Change

The industry I work in as a freelancer (design) is changing so fast due to tech advances that after 15 years doing it at a high level, I am exhausted at trying to keep up. It moves SO fast that I don't understand how anyone stays up to speed with that amount of data.

I always thought, once I was skilled up, that whatever job I committed my career to it would take me to my old grey years. But if now seems, in my early 40s, that I need to change careers in order to find any sort of security long-term.

Do any of you feel this way?

I resent the idea that I need to have multiple careers running at once just to secure my families future

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  • Scientific research. There is always a new tool, or piece of equipment or software to use. The average scientist is usually more worried about how to persuade their boss to pay for it than learning to use it. Often times the right tool isn’t out there and then you have to code / build it yourself… but that’s exciting too in my view.