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This is me. I got a degree in economics and couldn't find anything. I ended up in flooring sales which I was ok at (very product knowledgeable but a little too honest when it came to the cons LOL!). When the Great Recession happened the bottom fell out of that business and I ended up having to go back to serving on nights and weekends. I then did claims adjusting for Allstate for 4 years. After spending 4 years talking to people about their fake injuries in car accidents I was getting a very negative view of humanity. My wife got a promotion at her job and I quit mine to go to school and study math. I got into the actuary field and passed several exams but I found I really loved the coding and data analysis part and I was really good at it. That's where I am now.I would have started with my current career first. I could have retired by now.
Awesome for sticking in there & persevering to find something that you enjoyed.This is me. I got a degree in economics and couldn't find anything. I ended up in flooring sales which I was ok at (very product knowledgeable but a little too honest when it came to the cons LOL!). When the Great Recession happened the bottom fell out of that business and I ended up having to go back to serving on nights and weekends. I then did claims adjusting for Allstate for 4 years. After spending 4 years talking to people about their fake injuries in car accidents I was getting a very negative view of humanity. My wife got a promotion at her job and I quit mine to go to school and study math. I got into the actuary field and passed several exams but I found I really loved the coding and data analysis part and I was really good at it. That's where I am now.
Just to encourage anyone who may be thinking of doing something like this. It took me 15 months of not working to make this change. When I quit at Allstate I made $41,000 a year. We had to live very skimpily for those 15 months, but it has now been 6 years since I started working again and I make quite a bit more than double that $41,000 and I have more free time and enjoy my life much more. Don't wait to make your life better, it isn't long enough to wait for too long.
I would have been a forensic psychologist. I was a psych major for my first 2 years of college and absolutely loved it. But then I found out I needed to take a public speaking course as a requirement for that major, which I still don't understand why that was a requirement, but as soon as I found that out I switched my major to finance.