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what career will take me places and allow me to have different jobs

Im 17 and I don't want to be stuck in one place with one job . I know I can do way more than just one thing. im good at pretty much anything and everything that I put my mind to. does anyone know. I don't know what I want to do or where to look. #career #job #majors #traveling

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Gabriel’s Answer

Hi Ski,


Great question. I can completely understand your struggle in not knowing what you want to do. I think a great place to start is by searching for volunteer opportunities. You can search for some available opportunities by visiting VolunteerMatch: https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/advanced.jsp


Volunteering is great for many reasons: 1) It looks great when applying for employment or colleges 2) You can experience a variety of different career fields without making a time investment because many opportunities are short-term (and some as few as 1 day).


You can find opportunities for marketing, customer service, inventory management, general labor, sales, and many others that may help you find something you enjoy.

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Jimmy’s Answer

Management Consulting.


The basic idea behind management consulting is that a company hires another company to take advantage of additional human resources to solve a problem. As a consultant, you will work on a team of generally really-smart people on a variety of different tasks across sectors. The general career path of someone in consulting is that they would take a few years within their company and work across different projects, find out what they like or they're good at and leave consulting to join industry.


While that is incredibly vague, this may be a good jumping off point.

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Simeon’s Answer

This might sound counterintuitive, but I would recommend accounting if you are looking to travel the world. If you are able to get a job with one of the big four accounting firms: PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, or EY, you'll have a great shot at being able to travel the world. If you work with your career team, they can work with you towards the goal of working overseas. If this path interests you, I'd recommend pursuing an internship with these firms and going to their recruiting events. Just know that there can be crazy work hours during busy season, so the work-life balance is commonly a major issue for people with these companies. Also, you get the opportunity to work on a variety of different clients, so there are lots of interesting things for you to discover about various businesses. Note that working with so many clients and getting to know them is a great way of networking in case you want to switch and be employed by one of those companies someday.
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Josh’s Answer

Management consulting is the best first job to have if you don't want to be stuck in one place doing just one thing.

You'll have a broad array of responsibilities, learn a LOT in a short period of time, be challenged mentally every day, work with super smart people at some of the biggest and coolest companies in the world, and get to travel constantly.

There are also lots of other jobs you can do after consulting if you decide to switch it up after a few years (which it sounds like you might want to do).

The best thing you can do to prepare for a job in consulting is to sharpen your math and critical thinking skills and to get really good grades in college. It also doesn't hurt to start learning about how businesses work (getting a Wall Street Journal subscription can help with this).
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