Richard Butler's shiftsurgery

Consider all the contacts you've made over the years that could help to open a door - although chemistry isn't your thing now it could provide useful insights to help you learn about training type possibilities. Make a contract with yourself to meet at least three people every week, ask each one to give you two more contacts who could help you on your journey...

Start to consider what it is that is missing from your current job and list out all the things you don't like. Even though you are getting plenty of satisfaction from what you do now, your feelings seem to be telling you that a more satisfying career is possible...

To help you move forward I'd like you to consider each of your issues separately. Find a person, a friend or relative whom you trust and whose advice you value, to act as a sounding-board and test each of the ideas with them.

You certainly appear to have a clear and positive view of where you want to get to and your focus will need to be on exactly which career that could be.