Need career advice! HELP!

[littlesunray]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Mentally stimulating and challenging job that brings satisfaction, usually also mean long hours and definitely can't gel with work-life balance.

Can't have the best of everything and in life, you usually have to settle and learn to handle the things at work that you can't control. That's an important part of learning too, and is not taught at school.

What's important in any job is that you gain transferable skills that can be applied to another job so you can move easily should the need arise. Or failing that, better make sure that the job is fairly guaranteed and you won't lose it!

Thanks for sharing with me

Originally Posted by littlesunray

i have seen your posts... just wondering what is your background in?
i appreciate your candor, directness and clarity of thought. i know that i lack those qualities, hence i do seek advice from others.

Well if you are interested, I worked in an independently runned boutique consultancy that is owned by a foreign investment bank. My specialization was in M&A valuation and risk management matters for most of my career.

Had enough of that 2 years ago and now I'm pretty much taking up ad-hoc assignments here and there. Dabble in some recruitment, corporate financial advisory matters and also volunteer in an outfit that provides career conselling occassionaly.

IMO what you term as mentally challenging work a.k.a financial analysis in the healthcare organization is pretty much rudimentary in nature and seeing your adverse reaction to stress and handling stakeholders so far, I wouldn't recommend you go to where the real financial mental challenges are anyway.

This is not a put down. I have seen numerous cases of people like yourself who are pretty much lost and dissatisfied with their current work. They constantly speak of wanting to do higher level work, but detest long working hours, navigating stakeholder politics or meeting hard deadlines. What you need to realise is that all these things that you don't like are part and parcel of competing in that space.

If you have already made up your mind you just want to do your own work in peace without all that outside official job scope soft stuff, then you must also accept the limitations in career on both areas of mental challenge and remuneration, that comes along with it.

Only when you are in harmony with these conflicting areas can you move on and make the most out of your career. Otherwise it's pretty much just repeating the same complaints you have a few years down the road in a new job in a new organization. To me moving around jobs or taking up new educational certs are perihperal and not really at the heart of your dilema.

Originally Posted by SOD

Well if you are interested, I worked in an independently runned boutique consultancy that is owned by a foreign investment bank. My specialization was in M&A valuation and risk management matters for most of my career.

Had enough of that 2 years ago and now I'm pretty much taking up ad-hoc assignments here and there. Dabble in some recruitment, corporate financial advisory matters and also volunteer in an outfit that provides career conselling occassionaly.

IMO what you term as mentally challenging work a.k.a financial analysis in the healthcare organization is pretty much rudimentary in nature and seeing your adverse reaction to stress and handling stakeholders so far, I wouldn't recommend you go to where the real financial mental challenges are anyway.

This is not a put down. I have seen numerous cases of people like yourself who are pretty much lost and dissatisfied with their current work. They constantly speak of wanting to do higher level work, but detest long working hours, navigating stakeholder politics or meeting hard deadlines. What you need to realise is that all these things that you don't like are part and parcel of competing in that space.

If you have already made up your mind you just want to do your own work in peace without all that outside official job scope soft stuff, then you must also accept the limitations in career on both areas of mental challenge and remuneration, that comes along with it.

Only when you are in harmony with these conflicting areas can you move on and make the most out of your career. Otherwise it's pretty much just repeating the same complaints you have a few years down the road in a new job in a new organization. To me moving around jobs or taking up new educational certs are perihperal and not really at the heart of your dilema.

I really like this - very good summary. TS should list down the priorities first then decide which one is more important and choose carefully.