What age were you when your career "took off"?
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Late 20's, when are started to specialize in a subject. When only so few do it nationwide, you kinda have the pick of the litter within the industry. My career was all over the place till that happened.
This.I was that dude that it took 10 years to get a bachelors. I worked in a hot ass warehouse for 7 of those years while going to school. I graduated when I was 29. Took me a year to land my first Accounting gig(shyt is hard to get your foot in the door). Brehs in the warehouse was clowning me for having a degree and couldn't get a job. Finally broke through and landed my first job in Finance. After 3 years of stagnation, no upward mobility whatsoever I was more depressed than I was at the warehouse. Everybody I started with got promoted to a bigger division but my black ass. Finance is on that. But what ended up happening is I became the go-to guy for the small division. I was training the new hires, shaping policy the way I saw fit and the boss gave me the freedom since they were focusing on much larger customers in the bigger division. This instantly made my job more enjoyable and I started liking coming to work again. We had a lot of turnover my small division because it didn't pay shyt. After a round of promotions they needed a supervisor in the small division still so they hired an old white guy. Yeah, I trained my supervisor. But we got along well. He ended up landing better job after like 6 months but he wanted to get a copy of my resume before he left. I emailed him a copy. A few weeks later I get a call from a hiring manager wanting to meet with me. Old guy had sent him my resume and I had the job before I walked into the interview. It was basically 15 minutes of small talk and an offer. 60% pay raise just like that.
Two things:
1) Your money doesn't grow linearly during your career. All it takes is the right opportunity and you can double your current salary overnight. It happens.
2) Your mind has to be in the right place for it to come. Be thankful for where you are. Never compare yourself to others who are on a different path.
TL;dr chill the fukk out. You're fine. Enjoy the process. Read The Alchemist
This is literally what I learned.
Look, I been fired several times, some deserved, some not so deserved. But when I did get fired, I learned something valuable from them. I learned that I needed to be the person that make everyone and everything better. The subject matter expert. The point of contact and the one no one can work without. I really been underpaid for most of my career. Mainly due to the willingness to stick to my subject regardless of how many jobs they had around the area for it. I attended Meetups, networked with professionals within my scope. Became the guy people needed for some of the largest corporations in the world. What I learned is nothing is given. But you must learn about yourself, how you work, your weaknesses, your strengths, white supremacy and how to navigate in this system.
Most importantly, stay humble. Everyone works well with the humble ones.
LOL, you do gotta get into their culture, especially Nigerian. That said, I agree with getting you a woman with excellent potential, it's too hard otherwise.
It's money you make without really working for it. Like someone paying you rent, investments, etc. Check out Cashflow board game breh breh
Rollo Goodlove
Palestine Titty
That lo Is like something to look into
That's should be the goal. It leads to generational wealth.
MenacingMonk
War & Peace
Almost 30 and shyt ain't no where near taking off. 
Wish I figured out what I wanted to do in my late teens/early 20s. I MIGHT be there right now.
Wish I figured out what I wanted to do in my late teens/early 20s. I MIGHT be there right now.
daboywonder2002
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What's the best way to break into health informatics if you DONT HAVE EXPERIENCE working in a healthcare or hospital industry. I have a health science degree and working on my HIT CERTIFICATE.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I started off working non profit in community health. then got hired by a large hospital system. then I got hired by a health software vendor. and I'm going back to work for another hospital system. are you good with data and reporting? do you understand anything to do with the various regulatory agencies? Do you know about coding and processes used by various groups in the hospital for their workflows?
folks either have a background in nursing or IT typically.
daboywonder2002
Superstar
only IT experience I have is help desk work but not for a hospital system. currrently im taking this health informatics class online but it's just writing a bunch of papers. it's not hands on where you are actually learning about the different hospital systems.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
you can apply that knowledge to working at a hospital tho. you just need the opportunity really. hospitals have help desk and entry level support. I don't do IT type work. I'm considered an analyst. so it has nothing to do with fixing anything like what you're referring to.
Generally speaking about healthcare Analytics, if I am unable to jump directly into a Analyst position with a healthcare system what other industries would be a good look? Obviously public health but do you have any hindsight advice? I currently work in a sales transaction analytics type role
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I'm not sure how to answer that question. I have primarily worked in health care as an adult. I also worked in telecommunications for major phone provider when I first graduated. Someone that's good with data can work pretty much in any industry. try looking in insurance perhaps. I'm talking health insurance companies like blue cross or aetna or united health care. you can also try regular insurance companies like allstate or state farm or geico.
