Career planning
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Hello everyone. I graduated last July; my university was quite good – it’s one of those 985/211 institutions. The company I got a job at is also fine, it’s a central state-owned enterprise. My university major was Process Equipment and Control; my current job involves half on-site management for the client (purely managerial tasks), as well as preparing the condition charts and purchase documents required when purchasing pressure vessels for company projects. Since I don’t understand construction work, the on-site management is in a chaotic state. The head of my department is very dissatisfied with me and has stopped me from overseeing the site. I won’t be able to continue handling the procurement of pressure vessels for much longer either, which means I will soon become unemployed. After all, my department is responsible for operational tasks and serves the specialized departments (project teams), and our projects are carried out through collaboration among multiple departments. I originally wanted to work in design, but eight months after joining the company, I’ve had almost no exposure to design at all, as our company focuses on experimental research and doesn’t pay much attention to design. I have always wanted to work in design, and I spend every night furthering my skills (which basically means reading GB150 and related standard explanations, or looking at the drawings from my workplace). Our company has a pressure vessel auditor who came over from a manufacturing plant; he told me that our department currently does not need designers, only auditors to oversee the procurement of pressure vessels. Please tell me, is it still meaningful for me to keep charging like this? I feel like I’ll grow further and further apart from my classmates at the design institute if this continues. How should I plan my life? Additionally: I’d like to add that my salary is not low at all; on the contrary, it’s quite high, as I’m a full-time employee of a central state-owned enterprise. How should I stick to my path in design? I know that the design industry is not doing well at the moment, but I studied design for 4 years in college; it was during my junior year that I suddenly realized I loved design.
It’s always a good idea to keep learning. You never know what kind of work you’ll be doing in the future; maybe you’ll end up working at a design firm, and then your prior preparations will come in handy. Even if you don’t work in design, it’s certainly useful for procurement tasks. Moreover, if you have time to learn new skills, do so – having multiple skills never hurts.
One must keep learning throughout one’s life; in particular, it is important to broaden one’s knowledge base, expanding from the field of one’s current work. In the end, you will realize that even if you become an official and achieve success, without your own specialties and hobbies, life will become increasingly empty! !