Where can I find my dream job?

Question

I would like a nice cushy number, where I can work 9-5, Mon-Fri, not take work home, afford a decent quality of life and have my employer pay for my Masters degree. I want to work a field where there is a skills shortage, so that I can find work anywhere! I would like to avoid mega stress and long hours. Currently I see people breaking down all around. Worse than that is the insidious pressure which is turning young, intelligent women into bearded old spinsters.
I am talented, well travelled, educated (2:1), a fantastic communicator, organised and self motivated. I can give presentations, and develop resources. What shall I do?

Primary School Teacher

Answer 1

in order to get this kinda work you should be working for profit, not a salary and not for a manager.

Invest in something and become your own boss!

Good luck!

Answer 2

Cloud Cuckoo Land!!!

And I'm not being sarcastic (well, maybe only a bit, but I mean it in a harmless way!)

Some of what you describe as your dream job is probably achievable, but probably not all of it. There are plenty of 9-5 jobs. Do they pay the salary you want/need? There are plenty where you don't need to take work home. Many jobs have a skills shortage (construction, dentistry, for two examples off the top of my head). But will jobs with a skills shortage mean you avoid stress and long hours? Most decent jobs involve pressure.

I can see where you are coming from: you have worked hard to get to where you are, as a primary school teacher, and the pressure on you is enormous. Ask yourself these questions: Why did you go into it in the first place? Did you do it because you really wanted to, or because it was a natural progression to teach following university? Have you had enough experience of "the outside world?" Is it what you really want? Do you in actual fact know what you really want?

Rather than looking at changing jobs, first see if your employer can help you. Explain the situation: could you work part-time for a while, to give you some breathing space. Or how about a career break? Or what about doing something else in academia, but more on the management side?

Ask any friends that work outside teaching what their jobs involve. Could you do their jobs? Would you want to?

I realise I have not actually answered your question, but have simply given you loads more to ponder. However, you will find your own answer. You may genuinely want to change career. Or you may be overeacting to a particularly stressful time. I think the "bearded old spinster" part of your questions says a lot about your state of mind. Don't be dragged down by your job. Remember, when all is said and done, it is merely what keeps the wolves from the door. It is only a job. Put some perspective into your life. Do your job to the best of your abilities, but make sure you give yourself some time as well.

Good luck, and keep your chin up!

Answer 3

Current Job: Fast Food Worker Dream Job: Street Racer

Answer 4

Ah if only that ambition of our youth could remain with us forever.

I'll tell you what you should NOT do if you want to carry on that way. Don't marry, don't have kids, don't buy a house.

Then you will have all the money in the world with a nice 9-5 job of your choosing. Good luck finding your dream company, if they have an opening I'm still interested.

Just remember with every child you bring into this world you need to double your income to raise them. Otherwise you will join the ranks of those falling deep into debt and just living paycheck to paycheck and stressing to figure out how they will make ends meet while trying to be full time parents at the same time and still having their health and sanity and energy enough to focus on keeping up a healthy strong marriage too.

Even if you have the money to go to university, by the time you finish you're 30, by the time you establish yourself you're 40, if you have kids then you'll be working well past retirement to put them through university too...so whether you have an education or whether you don't, whether you start young or whether you start old, it's tough either way.

That's just life. So keep that all in mind with all your choices as you go along in life so you can hopefully make the right ones and not regret anything down the road.

If there is misery it's because most people wish they knew then what they know now! ♥

Answer 5

I left teaching to run my own business.
I have no boss, no targets except my own,
I work the hours that i want and the harder I work the more I earn.
You can build it up to get a full time income for a part time effort. The main part of the business is giving presentations, teaching and training motivated adults, and following a system that works
It might be for you but it costs nothing to look

Answer 6

You haven't mentioned which country you are in however I would suggest you try something different like in either Fiji or Papua New Guinea as I have worked in both countrieds and they pay expatriates very well also they look after entry visas and provide you with good accomodation. If you are interested, I can send you contact details for Fiji.

Answer 7

Drive a London Underground train. You get paid over £30,000 per year, loads of holiday, no stress (you don't have to stop the train - it stops automatically, so the job is just to start it at each station and steer a bit) and every summer, you get at least three extra strike days!

Answer 8

All jobs are the same nowadays - rush rush rush - pressure pressure pressure.

Become a self opinionated, arrogant, lying, coniving, politician.

Long holidays - cars at the expense of the public - free dinners worldwide - what more could you ask for - Oh! cynical me

Answer 9

Undertaker

Answer 10

no idea where u will get ur dream job
but if u want a good job vist UAE