If your current job leaves you unfulfilled and like you want to do more, chances are at some point you’ve considered a career change. It’s easy to get stuck in the rat race, earning lots of money for a big corporation and going home at the end of each day with no career satisfaction. If this feels like you, here are some of the jobs, you could consider switching to that will make a genuine difference
Care and Medical
When you work in the medical field, you can help to heal people as well as care for them while they heal. You could work your way to the top and become a general surgeon or specialists such as heart, lung or brain surgeon. This career takes many years to get into. You have to do four years of pre-med preparation, four years of medical school and then up to seven years of residency just for a start. For this reason, it might not be something you can achieve later in life. But there are plenty of care and medical jobs that require less training. You could become a nurse, for example, nursing degrees take three years. If you’re already working as a nurse, you could go on to do a nurse educator masters and train the next generation. Some lower down care jobs don’t even require qualifications, you can learn on the job.
Mental Health Services
If you want to go into more of a psychological career rather than care for people physically, there are plenty of options. Again if you want to work your way up and become a psychologist or psychiatrist, it will take a long time- around eight years after earning your degree. You will need to study for a doctorate which takes four years, and then four years of residency. But again there are other careers within the mental health industry which take less time to achieve. You could become a mental health nurse, undertaking a degree lasting three years. If you wanted to work within a school setting, you could do an online school counselling masters. This is useful if you don’t have the opportunity to jump straight into a postgraduate course after your degree. It would give you the flexibility to study around a job or other commitments while still working towards your goal.
Social and Community Care Work
When you work in social work in the community such as social work or as a housing officer, it allows you to improve the lives of individuals and families. This could b preventing homelessness or ensuring children at risk are being adequately cared for, it will enable you to make a positive impact on the community and can prevent people (particularly children or vulnerable people) from suffering unnecessarily. To become a social worker you will need to take a degree in social work which will take three to four years. To become a housing officer, you will usually need a degree- most employers will prefer this to be in a related subject such as community development, building surveying or social policy.
