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Career advice?

Hi, I'm not new to MSE, I just opened a new account for privacy reasons.

Basically, I am looking for a new job at the minute as I have been unemployed for around eleven months now! I am applying for anything suitable as my first priority is just to get back into employment. However, I don't just want to be stuck in low-paid, dead end jobs all my life so I would like to try and make a career for myself but I have no idea what this could be.

I really enjoy things like writing and editing and I also really enjoy researching things
I have done a bit of freelance copy-editing in the past but it was not easy to make a living in this capacity. I have also worked in admin and care.

Does anyone have any career suggestions that involve things like writing, editing and research? Which does not involve going back to university?

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  • theoretica
    theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Publicity or a press office somewhere?
    But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,
    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
    Lewis Carroll
  • Would it be rude to ask why you dont want to go back to education? you could write and research doing that and if you took a course that covered a wide topic area you might find something you didnt even know you liked ? :-)
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Are you a graduate?
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