At work, I keep having goals raised and more things added to my plate (all for the same salary, of course). The harder it gets, the more I wonder why I'm doing all of this anyway. Yeah, the money's decent but I help so many graduates find jobs where they make more money than I do. But regardless of money, even if I was given a significant raise, I'm not happy where I'm at.
Since my degree is in something general (Communication), I have no specific skills in anything other than what I've been doing for the past six years. Sure, I have tons of office experience but if I want to head in another direction I will: a) take a large paycut (which may or may not be do-able), or b) need to go back to school for additional training.
Things I'm potentially interested in:
- politics - I'm pretty sure that nothing that I can do right now would pay very well.
- writing - there aren't many jobs out there in this category unless you have published work already or can do technical writing. I've thought about writing a novel but what would I write about??
- reading - I've thought about being a proofreader before but again, you need those published work samples.
- Human Resources - I generally don't have enough experience for most HR jobs. The one I have enough experience for would be way too much of a pay cut.
- recruiting - I'm not at all interested in recruiting for an employment agency. Most in-house recruiter positions I've found were either already guaranteed to someone in the company or not in an environment I'm interested in. Maybe I should be more open but I'd really like to work for an arts/design company - I don't know anything about financial, medical, or executive recruitment. Blah.
- animals - I like animals but I'd probably want to bring them all home and that's not allowed. Plus I might get bitten and get rabies.
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