Help me choose a career!

[davidstone28]

Okay, I'll make it short and sweet....lawyer currently but hate it with a vengeance - tedious, anlaytical, pressurised, and I absolutely hate the obsession with detail. Plus I don't find it at all interesting. I'd score it 1/10 (the 1 is only because its quite well paid).

New career beckons...but I can't figure out what to do. Have seen career consultants, occupational psychologists, done psychometic and online tests etc. For verbal and numerical reasoning I'm apparently in the top 20% of population, for 'big picture' reasoning top 5%, apparently I'm only 50% (average) for quick thinking / fast learning, and weak on mechanical reasoning (40%) and top 5% for clerical (ie boring) skills.

I did a business analyst / IT developer job for about 1 year. The analytical stuff was boring as hell. Also I couldn't get my head around the abstract nature of business systems or workflow modelling - that stuff is REALLY abstract and highbrow. The software development side was more interesting but programming is too techy and detailed for my liking.

Basically I want something that gives freedom, is about imagination, innovation, development, possibilities etc etc

Have considered:-

1. Occupational psychologist (interesting, but all psychologists are nuts).
2. Teacher (ruled it out, long hours, OFSTEAD, dodgy kids etc)
3. Architect (love the idea of creating something but buildings don't really turn me on)
4. Novelist (probably not enough of a literary 'wordsmith' to do this as a career)
5. One of those reviewers for T3 or Stuff Magazine (playing with new gadgets everyday would be great fun but could I really make a job out of this?)
6. Some sort of international liaison role bring people together etc (yeah, that sounds vague).

I throw myself onto the forum for advice....

[Nick F]

Become a recruitment consultant and earn loads of dosh. Spend your whole time networking

[Twigman]

6. Some sort of international liaison role bring people together etc (yeah, that sounds vague).

Diplomatic work or some kind? Foriegn representative of some kind?
Good at languages? Interpreter?
Maybe even some tourism related work?

4,5,6 all point at journalism really...News correspondant or something? Researcher?

Hopeuflly that gives you a bit more to think about...

[davidstone28]

Those recruitment consultants (and I dealt with alot of them) would sell their mothers for commission. Some of them are absolute snakes. Also I don't like schmoozing or bull****ting people (generally required for a comission based sales role).

[jimborae]

Those recruitment consultants (and I dealt with alot of them) would sell their mothers for commission. Some of them are absolute snakes. Also I don't like schmoozing or bull****ting people (generally required for a comission based sales role).

Lol, and thats coming from a lawyer! I suggest you take a look in the mirror mate. (Not you personally but lawyers in general)