It’s time to reach out to people in areas of your interest.

Ask them out for coffee, beers, a phone call, whatever and collect as much info from them as possible. Get them to dive into how they got there, and what steps they’d recommend you take to get started.

Zoom in on one you feel most confident you’d want to pursue and try and find someone willing to mentor you through the process of getting started. This can be very casual, it doesn’t have to be some formal “meet every month and talk” thing.

I left tech this year and am back in grad school for an area I’ve found a lot of passion in through the above (clinical mental health, for anyone curious).

It took a few years of seeking out a new career but I am very excited for the transition.

The absolute key for me was finding someone practicing in a speciality I wanted to pursue and having them guide me through the steps necessary to get there.

Most people are going to be willing to help.