The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Sounds like you are most excited by the possibility of switching to HR. You can:
(1) Get the SHRM-CP (Society for Human Resource Management Certified Professional) certification. You can do it on your own time and at your own pace.
(2) Ask your employer to either transfer into their HR full-time, or to take on more HR tasks. If the latter, ask that your title reflect this new responsibility.
(3) Document all the HR-adjacent tasks you have already done, and keep documenting it. Use the documentation to negotiate (2).
(4) If for some reason you look into (1) and decide against it, "Professional in Human Resources" certificate from Human Resource Standards Institute is also good.
(5) If you are working through (1) or (4): learn how to use an AI to help you learn. I recommend Claude. Don't let it do your thinking for you, but do use it as a broadly knowledgeable tutor who sometimes goes off the rocker (so validate any concrete piece of info you absolutely need to rely on).
Good luck!
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