You should try this. It's yummy
Lena: Is it?
oh, we've rambled on for a while now..
Hi guys! Welcome back to the channel.
Today I've got with me.. LENA!!
We're just at a cafe today and...
we're going to be talking about how to get unstuck
So the feeling of being stuck
is not a great feeling
Lena: nope!
it feels like.. what does it feel like Lena?
Lena: uhh, i don't know - you just..
you just don't know..
Jen: you just don't know what to do Lena: you just don't know
Jen: and then like you're also scared and you're like what if you do that..
.. and then it's wrong
Jen: or you do that Lena: or you fail!!!
Jen: yea exactly!
Jen: Lena had her quarter life crisis at the appropriate time of 24 Lena: yea, yea ok
Jen: why did you choose accounting when you first went into uni?
Lena: when I was in high school I studied economics and accounting
and I actually enjoyed it!
Uh, I think it suited my personality back then
I thought it was like you know a nice, stable job
as well
it did get a bit harder but I did lose interest in it
but I didn't know what else to do
and I had like, I think, 2 years left..
so I thought I'm halfway through it, why don't I just like finish it
when I look back at it now
even though I had 2 more years to complete the degree
I think I should have just tried.. like.. just go on and studied a different degree and give that a go
and see how, yea, how it goes
and see whether I'd like it or not
yea so I think if you're feeling like you're not interested in the degree that you're currently studying and you wanna try something else
you don't know if you'll like it unless you try it right
so just give it a go
so after I graduated I went to Korea to teach English
Jen: oh yea that's right! Lena: it's just like a detour!
'cause I thought, OK once I start my job it'll be harder to take days off to go travelling
and all that stuff
it's a programme so you get to meet other people from all different parts of the world
Jen: I guess like that's quite a good thing to do after like uni as well like to go to take a break and go travelling
straight after uni, you don't want to just go straight into another institution
'cause like you'll probably still feel stuck
there are actually a lot of volunteering experiences that you can do overseas
and things that can like help you minimise costs
Lena: yep
there are programmes that are paid as well.
Like the one that I went on - I made sure that I was.. that it was all paid for 'cause I didn't have the finances
it's a government scholarship programme so you're like well looked after
like it's all taken care of
I got to meet heaps of people around my age
so it was an eye-opener
Jen: and you made really good friends from that too Lena: yeea yea I did
and it's different like you're not travelling, you're actually living there
so it's like a different kind of experience Jen: yea, true
when I came back I was like ok, I - I'll try you know give accounting a go
and see how it goes, and then after year I was like - NAH.
I don't like it
I can say I tried
Jen: after finding out that she didn't like accounting at all and even after trying it out in practice, she went back to uni
how did you decide, you know, what to do - like how did you decided that "yep I need to go back to uni" or like "what I'm going to do at uni"
Lena: well, I've always wanted to do something creative but also something like technical at the same time
like for me I need something that keeps my brain like stimulated like thinking
and at the time I was working as an accountant I was working at an engineer / design firm
and so the people that I worked with like they were engineers, architects
and stuff so like because I got a glimpse of what they do day to day I was like "oh yea, ok this is something I'm interested in"
and it is something I've always been interested in as well but I just never pursued it because
like growing up like being an architect I guess it wasn't like a .... financially stable job compared to accounting
and like yea of course I did my research and kinda like I worked my way backwards
like what sort of job, what sort of role, what kind of company i could work for
like, don't think that going to uni is the only way to .. Jen: get out of that situation
Lena: yea, like, I think for me 'cause I didn't wanna go from job to job until I find something that I like..
'cause I already know what I like and the way to go was to get that degree so..
Lena: that's why I went back to school. Jen: I think there'll be a lot of different ways to try to find out what you like 'cause if you're at that stage
where you don't know what you like yet
there's like free courses, free youtube videos, free courses online that you can just like
do just to kind of get a sense of it
to see if you like doing that kind of thing
or maybe just even talk to your friends who are already in that industry
or even like acquaintances who are in that industry
I think more often than not you'll find that people will like want to share their experience and give you tips like I don't think you should think that
like you know "oh I don't want to bother this person because like I might be annoying" or something like that
I think that most of the time people will actually take it as a compliment
and like will want to help you out
so you should definitely reach out to all those people that you might know and just ask then "what is it like working in that industry"
Lena: yea, that's what I did. I even like spoke to people who I haven't spoken to in like years
and like we're not like "friends-friends" we're just kind of like acquaintances
and they were like real happy to talk about it
so yea definitely speak to a lot of people so you get different opinions and stuff like that
I even spoke to people who have just had a career change
and like there were people that I met that were like I don't know in their 40s?
and they just like changed their career path
you know, it happens
and you know see if you can like finance yourself
I guess financial wise, I had to move to a different city so that means you know
like rent money and other expenses
so I was able to cover all of that because of the savings that I had
and also I was eligible for another year of student allowance
yea but uhm
but also my first year I did apply for a part time job and I did manage to find a good one
like a well paid one as well
Jen: how was it going back to uni again?
Lena: it was weird. like it was scary
but you know because I really really wanted it and..
i wanted to like change my career path so
that was like the option for me
so I just had to kind of just, you know, put that thought to the side and just go for it
'cause if I keep thinking like that then I'm not going to get anywhere or I'm not going to make that first move to like enrol myself into the school
so you know, just overcoming that fear like yea
'cause like when I went back I was like, what, like twenty....five? that was my first year
and everyone else would've been like EIGHTEEN
Jen: yea
Lena: yea, I was like oh my gosh!
Jen: but it's ok ' cause you look 18
Lena: yea, people thought I was 18 or even 17!
Jen: like, "did you skip a year?!"
Jen: thank you lena for coming onto the show today Lena: you're welcome
Jen: like, if you're feeling stuck straight out of uni like you know hopefully Lena's experience has been helpful for you
leave a comment in the comments section down below if, you know, if you have any questions at all
about how to get unstuck
Byeee!!