Match me to a career field!

Post date: 2020-05-21 08:34:10

Please help me figure out what I want to do in life. After working with a career coach, I have more awareness around my distinguishing characteristics and what I like/don't like, but I don't know where I want to take it. I'm 30 and have a J.D. but don't want to practice law. Below the fold: (1) my vague sense of what I'm looking for (2) list of likes/dislikes (3) info about me.

Looking for:
- An environment with some structure
- A culture that's not super-competitive
- The opportunity to make good money down the road

Like:
- Thinking about systems, creating workflows, redesigning processes, and how to organize people
- Better understanding complex things and finding easy-to-understand ways to explain them
- Feeling connected to the people I'm working with
- Talking to and interacting with people
- Being looked to as a leader, mentor, or expert
- Presenting

Dislike:
- Emotionally challenging work
- Under-resourced environments
- Negative cultures

I am:
- Very motivated
- Achievement-oriented
- Disciplined
- Creative
- Smart
- Not adversarial
- Sweet
- Naturally detail-oriented
- Good at making things
- Interested in studying the body (e.g. anatomy, yoga, physical therapy-type things)
- Musically inclined
- Good at logical, analytic thinking (99th percentile on the LSAT) but haven't felt happy exercising this side of me
- Moving to NYC (where I'm from) or Philadelphia in a year or less
- Parent to a 15-month-old and hoping to have another kid soon (though please don't make this the main consideration, as I'm looking for long-term paths)
- Able to consider opportunities that don't make a ton of money at the beginning

The Question: Would you please (a) suggest career paths / opportunities I might pursue long-term and (b) tell me if there's anything more entrepreneurial I could do that would still have some structure and otherwise fit my profile?

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