I think it mostly depends on what you want to do instead. Do you have any qualifications?

Yeah I am finding my current line of work stale. I also find the last few jobs just purely boring.

I am thinking of an apprenticeship as I don't have any other qualifications. Maybe look at joining energex or something like that as an apprentice. Something that keeps me active and out and about doing something

I consider moving out of IT into another line of work all the time. Then I realize I just fkn hate working full stop.

On a more positive note, the upside for you is that IT skills are handy in pretty much all lines of work these days anyway. Chances are it'll just make you more efficient at what you choose to do so not all is lost. *queue haters pointing out jobs where IT skills are useless...

IT to Finance / Accounting 5 + years ago, best change I made personally,

I went from trade qualified boilermaker/welder with 11 or so years up on the tools to recruitment consultant in that area to philanthropist personal/group trainer/student along with a few other small things - but I am not a jedi yet! Also, just do it and confidence post rational consideration IMO. :)

If I had a dollar for every boilermaker that quits that line of work Id be a very wealthy person.

maybe 2nd only to ex-panelbeaters
Bog Dust is pretty awesome for health complications.

Before you think career change you should prolly check out pay and conditions for the types of work you are interested in.

IT pays pretty well, Have you considered becoming self employed ?

i was looking at doing a mechanics apprenticeship,

Do me a favour ask any mechanic that works on cars all day everyday, If he would make the same career choice path?, I guarantee you will get the same answer every time "no"

Couldn't finish my mechanics apprenticeship; after 12 months i realised it was a dead end job with no hope of earning more than about 70k before i die and it was filled with misery and dirt. Not getting dirty, i mean the kind of oil which seeps into your skin and takes months of not being a mechanic before it finally disappears. When i went out drinking/clubbing etc (which i couldn't afford, my credit card did) i'd shower for about an hour using a scourer and a bucket of that orange soap shit. I still wasn't clean, but it was as good as it gets.

My mate who got inducted into toyota school after he got the top marks in all of qld for a firstyear, he liked it for another 23 months before he decided to go to uni, which he dropped, and became a policeman and is happier there than anywhere.

I am thinking of an apprenticeship as I don't have any other qualifications. Maybe look at joining energex or something like that as an apprentice. Something that keeps me active and out and about doing something

hit the mines, make some quick $$ then go back to IT when you're sick of it.

High school teacher to accountant

Re: if its a success? Dunno

Prob cos of likelihood of death

Become a Diesel Mechanic and try to line up some FIFO work in the north west. A mate of mine has been doing that for the past 4 or so years, and is about to buy his 5th house I think.

Really? I laugh at all these 'get rich quick by working in the mines' kind of stories. I've worked in the mining industry (white collar) for some years now, I guarantee I earn more than your mate and I'm still living in the same house I was five years ago. We are probably in a position to be able to buy a rental, but haven't seriously started looking, let alone have bought four... I'm not saying it can't be done but it's not like winning lotto like people make it out to be. Besides which the guys who are FIFO like your mate work pretty hard - 12 hour days, get up at 4.30am every day, back to camp after 6pm... 2 weeks on, one week off (and that's a good roster - newer rosters are 4 and 1). If you work it out as a per hour rate it's not that great.

I'm also thinking about a career change, preferably to run my own business. Doing what, I don't know.

depends where though basket imo, if you went to some mechanic at a local petrol station or a car dealer service center doing boring shit all day - yes

That Is a good point, But meeting a fuckton of mechanics growing up on account my father was a car dealer, I don't think I ever met ONE mechanic that thought he couldn't of been happier doing something else but really It's each to their own..

I got out of I.T shit and started a nursing diploma and loving it. Don't worry so much about job title and pay grade and think more on what you will find fulfilling and satisfying. I may never earn more than 70k in my career but I'll retire knowing I spent my life assisting people in their difficult times and I wouldn't trade it for 100k+ salary. Plus chicks love it.

I fully endorse the career change.

I did mine in 2006 at age 24. Left my pretty mediocre IT help desk job and trained to become a professional Yacht sailor. Did my Yachtmaster ticket in the UK and have never looked back. In the last 6 years I have circumnavigated the world under sail, met some truly amazing people, Captain'd some awesome yachts, written a book and learned a 2nd language. I work my ass off, but it's no hardship because I love what I am doing.

The money is great too, but I wouldn't be worried if it wasn't...having a good, balanced and interesting life is more important to me than sitting on a pile of phat lewt.

I remember reading this poem and thinking I HAD to make a change all those years ago.

“I’ve always wanted to sail the South Seas, but cannot afford to” (people say).

What these people cannot afford is not to go!
They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of “security.”  
And in the worship of security, we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it, our lives are gone.  

What does a person really need?  A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in-and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment.

That’s all, in our material sense. But we are brainwashed by our economic system, and we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocracy of the charade.

The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy in purse or bankruptcy in life?

So yeah dude, make the change. In 20 years time you may very well regret it if you don't.

if you actually find what they're on per hour multiplied by how many hours they are doing in the mining industry, it's not that they're on amazingly good coin, they're also doing a shitload of hours.

most trades are 38 hour weeks, 2 hours 1.5x and the rest 2x. 12 hour days 2 weeks straight is a normal in the FIFO industry. thats a months worth of work hours plus a bit of play money on the side ordinarily.

Korbs is a yachty and thus fails. Caravans of the sea, yachts, nothing wondrous about them. Get in the way of proper ships.

Not really a change, more of an evolution. I worked in IT for 3-4 years (Engineering and IT management) before moving into management in IT (Mostly service delivery management with a mix of others), then management in digital marketing/design/development, now starting a tech start-up and do mostly business management stuff.

By the time I switched into management, I hated doing IT.. got so fucking sick of fixing peoples problems, it just never ends! I then got really bored of IT in general, which is why I switched into the digital/creative industry, still fairly tech based but quite different and more interesting.

So my switches were all because I disliked it and wanted to change, they've worked great. I enjoy what I do and it's all going pretty well.

I've considered and reconsidered many career path alternatives, and I always choose IT because:
•I don't want to do hard yakka
•I don't want to work in the middle of nowhere
•I don't want to deal with the general public
•I don't want to risk my life
•I don't want to get hot and grubby
•I don't want to work stupid hours
•I want ok to good pay

Sure some of those things I'm fine with putting up with for a week or a month, but not for a working lifetime.

faceman trying to rationalise his unemployment itt

Don't ask me, I've been doing the same job for ~13 years.

I know a dude earning the "phat loot" in the mines. Claims to be earning 10-15k a month. Has dick all to show for it. All he does is buy more expensive versions of the shit he used to buy when he didn't earn that money.

Also, Korbs has the best job of all time. Korbs I'd call you a lucky bastard but I think a little determination and perseverance had more to do with it :P

The biggest thing for me at the moment is the thought of dropping my wage to apprentice wages for 3 years.

All the work to get where I am and have just got into financial freedom, only to drop my wage and go back to 'getting by' every week is what is holding me back.

Maybe I need to do something on the side to make up the bit of extra money.

Drugs.

If you're too scared to quit then don't. Stay in your nice comfy job earning lots of money even if you hate it. No one here can make you change your mind. If you don't want to take a pay cut then there's nothing anyone can say.