Options, Options, Options

On the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, Janell was a "P" off the scale. (A person with a high perceptive score is capable of brainstorming a wide array of options). She could come up with countless options, all the way from choosing a movie to choosing a vacation spot to choosing a career. Channeling her today, I've come up with potential pathways for the next three years. Obviously some are a bit outrageous and others overly conservative. I pose them with the thought that those reading them will respond: what seems reasonable, what seems to be stretch, what do you think? Here they are in no particular order:

• Take the option the AIM Institute has offered me, to become a sub-contractor for evaluation services, giving up all benefits and working through Shain Evaluation & Consulting, LLC
• Sell everything - house, contents, car, etc. - buy a motor home and travel the country, living on social security, a small pension from Iowa and my investments
• Downsize to a smaller house/condo and look for employment outside of evaluation
• Sell everything, move to India and work as a consultant
• Attempt a "buy-out" from the AIM Institute (probably with a "no-compete" agreement) and work independently as an evaluator, strategic planner, facilitator and trainer
• Move to Paris or London and become a writer (I saw "Midnight in Paris" on Friday)
• Really downsize and work either as a greeter at Walmart or do substitute teaching
• Look into a possible position as a university or small college, doing instruction and consulting on the side
• Move to a small town, buy a small house and work for a school district as a counselor or dean of students
• Take a position as a school counselor at an American school in Europe (The University of Northern Iowa has a program to place educators in foreign schools)
• Completely retire, living on social security, my small pension and my investments, keeping the house as long as possible
• Partner with a friend in a career consulting business
• Work in a bookstore and downsize house and lifestyle
• Go back to school to try out a new career - nursing, truck driving, manicurist, masseuse, CSI, chef, etc.
• Fill in the blank:_________________________________________

My friends - I challenge you to respond - what do YOU think?