What's my perfect job?

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Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
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I can't figure it out. I've realized what I hate, what I'm not qualified to do, what I won't ever be qualified to do and what I'm really really good at. I pretty much know everything I want/need in a job to be a happy person, I just don't know wtf job it is. Maybe someone here knows?



Skills -
Quick learner.
Ability to read people extremely well
Get's along with people extremely well
Communicates extremely well
Above average computer skills
Enthusiastic and fun also pretty funny, but in a non-comedian type of way
Very good at sales, without being a salesmen (more through just helping)
Broad knowledge of a TON of topics, but not necessarily an expert in anything specifically
Extremely efficient with time management. Once I learn what I'm doing, I do it quick, accurately and efficiently.
High desire to impress. I hate letting people down, which is why I very rarely do.
Career oriented now. I just want a job that I can grow with and don't have to stress about shit anymore.


- Things I absolutely hate in a job

Cold calling. I won't do it.
Annoying people with 'sales' bullshit. I don't mind selling if the person wants to know about the product/service, but I hate to push products on people.
Stressful situations. I want to do my job, do it well and be done at the end of the night. I work to live, I don't live to work. My wife and my personal life is FAR more important to me.
I don't like to travel, at all. The closer to home the job the better. If I can drive 10 minutes to work, I'm happy as hell. But I'll drive a bit if I need to. I really don't want to travel out of the city though.
I don't want to work nights or weekends anymore. It's not conducive to a good family life.



I realize some of the skills I've mentioned above don't seem like 'skills' but I feel that a lot of people don't have them.

If I had to create my 'perfect' job, I think I'm best suited to be an interviewer for companies. So what I would do is a company would have clients they want to hire. I would interview those candidates and make judgements on them based on the conversations, I then would make my recommendation to the employer.

I would be perfect for this job because:

1. I can read people extremely well and in my experience I'm usually right. It sounds egotistical but it's one of my skills. Advanced math is not.

2. I get along with a WIDE range of people. I can usually carry a conversation with just about anyone, so I would be able to put the candidate at ease and get to know them very well.

3. I do my job well. I would know exactly what that position requires in a person and be able to keep that in mind as I do my interviews. I'm just good like that.

4. The candidates would come to me, during normal business hours and when I'm done... I'm done.


Thing is, this job doesn't freaking exist! Or if it does I don't know about it.


So..... what's the closest to this? I have considered going into HR, as it seems like it would be a decent fit for me, but it seems like every HR position I've seen requires experience and I don't have experience *shrugs*


What have you ATOT?
 
Zeze

Zeze

Lifer
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What is this? Are you seriously asking for your career path?
 
SpatiallyAware

SpatiallyAware

Lifer
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Sounds to me like you'd be a good fit in some sort of extremely specialized sales field.

The problem is you generally need to know the field before you can do sales in it..
 
Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
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Zeze said:
What is this? Are you seriously asking for your career path?
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No, what I'm asking for is jobs that I may have never considered before or thought of because they are...

wait yes. I am asking for my career path. So what is it?
 
Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
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SpatiallyAware said:
Sounds to me like you'd be a good fit in some sort of extremely specialized sales field.

The problem is you generally need to know the field before you can do sales in it..
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I can learn the field. I'm a very good learning. I don't really even care what the field is, for the most part.
 
Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
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IronWing said:
Insurance agent
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Not a bad suggestion, but I would need to be taking walk-ins rather than cold-calling people, as I hate bothering people. But if you want information about it, I'm the perfect guy for that.
 
Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
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Oh, let me add... if this helps. I'd be an excellent manager in just about any environment, due to my ability to get along with basically anyone, be extremely efficient and a great judge of character.
 
lokiju

lokiju

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Technical recruiter is exactly what you described IMO.

Tech knowledge is useful but doesn't need to be deep. Wider amount of knowledge is better.

It's like sales on two sides. The talent and the company looking for it.

Work when people can do interviews or meet. A lot of lunch meetings in your local area.

You could get a job with a company like TekSystems that does this already or you could try starting it up on your own and trying to make it stand out by applying your own twist with your talents.

Otherwise the only other "fit" I can think of is sales for a tech or tech reseller company or pre-sales more specifically.

Not all sales guys have to be the typical type. One sales rep I used for years when I was at a prior company was young-ish, easy going, not pressure focused but focused on helping you find what really would work best. After he moved away to a different state there wasn't anyone else there like him and everyone else was just like "regular" sales guys.

I knew a guy that no joke would look through job postings on places like Craigslist and the job sites and then find talent that was a match and present them with the conditions included for his finders fee.

Worked sometimes but not always but he just did it on the side.

Kind of a good way though to test the waters and see if you can make anything of it before starting up a full time business doing it.

What area are you in? I could check the internal postings of where I work to see if they have anything in your area.
 
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highland145

highland145

Lifer
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Cuda1447 said:
Oh I assure you, the skills do exist.
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Wasn't busting on your "skills." All of those are a great plus when dealing with the public. I was pointing away from the things you hate and specifically #4 on your list.



I was busting on your plumbing "skills.":p
 
Zeze

Zeze

Lifer
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You're either looking at internal recruiter for HR or a slimy agent for a recruiting firm. But I assure you that shit gets old quickly.

Your daily duties are wading through hundreds of idiot/BS resumes, calling them leaving msg, conduct over the phone interview, then real hiring managers take over for in-person interviewing.

That sounds super snooze-fest to me.
 
roguerower

roguerower

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You must have missed that day in school where you were supposed to take the test that planned out the rest of your life.
 
Cuda1447

Cuda1447

Lifer
Jul 26, 2002
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lokiju said:
Technical recruiter is exactly what you described IMO.

Tech knowledge is useful but doesn't need to be deep. Wider amount of knowledge is better.

It's like sales on two sides. The talent and the company looking for it.

Work when people can do interviews or meet. A lot of lunch meetings in your local area.

You could get a job with a company like TekSystems that does this already or you could try starting it up on your own and trying to make it stand out by applying your own twist with your talents.

Otherwise the only other "fit" I can think of is sales for a tech or tech reseller company or pre-sales more specifically.

Not all sales guys have to be the typical type. One sales rep I used for years when I was at a prior company was young-ish, easy going, not pressure focused but focused on helping you find what really would work best. After he moved away to a different state there wasn't anyone else there like him and everyone else was just like "regular" sales guys.

I knew a guy that no joke would look through job postings on places like Craigslist and the job sites and then find talent that was a match and present them with the conditions included for his finders fee.

Worked sometimes but not always but he just did it on the side.

Kind of a good way though to test the waters and see if you can make anything of it before starting up a full time business doing it.

What area are you in? I could check the internal postings of where I work to see if they have anything in your area.
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Great information, this is the type of stuff I was hoping to get. I'm in the Tampa area, specifically North Tampa.

Out of curiosity, working for someone else, what type of pay is there in something like this?
 
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