Pick me a new career

I hate my current work environment. I want to do something new. I have been a barman, a video store clerk, a bottleshop clerk, an electrician and a money collector.

I am completely lost and want to do something new. It was suggested that I do some volunteer work.

I was considering becoming a teacher, a doctor/medic, a patisserie chef/chef, and was also looking at starting up a business, but these types of work require me to be in the same place for quite some time for study or business commitments. I am moving overseas next year and doubt I will ever live in Adelaide again after that.

Any suggestions for work in those areas, or others, whereby I need little to no experience in the field?

Need a change.

If you don't want to stick in one place you could always join the UN/Army as an electrician / tradie and work setting up and pulling down camps and the like.

Or you could just be a rent boy again...

I first wanted to be a paramedic in Year 5 and it's something I've constantly thought about since then. I'm now actually working towards doing that now by doing a bridging course at uni this year so I can get into the paramedic course next year.

I always wanted to be a doctor, because I love to learn about the body and human processes, but in reality, a doctor gives people sick certificates and deals with sick/old people all day.

I like the idea of landscaping, might get on to BenN about that.

I also was just toying with the idea of being a contractor doing first/second fixes for the new housing sector, cos there's LOADS of work and LOADS of money in it, just don't want that much responsibility is all. People are relying on you to have their house done so they can live in it and stuff, and the way the sector is at the moment is in fucking shambles.

Keep 'em coming peoples!!

I don't understand why it takes so long to be a doctor.

As Kurko said, doctors don't do jack.

How long does it take you to learn how to write out sick notes in unintelligible hand writing and tell old people they are going to die?

 Just because that's what happens every time you go to the doctor doesn't mean it's the same for everyone Julian.

did you read the bits where i didn't want to be a doctor or do fixing?





Fire up!

 

 I was actually joking.

 Kurko I was in your position for ages it's tough to know what to do.

 Take a chance while you can is my suggestion. Before you know it you'll have a mortgage and you won't be able to do it.

 my 2c

According to a personality/aptitude test I just did online, these are some areas I may like to persue.

• Small Business Owner
• Marketing Manager
• Real Estate Agent
• Hotel/Motel Manager
• Lawyer
• Tourism Manager
• Stockbroker
• Project Manager
• Business Coach
• Property Developer
• Management Consultant
• Travel Agent
• Business Operations Manager
• Recruitment Consultant
• Mortgage Broker
• Politician

Wouldn't mind being a Real Estate Agent I reckon, but that would require shaving

yeah you could drive around in one of those little lunch trucks!

And sell drugs.

$$$

You have to be a woman pretty much. What tradesman wants to buy lunch from a staunch tradey type bloke? I looked into it years ago.

Considering a job at Designer Direct even

Or an drive an icecream van.... you could drive around the countryside ringing your bell, stealing kids and giving everyone salmonella  

And sell drugs.

Sounds like a job for Noddy.

we had some rather butch looking man ladies coming to my work not long ago, surely you'd be right!  

Rep for a booze company - like one of those people who go around and grade bar staff on if they pour Guinness correctly or not!

 

i always wanted to be a scientist, though i toyed with urban planning... for now, science is great and i will probably eventually get into communications/pr/education.

kurko, dont be fooled by those who say you need to be pigeonholed into a job, i think u would do really well working for redcross or other aid organisations overseas, doing emergency aid work and the like. i am sure someone with ur qualifications would be in high demand, and i think u'd also be able to pick up management work too dping similar stuff. i have friends who work for aid organisations in indonesia, i could check with them what the job situation is like?

sounds great Anna!

its a combo of all things i like to do, i.e. teach, fix, organise, help, languanges, make, plan, lead.

yep and with ur urge to travel and do different stuff, a proper winner!

become what every little kid aspires to be...AM moderator

or teach people how to grow beards....

or go to some sort of career seminar thingy..

reckon Burma would need a few more hands on deck?

ebola virus and AIDS here i come!!

woo!

http://www.uq.edu.au/careers/index.html?page=29896

How old are ya fluke. Not to seem rude or anything - like 15 - 19 or 19 - 15 or 25+

If your under 25, what about going back to college for a bit and learning a new subject?

not a fan of uni, been there done that, hated it. alos, the type of work you tend to do as a graduate, and the type of work you do as a worker, are two completely different things most of the time.

i'm 26.

You dont have to do Uni, what about nightclasses in something like navigation? I know it seems random but random things like that, teach you to navigate a boat places - or what about a night class in cooking?

How come you didnt enjoy being an electrician? I thought the money was good?

I'd rather be happy than have money, and being an electrician shits me to tears. If I cared about money so much I would be working as a Stockbroker or Financial Lawyer at Australia's largest independent stockbroking firm, like I was supposed to.

I am currently learning Spanish. I should really be doing more pilots lessons, but that is a very expensive career path, and I am in enough debt as it is. Definitely is on the cards for the future though.

Yeah you could be a pirate 

Vampires FTW!!

Nice choice.... nothing beats vampire 


... except sunlight and garlic and stabbing through the heart and killing the head vampire, etc.

ahh yes but doing the electrician work is good money, and that can pay for you to finish your pilots lessons?
My job is fucking shit but I keep thinking about the extra wonga. Im trying to do my Cemap but its boring me to death.

I was going to mention do a nightclass for an extra language. Personally, I cant stand any form of extra learning now, im the same age as  you - and the thought of going back to college would freak me out a little, it was bad enough being 20 and in a class of 16 yr olds let alone 26 and in a class of 16 yr olds, so I hear ya on that one 

Means to an end... thats how I look at my day job. I promise you - its horrendusly boring !

You could be a cunt, oh wait up...


 

Where'd you do that? i need a second job or a completly different one

yeah i'd be keen for that as well. i have no idea what i wanna do career wise...

need inspiration. hopefully i'll find it on my travels somewhere!

Oh No!!!!  I will move back to Adelaide one day, when will i see you again????

I reckon you should be a voice over guy for TV.  I think that would be cool, besides, you have a great face for it. 

 

pool cleaner?

i'd probably malt straight back into the thing 

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when i was little i wanted to be dannii minogue on YTT. Now I am a Senior Legal Negotiator. To be frank I have no idea how I even ended up doing this but I rock at it so I guess its not all bad.

are you artistic at all? i reckon you should be a tattooist, you can totally travel about doing that and meet some interesting cunts too no doubt.

Hotel bed tester.  I shit you not, it's a real job!

Wrong continent. Think more... cholera and other waterborne diseases.

Anyways, I think you should be an aid worker.

me too, but for the meantime, i'll head back into bar/bottlo work for a while just to earn some coin, clear debt, and research this role 

(no need for a poll even )

party liaison?

kurko the party boy? 

needs more beard and chest hair

You said you were a stockbroker or some such before... Why not try another form of broking? There are lots of forms that require travel, people skills, language knowledge and learning.

I'm not evenm allowed into earth these days since me and crab man scammed ourselfs into a triz-event by saying we were playing

 
That's awesome. Failing to see the relevance to this thread though....

Lumberjack! Then you can sing that choice song all the time!

audio engineer FTW, tweak shit all day long 

Hiltons are shit. 

Possibly meant for the Systo thread??
 

I can so imagine Kurko as a lumberjack!

now I have the song in my head

everything is fucked everywhere

right now, i am looking up jobs in rural locations to earn fucking mega coin so i can pay off my fucking mega debts and then fuck off out of here so i can live somewhere that isn't part of this big fuck off machine sucking this earth and everyone on it dry

RANT!!

wrong thread 


Its official, you lot get withdrawl symptons when the sun dissappears for like one day!

its been shit weather 4 weeks go back to england

I am in England and its freezing 

Man whore perhaps?

Fluke Bigalow, Male Gigolo.... 

I'm sure a few ladies & maybe some men (if your that way inclined) would be in need of some lovin'       

how ironic. i may just be in the market myself

unless its me and its a bottle of vodka