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Career Inspiration Needed

Maggie

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. 

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  • What are the common threads between the reason for leaving jobs?

    If you can work out what really doesn't work for you (or for the employer) then you will know what to avoid.

    Which roles did you really enjoy?

    How about mixing your interests and skills - maybe draw dinosaurs in a contemporary setting, maybe as a public figure and sell the orginal art. That should fetch a reasonable price if the artwork if good.

    I think you could get ChatGPT working to do the basis of some of these pictures to save you doing it all from scratch.

    I'll throw in some more suggestions if you are up for answering the questions above.

  • in reply to Iain

    I've left jobs due to there tempary nature, stress/mental health, the location and/or late hours mostly.

    I've been stressed daily to the point panicing or crying in bathrooms in a lot of jobs. 

    I did like Hollywood Bowl, lane host and receptionist because management let me be me. They let me face paint, I used the tanoy, adorned roles of stickers and bunches of baloons to give out for free. It was hard work but came naturally to me. 

    Then I has to relocate ans havn't found a rolw like that since. 

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  • in reply to Iain

    I've left jobs due to there tempary nature, stress/mental health, the location and/or late hours mostly.

    I've been stressed daily to the point panicing or crying in bathrooms in a lot of jobs. 

    I did like Hollywood Bowl, lane host and receptionist because management let me be me. They let me face paint, I used the tanoy, adorned roles of stickers and bunches of baloons to give out for free. It was hard work but came naturally to me. 

    Then I has to relocate ans havn't found a rolw like that since. 

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