1102 Feeling Disillusioned
2025.01.24 14:41 Bh2os32 1102 Feeling Disillusioned
Hey everyone, looking for some career advice.
I’m currently employed as a contracting specialist in the 7/9/11 step pathways PACE program. This is my first job out of school and I feel like I’m not making real strides towards building a marketable skillset or high Income career at a critical stage approaching my late twenties. I don’t mean to come across as ungrateful, I think I may not be making the best use of my time to secure a high income and curate the lifestyle I’d would like for myself as I approach 30.
To give a brief summary of my background I Graduated in 2022. I was an aspiring premed with a major in human nutrition and put heavy emphasis on the prerequisites necessary to enroll into medical school. I managed to finish with a subpar GPA at 3.3. After a lot of deliberation and stress about having very low odds of acceptance due to mental health issues during the pandemic, I decided it wasn’t worth my hassle to raise my GPA and apply through multiple failed cycles over years to pursue a PhD or MS in any health speciality including PA PT or MD. I ultimately grew disinterested in healthcare as I wasn’t really passionate enough about it to warrant attempting to improve my application or take on the daunting student loan debt and figured there must be other options.
Essentially I then graduated with a “useless degree” and that’s about when I heard about and joined the DLA Pace program as my first “real job” it seemed very promising and was enticing at the time for the career trajectory and guaranteed step/grade increases from GS 7/9/11. I Acknowledge it’s a stable and decent earning path with all the government bells and whistles (pension especially/ getting in at young age, TSP) but I’m feeling like I kinda just took the first thing I could out of desperation for feeling lost in my career, feeling financially behind peers and not sure how to navigate the traditional corporate/9-5 job market especially with the state it’s in.
I’m pretty ambitious and would like to find a marketable skillset that puts me into the six figure realm. For context I live in an MCOL area so ultimately for me I’d consider success to be topping out in my career between 150-200k ish. Ideally I’d like to hit 100k+ before 30 if I act within the next year I’d like to think it’s a reasonable goal.
By end of my current step program I’ll be at around 75k if I continue with what I’m doing and with supplemental income from bartending I can get to roughly 90k with a 50 hour work week, but I can’t work 2 jobs forever.
I’m feeling like my ideal income and lifestyle don’t align with my current career choice and the longer I commit to this career the more I feel I’ve pigeonholed myself with a niche skill and average income with limited opportunity outside of the federal government and maybe considerably slower growth after I complete the step program. I’m especially concerned because I feel as though I’m really just an email monkey or glorified customer service rep with some knowledge of the FAR and federal procurement cycles since I don’t work in pre award purchasing, I work on post award contracts. I feel if I don’t take action soon a high income may evade me the rest of my life as I encounter more commitments and responsibilities inhibiting my ability to pivot or upskill. I also fear I may fall victim to ageism in the workforce so ideally before 30 I’d like to be more steady and assured of my skills. The thought of being behind my peers continues to really terrify me too.
I’d like to not move too hastily though as I acknowledge life and career success/ satisfaction isn’t purely about my one salaried job and ultimately I’d like my income to fund other investments and entrepreneurial ventures, so my primary income source being maybe only slightly above average at this time isn’t the end all be all for me either. I think there’s multiple paths to “get there” I’m just unsure of how good I may have it right now when considering the opportunity cost of moving to the private sector or making a career pivot for higher pay, potentially more debt, and more stress with subsequent loss of government pension, benefits, stability, and peace of mind. I’d like to believe maybe it’s a marathon and not a sprint and if I remain in a slightly above average paying role for the years to come I’ll be alright, just not as “successful” as I want.
Besides simply shutting up and being grateful and maybe considering I’m too in my head, I’ve brainstormed and included some potential resolutions below. Mind you I’d like to avoid completely starting from scratch and would prefer to use what I have to supplement my career instead of going completely back to ground 0 but it feels maybe overly optimistic and unavoidable at the present. I’ve considered pursuing a masters, maybe in data science or business analytics. This is particularly feasible with tuition reimbursement from my job. The federal civilian GS pay scale is set up nicely as well because from what I understand if you at least remain on the GS scale you can transfer to learn another discipline with maybe grade decrease but without a paycut (correct me if I’m wrong) I’ve also considered the feasibility of working for defense contractors on their sales teams with my knowledge of the FAR and security clearance. Altogether I wouldn’t mind pursuing a straight up traditional sales role if that’s the most efficient option for me to obtain my goals. I’d really truly appreciate Any perspectives about other lucrative career pivot opportunities from those who have made a pivot to a different industry, or to the private sector with more work experience altogether.
TLDR; I feel like I’ve pigeonholed myself into a career that doesn’t challenge me or align with my ideal lifestyle and income and looking for perspective on my career choices
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I’ve been having quite bad muscle pain in regard to my shoulders, neck and lower back. I even got a migraine that was so bad I went to the hospital and they gave me diazepam to relax my muscles for a few days. I think that the reasoning for this was I have put a lot of weight on in a short amount of time and my posture is quite bad as well as my mattress not giving the right support and me sleeping in bad positions. Anyway, I have swelling now at the back of my head in my hairline/top of neck. My anxiety went to the worse case scenario and I immediately thought cancer. It is quite hard but also able to squish it from either side if that makes sense. When I press it is sore but along my neck is also the same pain. Any ideas?
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