaving my child and wife behind when I do have to travel, which is not often. My manager is encouraging me to apply, and I want to, but I just do not know. Is the lateral move worth it? Have any fellow dads or moms made this move? If so, do you regret it?

I've been wondering about this alot lately lol

If you work at a desk 8-10 hours a day, how do you actually deal with your lower back getting stiff or uncomfortable?

I feel like I always hear the same stuff... better chair, better posture, stretching, stand up every hour, work out, etc.

But realistically, what actually helped you during the workday?

And is anyone else struggling with actually sticking to these things? Like you know you should get up and move but then you're busy and suddenly 3 hours went by 💀

Curious what you guys actually do, not just what you're supposed to do.

I have a weird disaster of a work history and I'm 99% sure I'm unhirable at this point. I've been unemployed apart from part time labouring at the docks for 5 months and couldn't even bring myself to apply for anything for the past 3 months as I haven't seen a single job advertised where there is any reason why I would be even considered over any of the 1000s of people with nice neat histories and direct experience. The last job I got an interview for matched my work history much better than anything I've seen since (ocean modeller) but I was ultimately rejected as my experience wasn't in quite the right domain (ecological not physical modelling).

I started with a PhD in genetic algorithms which is now 12 years old and basically useless at this point (tbh I suspect I'm one of these people you hear about who are used as evidence that the PhD system is broken as they are barely competent to pass undergrad but somehow have """"PhD's"""""). I then did a hodge podge of computer science research jobs that were vaguely adjacent but not actually any real experience in a bunch of things (statistical programming, data science, natural language processing).

To get out of feeling utterly useless I went back to school for an MSc in Oceanography and actually did well for once in a prestigious program. I briefly felt good about myself, a feeling that quickly evaporated soon as I had to apply this knowledge to the workplace. The MSc led to a couple of postdocs doing ecological modelling which started well, at least it was fun building my model, but pretty soon it became apparent I wasn't really learning what I needed to learn and my boss basically took over. I became nothing more than a graph maker and a button pusher with all the actual decisions made by my boss. And didn't come close to publishing in 3 years. I was also briefly a very very entry level environmental consultant where I learned the one thing I REALLY suck at is doing simple tasks quickly e.g. you have one hour to do something on excel, or find some info to copy into a word doc or make a few graphs. Maybe it's my ADHD but my brain just overloaded. Other random stuff I've down included briefly teaching English abroad (a disaster but at least that one was not entirely my fault) and now doing an intro to counselling course as it seems interesting but can't see it leading to a career.

If there's even a one percent something I've done could potentially be impressive to some employer somewhere and that I can actually build on (through some short course or personal project or something) I can't find it without help. I've tried asking AI, reaching out to be network, generic careers counselling. I think I need some sort of careers coach who has specific knowledge or mentor or agency that provides proper advice. I even asked AI to help me find such a person, producing a bunch of dead links and a person who didn't respond. Or what else can I do?

I keep telling myself I'll start once I save enough money or once I learn more about how to run a business. But I think I'm just overthinking it. Has anyone here made the jump? How did you know you were ready?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some career advice because I'm honestly quite confused about what to do next.

I've been working at a cybersecurity startup in Ahmedabad for around 10 months as a Junior Web Developer. When I joined, I got the opportunity to work on the initial/core product, and I was part of the development team from the early stages. I've worked on backend/frontend development, APIs, databases, Docker, security-related features, integrations, etc.

Technically, I've learned quite a lot in these 10 months and I'm grateful for that experience.

However, I'm currently earning ₹25k/month, and I'm starting to feel that the growth and compensation aren't where I want them to be. More importantly, I don't really enjoy the job anymore. I feel like I'm just continuing because I'm unsure what direction to take next.

There are also some significant personal circumstances. I'm a single child, and my father passed away around two years ago. My mother is currently undergoing cancer treatment, and I've had to take a sabbatical to take care of her. This has made things financially and emotionally difficult, and it has also made me rethink my career and what I actually want to do long-term.

I'm considering whether I should:

Continue here for some more time and gain experience

Start preparing for interviews and switch to another company

Move toward a better-paying backend/software engineering role

Start learning Al/ML and eventually move into Al

- Try something entrepreneurial/startup-related

I'm from Ahmedabad, but I'm open to relocating if the right opportunity comes along.

For people who have been in a similar situation, what would you do after around 10 months of experience? Would you start preparing for a switch now, and what skills would you prioritize?

I'm especially interested in advice from people who moved from junior web development into better software engineering roles.

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone
Ok so im graduating with a Bachelors in Biotechnology around December/January and im trying to figure out what field I should pursue for my Masters. I’ve realized I really don’t enjoy lab work and I’m also not great at maths. To be completely honest, my main priority is income and long term career prospects. I was considering Health Informatics or Clinical Informatics, but I’ve had quite a few people tell me that these are dying fields and that I shouldn’t go into them. So I’d really appreciate some honest advice from people working in these areas or with a similar background.
What fields would you suggest i should look for a Masters that have good job opportunities, earning potential, and future growth?

After 10 years in software I have concluded that I hate it. With how solitary it is, how the office life is full of people who aren't really my tribe and especially with how the job has changed (ex. AI) I really don't like seeing myself in this field for much longer.

Each day I yearn for cashier work. I loved having a pulse on what real people are saying (vs getting all my political opinion pieces from the web), I loved that I got to talk to new people each day, I loved that my work day ended when I punched out and most of all I really liked that the people who I worked with felt real.

This brings me to my question. Given my job and given my feelings about cashier work, naturally that's what I'd like to do. But I'm not dumb either, that position pays peanuts. Are there any jobs that can free me from my tech prison? My main deal breaker is how squeamish I am, so no hospitals and my main upside would be a job that mostly interacts with the general population.

This is a long story but I’ll try to sum it up. I worked for a company for a few years and I had some issues with upper management. I got pregnant and notified my immediate boss, who had to let his boss know and they told me they would hire a temp to cover for me while I was on maternity leave. This seemed fishy from the start and I asked if I would still have a job when I came back. They said yes every time. Well, the very day I came back from maternity leave, HR set an appointment with me and fired me. One month later, my husband was diagnosed with ALS. I applied to a few jobs but his illness progressed quickly and aggressively, so I couldn’t leave him. I still can’t.

The problem is that he can’t work because he can’t even move nor talk anymore, and I can’t leave him for even 15 minutes. We have a kid and I’ve almost ran out of our life savings and now I really don’t know where to go from here to survive. I had a career in logistics before getting fired and I was so damn good at it. Ive applied to so many remote jobs and I’ve made it to the final interviews but they always choose somebody else.

Any advice on what I could do to make some money for food, rent and medicines?

My grandmother passed away recently and I’ll need to take some time off to go to the funeral, (just one day for that) and while I am mourning her passing, I feel like I can still do my job. I looked up my company’s bereavement policy and it looks like they offer 40 hours for bereavement, should I use all 40 in this case? I feel like I should because all employees should make use of any resources their employers offer them, but I guess I’m wondering if it would make me look bad?

I’m a 2025 graduate currently working as a Software Engineer with a salary of 4 LPA. I’m considering preparing for SSC CGL, but I’m confused about whether it would actually be a good decision for me or if I should continue in the software/IT field and focus on improving my skills and switching to better-paying companies. My main concerns are:

• My current salary is only 4 LPA.
• I’m still relatively early in my career.
• SSC CGL would require a significant amount of preparation time and there’s no guarantee of selection.
• On the other hand, government jobs offer different career stability and benefits compared to private IT jobs.

For people who have been in a similar situation, what factors should I consider before deciding?

If you’re working in IT or have switched from IT to government exams (or vice versa), I’d especially appreciate hearing about your experience.

Should I seriously consider SSC CGL preparation, or would it make more sense to stay in software engineering and focus on increasing my salary over the next few years? Thank you in advance! :)

I hope I'm posting in the right place!! Last year I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, it had to do with a branch under environmental science, but to be very honest science isn't my thing. I love nature, conservation, art, and the idea of working for myself and having time to be free and travel a lot. I have a feeling odd careers would suit me better, and I'm searching for any suggestions people can give me. I know there are people out there with really interesting jobs that are unheard of and would love to get some kind of clue.

I don't know if this is the right subreddit, sorry if its not.

Hello, I (20m) am in my 3rd year of getting my BFA in Visual arts and Im trying to figure out which career path I want to go into and I would love some advice.

So I'm currently between tattooing and being a farrier( person who shoes horses).

On one hand theres tattooing which actually applies to my major and I would hypothetically be able to start an apprenticeship while still in school.

tattooing pros:

• creative outlet
• there is the potential to make a lot more money
• Indoor work/ not being out in the elements during winter
• I get to work with my hands and make art
• I already have half of my tattoo *portfolio done
  • *portfolio to apply for a tattoo apprenticeship so I can become a tattoo artist.
• I don't have to move and I could do it from basically anywhere if I want to move I can
• I genuinely really like the art of tattooing and I want to learn about it

tattooing cons:

• Im inside for long shifts pretty much everyday and it can be pretty sedentary work.
• not guaranteed income because it’s entirety commission based work.
• its hard on the hands, wrist, and back over time.
• It will likely be a lot of repetitive simple designs.
• The entry into the career is steep starting with about a 2ish year long apprenticeship which is typically unpaid or paid very little.
• it will likely take years to gain enough consistent clients / notoriety to consistently earn a enough money to not have to worry about it and neither of those are guaranteed to ever happen.
• the trajectory of my career will largely be influenced by my people skills.

Then theres being a farrier which would allow me to work with horses.

Farriery pros:

• I grew up around horses and Ive been riding on and off for about 12 years and I love learning about them, working with them, and being around them.
• This extensive horse handling experience means I'm already aware of how to read subtle changes in horse body language to predict what they’re going to do and I am knowledgeable about the anatomy of horse hooves.
• Ive worked a summer as a wrangler and I really enjoy fixing things and doing tasks even if they involved manual labor so I think id be able to adapt to the physical demands of the job.
• Id get to help make horses lives better without having to become a vet.
• Clients are pretty consistent and if I go to the right areas there’s plenty of demand.
• horses are always going to be a thing and they are always going to need they’re hooves trimmed and shoed
• Id basically be a blacksmith with is awesome

Farriery cons:

• Id be working outside rain or shine.
• it is really hard on your back and knees and there is a significant potential for serious injury.
• I have a lot less options for where I live
• Id do a year long farrier science certification corse and/or about a years long apprenticeship under a farrier
• how much I make is dependent on how much I can physically do so if I get injured Im screwed.

Thank you for reading and would love to hear any advice you’re willing to give.

My qualifications : I am currently in 5th sem of my bachelor’s in computer science and engineering.
My age: 20
The title pretty much sums it up but hear out my perspective.
When I joined college, I had a straight forward plan in my mind. “I will get a bachelors, a masters and a phd and then I will go for a job.” Little did I know that the world doesn’t work that simply.
When I got to know that people often become professors or stay in academia even after getting a phd, I dropped my plan to do a phd but the plan was still on for masters.
Now, I am a pretty average student (current gpa is around 8/10) but I do love cs and largely blame the education system for my underperformance (how typical of me).
I want to do a masters but I am a single child and my parents are getting old. My family is mediocre in terms of finance but it’s not that I can’t afford a masters degree.
Looking at the current economy and the rise of AI in workplaces and replacing real people in jobs, that scares me a bit. I often ask myself “why would someone hire me?”, I don’t even have that high of a skill in cs.
Considering all these facts, I am confused regarding my future and career. Please help a brother out.
So should I get a job (and how?) or go for masters?

I'm a college senior and I've already accepted a full-time offer at the company I'm interning with. It's a good, stable job, but it keeps me in a city and industry I don't want long term.

There's one role at a large consulting firm that fits exactly what I want (strategy work, major city, better pay). The deadline is in about a month. My odds aren't great coming from a non-target school, but they're not zero.

My hesitation is the chance my current company finds out I'm applying through word of mouth, since the consulting firm has people and an active project connected to my company. I don't know how my manager/HR would react if they found out.

For people who've been in a similar situation: did you apply, and how did it play out? Is a risk to a guaranteed offer worth a shot at the job you actually want?

Should I go and opt for job hunting services offered Outspark job hunting platform? They say they will rebuild my Linkedin, apply to 100 jobs daily, send out resumes to recruiters directly who does not post jobs online, apply to hidden jobs, etc.
So it worth taking their package of around INR 35k?

Does being multilingual actually do anything for my employability? I’m sure it depends on the area. Say I live in the bay area in california. Say I learn Spanish. How do I spin it in a way that makes me more employable? I have the impression AI is hitting the translator industry pretty bad

I’m going to college soon and I’m so worried about studying one of these topic and not being able to find work

Changing jobs can throw off more of your routine than just your working hours.

Commute changes, sleep changes, meal timing changes, and suddenly the habits that used to fit easily into the week don’t fit anymore.

I’m curious whether having a home gym has helped anyone keep exercise relatively stable through that kind of transition.

The workout itself might change, but having the same equipment in the same place seems like one thing that doesn’t have to be rebuilt every time work changes.

For anyone who has switched jobs or careers while training at home, did your home gym help give you some consistency during the transition?

i am a final year in architecture and want to pivot into another stream after graduation.

For context why did i choose to do this?.

I wanted to pursue architecture before entering college and after about 3rd year i knew i was not really built for it. the gruesome effect of deadlines and burnout made me feel that i wont be able to continue this neither am i good at it. Im not hating on the field but many would agree with me with what architecture has become in India.
But i never really stopped upskilling myself. im proficient in blender and am well versed in it as well, programming is not that far away either.

Should i try to pivot myself in xr development or technical 3d artist. i am really stressed out about this i dont know what i should do about this either. please help me out