I've been looking for a new direction for a while now, and after I kept seeing occupational therapist pop up on Mumsnet whenever posters are suggesting new career directions I thought I'd look into it a bit more...the more I read, the more I thought to myself, hang on, this might suit me! It's not an area I know loads about (but reading and researching lots now!), but I'm hoping you could all give your opinions on whether my skills would transfer/be suitable for occupational therapy, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.
My degree is in an Arts/Humanities subject, nothing particularly useful but included areas of ethics, philosophy, etc, so I would say I have reasonably good logical thinking and decision making skills.
Current employment is TEFL/ESL - have taught all ages (young children to adults), experienced in designing lessons and curriculum, developing activities to meet objectives, teaching and explaining, building rapport with students, working as a team, assessing levels of skill and grading activities appropriately, etc. All the usual teaching skills I suppose, plus I think living abroad for a long time has helped me to be fairly adaptable and I can hit the ground running in new situations fairly well.
Personally, I enjoy teaching a lot in the classroom, but most of my work has gone online now and I don't enjoy it to anywhere near the same level. I really miss interacting with students and being able to really feel like I was helping them.
Sorry, long post, but would be incredibly grateful for any advice/thoughts anyone can give!