I'm presently a Quality Engineer in manufacturing.
My job description involves a lot of getting bitched at (by assembly workers because they don't want to follow the specifications, by management because they don't want to scrap out the product that clearly doesn't meet the print, by auditors because the assembly workers aren't following the specifications, by the customer because management sent the product I tried to scrap). There's some other dry, boring, engineering stuff like updating documents, but it's mostly getting bitched at and trying to prevent further bitching.
Engineering bores me. Everyone else in my family is an engineer (Mom, Dad, two adult brothers) and at holidays they will literally sit around the dinner table and talk about engineering things. It bores the life out of me, but they talk about that shit like it is the very PURPOSE of their souls. I can't even keep up with the conversation because my brain is just so bored by the whole thing that it refuses to follow the thread for long. It's pretty obvious that this is not my calling.
I'm not *exactly* sure what I want to do, but I think it revolves around marketing/entrepreneurship/outreach.
I like taking nothing and turning it into something. I volunteer with a local animal rescue, and I volunteered to manage their Facebook page. Within a year, I'd increased their # of fans from 180-something to nearly 2,000 (it's a rural area). We desperately needed supplies and monetary donations were at a trickle, so I planned a huge party with food and games and prizes, and spread the world all over town. I made a gift registry at a few local stores and we had tons of people show up to meet the adoptable animals, eat some snacks, play some games, and drop off "gifts" for the animals.
My youngest brother wants to open up a craft brewery, and contacted me about how to actually do it (I have an MBA). I am on FIRE about this idea, and my brain can not stop thinking of how to make it work, how to get the word out to beer enthusiasts, how to plan events that will get people into the tasting room. I've already got a notebook half full of ideas and things to think about further.
My brother doesn't really care about all the business stuff. He just wants to get paid for brewing beer.
I couldn't give a toss about the brewing (I mean yeah, I love beer, but I don't want to make it myself). I just want to take this thing that is only an idea and make it HAPPEN.
The thing is, I'm not sure how to make a living making something out of nothing.