It’s hard for me to know what I’d be good at. I’ve always struggled to see my own strengths, and never really managed to actually form a career for myself, despite lots of schooling and many jobs. I don’t know about what I’d be good at, but I do know I’d like a job where I felt like I was being useful and helping people. So perhaps a therapist or patient advocate. Put all my various negative experiences to some use. I’d also be good at helping people find books to read, since I spend so much time immersed in the literary world, so I’d love to work in a bookshop if my body would only allow me to stand and lift!
What about you guys? Which job do you think you’d be good at? And which would you most like to do?
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Bookshops are fun!
Funnest places imo!
Your line of thinking was why I went into librarianship — I wanted a job that let me help people, and wanted involvement with literature and culture. Alas, I spend more time looking for dead people for genealogical requests or answering tech support questions that anything literary!
Wow really? That’s still one of my dream jobs! I’ve met a few extremely helpful librarians – particularly ones who have gone out of their way to find or recommend books for my kid, which was a huge thing for us! But it comes back to that same thing of the reality of anything vs. the fantasy. Never quite as good!
I didn’t consider the physical in my list… but there are a lot of things that would make the Jobs I would Be Bad At list!
Right? I feel like there are more I’d be bad at than good at, but then that could just be me.
I worked at a bookshop for about a year and a half, and the biggest issue I had was maintaining enough willpower to not buy everything in the store. Aside from that (and a couple of persistent shoplifters), it was a lot of fun.
That does sound exhausting! Shoplifters can be good exercise….lol
Working in a book shop, or even a library sounds like a dream job. I’d have loved to have done that
Right? I did very briefly for work experience and it was nice, but it was a larger chain and I feel like the dream is really a smaller bookshop with similarly book-loving colleagues!
Helping people makes you have a good heart.
Agreed!