Will work for monehs!

A wild bugbear appeared!

Seriously though, jobs - what is up with them?

A friend of mine has just managed to secure a Summer placement earning ludicrously large amounts at an investment bank. Another friend of mine is applying for placements, and has an idea of the sort of broad field she ultimately wants to work in. Though I'm happy for both of them, I guess it's also just a tad dispiriting because I still don't have the slightest clue where I want to work. It's weird because as a child I'd do that thing most children do of finding a job that I liked the sound of and insisting I'd be that when I grow up (of course, you'd know that 6 months later the far younger version of me would have his heart set on a completely different job). And now that I'm older I just don't have the slightest clue what I want to do, and it really bugs me because I feel like I should have at least some sort of idea of what sort of job I want to work towards getting.

As if to help me narrow things down, jobs that I don't want:
- Jobs (and especially low paying jobs) which you can do without some sort of skill or training (counting my maths degree as a kind of training here). I don't want to end up as a waiter or working in a shop or anything like that.
- 9-to-5 office jobs where you do essentially the same or very, very similar things every day. So for example banking, or actuarial work. The monotony and repetitivity essentially - in my eyes - make them a higher paying and more skill-requiring version of the aforementioned waitering. I want to on some level actually like my job.
- Research, simply on the basis that I know I'm not quite smart enough for it.
- Teaching children/young teens. Partly because I tend to find kids annoying, partly because those sorts of jobs are more about imparting social skills (which...I wouldn't be good at :P) than imparting knowledge and understanding, and partly because it would hinder my opportunities to wear lolita clothing (as I don't want parents thinking I'm creepy).
- This should go without saying, but also anything which I'm unlikely to ever be qualified to do (so for example I'm never going to be a doctor).

That already wipes out a fair number of jobs. Some day I may know what to go for, but this is a start at least.