{"id":619,"date":"2017-03-14T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:17:49","slug":"degree-hand-suddenly-realize-studied-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/degree-hand-suddenly-realize-studied-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"What if, degree in hand, you suddenly realize you should have studied something else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-476\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-300x173.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-300x173.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-600x346.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-768x442.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-1024x590.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads-945x544.jpeg 945w, https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/smartreads.jpeg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After putting in the time, money and energy to complete a degree, it can be extremely discouraging to realize you no longer want to work in that industry. If you spent the better part of four years in a classroom only to learn you don\u2019t want to pursue the field you\u2019re now qualified for, what do you do? Most people don\u2019t have the time or money to go back to school and start over again \u2014 but don\u2019t fret. There are steps to take when trying to change career paths to something not directly associated with your degree. While making the switch may be difficult, it\u2019s not impossible. The following steps will help push you in the direction you want to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/executive\/careers\/what-if-degree-in-hand-you-suddenly-realize-you-should-have-studied-something-else\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After putting in the time, money and energy to complete a degree, it can be extremely discouraging to realize you no longer want to work in that industry. If you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,10,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}