I drag my feet to work every day. Should I consider a change of career even though I'm only 28?

Google is your best friend

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You can always google for help. If not you can ask your friends who are IT experts or your can head over to skillsfuture to check it out.

It is never too late to have a career change.

You can try to apply for a junior accounting role to start off. At the same time, do consider to get a part time degree or ACCA.

Hi Anon,

Since you've got some backgrounds in IT, it would be good to asset your T-Shaped Skillsets.

Think of it in terms of layers.

Horizontally, there are multiple layers, let's slice into 3:

1. Soft skills that are transferable

2. Hard skills that are transferable

3. Hard skills that are not transferable

For each layer, which ones are your forte? or where you could be in the Top 10% nationally...

Now back to your question: If I understood, you are interested to learn more about accounting given your experienced working with some accounting software.

There are quick wins here,

• Self-taught online courses, whereby some are free & some are paid.

• As suggested by others, look into ACCA or similar. Their fundamental courses are accessible to all. Also self-study options available.

• Probably an option or maybe not, do a degree or diploma in accounting.

There are options but all will come with trade-offs. What are you willing to trade your time and money for?

On that note, a career change or acceleration by doubling up on hard skills require, well, willpower and investment of time and energy.

Cheers,

Pascal

On Tech Blogging Hiatus at www.launchers.asia

Cheers,

Pascal

On Tech Blogging Hiatus at www.launchers.asia