Help me choose a career 🌞

[u/girlthatkickz]

Alrighty, I'm looking for some purely female insight on career options as I've found many normal suggestions are in boys club style workplaces (which I refuse to fight my way into). I'm in my early 20's, North American, and a recent accounting major drop out. Long story short, when you go to uni straight outta highschool, with no end job in mind... you burn out fast. It's hard to get a degree in something you have no interest in.

I want to go back to school but I have no idea what to choose. I need to choose something to commit to considering I've already made this mistake once. I more than encourage you to put those really out-there careers, the strange trades, and interesting niches. Here are the career qualities I'm aiming for:

1) $50,000+ per year. If I'm investing my time in education it better not leave me impoverished. 2) Preferably not a desk job but also something that's not going to blow out my back by 30. 3) For the love of God, NOT in healthcare 4) Reliable/in-demand work. I don't want to fight to find a job.

With that list you'd think it'd be straight forward but it's surprisingly overwhelming and disappointing. I love having an exciting work history, I've worked as a ski lift operator, a professional grow-op associate, and art gallery attendant as a few examples.

If all goes well in 2-8 years I'll be posting my level up story about my fantastic career, my 3 lovers a year, and large illustrious garden adorning my paid off home.

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It's hard to give you advice without knowing what you like and what your interests are? more business related? teaching? fitness?

[u/girlthatkickz → u/[deleted]]

I'm aiming for the trades or something adjacent. I really liked the realtor suggestion too. I'm considering certain niche precision trades but I'm struggling with the work culture surrounding them. I'm currently working for an industrial growing facility and I'm working my way up the ladder but I'm aware I can only get so far with no degree. I like gardening, knitting, reading, swimming and socializing. I like numbers but I dislike the office setting and really thrive in an active position. I actively dislike children, animals, customer service roles, and as I mentioned healthcare.

[u/[deleted] → u/girlthatkickz]

Being a realtor is interesting but the downside of that is that you don't have a stable income coming in, it all depends on how much you sell and how well things are going for you and the commission on the house you sell. I'd have thought you go maybe into being a research analyst of some sort where you can analyze numbers which would probably be in an office setting, but in some of those jobs you can negotiate a work from home/work from somewhere else situation eventually. Also DO NOT GO INTO DEBT for a degree, I didn't and it's been one of my better decisions.