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Just looking for a bit of encouragement I suppose..

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Keke94LND · 25/11/2021 11:05

Hey all.. I guess I'm just looking for a bit of encouragement 🙄 I am 27, I graduated 6 years ago with a degree in business and since then I have been working as an executive assistant in London, I hate my job and I don't think I'm particularly good at it either! I have had years of being pretty miserable and I am starting to think that I have been depressed for a while..

When I was young I never knew what I wanted to do, I bounced around from farmer lol, to cafe owner, to marine biologist, to journalist, to police officer, to makeup artist, to hairdresser, to joining the RAF to working in marketing etc etc etc, beauty and makeup was always my passion though, but over the last 5 years I have become completely uninterested in it.

I hate office work, I need something less sedentary, i feel so drained, but I feel like I am possibly slowly coming out of feeling so depressed because I feel like my passion for makeup and beauty is coming back! Would I be crazy to sack it all in and go and do a makeup and beauty course, get a little job to pay the bills and work on something that I truly enjoy!? I can't help but have this nagging in my head that says I should do the safe and easy option as I was brought up to be very risk adverse, but.. won't I just be unhappy for my whole life?

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SmellyOldOwls · 25/11/2021 11:13

You wouldn't be unreasonable but you need to do the course while you're still in your current job, and probably start working part time whilst in your current job too. Also do some calculations to see if you can survive on a MUA wage with your current outgoings.

Badgerloco · 25/11/2021 19:41

Definitely try and build up a side hustle first, see if you enjoy it and are a good at it before throwing too much money at it. There are lots of mini courses you can do whilst working. I trained in a few beauty treatments but as a career it was not me.

Selfishjeans · 25/11/2021 19:51

Do it. We spend so much of out lives working that's is really important to do something that makes you happy.
I took the plunge recently and retrained in something that I had always longed to do. After 20 years in a career that I didn't enjoy but paid the bills I now wish I had done it a lot sooner. I am getting paid to do what I love doing and it has given me a wonderful new lease of life

lljkk · 25/11/2021 20:27

I thought people like PAs & exec assistants were on their feet a lot doing stuff. Not true?

Guacamole001 · 25/11/2021 20:29

If you enjoy beauty why not train in beauty aesthetics eg fillers botox etc. Plenty of money in it too.

Keke94LND · 26/11/2021 09:38

@lljkk

I thought people like PAs & exec assistants were on their feet a lot doing stuff. Not true?
Lol no, at least not corporate. Maybe private PA's for the rich and famous are on their feet and out and about but I'm an Exec assistant in finance
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