Help anon choose a career path

[Anonymous No.52864130]

What are the easiest professional career routes, regardless of pay?

[Anonymous No.52864257]

Most Western countries have been thoroughly financialized. Financial services are where all the money is. Tech and Healthcare had a big boom because the investors flush with cash could pour it into low-risk high-reward equity gambles in the case of the former and the aging glut of cash-rich baby boomers who need medical care in the case of the latter, but no one can say with certainty that these two will stick around long-term.

[Anonymous No.52864288]

>>52864257
this, just choose anything other than accounting. Financial advice, analyst, broker, fund managing, mergers + acq.

[Anonymous No.52864324]

>>52864288
I did M&A and while I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, it did teach me a lot about how people make money owning and investing in businesses in ways that I think few people besides business owners and banks are exposed to.

[Anonymous No.52864325]

>>52864257
>>52864288
So obviously finance or healthcare

Would you mind being a tad more specific? Because the amount of jobs that fall in those categories is quite large.

[Anonymous No.52864402]

>>52864325
To be clear, I'm suggesting that healthcare may not be a safe gamble in the future. Of course, people will always need healthcare, but after the baby boomers die off, that will be far fewer people and nobody really knows what that sort of labor market will look like when the demographics start shrinking. In financial services, it doesn't even matter because as long as the firms are flush with cash, they'll pay people to do things. Front office jobs are harder to get but pay more. Back-office jobs are easier to get but pay less. I wouldn't recommend people work in financial services, however. My own experience was too negative to do that in good faith. I only mention it because I understand many people will want to make money and that's the primary way a lot of people have made a lot of money for several decades now.

[Anonymous No.52864459]

>>52864402
ok so besides healthcare and finance, what does that leave.. tech? Trades? Idk if i could be a tradie..

[Anonymous No.52864501]

>>52864459
Tech had a boom for a while, but that seems to be slowing down because so many of these companies aren't profitable in the long run. They only employ a lot of people and pay them really well when they have a lot of investor money and they only have a lot of investor money if investors can make money off the asset. It's hard to say it will be as secure in the future, but many tech companies are very profitable. The profitable ones are more likely to be around.

Honestly, I think you should think about what you actually have an inclination for and not try to strategize the optimal choice. Just avoid the worst choices and you'll be okay. If you wanted to be rich, a job was never going to get you there anyway.

[Anonymous No.52864566]

Easiest in terms of what? The "easiest" blend of effort and pay is in IT, as we all know. Doesn't have to be pure CS, there are tons of other roles associated that are easy and pay well.

Non doctorate medical fields pay a lot for less effort too, shit like radiology and being an anesthetist.

No one who's going to lazily grab any degree without any direct career plan is going to benefit from a college degree. They'll rack up $100k+ in permanent debt and then get underemployed at a $30-50k/year level their whole life, could have just skipped the college part.

[Anonymous No.52864622]

>>52864566
well it seems I have gotten a degree without a direct career path..IT seems worth it to me

>>52864501
I literally have no clue what i have an inclination for but ty anon

[Anonymous No.52864625]

>>52864566
get network+ and/or a CCNA and you can get a good IT job. bonus points for AWS

[Anonymous No.52864807]

>>52864625
based thank you, any specific amazon certs to look out for?

[Anonymous No.52864859]

>>52864130
Easiest? Healthcare. Largest shortages. You will be paid $40/hr to stand around for basic jobs and given overtime. They cannot fire you except if you really fuck up.

Most potential but also more difficult to get started? High finance and tech.

The problem with healthcare is the jobs are gated by school/experience requirements, but as long as you get through you are almost guaranteed a job.

[Anonymous No.52864872]

>>52864807
not the cloud practitioner, do either the solutions architect or the sysops admin

[Anonymous No.52864909]

>>52864566
IT is very fucking easy. You don't even need to know how to program. Just study up on the latest technology you need to manage, and you are pretty much qualified. You will not work more than 1-2 hours a day in most jobs but when shit hits the fan you will be working nights.

That being said, the pay pretty much caps out at 100K because if they have to pay you more then that, outsourcing becomes more viable (except if your job requires a security clearance or something).

[Anonymous No.52864931]

>>52864872
Solutions architect 100%