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Yeah, I meant agreement. Should have said "if you haven't signed some sort of agreement to remain there".
I mean, but even if there wasn't a written agreement... the minimum 5 year expectation means that she's looking for someone longterm and I would feel too guilty lying to her. I don't feel like I'm a longterm employee for them.
Sociology, and I also got minors in Communications and Art History. I was interested in advertising or something in media marketing... I still am, to be honest, but I don't know how to break into the field.
Did you use your college career center resources to help you research how to break into the field? Surely there must be some advice out there on the internet about how to break into advertising; you need to do the research, find and talk to people in the industry and figure it out. At the very least you should be looking for an Admin position in an advertising company, not a finance company. You might also need to relocate to a different city; the majority of advertising and marketing jobs tend to be in bigger cities.
Keep your current job until you find something, but start looking for something that is a better fit for what your want to do for a career. And don't bother taking the Series 7; with your interests and college focus it's pretty obvious finance is not the field for you.
Sociology, and I also got minors in Communications and Art History. I was interested in advertising or something in media marketing... I still am, to be honest, but I don't know how to break into the field.
How many entry level jobs in advertising or media marketing have you applied to?
No offense, but how do you think you're going to pass the Series 7 test when your background isn't in finance????
My boss has done this a few times actually - she hires people that didn't study finance and hopes she can interest them enough in it to eventually (after several months of studying) take the series 7.
Did you use your college career center resources to help you research how to break into the field? Surely there must be some advice out there on the internet about how to break into advertising; you need to do the research, find and talk to people in the industry and figure it out. At the very least you should be looking for an Admin position in an advertising company, not a finance company. You might also need to relocate to a different city; the majority of advertising and marketing jobs tend to be in bigger cities.
Keep your current job until you find something, but start looking for something that is a better fit for what your want to do for a career. And don't bother taking the Series 7; with your interests and college focus it's pretty obvious finance is not the field for you.
I have researched it a fair amount, but a lot of places don't even want to look at someone that hasn't worked in the field (or interned).
You can start by doing side gigs in your industry.
I suggest you look online who are looking for interns or hiring a part-time if you want to get your foot in, without letting go of your current position.
I have a degree in Sociology - Mass Communication and an associates degree in Business. I took a customer service position, or at least that's the job posting. I was doing shipping and receiving, answering calls, telling people how to reset a computer, IT help desk stuff. I stuck through it, even though it's not my field. The same as you, I took the job because I just wanted to move out already. I hated it because I couldn't understand more than half of the things they are talking about and I'm not that tech savy at all. I felt like the dumbest person in the crowd. I was looking forward to moving on to another job, but I took on the challenge.
My mother always say, if you don't like your job, find something you like about it...anything...and it'll make your work life so much easier. I always thought of something positive coming into work. Well, fast forward to now, I've become a specialist to a portion on our software and have been doing things I never imagined I'd do. When I started, I commuted almost 3 hrs, had no benefits, had no perks. I stayed and I kept pushing, taking on initiative, doing what I can. Now, we have benefits and we get so many little perks here and there. I actually enjoy it now and I'm saddened for when I have to leave when I move. But this is because I stayed with the company and pushed through.
You have to realize, after college, you will get a lot of entry-level, non-related jobs, unless you did your homework and got connected with a job before graduating. Your post does sound entitled to me, but at the end of the day, if you're not happy with your job, you should do something about it. You don't have to stay in that job. I can't even imagine if there's ever a person who got a job right after graduating and stayed (well, maybe there are, but super rare). Start reading blogs, books or articles, they are probably a better source on learning on how to break into your field.
Regardless of what you decide to do, either you stay there or you look for something in your field, you have to put in your work and take initiative.
Military, Peace Corps, Americorps, NOAA Corps, US Public Health Corps. All good choices for people like you. Do something bigger than you. It will inevitably lead to success - one way or the other.
Then the issue isn't having to find a way to break into those fields, the issue is, you haven't been committed to really looking for a job in those fields.
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