Your Job and how you chose it

[Diver0001]

I'm not sure what I do but I know I got there by not saying "no" often enough...

These days I spend most of my time running ICT related projects or taking the helm in the middle of the sinking of the Titanic.

It's given me a good sense of humor but my beard is going grey.

When I grow up I really want to work as the lands-keeper in a large cemetery.

....Or fly to the moon in a rocket.....

R..

 

[97fxdwg]

My Dad was a surveyor and so therefore I was his "chainkid" from age 8. Hated it until I grew up and out, saw the world care of Uncle Sam, miscellaneous other jobs (lots!), then hooked up with the construction of the Tran-Alaska Pipeline.
Been a surveyor in the northern Alaska (North Slope) oilfields ever since. 2 weeks on - 2 weeks off. I can play for half the year! THANKS DAD!!

 

[rmediver2002]

I did not know what I wanted to do after high school, I ended up joining the Army during Desert Storm as an MP. Within a year I ended up volunteering for the Army engineer dive program.

I have been in the water since, I love what I do.

Don't settle for anything in life or love... Keep looking until you find the right thing, everything in between is just expanding your experience!

Good luck!!

Jeff

 

[Kat]

I'm still looking for the perfect job.
(sigh)

I've feel like I've done a little bit of everything.

Retail
Office
Waitressing
Bartending
Modeling
Dancer
Receptionist
Import/Export
Catering
Bartending - lots of bartending
Night Club Manager
Customer Service
Travel Industry

I get bored easily. I can't stay somewhere longer then about two years. I have been in the travel industry for over 6 years now. I do like the job, but there are days when I REALLY want to quit. It is the travel benefits that have kept me from leaving.

I also do volunteer work. I do fundraising for a non-profit organization.

 

[neil]

I started playing the bass in the fifth grade. It was all I ever liked to do so I made a career (cough, sputter) out of it. Oh, and later I discovered scuba so I teach that now and then.

 

[mstevens]

I'm a psychiatrist. When I started college, I thought I might want to be a high school biology teacher, but realized that a) not many high schoolers want to be taught biology and b) I didn't like many high schoolers. Since a BS in biology is otherwise not very useful, I went to medical school. Lots of things there were fun but (greatly to my surprise) psychiatry was the most fun for me, so I did that.

Over the years I was a lifeguard/WSI, "Animal Care Specialist" (the guy who cleaned up the rat cages), shipping clerk, housekeeper, autopsy diener (the guy who assisted at autopsies and washed off the tables), and for a single memorably hideous night a waiter. About a decade ago I was a medical school professor for a few years. So far, lifeguard and doctor have been the most fun.

It's worth thinking about the future now, but there's no way to know where life might take you. The trick is not to close off your options prematurely and to remain open to change. If you do what you love, you'll end up much happier than if you work merely for money.

 

[H2Andy]

i'm a lawyer. have only been a lawyer for 5 years.

before that, i was a college teacher (never full time). i was always broke. couldn't
make enough money. got tired of being broke all the time. got tired
of administrators who made twice as much as me telling me what to do.

i figured, i could read, write, and b.s., so i'd go to law school

it's sure been a ride

 

[PaulChristenson]

My advice to the originator of the thread: Find something you are passionate doing. It will make you rise to the top of what you do. It will get you through tough economic times and will make the work politics less difficult to put up with.

Bump...

And make sure they can't outsource it...

Semi-retired...
Currently cover Fire/EMS/Hazmat/Rescue calls for local Fire Department
Hay farm for horses...2 cuts a season
Teach skiing on and off...currently off this season

Was a problem solver...it sort of chose me...

 

[Bratface]

I'm a Registered Nurse and have been one since God was a boy. I like helping people learn how to talk to their doctor and be independent with their health care needs (like teaching them to give their own insulin injections instead of having a family member do it). I have the strange ability to convince people that I have to hurt them a little while doing a procedure (like starting an IV or get a shot) and they're going to let me do it. I like to see them "get it" when it comes to what I am teaching them about their illness or injury, and I really like to see them get better.

I like surgery patients over medical patients. Surgery people get well and usually go away. Medical patients sometimes like the sick role and the attention it brings. Other times, they aren't going to get well which is sad. Then I just try to help them accept the hand they've been dealt.

 

[tstormdiver]

My first job out of college was as a licensed veterinary technician. I had several other jobs before college & during college (restaurants & the university horse farm). I worked in a mixed animal practice (both farm & companion animal) for 6 years. At that point I was only making about $7.00/ hr. Not a good way to get out on your own. lain: One of the veterinarian's wife worked at a local paper mill that had just recently opened up a few year before. I had tried to get on when the mill first started hiring, but I was 1 of over 25,000 that tried for the 200 positions there (I didn't have a snowball's chance in he!!) Any way I found out from the veterinarian's wife that they were hiring. I got my resume together and put in an application as a laboratory technician (my vet tech courses had a lot of diagnostic lab courses in its cirriculum). About a month later I got called for an interview. I went through 3 interviews & some testing to get on. I am now the primary process lab technician on my crew in the Recycled Fiber department (that's right I test the pulp before it goes on to become toilet paper or paper towels). When asked why I left the veterinary clinic, I ususally reply that it was the difference between makin $15,000/ yr or $50,000/ yr. No contest.