Help! Moving on from long-term employment in a small company

[RaspberryBeretxx]

I've worked for a v small business for the last 20 ish years. Now in my 40s. I have a degree (2:1) from a red brick uni in an economics related field.

It's looking like we may only keep going for another 6 months or so and I might need to think about another job. The trouble is I've ended up as rather a jack of all trades, master of none so I've no idea what I can do. I wouldn't need to earn a vast amount (although potential at least to earn more would be great). I currently earn FTE £30K but work part time.

I don't have the funds to undertake full retraining but could do a course(s) alongside my current employment over the next 6 months or so.

I wondered if anyone else has moved on from a very long-term position in a small company and can provide some insight or a positive outcome?

Pool together a list of your skills and see how they transfer into other industries/roles. Office management, EA etc might suit you?

Thanks, yes that makes sense about the transferable skills and I'll update my list and see if it roughly matches up to any jobs out there. I have previously written a list - it's just a LOT of things but not very in depth in any of them! With EA type jobs, they tend to ask for diary management experience and I've only ever managed my own fairly simple diary or sometimes arrangement appointments for a trade fair. But I see there are diary management courses available that might help.

You'll be able to work out diary management without a course. Back yourself and have confidence :-) Good luck!!

You might be underselling yourself. I would if I could afford it get a (serious, there are lots of bullshitters) career coach to look at my responsibilities and write my Cv based on that, as well as advise on transferability.

for example, were you involved in strategy or decision making? If so, you should emphasise that rather than the admin aspects. It’s usual in a tiny firm to have to do it all, but you want to be focusing on the better paid aspects of your role I think.

That's a really good plan to find a decent career coach. I don't want to undersell myself but don't want to over egg either! I do work on strategy, decision making, project managing etc. I think the way we do it isn't as structured as I imagine they do in larger companies. Although I suppose it varies from company to company anyway.