I’m mid 30s and I want to change careers. I work in Events/Hospitality but at a reasonably high level in the planning/organising roles. I’ve always had a good attention to detail, good with numbers, good with the specific tech/software (but I’m not a massive IT skilled person in the wider context) but some role adjustments have taken a lot of the numbers side out and out a lot of the ‘dealing with people’ side in, and I hate it. I can’t hack it. People fuck me off.
I would describe my skills as being a professional devils advocate. I’m really good at seeing issues from both sides and troubleshooting a solution, I’m just really not good at negotiating said solution. The constant interaction and always being pushed back against I find exhausting. I’m wiped out by the lunchtime let alone the end of the day and it’s not sustainable.
My observation skills are good, my maths is good. I’m not against doing an OU course. I think I need a role that’s a lot of analysis work. I deal best in cold hard facts and figures.
I’ve been in hospitality since I was 17 and I’m mid 30s now so I’ve not known anything else, but since Covid it’s really not the same. I want to fix problems, I want to work out what’s wrong and how to solve it. I don’t want to basically be in sales.
if you use those sort of fault finding skills, what do you do, what training or qualifications would you recommend? Some sort of analyst role maybe? Investigatory maybe? I don’t really know but I feel a bit lost and I really want to turn the world of work around and get some spark back.