Benefits Of A Career Change Into Tech If You Lost Your Job During Covid-19

by Artur Meyster

Did you lose your job during the Covid-19 pandemic? You probably are feeling uncertain and anxious about what to do next. This article advises you and explains why considering a career change into tech may be the best choice for a better professional future. Stop wallowing and read on. 

Finding a Purpose

It may sound cliche, but if you lost your job, it might be a sign that it’s time to find a job that you are passionate about. Being passionate about what you do gives you a purpose in life. Also, our purpose can change throughout our life. And this year has allowed a lot of people to reflect on what they really want. 

So, you can find a new career path that aligns better with the purpose you choose for yourself. One of the main benefits of choosing a new path into tech is that many companies are working on projects that have a purpose. Also, what you do will impact society or even history like in the case of Apple.  

For example, if you want to help people, you could become a web developer and offer your services to non-profits to increase their online presence and, therefore, their reach. Or you can become a data scientist and work for companies that are creating AI software for healthcare. There are tons of options in tech to find a job with a purpose. 

Learning New Things

If you have years in your previous career, you probably already have the skills needed to do that job. It could also happen that you were already feeling bored and unchallenged before you were laid off. If you decide to make a carer change into tech, you will be learning new things constantly from the moment you make the decision. 

First, you will need to learn certain qualifications according to the profession. It doesn’t matter if you learn these skills through a university course or coding bootcamp. You will still need to learn the programming languages and logical and critical skills for each career. 

Then, when you are already in the industry, you will need to learn new things constantly. Technology develops so fast that it is still difficult to keep up. This speed will increase with AI. So, tech professionals have to learn new skills, programming languages, or software all the time so they can keep up with what is happening in the industry. 

It doesn’t matter where you work. You will probably have a variety of projects. Technology is needed in all sectors, and you could be working on a website for a nightclub one day and on one for a church the next. Even after years of experience in the industry, you will constantly find yourself on challenging tasks that you haven’t encountered before. 

Excellent Benefits

Another clear benefit of the tech industry is that you will have excellent benefits that go beyond a high salary. Tech professions already have wages 66 percent higher than others in the country. But the industry offers a lot of perks that have attracted a lot of professionals. The most famous is Google’s headquarters that has free massages, gyms, free food with thousands of options, and nap rooms. 

But you don’t have to work at Google to have some of these benefits. Being creative with employee’s perks has become a thing in the tech industry. Netflix offers 12 months of parental pay leave to the primary caretaker. Facebook offers conception and adoption assistance, where they give reimbursements for things like egg freezing for females. It is a matter of knowing what is important for you and finding a company that provides it. 

In Summary

Finally, if you lost your job because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the chances are that it was because your profession didn’t adapt to the remote working modality. Almost all tech professions can be done remotely, so you won’t be at risk of losing your job when a similar situation happens. 

In fact, the chances of not having a job in the next decades are very slim. The tech industry is taking over, and the only way technology disappears at the point we are now is if we disappear too. If you start learning now, you will have a new career in next year’s first trimester.