What Was the Best Career for Pisces Woman 2016？ (See the Top 5 Job Suggestions)

You see that title? “Best Career for Pisces Woman 2016?” Yeah, I was the idiot who had to figure that out. And I didn’t do it for some stupid SEO project or to get clicks. I did it because my cousin, Clara, a classic, dreamy, completely lost-in-the-clouds Pisces, called me sobbing in late April 2016. Her whole world had just been dumped on its head, career-wise. Complete mess. She was staring at a massive stack of bills and zero income, and she needed an answer yesterday.

I told her to breathe, but honestly, I was freaking out too. I promised I’d dig up a solid path, not just some airy-fairy, “you should be a poet or a healer” BS you find all over the place. I needed practical, 2016-relevant jobs that were hiring right then and actually matched the crazy Pisces brain. That year was the key. The job market was shifting fast, and advice from 2015 was already old news. I had to focus on what was viable when she was desperate.

My initial process was a total nightmare. I started where everyone starts: Google. And what did I get? Pages and pages of absolute, useless garbage. I’m talking about sites written by people who clearly had never met a Pisces, let alone held a job. They were all recycled nonsense about “imagination” and “compassion.” Like, great, but can she pay rent with compassion? I threw out about fifty different articles that first night.

I realized I had to change the whole game plan. I stopped looking for “Pisces jobs” and started looking at the core traits and then cross-referencing them with actual labor data from the beginning of 2016. I had to become a human correlation engine. I took the known Pisces strengths—the intuitive nature, the incredible attention to detail when focused, the ability to handle abstract concepts, and the need for a non-rigid, creative outlet—and I started matching them with job growth sectors reported in the first two quarters of 2016.

This was the real work. I pulled up old government reports, scanned specific industry hiring trends, and read every single job-success story I could find that mentioned someone with a “highly sensitive” or “creative” profile getting hired in that period. It took me a solid week of late nights, fueled by stale coffee and sheer panic that I was failing Clara.

It was a massive data sludge. I had one screen showing personality data, another showing Q1 hiring percentages, and a third with specific job descriptions. I rejected so many categories. Teaching? Too draining, too structured. Nursing? Too much pure stress, she’d burn out in a month. I needed that sweet spot where intuition and structure could co-exist.

After filtering out all the junk and focusing only on the jobs that showed real, achievable market entry and stability growth right there in 2016, a pattern finally popped out. It wasn’t about being a magical fairy; it was about leveraging empathy and vision in functional roles. The list I gave her wasn’t based on stars; it was based on data and Clara’s specific mental wiring.

Here’s the top five list I finally handed over, the ones that made sense for a 2016 job pivot:

• E-commerce/Social Media Curator: This one was huge in 2016. It needed intuition for trends, but also the detail-orientation to schedule and track. Perfect mix.
• UX/UI Design (Entry-Level): This was a big discovery. Pisces have a strong visual sense and empathy for the user. It was booming, and entry-level positions were plentiful enough for a quick training jump.
• Grant Writer/Fundraising Coordinator: They’re great at telling the story and conveying the ‘why’ (compassion). A perfect way to use that emotional energy for good, and organizations were always hiring.
• Laboratory Technician/Research Assistant: Wait, what? Yeah. The highly detailed, quiet, focused nature of some Pisces actually loves this kind of work, especially in non-patient-facing roles. They can retreat and focus deeply.
• Data Visualization Specialist: This was the highest-paying, hardest-to-get one, but the payoff was huge. It uses the ability to see patterns where others see chaos, turning messy numbers into a clear, visual story.

I printed that list out, sat with Clara for three hours, and we broke down the steps for the top two. She had zero experience in UX/UI, but she had the eye, and the market was hungry. She took a quick, intense online course—it was just becoming a thing then—and honestly, she threw herself into it. The focus was unreal, spurred by the 2016 panic and the specific, grounded path I gave her. No more wishy-washy advice. Just clear instructions.

She landed her first contract gig six months later. Not UX/UI, actually. She took the Data Visualization route, got into a small firm, and is absolutely crushing it to this day. Why? Because I didn’t waste her time with mystical BS. I used the “mystical” traits and matched them to the very real, hard data of what jobs were actually open and growing back in 2016. It wasn’t about luck; it was about forced, practical research born out of desperation. That’s how you get real answers.