I feel stuck and I don't know what I want to do..... I'm 42 and really don't know what I want to do work wise. My back ground is in retail and hospitality but I currently work in manufacturing and I'm really lucky in my job, I work the hours/days I want (mainly school hours) I take the kids to work with me in school holidays. Xmas holidays is our quiet time so I can have as much time off as I like, but my body is failing me, it's very physical and I have a back injury that is agrivated from sitting to long (my job is as a machinist so I sit all day). I know I need to start thinking about something else but I just don't know what. I really don't want to go back to the hours of hospitality and retail and I really don't want to go back o dealing with the public.... I'm not creative or arty. I just don't know. Would love to break into merchandising but it's a hard field to break into without experience, other then that really don't know what to do. Don't know if this is a question or just a bit of a whinge lol
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I understand. I had to leave my career a few years back to care for sick adult child. I know I can't go back. I'm 4 years older, emotionally tired and not got the patience to do what I used to do, plus it's quite a fast moving industry so would now have to retrain. So I'd be stepping in at the bottom of the ladder when I left at the top.
I don't know what I'd do instead. I know I should start preparing now for IF I get to go back to work, but prepare for what. I'm worried I'll end up in retail because I've got nothing to fall back on and I'm deeply unsuited for retail, I am just not a polite person ?