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What do you like least about your career?
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Ishaan’s Answer
Hi Jessica,
You will realize that a job/career is only as good as you make it to be. Ultimately, if you are passionate and love what you do then there's nothing about a job that you won't like because typically things that bother you require fixing a problem or a process or conflict resolution with co-workers. You can identify what is it about your job that you don't like, identify what a solution(s) is, and reach out to your peers or manager to get advice on what they'd do to rectify the situation.
To answer your question - I would focus more on how I can improve my career (i.e. Skill up, network, problem solve, etc.) vs focusing on the negative side of it.
Hope that helps provide an alternate perspective!
You will realize that a job/career is only as good as you make it to be. Ultimately, if you are passionate and love what you do then there's nothing about a job that you won't like because typically things that bother you require fixing a problem or a process or conflict resolution with co-workers. You can identify what is it about your job that you don't like, identify what a solution(s) is, and reach out to your peers or manager to get advice on what they'd do to rectify the situation.
To answer your question - I would focus more on how I can improve my career (i.e. Skill up, network, problem solve, etc.) vs focusing on the negative side of it.
Hope that helps provide an alternate perspective!
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Philip’s Answer
Hi Jessica,
Being in the IT field, there is often a lot of regulation and security that needs to be in place to make sure we are developing software in the right and legal way. While this is very important, it's not always the most exciting part of my job. This is probably true with every job and every company, where there are things you will like and things that aren't as great about your role. The IT field is also challenging, in that you are constantly need to learn new technology. Even though I love learning it can take a lot of time to constantly learn the last tech trends.
The most important part of any career will be the people you work with. In my experience, the more collaborative the culture is at a company, the more you will enjoy your career. I've been blessed to really enjoy the people I work with at my company and to be part of a corporate culture that really cares about people.
I wish you all the best in your career and your future endeavors!
Sincerely,
Philip
Being in the IT field, there is often a lot of regulation and security that needs to be in place to make sure we are developing software in the right and legal way. While this is very important, it's not always the most exciting part of my job. This is probably true with every job and every company, where there are things you will like and things that aren't as great about your role. The IT field is also challenging, in that you are constantly need to learn new technology. Even though I love learning it can take a lot of time to constantly learn the last tech trends.
The most important part of any career will be the people you work with. In my experience, the more collaborative the culture is at a company, the more you will enjoy your career. I've been blessed to really enjoy the people I work with at my company and to be part of a corporate culture that really cares about people.
I wish you all the best in your career and your future endeavors!
Sincerely,
Philip
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Gloria’s Answer
There is always something of a challenge in each job out there. I can understand the spirit of your question. I am an Instructional Designer and my job mainly is to create training that is either 1) consumed by the student in web-based format or 2) taught my an Instructor either in person or virtually. I love my job, especially when tackling the challenge of creating a new training course. I struggle most with the administrative tasks of my job. I am a naturally creative person who dislikes have to do the mundane stuff of production tracking and status updates. In some companies where I worked in the past, some of the administrative tasks were out of my hands. My boss might ask me for status, but then my boss did the mundane tasks of entering information into tools or reading out results to leadership. In my current role, I have to do that all. The one thing that I remind myself of when I have to do these tasks is that they serve a purpose. Tracking my productivity makes me aware of how much time I spend on certain times of training. I can see my own trends and potentially adjust, whether asking for more training or asking for help from other people. I take what i do for a living as a gift. And if this is the price to get to mostly do what I love, I accept that.
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Yole’s Answer
In the beginning of my career in IT, my job involved a lot of collaboration, which was challenging for me because I generally prefer to work alone. But I came to appreciate the help of my teammates and recognized that the work we produced together was of a higher quality than any one of us could have done alone.