need help with career choices?

Question

I thought yall could help me sort all this stuff out. I have been recovering from a spinal injury and I have not worked for 5 years. I did #1 prior to my injury. I am looking to return to work and I’m looking for ideas/thoughts. I am 45 - I have a very artistic temperment (ENFP)

1) I have 15 years of work experience, but this area of work is now completely obsolete and there are no longer any jobs in this field anymore, it is completely dead/obsolete. Everyone has encouraged me to avoid this area.
2) I have a professional licence / credential in this area and about 3-4 years of part time experience. This is a promising area of work, but I don’t have a great deal of work experience in this area. The department of Vocational Rehabilitation is trying to encourage me to persue this career path. I think in some ways I am a good fit for this career, but in other ways I am not a good personality fit at all.
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3) I have 8 years of experience in this particular area as a hobby, but I’ve found this particular activity very difficult to do since my wife’s death. A number of people are trying to encourage me to continue, and they think if I put forth an effort that this could become a business for me. I think this requires me to be far more organized than I really am, which is where my wife came in and made things work.
4) I have many years of experience in this area learning from my mother whose career was in this field, and I seem to have a great personality fit for this and a natural gift for understanding how things work in this area, and so far the things I’ve done here have been well liked by others. My wife was trying to encourage me to persue this area. This is a field that is excessively hard to make a living at and very difficult to break into. But I have a lot of confidence that once I broke in I could do very well. But I could starve for a long time…
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5) I had no interest in this career area at all before my wife’s death and so far I have been more focused in getting better in this than anything else so far, but I’ve been recovering from an injury and this requires physical conditioning way beyond my current level, but if I continue to improve there’s a good chance that I will get there. It’s hard to explain.
6) I had no interest in this area before my wife’s death (june 2006) – but I’ve found that what was once very un-natural for me has been something I’ve done very well since, and a number of people have tried to encourage me to do this, but I haven’t had a good feeling about it, but I’ve continued to learn because I think it will help me personally and help with some of my other career choices if I choose to go that way. Many of my hobbies are such that learning one helps the others and so forth.
7) I’ve had life long interest in this area, but no opportunity has opened up yet for whatever reason.
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Any thoughts?
Thanks for reading all this and for any help you may have.. thank you.

Answer 1

I suspect that because of the spinal injury, you might never regain full function, don't want to be doing blue collar work that would place your back under stress and risk of a re-occurrence. So that means you need some white collar work where the rehabillitation people maybe can help you get in the door, perhaps part time initially.

Personality and communication skills are important, can be worked to improve on, but more important is whether you can be good at whatever the work is, and someone can sell the potential employer on this.

Answer 2

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