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JT

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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  • I'm in exactly the same situation, but in my late 40s. I'm back freelancing as a graphic designer after a pretty horrible burnout working for a pretty dysfunctional and chaotic organisation for 8 months (I normally manage several years in each job, but this was a particularly bad one!).

    It annoys me no end that pay has stagnated over the last quarter of a century - what was once a good job is now paid the same as a barista in much of the country (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a barista, but it doesn't take a degree to do it or come with all the stress of clients and project management), unless you work for a fintech or similar evil company, and are happy destroying the planet and society!

    You're not the only one feeling like this, JT, really.

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  • I'm in exactly the same situation, but in my late 40s. I'm back freelancing as a graphic designer after a pretty horrible burnout working for a pretty dysfunctional and chaotic organisation for 8 months (I normally manage several years in each job, but this was a particularly bad one!).

    It annoys me no end that pay has stagnated over the last quarter of a century - what was once a good job is now paid the same as a barista in much of the country (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a barista, but it doesn't take a degree to do it or come with all the stress of clients and project management), unless you work for a fintech or similar evil company, and are happy destroying the planet and society!

    You're not the only one feeling like this, JT, really.

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