How to pick a new career?

[patmahe]

Long story short, after 6 years in IT I've decided its not for me. I have very little interest in it and to be honest only really studied it as I was unsure about what I wanted to do and it seemed a safe stable option at the time.

But now my dilema is what do I go into, how do I begin to decide what my new career should be. What are the first steps? I'm fearful of making a wrong choice again so any advice is appreciated.

[lestag]

patmahe said:

Long story short, after 6 years in IT I've decided its not for me. I have very little interest in it and to be honest only really studied it as I was unsure about what I wanted to do and it seemed a safe stable option at the time.

But now my dilema is what do I go into, how do I begin to decide what my new career should be. What are the first steps? I'm fearful of making a wrong choice again so any advice is appreciated.

what type of job in IT?
what bits did you like (solving someones problem and them being happy , fixing a technical issue)
what did you hate

[ShadownINja]

And what skills are you good at?

[Original Poster]

One thing that is always good to do is go onto various job boards, Jobsite, Monster, CV Library, Total Jobs etc and simply type in "trainee"

This will bring up a variety of entry level jobs, have a look over them and see if anything takes your fancy.

[spikeyhead]

Write down a list of everythign you enjoy doing
write another list of e erything that you're good at

See where there is common ground between the two and focus there.

[DangerousMike]

colouring in!