Two year qualified private client lawyer here, and I think it’s time for a career change.

I have lots of things I would like to do, but little ideas about what I’m actually qualified to do.

Anybody out there have any inspiration please? Looking for things that will let me get out from behind a computer screen a bit more, but still have interaction with people and offer intellectual challenge.

Rural estate management is running high on the list, but all ideas considered!

Cheers

They say that most professionals nowadays will have 3 careers, so a career change is quite normal

Its the experience that counts more in getting a job nowadays than, the actual paper based qualifications.
Training costs monery and companies dont wantr to waste money on training staff ,who may then move on.

Poor law? It might not be a good time to get into it but CAB / law centre type stuff.

My Missus has done this for years in various forms – a lot of satisfaction and a reasonable earnings.

Fluffer.

TJ – I’ve looked and come close to changing specialisms (nearly went into shipping just before Christmas), but I concluded that it was still law with the elements that I don’t like (hours, demands, lack of creativity), so I’m looking for something outside of law I think.

Volunteer at a few places see what grabs you…. good for your CV too if you want to change to something very different. I used to be an architectural technician now I’m a Bid Writer in the 3rd Sector

Fluffer.

Mercifully, I’m woefully underqualified 😆

I bet you’ve got a lot of first hand experience, though…..

lcj – t’missus works 35 hr weeks flexitime. I think you would find it very diffeent. Its winning little battles to get a few quid for folk. One Of t’missus big achievements was getting a single mum a couple of hundred quid in backdated benefits a couple of weeks before christmas.

TEFL teaching, travel, meet different people, see different cultures, broaden you horizons. I’ve done it for a few years now, a few more than I expected or wanted to and love it, but it’s time for me to change again… 😀

Career/Life Coach ?

Well, the guy who cooks in our canteen at the weekends was telling me that he’s an instructor on the SBS sniper course in Poole. 😆

An inspiration to us all, I might ring NASA tomorrow and see if they’ll let me borrow a space shuttle.

Fluffer.

As you no doubt realise from experience CFH, with the advent of Viagral (as it’s called in Brizzle), the role of fluffer has now become defunct.

Moderator on Singletrack, unpaid, unloved but more power than the Primeminister,

Career/Life Coach ?

Certainly a good earner, from what people have offered to charge me!

The current list is:
Outdoor instructor/coach
Project manager
Estate management
Risk adviser
Engineer/designer/general inventor type

None of those seem to tick every box (that may be moon on stick territory) and the others dont seem very accessible from my current position. Hmmm

I’d like to be one of those researchers that you see at the end of Human Planet when they’re filming tribes people in the Amazon or something.

But I expect 85% of their job is sat at a desk ‘researching’.

Or a photographer working on a wildlife reserve.

I’d also like to be a gamekeeper in the Scottish highlands…or estate management.

Wildlife photographer I think.

Be a teacher.

I wouldn’t recommend Project Manager tbh, I find it pretty unrewarding most of the time, also very hard to move ‘out’ of.

Plus I can’t imagine Risk Assessor is particularly thrilling either!

If money isn’t an issue I’d go for something you think you’d enjoy.

Park Ranger or Fireman are the top of my list…not much chance of either of those 🙁

Police Officer …. but start by signing up as a special to see what you think? Fireman? Gardener?