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TheIronStar · 12-30-2006, 12:33 AM

I'm currently doing software development in a financial services firm. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of it--I strongly am starting to believe that coding just isn't for me, and I question my interest in financial-related stuff.

The problem is that I don't know of anything else that anyone would hire me for that will support me at anything near level of income besides what I am doing now. I have a bachelor's degree (college apparently being the new high school). I am being pushed into applying for business school by my parents and their friends, but personally I'm sick of this entire industry and of being their satellite (the only jobs and internships I ever got were via nepotism--all the job-searching, resume-polishing crap that people who supposedly knew what they were talking about turned out to be 100% full of crap, getting me zero responses year after year).

I made the mistake of dealing with the career counselors during my college days. They were essentially a waste of my time. I am looking for more direction and preferably higher quality advice and advisors. Where would I look to find high-quality career counseling? (At the moment I have no way of distinguishing the high-powered wizards from the chumps du jour until it's too late.)

Thanks for any help. The frustration's burning me out.

12-30-2006, 12:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
TheIronStar Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 160	Changing careers and finding high-quality career counseling. I'm currently doing software development in a financial services firm. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of it--I strongly am starting to believe that coding just isn't for me, and I question my interest in financial-related stuff. The problem is that I don't know of anything else that anyone would hire me for that will support me at anything near level of income besides what I am doing now. I have a bachelor's degree (college apparently being the new high school). I am being pushed into applying for business school by my parents and their friends, but personally I'm sick of this entire industry and of being their satellite (the only jobs and internships I ever got were via nepotism--all the job-searching, resume-polishing crap that people who supposedly knew what they were talking about turned out to be 100% full of crap, getting me zero responses year after year). I made the mistake of dealing with the career counselors during my college days. They were essentially a waste of my time. I am looking for more direction and preferably higher quality advice and advisors. Where would I look to find high-quality career counseling? (At the moment I have no way of distinguishing the high-powered wizards from the chumps du jour until it's too late.) Thanks for any help. The frustration's burning me out.