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I'm going to be 60 soon! I can't believe it. Being that none of my jobs have lasted more than 3 years I am wondering if anyone could give me a career path I should take for the next 10 years until retirement age. I'm not sure if I will be married or single and I have to be able to live on my own. My background is in digital design. I guess I was not that good in it for none of the jobs to have lasted. Don't get me wrong, I would love to stay in it if I could. But I'm looking for realistic options.
What did you like about your job? What did you hate?
Are you on LinkedIn? It can have some good groups and resources for job hunts.
I don't really know what skillset digital designers need, but if coding was involved, have you looked at programming in python? Or making data visualization in something like Tableau? Those are skills a lot of places need right now.
Social media specialists are a big field right now (well, before COVID weirdness).
Good suggestions. However, my problem is that I am going to be 60. Maybe I am creating my own barrier of age discrimination? I don't know. I doubt it.
1: I would love to be a social media specialist. However, I need to catch up on skills even thought I have probably been using social media longer than many social media specialists out there. Having said that, isn't social media a younger person's field? An I am sure young women dominate the field. Are business going to hire a man approaching 60 as their social media expert?
2: I have some experience in coding html and css. I started to take online courses two years ago to get all the skills down but I never completed it. I wish I had. Do I continue? It's up to me!
3: I have been on LinkedIn for years. So far, eh... nothing really came of it.
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