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"I don't see myself working in Ireland again," admitted Kerr. "Of course I see myself in football.
"At this stage I don't know where that is going to be, whether it is going to be in the UK or whether it is going to be on the continent. I just have to wait and see what comes about but I very definitely want to work.
"I feel I am a much better manager and a much better person for the time I spent as senior manager. I am just disappointing it wasn't longer."
Kerr is still continuing his practice of going to Britain to watch matches although he admits that it is very hard when he realises that he is no longer in charge of Ireland.
"It is funny how I am now in a situation where I am still watching matches and still watching our players playing and my reaction is often that I need to talk to him and tell him some little thing I thought he could improve on.
"And then I realise that's not my job any more and they'll be someone else's players."
Kerr still feels hard done by and believes that the decision by the association was a knee-jerk reaction to the failure to qualify for the World Cup.
"If people analyse deeply and properly the strength of the squad we had, the type of system that the players were playing in, the opposition we were playing against and the possibilities and were realistic enough about it they would look at it and say 'we got it right almost always'. There were days when we made occasional mistakes, but that's football."
Kerr says he has been overwhelmed by the amount of goodwill that the Irish public have shown to him and says that they have been very supportive of him.
However, the same cannot be said of his former employers in Merrion Square, who have kept their distance from a man who brought so much success and progress to Irish football since 1997.
"I was very, very hurt. I had worked for nine years in lots of roles for the association, for the one employer and as a full time employee. So to be dispatched, cut off, more or less overnight was quite hurtful and disappointing.
"But that was their entitlement and that was the decision of the wise men of the association.
"Of course you feel you are owed a little bit more of an explanation or an understanding of the logic but people don't have to do that if they don't want to. That's fine by me, I'll move on, but it wouldn't be how I would have done my job," said Kerr.