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Change of career which is not engineering related, should i keep IET membership and how?

Fook Kong Chong

Hello All Engineer,

I am seeking some pointer and direction about keeping my IET membership.

Recently due to personal calling, i decided to switch my career from engineering to administration role. I done this purely of my believe in the state of mental health of many people in UK and the world. In fact, our next major event was to openly talk about death, which is to my surpise, no one (organisation or not) wants to talk about it. My role now is making sure the charity provide meditation, retereat and open space activities to help people in this unfamiliar subject. It is a charity and I am volunteerin without pay. I do not see myself going back in Engineering, but engineering will be a hobby rather then a job. The other reason was, none of the charity or any body that I am working with will be interested to sponsor with anything I have about engineering. Hence the question, should i even keep my IET membership?

Thank you in advance for any suggestion and help.

Kind Regards

Mr Chong

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    Hi Mr Chong. What kind of activities does the charity offer to help people with mental health issues and death awareness?

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    Hi Mr Chong,

    Thank you for reaching out.

    Our membership base consists of those that not only work in engineering, but also those who have a passive interest in it. We have members that work in the sector and those who no longer work within engineering.

    We are more than happy to support you in keeping your membership and would like to discuss this further with you.

    I would be happy to set up a call with a member of the team to discuss your specific circumstances, if you could private message us with your membership number.

    I look forward to hearing back from you.

    Sarah, Membership Engagement Team

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    Hello AMK, most mental issues are related to mental health and how well we are train to manage it. In fact we know very little about our own mental health other then we believe it have to do with outside our mind. Hence, for us, we try to teach meditation as a means to get stronger mentally to manage our mental state. Just like we go to the gym to train our physical strength, we need meditation/concentraion to train mental strength. It does not matter what kind it is, what is relevent to your question will be any kind that helps in that training, and whatever kind it maybe it would be better then none at all. As for death awareness, again, it does not matter what forms it takes, as long as it is openly discussed it is a good start. I suggest if you are interested, speak to anyone with authority, be it a religious setup or not, ask them to make an open forum and be open to have a cuppa and talk about it. If they are not comfortable to do so, you would need to find those that would. I hope I answer your questions.

  • 0 in reply to Fook Kong Chong

    Yes thanks. What has helped with my own struggles is trying to be grateful for the present moment, and accepting the impermanence of life. I think it’s important to openly discuss these things, as you said.

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