clemsontgr4evr
04-17-2006, 02:05 PM
I need advice!
I have been working at my job since I graduated from college (3 years ago). The job was great to have right out of college (small staff with great co-workers, pay that covered my bills-although there isn't any left over for savings, good vacation time, etc.), and I enjoyed it for about the first 2 years. But now, my co-workers have moved on and I am left here, bored and feeling a complete lack of passion for what I am doing anymore.
I have found something that I really love to do, though...event/wedding planning. And I would love to make a career out of this. But in doing many searches, there don't seem to be any jobs available in the field. It appears to be one of those professions where individuals just start their own small business. So, no one is hiring.
I know I can do this type of work and love it. I do some event planning here at my current job and I do event planning for a local non-profit as a volunteer in my spare time and love doing all of it. I haven't planned a wedding but I have researched and there are plenty of classes and certification programs available, so I can learn the specifics of that. But I am worried about having to start my own business. Planning an event for someone is such a huge undertaking that it would be hard to do "on the side". But I don't know how I would survive financially if I quit my current job and just jumped in head first and started a business without having any other income.
I don't want to stay where I am but I am just so scared to venture out and try this. I have pursued several careers over the years (teaching was my major but I hated my student teaching experience, so I decided that wasn't the profession for me, then started grad school to get my MSW but I wasn't a good clinician so I dropped out). I am just so worried that this will be another failed attempt at starting a career. I was always very successful in school so this struggle to find a career that I can look forward to doing for decades to come has left me with very little confidence.
The ideal situation would be for me to find a job as a wedding planning with an established company because, like I said, I know I can do the job, I'm just apprehensive about being able to successfully launch my own business. But who knows if and when a job like that will even open upand I am eager to leave my current job at this point.
What should I do????? Stay where I am and hope that at some point, a job in the event planning field will open up or venture out on my own and try to start my own business, knowing nothing about what that would take to be successful. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have been working at my job since I graduated from college (3 years ago). The job was great to have right out of college (small staff with great co-workers, pay that covered my bills-although there isn't any left over for savings, good vacation time, etc.), and I enjoyed it for about the first 2 years. But now, my co-workers have moved on and I am left here, bored and feeling a complete lack of passion for what I am doing anymore.
I have found something that I really love to do, though...event/wedding planning. And I would love to make a career out of this. But in doing many searches, there don't seem to be any jobs available in the field. It appears to be one of those professions where individuals just start their own small business. So, no one is hiring.
I know I can do this type of work and love it. I do some event planning here at my current job and I do event planning for a local non-profit as a volunteer in my spare time and love doing all of it. I haven't planned a wedding but I have researched and there are plenty of classes and certification programs available, so I can learn the specifics of that. But I am worried about having to start my own business. Planning an event for someone is such a huge undertaking that it would be hard to do "on the side". But I don't know how I would survive financially if I quit my current job and just jumped in head first and started a business without having any other income.
I don't want to stay where I am but I am just so scared to venture out and try this. I have pursued several careers over the years (teaching was my major but I hated my student teaching experience, so I decided that wasn't the profession for me, then started grad school to get my MSW but I wasn't a good clinician so I dropped out). I am just so worried that this will be another failed attempt at starting a career. I was always very successful in school so this struggle to find a career that I can look forward to doing for decades to come has left me with very little confidence.
The ideal situation would be for me to find a job as a wedding planning with an established company because, like I said, I know I can do the job, I'm just apprehensive about being able to successfully launch my own business. But who knows if and when a job like that will even open upand I am eager to leave my current job at this point.
What should I do????? Stay where I am and hope that at some point, a job in the event planning field will open up or venture out on my own and try to start my own business, knowing nothing about what that would take to be successful. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.