This quote captures a rule I’d like to live my life, and by extension my career by. I’d like to have a job where every day looks different because you respond to whatever eventualities arise. What is a good way to find these?
I’m not asking for specific job positions (although feel free to suggest some) because I imagine such positions exist in most fields — I’m rather asking for ways to find these/filter for these in a given field.
Consulting. I’ve done a little bit of it before as an occupational hygiene consultant. In a 2 week period I’d done air quality tests at a sulphuric acid processing plant, noise dosimetry at a bread factory, management system audit at Shell petroleum, and reviewed findings of air quality tests at a building where half the workers were “getting sick all the time”.
But it’s not consistent work, and if you go into business for yourself; 1- good luck finding the work, and 2- have fun spending months chasing up invoices.