Hi guys,
Im newly diagnosed 32yo woman who has had almost 40 jobs in my life from volenteer cleaning to agency graphic designer.
I'm wondering if you guys notice any patterns or have any ideas on a career/job area to explore or focus on.
A bit of background: As a kid I prefered to express myself through creative outlets, crafts and drawing mainly. I grew up around animals, my mum kept many small mammals, and my grandparents had a farm with a variety of the large ones. To blaze my one trail I studied graphic design and did well at it in college. But I found myself in an incompatible advertising degree after. During my higher education years I did bar work (only liked the loud happy music) and waitressing (very stressful). After my degree I did some graphic design freelancing but this didn't pay the bills. Since I've bounced between jobs from au pair, blacksmiths assistant, face painter, party host, pet sitter, teaching assistant, commercial chef, head of graphic design, receptionist, sales agent, tattoo designer ect.
I love cats, dinosaurs, films, dungeons and dragons, and designing not in that order. I can be vibrant and flambouant especially in a colourful environment with support and feeling safe.
I'm now feeling stuck and depressed in an office sales job.
Pondering teaching assistant but feeling quite exhausted with current job and needing more education and training to get into a role. I also have no car and based a town over from a city center.
(I dunno where this Jane Austin tone has come from in my writing.)
Ps: As a kid I wanted nothing more than to study Paleontology (dinosaurs) but I was told their is no money in it and I wasn't smart enough. So packed away that idea mid-teens. I would take it up but again money keeps being a problem.
Any ideas? I'm open to them.
