What should I do with my career?

I need some suggestions.

I was very successful in my retail career. I worked as a manager and a buyer. Later I worked for some vendors. I enjoyed retail a lot. Interacting with people, working as a team, I really like the analytical part of the job also, and the visual. The thing is I don’t know if I want to commit to going back into the stores. The schedule, physically very hard on the body. Not sure I can get a higher level position realistically like district manager, which is appealng to me, and I do not live in a city where finding a buying job is likely. Working for the vendors is probably the ideal for me, but those jobs are hard to come by in general, and I am not living in a big retailers haven right now.

Then I went into selling real estate for a while. It was good, but where I live now I am not interested in it. The builders and developers are not creative enough for me, the realtors are very sharky here, and of course as everyone knows real estate is tough anyway right now.

Lastly, I have worked as an Executive Assistant to VP through CXO levels. I liked being a right hand person to someone, although being in an office all day I did miss the visual part of working in retail and real estate. When I had opportunity to evaluate marketing products and create documents it kind of helped satisfy that.

My degree is in Marketing. Still a field I feel well suited for.

Many people say they look for a challege. Generally for me what gives me job satisfaction is being fantastic at whatever I do. I really care about doing my job well and feeling valuable to the team and/or my direct supervisor.

I can’t seem to get it together and get started on my next career path.

Any creative suggestions from the collective?