Need ideas for a new job/profession

[whyhell0there]

Please tell me some realistic jobs/professions that meet the following criteria! Do any exist?! Currently going crazy in my boring, sedentary job (in a profession that has very few opportunities). Have researched alternatives but I keep going round in circles! Any (realistic...) ideas welcome

• Not 100% computer-based
• Involves helping others, even just in a small way; or at least making a valuable contribution to a useful organisation
• Good mix of team work and independent work
• Not teaching, retail or nursing
• Pays £25-30k minimum...

Civil service work includes a lot of jobs that would fulfil that criteria. Happy to chat if it would help - I’m a career coach and I’ve actually just offered a free half hour call to a lady on another thread. Happy to extend the same offer to you too, no obligation but just to help you narrow down your options a bit.

@MaraScottie

Do you already need an IT/web development background please?

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Do you already need an IT/web development background please?[/quote]
Not necessarily, though it would help. You could get into the consulting side of things, so advising companies how to embed accessibility design & development into their processes, and doing training and presentations. You could have a background in UX Design and work with design teams to create accessible user experiences and audit their designs or you could work in Quality/Test and audit applications for accessibility against the WCAG standard. There are a load of different avenues, start with an IAAP CPACC certification to give you a baseline knowledge and then position yourself for a role depending on your other skills and experience. It's a truly fascinating area and it's really rewarding helping teams develop engaging and inclusive user experiences. Only 2% of the web is accessible!

Police

Thank you @MaraScottie.

I'm in the Motherload bookclub group on FB where every image must be captioned, I've never come across this before but it makes so much sense.

I've been looking at doing a PT Masters or BSc in Psychology, with a view to doing UX research (but literally only been thinking about the UX part for a month or so) but what you've written above sounds so rewarding! I shall look at the certificate. Thank you :)

Food supply chain? There’s loads of different areas - logistics, quality control, assurance, buying, marketing.

Adult social care as unqualified care manager working alongside social workers. In our local authority the pay is £28,000- £30,000. I would say 50% public facing and 50% computer cases recording and administration.

Thanks all! Some really interesting suggestions that I had not thought about (adult social care finance, web accessibility consultant...) and others that I have considered but would be a huge risk having to give up paid work for a long time to retrain (e.g. SLT - 4yr degree where I am - I'd need to get some work experience to make sure it was a good fit for me but covid has made this difficult.. could still consider).

I don't want to give out too much personal info about my own skills and qualifications, but I have a Masters and am in an undervalued/poorly understood profession that is constantly subject to funding cuts, and the more you progress, the more time you spend stuck in front of a computer and end up quite far from the frontline service. My 'passion', I suppose, is language, but I don't want to be a teacher, translator or researcher.

@whyhell0there

Thanks all! Some really interesting suggestions that I had not thought about (adult social care finance, web accessibility consultant...) and others that I have considered but would be a huge risk having to give up paid work for a long time to retrain (e.g. SLT - 4yr degree where I am - I'd need to get some work experience to make sure it was a good fit for me but covid has made this difficult.. could still consider).

I don't want to give out too much personal info about my own skills and qualifications, but I have a Masters and am in an undervalued/poorly understood profession that is constantly subject to funding cuts, and the more you progress, the more time you spend stuck in front of a computer and end up quite far from the frontline service. My 'passion', I suppose, is language, but I don't want to be a teacher, translator or researcher.

It’s not always necessary to retrain - it depends very much on what your current area is and what the crossover might be. What languages do you have, and what level? Just wondering if paid interpreting might be an option.

@MirandaWestsNewBFF Thanks for your reply! I have a modern languages degree and I am absolutely abismal at interpreting! My brain just can't handle it.

I've trained as a translator (i.e. written, not spoken) but there are very few in-house jobs in this area & being freelance alone at home's not for me.

Ok...

So we’re refining this now. You’d like a job in languages, preferably written ones, and a job where you can be office based. You already know that interpreting and tutoring aren’t for you. That’s a start.

It might be useful to consider is whether you could do, say, freelance translation at home, or tutoring, just in the short term while you move towards the sort of job that might suit you better. Also,while in house translation jobs are rare, the6 do exist, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t get one if that’s what you want

charity sector jobs

Sorry- posted link without message. What about the charity sector? That's a link to a recruiter in that sector.

Planning officer?

On Jury service I met a man who was a COURT INTERPRETER! He spoke English and French. It sounded like the most amazingly interesting job!! His stories were fantastic