Have you thought about being a (local) politician? From a voter‘s perspective, this sounds like someone I would like to be my town’s mayor. You can grasp a large variety of things, you can meaningfully talk to experts in many fields and then bring their different ideas together in your policy.
Of course politics is a field with its own very special rules that may not have much to do with actual understanding of the subjects at hand. But I’m not talking POTUS or senator and maybe not even mayor. Even in smaller towns there are a couple of positions to fill. (I’m from Germany but this is true for many countries; maybe it’s true for yours. I’m presuming you’re from the US and I just noticed that I would rather not presume that, but I guess I do most of the time on HN.)
This comment is wonderful. As somebody who works with local politicians and community leaders professionally I really appreciate this good advice. I would add - local government, either through election, government office work, or consulting often offers (and demands) a very large breadth of topic knowledge and work.
Have you thought about strategic consulting (government or otherwise)?
I'll provide a real life example - my background education is in law, but I work professionally consulting on Emergency Management. For the entirety of COVID I have been working with my local government to stabilize our food bank network as they navigate food system supply chain issues that have caused serious suffering in our food insecure population. Prior to this I have consulted on land mobile radio systems, website design, fire fighter line of death inquires, mass vaccination, and many other areas.
Consulting offers this amazing opportunity to soft "quit" a job when a project ends, but offers continuous employment through your consulting firm. Over a career, you get to see the inside of dozens of different operations, and you always bring an outside perspective. You are hired, in part, to solve unique problems and work on hard tasks where your breadth of knowledge will be appreciated and work as an advantage for you. And, if you have a client you hate working with or for, you are always just a few months from moving on to the next one. :-)
Of course politics is a field with its own very special rules that may not have much to do with actual understanding of the subjects at hand. But I’m not talking POTUS or senator and maybe not even mayor. Even in smaller towns there are a couple of positions to fill. (I’m from Germany but this is true for many countries; maybe it’s true for yours. I’m presuming you’re from the US and I just noticed that I would rather not presume that, but I guess I do most of the time on HN.)