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A while ago, Marian Schembari shared a good reading about people committing suicide taking enormous amount of risk by jumping into so-called dying industries (she is mentioned on page 3, alive and well).
Well, why? Are they rich enough to indulge themselves? No - almost everybody introduced in the article made their choice without preparing a safety cushion (some even ditched it). They are, as the article says, just "incredibly enthusiastic about their career choice."
I believe those courageous people who
listen to their inner voice will transform not only themselves but also
those professions from outside. How come? Because they (1) already have passion and (2) are flexible enough to change their process when things do not work as intended.
Marian herself ditched traditional job-hunting arsenals such as resume
and cover letter; instead, she focused on networking using social media
tools (it apparently worked very well). An ex-social media expert trying to become an English professor is thinking of landing a job as a high school English teacher, even going back to social media if thing does not go the ideal way.
The writer of the article, Michelle Goodman, also recommends not following the beaten path.
Picture an office building with a row of four to six doors at the
entrance. Most people who want into that building will bottleneck
around one doorway instead of taking the time to open one of the unused
doors themselves. (Admit it; you know you've seen this real-life scene
a thousand times.)
Like lemmings, we're conditioned to do what everyone who's gone before
us has done. My advice to those entering an already saturated
profession: don't be the career lemming.
The ironic fact is that probably the majority of people already in the saturated profession are career lemming without knowing so. Some job categories are slowly dying not because we
don't need them anymore but because people working there cannot adapt
well to the new reality.
We still still read news and learn English, after all. Someone will take care of them, and I hope them to be "outsiders."
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