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Over the years I have had many different Career ideas that I have contemplated doing. However, I never manage to get past considering them. At the moment I work in a call centre. Of all the Careers I would select from this would most definitely be at the bottom of the list. However as I’m fairly technical and call centres have very high rates of staff turnover, even during economic depression, it is pretty easy to get a job. The money is the main incentive, reasonable pay for a fairly easy job. I am going to talk about here the Career ideas I have at the present, what I have had, and why I have not opted for any of them.

My main interest at school was Geography, followed closely by I.T. So when thinking about Careers, I had always wanted to do something in either of these fields. All through my time at school, the Careers advisors were all climbing on the I.T. Bandwagon, this being the field where all the greatest New careers would be. I took both lessons at school, and at that time I thought about pursuing careers in IT and maintaining geography as more of an interest. However, after leaving school and doing both computing and geography at A level, I decided to follow my heart rather than my head, and began viewing Careers available to me with Geography qualifications.

This lead to me choosing a Geography and Environmental Management course at Northumbria University. I still was not really sure what Careers I wanted to pursue, but this course seemed to have a lot of New careers and Career ideas for me that I had not considered before. This was where I encountered my first predicament. I despised University. I left after a short 6 weeks. That more or less prevented me looking at any more Geography related Careers.

Next I started viewing at Careers in the IT industry, and I also contemplated becoming a teaching assistant. I ended up taking on the teaching assistant role, as the course to become a teaching assistant was without charge, whereas the options for further IT training all cost in excess of £3,000. Money I most definitely did not have.

So I finished the teaching assistant course, but discovered my next obstacle to that particular career course. I felt too immature to work with children, and, while I liked work experience I had at a local school, in the end I thought it might be for the best if I waited until I was older. So, I had to try thinking again.

I took on part time work to try and finance going on an IT course and pursue the IT career again, but I encountered my next obstacle. Living at home with parents and having a part-time job meant I appeared to have a lot of money, which I then proceeded to fritter away on going out, and buying pricey things I really did not need to buy. So I ended up working part-time for quite a long time. It wasn’t until I started to feel the need to move out of home, and begin an independent life, I started thinking about Careers again.

I’m still not totally sure what I wish to do, but my career choice at the present is allowing me to work from home, which works great for me. I’m a search engine optimisation consultant, and liking it. It may not be the most obvious choice ever, but it suits me great.