Dear doremi:

Review your work history, looking in previous threads on this website and make a list of Good Experiences (what made you content at jobs)/ Bad Experiences (what made you miserable at jobs)- so you two lists. You can highlight in orange, let’s say, the worst experiences, those you want to avoid at any cost. And highlight in yellow the best experiences, those most desirable.

Then, when you consider a new job- interview (ask questions) people doing that job, there and/ or elsewhere- and make a list of the experiences those people told you about, that is, the experiences you can reasonably expect to have, and see if that list fits with the Good Experiences List or the Bad Experiences List.

anita