Action Plan

To be complete honest at this stage in my life Im not 100% sure what I want to do for work. I worked at a bar (illegally) at 16 and then Greggs when I was 17 until now, I've been working there fir five years now and I do enjoy it but I wasnt exactly thinking full time. Over the past year I've been really thinking about moving on and where I will go after finishing this course. I knew for certain I didnt want a generic office job, whether its working with people or a creative career, the thought of crunching numbers at a desk job isnt very appealing. So during my months of thinking  about my future career, I've conisdered a few ideas.

 My first obvious choice is embracing the skills I've learnt over the years and apply them to my career. Like I spoke about before the idea of being a concept artist is very appealing, creating a place, character or idea and to see it become real would be cool, though the same issue applies here as with ant illustration work I do on commision, I often end up doing what I THINK would look best rather than the client, now with commisions I've taken in the past this was less of an issue as it wasnt in a professional setting, really the opposite and the client trusted me whole heartedly to make the right decision as long as the content they wanted was there. Feeding back to a more professional client is very different. I'd have to work on my ability to appropriately contact a client and make sure I stay on papr with exactly what they want rather than taking my own creative liberties. 
What has been suggested to me also, is possibly using the knowledge I have of software and my "creative eye" to just go into graphic design, there are often places hiring for junio graphic designers, and where that may not be my specialty, I have the knowledge and ability to be a sufficiant graphic designer or more I suppose at starting level, graphic monkey. 

But I also dabble with the idea of becoming a teacher/carer, around the time I was conisdering this I also conisdered nursing though I remebered how sqeemish I am around blood and suddenly that idea didnt sound as fun. But I'de enjoy being a care giver of some variety. Though it isnt exactly related to my study it was always something I looked at. I would have to start by volunteering or being a TA for a year, though the income wouldnt be spectacular it would be good experience before I look into taking any teaching courses. Before I look into voluteering or being a TA I have to first get a DBS (disclossure and barring service) check, this will allow me to be left alone with children and not have to constantly be monitised. To already have this check would make me easier and more desirable to hire because it would save the school time and money getting it done for me. Being able to be trusted with children and left alone with them would be a great way to get that responsiblity experience. I would ideally want to work with young children, child care and development would also be useful knowledge and education to have.

Though Im not 100% sure where I want to be in a year or so Im happy to have different options infront of me to make the decsion a little less daunting. I think 22 is a pretty young age to want to know what I want to do for the rest of my life especially since we seem to keep living longer and longer, but with my health in the best place its been in year and my options/plans lay out infront of me things seem a little less murky in the coming days.