Afraid of the Unknown

[luqe]

Have ever anyone here is pursuing into entrepreneurship after graduating from bachelor degree. I interested to know how a person could become successful or able to survive in business after you just realized what you had studied in degree isn't exactly the one that you passionate for. :?

I kinda need a motivator and guidance because all steps that I have pursued in life till now is seems like not going the way it should be. To make things worst, I worried that this upcoming economic crash due to the coronavirus will cause me to become more astray than before.

 

[yoyo888]

Have ever anyone here is pursuing into entrepreneurship after graduating from bachelor degree. I interested to know how a person could become successful or able to survive in business after you just realized what you had studied in degree isn't exactly the one that you passionate for. :?

I kinda need a motivator and guidance because all steps that I have pursued in life till now is seems like not going the way it should be. To make things worst, I worried that this upcoming economic crash due to the coronavirus will cause me to become more astray than before.

Im not sure there are many people out there that study their degree and end up with a job in that field.

What degree have you been studying and what are you planning do do with it (job wise)?

For me. I did a BTEC in Business and Finance specialising in statistics.

I ended up going into a Marketing role. But after a few years the role turned into forecasting. And of course my statistics came into hand. But after 10 years in that role I got bored with it, and ended up moving to a IT role. Supporting peoples laptop and PC issues for both hardware and software. The another another 10 years in that my company made me redundant.

I tried to work for my self, but just could not make it work. So had to go and find employment again. Been in my current role for 8 years now. it was only meant to be a temp job until I could find something near home, but I have stayed!.

So DONT worry if what you have been studying is related or not related to what you are goign to do as a job. At the end of the day its what is good for you and what you are good at. Experience

YOYO

 

[dargelos]

I'm sure it is common to find that the things you learned during your education are quite different to the things you need in your working life. Very little of what I gained at university was of much help in the day to day business of trying to make a living. But none of that was wasted. The gradgrind approach to education, the facts, nothing but the facts, is as popular as it is wrong. What you really learn is how to think for yourself. Not how to solve set problems for an exam but how to cope with unexpected problems in unexpected places.
However hard it is to find a good job today, there are any amount of shit jobs, not many of the good sort, your education will never go to waste, you will still be a better person for having experienced it, with money or without.

 

[luqe]

Im not sure there are many people out there that study their degree and end up with a job in that field.

What degree have you been studying and what are you planning do do with it (job wise)?

For me. I did a BTEC in Business and Finance specialising in statistics.

I ended up going into a Marketing role. But after a few years the role turned into forecasting. And of course my statistics came into hand. But after 10 years in that role I got bored with it, and ended up moving to a IT role. Supporting peoples laptop and PC issues for both hardware and software. The another another 10 years in that my company made me redundant.

I tried to work for my self, but just could not make it work. So had to go and find employment again. Been in my current role for 8 years now. it was only meant to be a temp job until I could find something near home, but I have stayed!.

So DONT worry if what you have been studying is related or not related to what you are goign to do as a job. At the end of the day its what is good for you and what you are good at. Experience

YOYO

I took bachelor degree in welding engineering then I pursued my master in business administration which hoping that master could help me set up a business. But I was wrong and quite regret for rejecting the offer from half-government body to attempt a boot camp for setting up a business (which they will provide business loan if qualified). The master degree and boot camp came in the same time, but when I took other advices, they suggested me to go for master degree.

But, what I really like the most about MBA is the marketing subject. It really opens my eyes about the marketing world. After I graduated from master degree, I feel hesitated to work out there, then I worked with my aunty as managerial trainee in her kindergarten and the salary of course not good as I could demand out there. :butslap:

She asked me to work with her to help her save her business from going down. I got to handle wave accounting, do some office boy job, and mostly assist her in marketing area. Which surprisingly, I found that I really like to do work in creative and art design. I really like to do marketing on social media and create advertisement for promotion and event stuff, like to think critically that how an advertisement should be done and how should it be presented with right timing and budget to gain audience. Most of the time I play with Facebook and Instagram marketing and I have to come with a post everyday and tbh it is not easy but still it is a fun thing to do even it is quite challenging.

I found that I really like to play with Adobe Creative Cloud app, and sometimes I got some part time job to do poster for someone else. They paid me just a small amount for what I have created for them, coz to be fair, I'm still a newbie graphic designer and I couldn't demand price like professional graphic designer. But thank god, they really like my work and they said I could go further with my talent. :heart:

Now, I started to learn 3D design and follow some related group and join the conversation with experts on facebook. I feel like to explore further another Adobe CC app that is related to my idea and future plan. I feel interested in making my own portfolio with all the design that I have created. I really want to sell my own vector and design on graphic resources platform or create content on youtube with hoping that to get stable passive income and dream big to have a graphic design business some day. But like you said, when you want to work for yourself, it is not easy like we think. And I found that making artwork and poster for someone else is more easy instead of sitting down and waiting for an idea to come and create something for yourself to sell it to someone else.:?

Frankly speaking, I am confident that this is my passion but I'm not sure whether I can make my business dream come true or I should just go with more good payment job that I could get instead. Plus it will be a hard time to get job after this lockdown over I guess.

By the way, to all member in gayheaven here please #StayAtome and #staysafe :big hug:

 

[topdog]

I graduated with a degree in theater, which I did go in to and loved - but I have made most of my money and living connecting people with computers and technology. But still, I am grateful for my degree - I can communicate with humans and be the bridge between them and their IT goals and issues - a skill many of my colleagues don't have.

If pursing your degree brought you to your current understanding of yourself, your talents and what you have to contribute to the world, then it served its purpose well. College isn't a vocational school - its not where you go to learn a trade. Its where you go to learn how to learn and to sample a whole lot of thinking and ideas and people and perspectives that would be beyond your reach if you had stayed at home.

Now a new phase begins and you have to take every asset you have (talent, training, contacts, work ethic, and creativity) and press it toward whatever goal you set for yourself.

This won't be the last time you are in this position. You will find yourself at a crossroads where you need to reinvent yourself multiple times during your life. The key is to focus on what you have to contribute to your new endeavor, not what you are missing. You can hire people to fill out what you are missing (or find a partner). Your job is to marshal every resource you bring to the table to provide a service or product with your own brilliant stamp on it.