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Career analysis paralysis in sg

Career, Job, Edu Qn in SG

Just wondering if anyone else feels this way and what you do to cope?
For myself, I did a pretty generic business degree at a private U. I started out pretty late because I had a lot going on in life, and started working full-time when I was 26.
Now I'm 30 and at a stage of my career (if you can even call it that) where I'm looking to advance but all options seem so limited.
I work at a stat board where I have to work closely with allied healthcare professionals (not gonna say which kind because that would give away the company immediately). Everyone I've spoken to regardless if they're from business/allied healthcare background say it's a really tough market right now.
With all the layoffs happening and how it is now, it's pretty gloomy. On top of that, we'd been informed that our team would be made redundant in about a year or so. I know everyone's been saying we should upskill, learn AI, learn automation etc etc, but I can't help but feel this insurmountable anxiety and analysis paralysis about where to begin and if my efforts will pay off.
It got me thinking about studying a STEM degree. My colleague who's studying biomedical engineering said he's aiming for engineering roles rather than my business role as it'd be easier to transition from the engineering role to the business role, compared to vice versa.
And if I learned e.g coding, automation, or AI, how can I actually compete with STEM degree holders who have more in-depth knowledge and technical proficiency? Even the allied healthcare professionals I spoke to are saying they'll be easily replaced by AI, and there's a huge disruption going on now because of how it's tranforming their roles.
Everywhere I look just seems to be a dead end and it sucks because I had a good amount of optimism right after I got my degree, then here we go again with Industrial Revolution 4.0
 
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