Tapping into the network

[resonant]

Or: Who wants to help the Res decide what she wants to be when/if she grows up? (Not cutting because I want maximum input, but I'll try to keep it brief.)

I've been doing the exercises in What Color Is Your Parachute, and have ended up with a list of transferable skills and a list of interests.

Skills:

Analyze
Solve problems/see patterns
Evaluate
Imagine/invent
Classify/organize
Plan

Interests:

Social sciences
Design of spaces
Communication studies
Folklore
Speculative fiction
Libraries

The next step is to ask everyone I know: Do these suggest any job titles to you? Do they suggest any job fields to you?

The best job I ever had was one that I didn't know such a thing existed until I found myself interviewing for it, so I'm very open to unexpected suggestions from you brainy and extremely diverse people. (Please feel free to share this post; I'm very interested in advice from everyone, whether I know them or not.)

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Now the assistant suggestion is really useful and encouraging! Because I'm interested in all the fields you mention, but I have a bachelor's degree in journalism and no further education, and I'd like to do job first and master's afterwards, rather than the other way around!

Do you know anyone like that who works as an assistant, or who employs an assistant?

Your work sounds too people-oriented for me, and your colleague's sounds too number-oriented, but it does sound like you might be in the general ballpark of a place I'd like to be. Would you want to tell me more about your organization and the people who work for it? Either here or in e-mail?