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| Well I'll try to keep this short and sweet, but I really feel like I need a change. I'm a farm/country girl but have been stuck in a university town for the past 5 years getting my education, working, etc. I have an important job helping people in emergency medicine as a Patient Navigator, but I have a B.S. in Agribusiness and a Masters in Agriculture. I visited my mom this past weekend in southern VA where she lives with her husband where they have a business and run a farm. I've missed the farm life so much and yearn to do what I studied. I hate that I've only been at this job since 5/2 and want to change, because that's not me..I've learned a lot and feel rewarded but I want a job in ag, want my own cattle again, want to raise my food, etc etc. Any of you all made a big leap?? I'm content and provide for myself. I'm not unhappy, but just feel like I'm missing who I really am. And I really do love helping people. I feel like I'm good at dealing with the misunderstood and the population with a stigmatized disease but I feel like I need a move, a change, a new start. I guess I feel guilty that I would stop helping people in the way I do. Do you ever just feel like a big chapter in your life is ending? I may have the opportunity to move to an area where I could farm and live the life I envisioned, just am applying to jobs and waiting to hopefully get an interview. I also don't want a short lived job to make me look bad on my resume. Please tell me I'm not alone  Any of you all done this? |
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| My husband works in a refinery making good money and just within the last year got a position he likes. He stayed with the refinery because it paid for the kids show heifers and had allowed him to partner with my dad and brother to run cattle on a couple lease places. If it weren't for the refinery paying pretty good and my dad already owning several hundred acres we wouldn't have been able to keep the heifers to build our own purebred herd. Land is expensive here, hence the decision to lease land to run a decent amount of cattle on. |
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| Last summer, we moved 300 miles east of where I had always lived. We knew no one, but needed a change of scenery and were able to afford a house with acreage, something that would have been difficult where we had been. I miss the local barrel races, but we are very happy that we made the change! We live in a beautiful area and have met great people. |
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| Sounds like you might be going through a bit a culture shock. I would give it a good solid year. Farmland will always be there, but punching holes in your job history could make sure a good job isn't available. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | hannahbug - 2017-06-27 9:56 AM Sounds like you might be going through a bit a culture shock. I would give it a good solid year. Farmland will always be there, but punching holes in your job history could make sure a good job isn't available.
This. Jumping ship after a month is a terrible way to leave your job history.
Give it a year and then move. Any less and any potential employer, bank loan agent, etc will take your job history negatively against you. |
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| Thank you for the replies. It could be but I've moved 17 times and have traveled so it's not necessarily a shock! I've just been here for 5 years and just have an urge to make a fresh start and not stay in my college town. Luckily I also have a strong job history, always working to provide for myself as well as having internships/Grad positionsI also studied ag and am doing nothing relevant to it. My concern is: definitely not being at a job long and switching, feeling guilty regarding patients, and just if I'm making the right choice! I do have to say that I never could afford/not feasible for me to have land or horses here as well. I would obviously need to have a job offer, in ag, for me to initiate such a move. I guess I just need to figure it out on my own. Still with all of the moving I've done in my life, it makes me very anxious! |
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| And yes, I was concerned about that too..I'm trying to be patient. I guess if a good opportunity in my field would arise, I would take it but I won't jump to the next thing for convenience and just settle. |
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Location: East Texas | Go. Enjoy life. Do what you want to do |
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Location: Way up North | Go for it. Don't spend your life trying to please a potential future employer that you may or may not be a fit for either. One short term job isn't going to be the end of the world. It sounds like you have a lot of experience and work ethic, if they ask about the short time at this job tell them the truth. We spend so much of our time and energy worrying about the what ifs and most never happen anyways. Make a plan, think it through, and go for it.
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Location: MN | I'd go for it! I moved across the the country almost 4 years ago, from everything I've ever known, and I dont regret it one bit. Sure, I miss my family. I miss having my horse in my backyard (dont have land up here yet, but plan to in the next few years). I miss my old job. Some days, I miss living there period. But I absoluetly love my new home and scenery. You only live once. Do it! |
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| Thank you guys for the advice!! I'm gonna continue applying for jobs, evaluate any job offers, outweigh the pros and cons, and take it from there. I just need a change and am trusting God will show me the way |
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| I literally do what you're talking about every 6 months to a year.
I've never regretted it, the adventures are off the chain and you know, things always work out if you throw enough try behind them.
The thing is, you only get one life. Our future isn't promised. Go do the things you want to do now, because you might not be here tomorrow. |
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| Never applied that to my life and career choices, always how I talk to people and visiting family, etc. I like your style! |
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| I think you have received some good advice here...
But as others have already stated, leaving a job 1 month after you started will negatively impact your resume for future employers.
Do you have past work experience?
Is this your first career?
If you want to begin farming you will most likely need a sizable loan to get started unless someone hands you acreage/equipment/fertilizer/seed/water/etc, etc.
You can make your dreams a reality. But if I were in your shoes, I would stay in your current position for 1 year at minimum. Research potential job opportunities in the area you would like to be, and prepare for that move while you wait. |
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Location: California | If you are worried about spending a month at a job looking bad on your resume just don't put it on your resume? I have moved probably 18 times since I left for college. Several states, towns, jobs, houses. I don't put everything on my resume. It also sounds like a job that may not pertain to your new career field so you don't necessarily need that experience for the new job. I only read a few responses but I will be the odd ball out and say go for it. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do. You have taken all the steps and done all the schooling to be in a specific field for a reason so go for it! |
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Location: Texas | little_bug - 2017-07-02 7:45 PM If you are worried about spending a month at a job looking bad on your resume just don't put it on your resume? I have moved probably 18 times since I left for college. Several states, towns, jobs, houses. I don't put everything on my resume. It also sounds like a job that may not pertain to your new career field so you don't necessarily need that experience for the new job. I only read a few responses but I will be the odd ball out and say go for it. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do. You have taken all the steps and done all the schooling to be in a specific field for a reason so go for it!
^^ This. You don't have to put your current job on your resume.
Now that I'm retired and "old", I realize how short life is. Find something that you like, or love to do and be where you feel at home. |
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Location: Too Far North | I understand what you're feeling. I've been there. You're young. You're going to have many careers. Follow your heart and do what's best for you. I doubt this is the last change you'll make. Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy it! ?? |
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Location: Oklahoma | Any job under 3 mos doesn't go on your resume , esp for a different field, esp starting out in 20s . That is the probation period and if you find a great ag job take it. Jobs in different fields mean nothing to the field you are going for . The opportunities you get in your twenties will NEVER happen again . The ag industry is helping people even when you do not work with people directly as animals and crops FEED THE WORLD!!
Follow your gut always , and pray about it. There are angels helping you and you have to learn to trust the inner voices . We always know when something is bad for us , and at 53 I wish I had never ever wasted my youth and precious time in jobs I hated and detested for money only to survive , you can always find a job in your field of choice. My husband does not get this but he is a trucker and it is all about money every second lol ... some people do not and never will understand . Oh and I moved 18 hrs to a different country , at 48 remarried without my college age kids with just a dog . Started over for the 3rd time in my career. I would again in a heartbeat and wish I had taken the opportunities I was offered in my twenties and thirties and did not because I was scared to move 3000 miles! |
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| Thank you for the replies everyone! I personally feel like I have a strong work experience. Obviously not always full time but I've been working since I was in high school, 95% of the time held two jobs in college, and had an internship, teaching assistantship, and two graduate assistantships while working regular jobs. I've provided for myself, put myself through my Masters, and just paid my truck off. Have a lot of diverse experience and know HACCP, GIS, PC Dart, etc etc. I'm basically summing up my resume so if anyone knows of any ag jobs on the east coast (preferably PA, MD, VA, etc) send em my way! Haha. I also personally feel like I'm a hard worker and will do what I have to do to get to where I wanna be! Just have to find the right opportunities. I may have the opportunity to rent a farm for less than my rent now, and live the life I envisioned. We shall see and I don't want to regret anything by any means. All of your advice is greatly appreciated  |
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