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Feeling frustrated with your career? You’re not alone. A recent discussion in Connect: Professional Women Network, powered by Citi asked for advice on what to do when you feel stuck. The comments quickly revealed that if someone wasn’t currently unhappy in her career, she’d been there at some point before.

Feeling stuck in your career can manifest itself in various forms — being disinterested in your work or not challenged by your job are some warning signs. So how do you turn things around once you decide you’re ready for a change?

LinkedIn announced some fascinating stats about cool careers this morning and it reminded me of a conversation I once had with someone about their dream job. When I worked at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, my very first client told me that he dreamed of being a pilot. Being legally blind he knew that flying a plane wasn’t in the cards for him, but after exploring what about being a pilot was so exciting and interesting to him, we were able to find other options that spoke to both his passions and talents. He ultimately landed a job as a project manager for a prominent business where his skills at encouraging different departments to work cooperatively and his great instincts for priority led to a successful career.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts by LinkedIn’s rockstar summer interns. Today, we hear from Nihit Desai who is working toward his Computer Science degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I don’t remember how exactly my fascination with data began. I am willing to believe it was when I read about how data drives products like Amazon’s Book Recommendation Engine or LinkedIn’s ‘People You May Know’. However, it has remained with me since, and here I am, interning with LinkedIn’s Data Science team.