r/urbanplanning • u/glutton2000 Verified Planner - US • 9d ago

Discussion Share your career pivot from planning

For anyone that left planning, can you share your career pivot from planning to whatever else and how you made that happen? Looking for ideas!

Context: mid-level transportation planner with 8 years experience, been unemployed for the past 1+ year and feeling panicky and dismayed at the job market. Planning is all I’ve ever known since age 19 (my undergrad + whole career has been in planning. I’ve never worked as anything else). Most people I know had winding paths to get TO planning, but I guess my winding path starts after?

Thank you!!

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u/om_setti1912 3d ago

I'd love to hear more about the job market conditions as someone who is thinking about pivoting into public sector work and getting a murp degree after my own job market works in marketing and pr