I feel this is a rather cheeky ask but I'm in my mid 40s and I'm really stuck as to what to do next in life. Changed username for this as its so identifying.
I live in France and have just closed down my company which was like a small Able & Cole/ Riverford selling and delivering local food online. Sadly we weren't able to make a profit.
So I have an amazing network of over 100 local producers. l created, set up and ran a fairly complicated website with over 2000 products and a database but without any formal skills so I know a bit of CSS, PHP, SQL, web design etc. Accounting not my thing sadly. But dealt with admin and bureaucracy. I'm good at marketing and community management.
Previously a couple of decades as an English teacher and head of international section at a business school.
Currently on sabbatical until September 2017.
We are moving area, 4 kids (7-11) and DP work/school from September in a fairly large city so practical to work there.
I know I don't want to go back to my old job although it's the safe choice, longer term it's in the wrong town and I stopped teaching because I stopped being good at it. Students had become clients.
I could teach something different like in the field of entrepreneurship. But I've no qualification only experience.
I could go back and do a masters but in what? MBA or something computer based?
What area of study has real prospects?
I would like to utilize the network of producers I've built up because in part it was quite a feat and in part because a lot of them aren't good at the public face part of producing.
I quite fancy working from home but I like people.
So if you've got to the bottom of this please help me think about what to do next. All ideas welcome.
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Littlefatfroggy · 10/07/2016 07:23
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