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[askingforachum]

Hi,
I'm a long time user asking for advice for a friend of mine. She's been working for a big consultancy in the city and has reached the end of her piece of string. She's stressed, unhappy and wants to do something else, the only problem is she doesn't know what. I cheerily informed her that Mumsnet would be able to give her some job suggestions to look into, so please don't let me down!

Here are a list of her skills and interests (in no particular order) but do fire questions at me if you have any.

• process driven
• ATT qualified
• 2:1 in business from a good university
• nearly 4 years' experience of working in this consultancy advising on taxable benefits (as far as I understand it...)
• good at project management
• obsessive interest in F1 and Rugby Union
• Excellent at networking
• basic French & Spanish which she's planning on improving
• good level of computer literacy
• Good organisation and budgeting skills
• Good at following direction and also line managing

Will add more as I think of them/am instructed ;)

By the powers of Mumsnet - please answer me!

hmmm, how about something else in accounting? or is she looking for a whole new field?

Has she talked to HR in her current company? If work is a big stressor, then they might be able to give her a sideways move in to a role more suitable?

But if she hates it there then I can understand entirely her want to get out. It's not worth your mental health to stick at a job you hate.

Has she thought about something like events management?

If she can cope without having permanent employment, something like a project management role might work - they're often fixed term for the life of the project and you do tend to need finance skills alongside more organisational ones. But you run the risk of unemployment in between roles - depends where you are in the country as to how likely that is, in London I wouldn't think it's as much of a problem.

She's based in London and project management and events management both interest her in the abstract, but she doesn't know 100% what they involve. I suppose she just wants to talk to people in those fields so she can quiz them