Right, so i'm bored of working in telephone sales and i want to get on with getting a Proper Career.
I want to write. One day i will be teh famus novelist, but for now i will settle for writing copy or the odd bit of journalism.
I got skillz. I can turn out a pretty sentence, i can argue a point, i can make people interested (the last one varies with the moon). I'm good 'n literate. I can also speak French (a bit rusty, but still pretty good) and am a fast learner when it comes to picking up other languages. I'm also a fast learner in most areas (apart from life skills, it would seem).
I care a lot about the environment. I want to work with a green company/org which is doing something good etc...
In an ideal fantasy what-i-wanna-be-when-i-grow-up situation, i would write lovely-yet-forceful pieces which would make people sit up, wake up and go 'oh my, i'd better do something about X now!'. Failing that, i'll settle for making them feel a little bit guilty.
I have looked on various jobhunt websites, but haven't found anything that really matches this ideal even closely. I'm not sure what the job title for such work would be, and find it hard trawling through these sites for something i have an unfocussed desire for. Many jobs seem to require qualifications (i have half a degree in philosophy, but most of the good stuff needs a full degree in something useful).
So it seems a plan of action would be:
Find some local orgs, charities etc. Approach them, asking if they have any stuff they need doing for cheap/free.
This way i can get experience and CV fodder which will make it easier to approach companies which pay real money.
While this seems to make sense, it's fraught with the fear of success and fails on the whole 'Get me the fuck outa phone sales right now!' front. Damned reality...
So to turn what may as well be an Lj post into a discussion:
Does this make sense as a possible career path?
Does this make sense as a good plan of action to follow such a path?
Is it the done thing to randomly approach orgs about this stuff, or is it better to look for ads?
Which orgs would people recommend as suitable for this path?
Can anybody recommend any good resources for this stuff?
Is this book a worthwhile purchase, or is it just equivalent to buying a nice set of all the colours for my career as an artist?
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Also.. I feel a bit weird posting such a random request on the board.. I know i can find a lot of this stuff out online or at careers-advice places but above-mentioned fear makes for quite a stressful time doing such. You can only look at so many pages of jobs featuring wages nowhere near what you earn, requiring qualifications nowhere near what you have until the chest pains start.
And as it's relatively recently that i found an interest in Green stuff, i'm still not very informed. I get the impression a lot of the 'lith might know some things... |
