What occupations could I take up with my skills?

You could try being a journalist, maybe.
Or specialise on you webdesign skills.

Do you enjoy the academic lifestyle? Do you like working for someone or do you work better in a self-motivated environment?

I say web design or jobs that require a working knowledge of C+ would be the most marketable.

If you’re in the UK, I would strongly suggest gaining some kind of formal qualification in the skills you define as important to your repertoire.

I lived abroad for 5 years, and when I came back, I thought the place had gone mad – job adverts specifying level 2 or 3 diplomas in administration (which is at the level of ‘can turn a PC on and not panic’).

A formal qualification might not mean you atually learn anything, but they represent a clear, unambiguous benchmark that employers definitely find attractive.

Teaching?

@blueroses
I learn much better in an un academic lifestyle, learning what interests me most what has lead me know so much in so many subjects but I’m not an expert on any of them.
I couldn’t say if I’d rather work on my own or with people or what would yeild the best results. I spend a lot of time thinking on my own about my ideas but I’ll always need people to bounce those ideas off, I wish I could answer this better.

@the100thmonkey
Wouldn’t that take a huge amount of time to prove I know what I know?

@timetogo – think of it from a recruiter’s perspective: If you’re starting out in employment, your potential employers will be far more likely to say “why doesn’t this applicant prove what they know?”, and hire someone who has taken the time.

If you can’t offer any evidence for your skills, you’ll find it difficult to enter any career. If you have a strong portfolio – work you have done in the past where your clients are happy to recommend you, you may well find that your experience is different.

Formal qualifications in the careers implied by your skill-set nearly always involve a portfolio that you can then sell to employers as evidence of your competence.

@the100thmonkey
:/ It will take me years and years to prove this I’m kind of looking for jobs now and I can work on the rest later.

I do agree it will be easier, but this is for job opinions right now.

I would suggest going to an employment agency to help you narrow down your interests as they relate to your skills. Most are free of charge and you could try out a few temporary positions.

I don’t think you could get anything that would incorporate all those things, but being good at maths would come in handy if you want to be an electrition. You could be a philosopher on the side.

@lemming
My stepdad is an electrian from what I can see you don’t have to be that good at maths at all, he does very basic maths.
I do much more complex maths creating functions estmating my yearly spend and how to reduce it and I don’t even see that as complex.

Oh ok, I just thought that because someone I know had to give up on being an electrition because they were bad at maths. I think the maths is harder these days, at leased in my country.

Blueroses did message me saying about tutoring maths what I thought might be good

@timetogo – my opinion, then, is that you should go apply for a job at a retailer, be it Greggs, HMV, Primark, or whatever.

No formal qualifications will restrict your options greatly.

It might take you a good few years to work off the debt you accrue gaining quality qualifications, but in the long run, it’s more than worth it.

The only alternative I can think of off the top of my head is that you go into business for yourself. This is a good idea, but it will take a massive amount of work on your end with little-to-no finacial reward initially; it will come good soonere or later if you actually have the skills and ability to deliver the services you offer consistently.

@the100thmonkey
I have got many jobs based off my skills already, such as programmer, teaching IT to students

Then exploit those skills. Mercilessly.

You could study thoretical physics, but I don’t know what the job prospects are like.

@lemming fairly the same as my degree in Classical literature. Academic or waiting tables :)

@lemming
thoretical physics is always something I felt i’d love to do, but I doubt I’m smart enough

@timetogo you should definitely look into it then, if you’d love to do it your already half way there.

Dept of State, Foreign Service Officer, Economics track.

Teaching Middle School

@the100thmonkey
I’ve actually had an idea for a business for a while, I’m not going to divulge a huge amounts on what the business is but it will involve my maths, programming and physics skills, though I’m not much of an engineer though I can easily work around that.

I will have to improve my 3D modelling skills using programs such as blender, though again it’s not vital to the business and I know the basic of Blender and getting a better understanding of it will help the business from getting from a small to medium size enterprise

I can also use some of my business knowledge, work on some of my poor subjects such as law.
I may set up the business next to just a job to see how it works out at first and see how it grows from there.