Assess me

[innerslytherin]

Help me out, friends list.

I need a new job. I hate getting up every day and going to work. I don't trust my company, I don't trust my supervisor. I feel like I'm spinning my wheels.

Plus my job is scheduled to go away in a little over a year. So I'm going to have to look for a new job at some point soon.

Currently I work in accounting. I hate it. Unfortunately I have about 6 years of experience in accounting work, which means I'm qualified for this sort of work.

I've done library work. I enjoyed some of it, but didn't finish my degree.

Further schooling isn't an option.

What do you guys think I'm good at? Keeping in mind that I would like to publish my original writing, that IS my ultimate goal, and I'm working on that.

I don't want to teach. I hate working in sales. I like computers and horses and enjoy physical labor but don't tolerate heat or cold well. I'm not averse to relocating. I have a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in history and creative writing, with a minor in medieval studies. I enjoy research. I get bored easily. I would love to travel, especially domestic air travel. I'm not opposed to overseas travel, but I don't have any real skills that I can think of which would translate to overseas travel.

I type 90 wpm. I enjoy alphabetizing and filing things. I hate talking on the phone. I love the internet.

Does anyone have job suggestions? Fields I might not have thought of? At this point I'm about ready to run away to San Diego and live on the beach, but I burn easily and don't eat fish, so that wouldn't be an ideal lifestyle choice. ;)

I'm at my wits' end. There has to be something obvious I'm overlooking. Help me.

Comments

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Administration in a university? It's office work, but in a more academic-orientated atmosphere than a company, so related to the typing/filing but also the research--you can end up dong practically anything. (I was a department assistant for Neuroscience, before, and helped edit a book on zebrafish DNA, even though I'm a medievalist.) Plus the perks are pretty good, and generally the people are too.

Human Resources might suit too, if you got on with the right company and not one that sucks.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Here are some near you. (Doesn't your mom do something there..? I sort of remember.)

[innerslytherin]

You're just made of awesome. And really, I can get interested in a lot of different topics, based on research. Heck, I have a passionate interest in cancer, despite the unpleasantness of the topic, just because I decided to write a novel-length fanfic about it and started doing research.

I worked for Purdue for a couple of years, back when I first got on LJ, which would be back when you and I first "met". So that might be the connection you're thinking of. :)

*runs off to click links*

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

That must be it! And those are probably a little below your actual skill level honestly, but it's the sort of thing where once you're in it's not too hard to move up.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Also, how do you feel about moving to Canada? (Specifically Vancouver?) It sounds like you'd have the necessary points, and I have a friend who works for an Environmental non-profit that I know is periodically looking for good office people and she seems to really love the environment.