Woman Shares How She Went From A $28k Job To A $158k Job In 4 Years

[IronLionZion]

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It can be very easy to fall into the trap of feeling like your career has reached a dead end. You might be unsatisfied with your income, uninspired at work, and unmotivated to apply for other positions due to a perceived lack of skills. But as one TikToker would like to remind you: with a bit of hard work, you can always turn your career around.

Charlotte Chaze recently shared a video online explaining how she broke into the tech industry and increased her annual salary by $130k. Below, you can hear Charlotte’s full explanation and read some of the comments viewers have left, and by the end of this article, you might be feeling inspired to hop on LinkedIn and start applying for new opportunities as well. I hope that all of you pandas out there love your jobs, but if anyone is feeling like their career is in a rut, Charlotte’s advice might make a huge difference to you. Enjoy this article, and let us know in the comments if you have any more tips for breaking into the tech industry to share. Then if you’re looking for another Bored Panda article featuring job searching tips, check out this list next.

There are plenty of jobs out there and lots of free or low cost training. If someone is being rude to you for lack of experience, apply to their competitors. I've worked with people who look like bartenders think their ID is fake, and people who look like they're long past retirement age. My perennial excuse is that I look like an H1B, so I just put US citizen on top of my resume and force the security clearance discussion in every interview with tremendous results. When someone tells me I can't get the level of clearance I already have, I interview with their competitors.

This woman went from $28k Job To A $158k while looking like this:



You can do it. Believe in yourself.

[GregariousGroundhog]

1. In the realm of IT or Data Analytics, recruiters normally don't see "purple squirrels"

A purple squirrel is someone who exactly matches the education and experience requirements.

Being 70-80% qualified is often times "good enough", particularly if we can articulate examples of times where we found ourselves in an unfamiliar situation, how we handled it, and what we learned from it.

Someone who has 10 years experience as a Wal-Mart greeter and only a high school education is very unlikely to get hired as a software developer. If a software developer with 10 years experience in Oracle's development stack wants to try their hand at Microsoft though, they stand a reasonable chance of getting depending on the slate of other candidates they are competing against.

[Deep State Witch]

2. I mean, good for her, but

I would be more impressed if she was a Black or Latine woman offering this success story.

[IronLionZion]

3. Youth and inexperience shouldn't discourage anyone

race is the biggest obstacle I face because of the stereotypes for people who look like me. It's difficult but doable.