#To pivot career ?

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Hey everyone, I have currently worked as a Business Analyst for about 1.5 years, doing things like user requirement gathering, documentation, QA / QC.

After these 1.5 years, I do want to move away from the testing part of my job, and it seems like to move on with a "Functional" side of the IT Department seems like I will always be in QA / QC with all the manual testing.

I have worked as a Frontend Engineer and a Java developer for 3 and 6 months respectively, but was let go after as I was just not good enough in terms of technical skill pickup rate.

Is there anything else for me ? I just dont really know where to go from here. I could just remain in my current job, but in 2 years time I dont think I would want to continue doing all this.

2 options I have thought about, UI/UX or Cybersecurity. I did graduate with a double major in Software Eng. and Cybersecurity 2 years ago, but I have mostly not used / forgotten most of my Cybersecurity learning. Plus jobs in these 2 areas do require some experience ?

I think the bottom line is, I dont really know what I want. How long will I take to figure or is there a way of figuring out what do I want to eventually do ?

wicked ridge
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Did you enjoy the development jobs other than not being prepared for them?

last grove
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I have since not experienced that satisfaction then

last grove
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But a few people went through it and did not spot it, even though it was supposed to my task, I did reread documentation and managed to fix it in the end

wicked ridge
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Good job!

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Perhaps then you want to pursue some path that gives you enough technical skill to maintain a similar job then? Whether that be self-study, bootcamp, community college, or bachelor's

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Oh wait, you got a bachelor's in software engineering?

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# wicked ridge Good job!

It wasnt really one honestly. It took me about 2 months to even get that thing working. It was supposed to be just a div to pull data from our changelog. and show customers when there are new changes, then not show it after. Estimated time for me to do it was 2 weeks at most.

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But as a very new Frontend Dev, I did not take into account the time needed to integrate with the backend API to get data, using postman to test my response, etc.

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last grove
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I have done my own research on where and what to self learn actually, just the doing part...

wicked ridge
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Self-study doesn't cost money but requires you to impose your own structure. Some people can do it, some cannot

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I didnt struggle coming into this BA functional job

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But it could be because I just did most of the documentation during uni work so its not as bad

wicked ridge
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It is unlikely you will never be able to do this

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wicked ridge
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Given that you made it through an entire university curriculum, that makes me think that either a) your college was not good and you didn't really learn it, or b) the technical knowledge isn't actually what was a problem at those two jobs

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b) I do agree my first job did include carelessness, repeating mistakes. Second job I did try to minimize that but together with my technical incompetence it did not help much

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This was my first job's feedback, after I was decided to resign myself instead of being terminated, if it helps

wicked ridge
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To me those don't sound like technical knowledge problems per se, they sound like inexperience with programming, ie you just need to build more of the basic programming muscle through practice

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If your university let you pass without really doing programming, they did you a great disservice

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wicked ridge
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Well, that's I think what I would recommend. It's not your only option but it's where I would go

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Because it seems like you enjoy the work when you can do it, and an enjoyable job with good prospects is a wonderful thing to have in life

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