Got a 3rd job

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I just picked up a 3rd part time job. All 3 are involved in sports, which is great since I love sports with a passion! Altogether, I’ll be in for 5-6 days per week, 20-25 hours.

In any other world this is no big whoop. Many people work multiple jobs to make ends meet. I’ve been most fortunate that my thinking has come around since April. All the hard work has paid off, I feel like I have a new lease on life.

For those that work, keep at it! If you don’t, try your best to find something you can do with sz in mind. I’ve worked in sales for 5+ years now… if I can do it so can you. Remember to KiSS: keep it simple silly, and be likeable. That’s the story and I’m sticking to it!

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Great to hear some positive news @gene - good luck with the new role!

We’re all rooting for you :slight_smile:

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Thanks @Joker. While I’m busy working, I’m also keeping close tabs on all of you. I’ve always tried to spread positivity in my posts here, but sometimes it gets lost in the shuffle. Doing the hard work is hard, otherwise we’d all be recovered and on our way.

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I started a job 5 weeks ago and it’s so good.

Apart from my battles with meds and mental health professionals, it’s the single most positive step I have taken in years

  • The head office is a 5 min bus ride (My old data job was 1:10mins each way…)
  • The people are nice
  • I can work from home most days, and they paid for all my office furniture!
  • We’re working on a national Covid study, so I am not just making money for people who don’t deserve it
  • My skill set is going to radically change their business, as they have never hired an analyst before
  • I am learning new skills in work time

I could go on, but I know how it feels as do you to understand a rewarding situation work wise

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That’s great to hear! Trying to keep it on the low low, but I’m taking classes to go into data analysis. I may take extension courses then maybe apply at the university level.

Did you finish school? How did you get into the data analyst role?

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I failed school and had no qualifications

When I was 22 I did an Access Course which is a 1 year programme for adults to get into University

4 years later I graduated with a 3.7 GPA despite being psychotic in my last year

Then after I recovered somewhat, I got a job packing envelopes part time as a temp

They offered me a full time Account Executive Admin role

I looked up to the Data Analysts.

3 years later I became one. Self taught for the most part

I studied History and Sociology

Analytical and critical thinking, and research methods / theory have helped me in the way of transferable skills

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What a journey! I’m sure getting to the destination has been no easy feat. Kudos to you, sounds like your smarts and hard work has paid dividend.

I have an undergrad degree in science economics. I went to a rigorous university, graduated with a 2.9 gpa. Got sick my Sr year, took a year to recoup, reenrolled and earned a degree.

I’ve always wanted to be a numbers guy but it wasn’t always in the cards. I was a stock options broker, then got away from field of study. Found marketing 7 years ago, then got into sales. Best decision I’ve ever made.

My other two jobs are working for data science companies. I’m not in an analyst role, I do more the grunt work that the analysts analyze. But it involves sports so I stay in tune with it.

How are you with language software? I’m looking to get into data visualization, likely will run across R, SQL and Git. I’m a bit apprehensive as I don’t have a tech background.

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My key skills are in Excel and Power BI.

Just started using Share Point, and Power Automate is next.

Learning SQL at the moment - it’s much more basic than I thought…

Pretty soon I will have eliminated as many spreadsheets as I can from my company

Literally the skill levels from an IT perspective are very lacking where I am, so I will hopefully be the one to shape it moving forwards

My old Insights job everything was done for you, this time I get to play with all the tools and build it how I want it!

Congrats on your education. I advocate many people to go back to education if school had failed them

I think for those with Mental Health issues, it’s important as part of the recovery process to explore different academic subjects so you can break free of the trap we all find ourselves in of not having the skills to work.

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Sometimes I forget we are on a MH forum. Apologies about all the work and career talk.

Truth be told, most of my co-workers at my sales gig don’t have a college degree. They can earn a living by just being themselves talking to others. I saw it as an opportunity to work on my talk skills. I was atrocious at it, and felt uncomfortable at almost every step of the way. But I stayed with it and post-pandemic has been a revelation. I’ve absorbed what it takes to sell effectively and now have a lower workload. It’s allowed me to find other work and still be at 1/2 full time.

@Joker I may reach out to you in the near future about language software. I’m competent at excel and hope that learning other applications are as doable. If you can, so can I.

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Yes of course. Anytime feel free. I am no expert, but I have enough functional knowledge of systems to get by :slight_smile:

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I don’t like my job anymore but it’s easy. I’d rather work at a job that I don’t like and is easy then not work at all. And it’s not all bad. It might be better than working a job I like more, that’s harder. Plus I get to work around some darn good looking, friendly women!

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Easy is good, but not liking your job isn’t. My co-workers are ok, I’m friends with one or two. It’s fairly easy what I do now that I’ve been doing it awhile. The new job will spice things up a bit as it’s half remote half on-site.

Lots of eye candy where I work. And being a salesman gives an excuse to chat with them. But I always keep it professional, I don’t mix biz with pleasure when I’m on the clock.

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