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

[amorettea.livejournal.com]

With your background, I'd recommend the historic preservation field but jobs in that are being cut left and right and the pay, even if you are employed, sucks. But the jobs are FUN! Even if I am currently wearing bedroom slippers held together with duct tape.

[innerslytherin]

I don't have too high of a standard, considering I just now got back over $30k this year, and could afford to go lower if I actually enjoyed the work. I don't know if we're talking lower than that even, because I know the sorts of places that need historians usually don't pay well.

I've also been applying with the National Parks Service for 10 years, but sadly those jobs seem impossible to get too.

[amorettea.livejournal.com]

I work at the city level, in a poorly paid part-time position, but I that is not my only job. Plus my husband also works at a poorly-paid full-time job for a local newspaper. We do what we love, not what makes us money.

Anyway, most cities of any size have a Historic Preservation Officer and sometimes even staff. Plus the state has a Historical Society and never forget the National Trust for Historic Preservation!

The Park Service jobs at the actual Park Service level are a bitch to crack.

[innerslytherin]

Yeah, I'm definitely planning to look into the Historical Society and some of the related places.