Creative Help Needed

"Joe is not interested in relocating, traveling, working overtime or outside."

Are you my dad?

job bot says State Trooper...

no offense with that, but your underdeveloped areas of "interest" will remain only that unless you get schooling, at least take "a" class in something, or work your ass off on your own which would require overtime, as a State Trooper you'll either be sitting on the ass or chasing down a speedster, there's zero supervision, you don't have to go to school, there's really no overtime, you can draw or sketch or write or HTML or touch yourself in the car, you can be detail-oriented about your uniform and the rules and regulations of the road, and it's not really traveling since you'll just be going out to the highway or something to park, you'll be working individually and as a "team," you'll get a pretty decent paycheck, you'll get a pension, great benefits, and it won't require you to improve or better yourself in any way in the future...

Start a tip jar. A really BIG one.

Yeah, yeah. Not helpful.

Joe, I'd say that you should #1 take a look at what is out there available in your town, that you might want to try, that apply to your outside and inside experience. Be realistic, but also look at job listings creatively.

#2: Create a resume or a CV that focuses not only on your past jobs, but your experience, and specifically look to design said resume as a "career transfer" resume. I would HEAVILY recommed going to a headhunter or career counselor for this, as they deal with this stuff all the time.

#3: Look to take a cut in pay, because you'll be looking at going into a position most likely under your current one.

Also, I do recommend taking a night class (A night class or two) in the local college or something, just to spiff up your skills. Again, a career counselor or headhunter can recommend these to you.

Re: Creative Help Needed

The Facts
Joe is ready for a new career.
Joe is not interested in going back to school.
Joe is not interested in relocating, traveling, working overtime or outside.

1) Copy that.
2) Is most likely unavoidable.
3) Copy that.

Sales Divison Manager — forget this — read: remove this section of your life from all considerations — it will pidgeonhole you. In fact, avoid anything that has a whiff of eu de manager. Avoid it like cliche. And shave your goatee.

College Recruiter — ditto
Telemarketing (ugh) — ditto
Traveling Sales (ugh) — ditto

School Teacher — Useful.
Tutor/Mentor —Useful.

Joe's Underused Skills
Writing/Fiction — File under: creative.
Technical Writing — File under: creative technical.
Sketching/Drawing — File under: creative technical.
Layout — File under: creative techical.
HTML Programming (Novice) — File under: useless.

Joe's Fields of Interest
Cinema — Forget it. File under hobbies.
Comedy — Forget it. Unless it's your dream. File under people skills.
Graphic Arts — Good.
Video Games — You should stop playing these.

Joe's Strengths
Creative/Innovative — Isn't everyone?
Independent AND "Team Player" — Ditto.
Detail Oriented — It's on my resume too.
Multi-tasker — The corporate world loves you.
Humorous — Very funny.
Quick-Learner — Ditto.

Joe's Weaknesses
Dislikes Routine — I LIKE IT!
Dislikes Direct Supervision — Nice.
Has Two Speeds: Constantly Moving and Sitting Still — This is good news.

It sounds like you'd make an excellent contractor. You've already got the drafting skills, the communictation skills, and the not wanting to take shit skills. Teaching is good, because you'll have to train workers, and management skills always help, because if you do a good job, you'll be be running a business before you know it. There's lots of creative work in building, and most people are looking for a complete revision of there home.

The contractor works at his own pace, and he can usually find work, so long as he's good, and/or certified. Which leads me to a drawback: going to school. But once you're cert. you can always fall back on your teaching experience and do lessons at a local tech. school.

Also consider:

Landscape architecture.

Design of architectual fittings/details. I know a guy who does concrete gargoyles. His last job was reno on Notre Dame in Paris. Find a niche, be good, and you can work where you want, when you want.

Wood working.

Plumbing.

GIS guru.

In fact, if you're not attached to any one place, and you can get over the not going back to school bit, the world is yours. Talk to guys that work in heavy intdustry, there's always some hidden job that only three people on the planet can do. Like underwater welding, or air traffic control for bush planes.

Just forget about management and all those "real world" office jobs.

Dear Adam

Please be my career counselor too.

Thanks.

This sounds like an oppurtunity for one of those passively narcissistic "post here and I will ... " threads.