I feel like I’ve pigeon-holed my career. What do I do?
I sort of hit the jackpot in my type of job. WFM, semi-flexible schedule, decent pay.
Problem is, I hate it. As my company starts doing more in-person events, the cultural and generational gap between myself and my coworkers keeps growing more and more obvious.
I would love to change careers… but I financially support my wife, so I need to make 80k, and that locks me out of any trainings, schooling, or entry-level positions in other fields.
I work in technical writing, but in a very specific field of it. So I don’t know any coding, and every technical writing job that’s not coding is just training AI (which I refuse to do). If I were to go into the main practice of my field, the not-writing part, I would need 5+ more years of university. I won’t mention the actual field here because it’s small and gossipy, but think like: contract writer amongst lawyers. My technical writing knowledge is so absurdly specific that it’s not relevant to any other field, but I also can’t just go be a lawyer because I don’t have a degree in law nor have I passed my industry’s equivalent of the bar exam.
I guess sales is also an option but like. Fuck that lol. I’m autistic (probably) and while I’m not the worst at socializing, it would be a bad idea for me to go for jobs that are based on it.
So like… how do I switch careers while still being able to financially support us? Yes, my wife is setting up a career of her own, but she needs to get a master’s degree first so she won’t be earning decent money for at least 2 years.
I’ve always wanted to get into book publishing or editing but I’m not in NYC and beginner positions pay jack shit anyways. What can I even do?