Carrie Said:

What career is right for me?!? (please only answer if you have something serious to say, thanks!)?

We Answered:

Without more info its hard to get detail on you but I can suggest seriously that you consider the area of Project Management.

I was an IT Project Manager working for corporates maintaining and developing software suites and found it to be a well paid, flexible, educated modern working environment. Not without its difficulties- long hours-often overnight, oncall, out of hours, travel, hotels, meetings away etc. But good training, pension, bonus, great staff, recruit your own teams. Plenty of promotion structure, no dead ends.
Its a tough competitive world and still quite dominated by men but if you can hold your own in a meeting, don't mind making decisions even if their unpopular, like controlling schedules, working to deadlines budgets, resources planning, controlling, making plans, getting the best out of people even under pressure (especially under pressure), directing and ensuring that your plans go to plan then its the job for you and you'd do well.
If you don't like being up front or the spokesperson then maybe a few lessons in team leading /building may help you or practice public speaking. If you enjoy admin/filing and getting the job done and onto the next then its a job for life.

It can be a tough job -long unsocial hours, unpaid work at home, doing professional qualifications at home in your 'spare' time, being away we/ends on team building courses(absailing off mountains !) Constant pressure, paperwork neverending, mailbox never empty.

Upside- ££££££'s , great staff, great memories, all the criseses and laughs, all the weddings, birthdays, mad days out, fabulous holidays,
Great projects- mentally stimulating and difficult to do.

All medium to large companies employ Project Managers on a permanent in-house or sub-contract basis.


GOOD LUCK

Willard Said:

HELP ME ( I need ideas- career/college/anything!!) (easy pnts)?

We Answered:

I think you should look into university, if you haven't gone already. At a university, you wind up developing what interests you intellectually, along with the skill set you get there. Finding a career path is not just about what you love doing, but what you're good at professionally.

Stay away from those career tests like they used to give in junior high and high school. They are designed, for the most part, by morons (or people with degrees in "education" which is much the same thing), and their major goal would be to categorize you in a way that fits the mind set of the people designing the so-called test. Why would you want to put yourself in a box like that? Anything that gives you a set of easy, ready-made answers should be suspect.

That's all I can say not knowing you personally. Feel free to message me or IM me if you'd like to chat about it.