Credit Watchers

I don’t have a degree, I just climbed the ladder so to speak through my own abilities & practical intelligence. I have done business to business credit control & credit management. My skills are that I have good negotiation skills, time management, ability to implement new ideas I have in terms of efficiency, etc, staff training & monitoring, hiring, meeting deadlines, meeting targets, complying with the companies policies, being cooperative with other departments & team members, etc.

Things I’m not very good at are public speaking & I’m not that good at relationship building internally as it seems kind of fake & I’m a private person & don’t want everyone knowing my business re my personal life, etc. I also have my own social life outside of work & don’t want to relationship build with people at work by socialising after work with them as it means I don’t have much time to see my own friends & family & that makes me feel resentful. I am good at team work & will help out anyone, but this is a different thing to relationship building. I am ok re building a rapport & relationship with customers though, although to date I’ve only needed to speak to them over the phone & not see them in person.

I have no interest in learning public speaking (although I’m ok at informal stuff like a leaving speech for if my staff are leaving, etc) & I’m not too interested in relationship building within the organisation either.
I would also prefer not to manage staff (I quit this 2 years ago & have successfully found positions paying a similar amount, but with no staff supervision involved). I also don’t want to work in cut throat type environments. I have in the past & I can survive in them, but at the same time it’s negative & unpleasant & I don’t wish to work in those environments anymore.

I have considered doing IT as I’ve been told that’s a strength of mine, but when I looked into it I don’t think I’d be good at learning computer language & all the highly technical stuff. I’m good at “big picture” stuff like overviewing implementing a new system into your department & all the repercussions of that & I’ve done system testing, etc. It seems all the well paying IT jobs require a computer science degree though & that takes 3 years full time & I can’t afford to do that, plus I don’t think I’m smart enough.

I also considered commercial property management as it involves similar skills to the ones I have, but again they require a Bachelor of Property which is 3 years study. And it involves university level maths to obtain that degree & I don’t think I’m smart enough for university level maths.

What else can you think of that might suit me? I’m good at what I do & have great references & people think I’m smart & innovative, but I’m also seen as being kind of shy for the business world. I get by ok though, as long as I don’t have to do a power point presentation or anything! Unfortunately I have rosacea which means if you are slightly hot or drinking alcohol at a company function, etc, my face flushes red. I think this is one of the things that makes me shy at work compared to other people at my level. I’ve been told it comes across as being unprofessional, but as it’s a medical condition I can’t help it so that’s kind of mean. This is why I don’t want to do public speaking or have a high profile job, but even without that problem I still don’t like public attention.
Oh yeah, should point out that I find accountancy boring so can’t do that. Too much detail with no customer or people contact, for the most part. Although I do enjoy the facts & figures part of credit management, but somehow accountancy bores me to tears when I hear accountancy colleagues talking about their jobs!