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Has anyone bit the bullet and jumped ship to a new career? I keep winding up in the same position and at the conclusion it's what I desperately want but have no idea where to start.
 
I left a career in advertising to join the NGO sector. Best thing I ever did.

What are you doing now, and what would you like to do more of or less of in future?
 
Currently and have only ever worked with horses, feeling like theres no way out and no idea where to begin when changing to something else
 
I left a career working with horses and went into office work. I worked in a few weird and wonderful job and have now settled in project management.

I started by temping. I worked as a complaint call handler for a bank to start with, and the moved around gaining more admin experience.
 
I left my career as a musician and became an Equine Podiatrist. I've been qualified 5 years now and despite the mud it's the best decision I ever made!
 
Ive done a few things.
12 years ago i hated my job as a long distance trucker.
I set up a business with no idea what i was doing and it accidentally took off
I spent 10 years doing that till it got a bit too much so i sold it and went back to trucking.
A lot of lady truckers have horseyness (apologies to the teachers but now that I've made that word up I quite like it)
In their background.
The jobs what you make it and I love it this time round...the licence is expensive but its decent wage.
Im away from home all week but i make the most of it by joining a national gymn chain and parking places where i can explore.
I cant allways get a shower..the 2m rule works in my favour.
All in all This job is perfect for me at this moment in time. When i get sick of it i reall fancy doing heavy plant work.
 
Temping is a great way of exploring what you do and don’t like doing. What would you say are your strongest transferable skills, and what are the parts of your current job that you enjoy the most?
 
A lot of ex grooms go into nursing and now I think they are re-starting the bursary scheme so you get some payment during training (you would have to check that). And in some sections they have re-started on site training rather than having to go to uni. I went for a hearing test and the young lady doing the test said she is based at the hospital and her supervisor was sitting in while she dealt with me.

Horse people are used to hard work, long hours, emergencies, gore, good times and bad times. At least with the NHS you have a pay structure and a career path.
 
Orangehorse said:
A lot of ex grooms go into nursing and now I think they are re-starting the bursary scheme so you get some payment during training (you would have to check that). And in some sections they have re-started on site training rather than having to go to uni. I went for a hearing test and the young lady doing the test said she is based at the hospital and her supervisor was sitting in while she dealt with me.

Horse people are used to hard work, long hours, emergencies, gore, good times and bad times. At least with the NHS you have a pay structure and a career path.
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Well at least they might have a head start on the bandaging module.
I once had a hairdresser who used to be a groom, you could tell. She was....firm.
 
little_critter said:
Well at least they might have a head start on the bandaging module.
I once had a hairdresser who used to be a groom, you could tell. She was....firm.
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? when I’m drinking my hair annoys me and my cousin plaits it. I’m always saying it has to be tighter, no even tighter, it can’t come loose when I jump and fling my head!
 
Rbags said:
Currently and have only ever worked with horses, feeling like theres no way out and no idea where to begin when changing to something else
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But what do you do? Groom, instructor, rider/schooling? You will have lots of transferable skills and just need some help to articulate them.

As an example, you know what needs to be done, and just get on with it - which is something I look for in trainee bus drivers.
 
equi said:
? when I’m drinking my hair annoys me and my cousin plaits it. I’m always saying it has to be tighter, no even tighter, it can’t come loose when I jump and fling my head!
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I hogged myself during lockdown!

OP, I transferred from journalism to networking about fifteen years ago, and it was the best thing I ever did. I earn ten times more than I could dream of as a reporter, and don't have to work all hours of the day and weekends.

If you're at all good with computers, it's generally pretty easy to get a job doing tech support (although harder now that so many call centres are overseas), and you can progress from there.
 
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