Future-Ready Careers

The ideas in my PsychologyToday.com article today hold the possibility of getting on the ground floor of some next Big Thing.

11 Big-Money, Big-Status Careers

Most people believe it’s shallow to choose a career based mainly on money and status, but being human, they often succumb, forgoing careers that would be more contributory and pleasurable.

So in recognition of that common human craving, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers some careers offering big money and status.

10 Big-Impact Careers

Unless you’re at risk of poverty, in which you’ll understandably take any job, most people want their job to be impactful.
Of course, all ethical work is impactful, from ditch digger on up. But if you’re thinking (ahem) higher, perhaps the 10 big-impact careers I describe in my PsychologyToday.com article today will help.

Careers and Workplaces for Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians

These days, we seem to be holding our politics quite dear. Passion used to primarily refer to sex but these days passion for or against Donald Trump may be as strong. Indeed, a Stanford study found that political kinship is a stronger bond between people even than race or religion.

So it may be worth identifying careers and workplaces in which you’ll likely find kindred spirits. Of course, that doesn’t replace the need for choosing a career that matches your abilities, skills, and interests, but political kinship is an under-considered data point. Hence, I offer some suggestions in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Career Change for Creatives

Some creatives decide they're not making enough money from their creative work acting, writing, painting, music, etc. So they decide to get a straight job. But what? And how can they make a straight employer take them seriously? And what sorts of careers are creatives wise to consider. I address those questions in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Career Change for Teachers

Had enough of the classroom? Perhaps you’re tired of dealing with students who don’t want to learn? Or of correcting sheaves of painfully bad student writing? Or of trying to motivate kids to work hard at an unrealistically challenging mandated curriculum?  Of teacher trainings that don't train well? Pushy parents or uninterested ones?  An unfair principal? Hand-tying administrative rules?

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers careers that are well-suited for teachers who want out, plus how to convince employers that "Those that camn, do, but those that teach can too."

Big 5 Careers Options for people who score high or low on the Big Five personality traits.

Typically, careers are recommended based on skills, aptitudes and interests, for example, as in the Holland RIASEC Codes: hands-on, investigative, artistic, social, entrepreneurial, and office-detail. 
Less often are careers matched to today’s popular Big 5 personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability.

Of course, with thousands of careers and variants thereof, I can only scratch the surface in a PsychologyToday.com article. I’ve picked careers that capitalize on each personality style (low as well as high) and that Psychology Today readers might enjoy and do well at. For each category, I offer merely one or occasionally two or three careers that may be particularly worth your attention.