- Wesley McCabe
- Salem, OR
- United States
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If you could have done any other career what would it have been?
After college many people get a job and stick with that specific genre of life.
Yet many people find their true bliss after they already have a degree and a family.
So now that I have asked you what else you wish you could have done what is it?
Silvia Marinova 20+
I'd do the same thing (teaching) and everything else as a hobby. :D
I can't limit myself and have just 1 career ... at the moment I'm trying out photography, writing and I'm studying children's psychology. Where am I going? I don't know but I'm sure all this will get me where I want to be: happy. :)
tishe Hires 10+
Silvia Marinova 20+
Patrick McCarthy
We work for money to aid our quality of life. Intelligence also says that if we learn and study and attain our hearts fulfillment through achieving a certain goal, this also is to our credit and hard work and it also assist others inevitably.
But in the end we can only imagine what we might otherwise have done in our working lives.
In my own case, I would have sort more education in my early years, but the ignorance of youth took over and I drifted a while. I am now happy in my present job of eight years, nearing my retirement keeps me happily ensconced without too much concern at this stage for seeking other job satisfaction.
I recommend seeking an all rounded, balanced, and on going quality education, before worrying too much about what might have been.
Thomas Brucia
Is refusing to accept money for what one does mean that the activity or activity stream (career) is a hobby? Is a person who spends his life doing hobbies involved in a career? If someone offers to pay someone doing a hobby, does the hobby then become a career (or if for a shorter time, a job)?
I spend my time in Second Life doing things.... I don't get paid a linden for the things I do. In fact I spend real life money to stay in my adopted 'nation' (which exists only virtually in who knows how many servers...). Are the cool projects I do there jobs? (I commit to deadlines and work.... exploring alternatives). I have no idea! Some would frown at my lack of 'seriousness'. Some think I shouldn't do things if I'm not going to get paid.
I'm a backpacker and maybe that influences me..... I've never been paid a dime for backpacking either. It would be really, really strange if someone were to pay me for the mile walked..... Even stranger would be having lots of pieces of paper called money in my backpack. I wouldn't be able to eat them (though perhaps they would be useful for starting fires....). It's kinda cool when you get someplace and offer the little scraps of paper to folks and they *do* give you food, though!
I think it might be nice to (continue) to write short stories and give them away to friends in Second Life. Now that would be a cool career. And since I'd have to be paid for writing stories to have my writing fall into the category called 'job', maybe I could charge a linden each (that's about 1/250th of a dollar). Or I could skip the hassle and let my writing *not* be a career.
I think I may start publicizing websites using Twitter... haven't done that yet. I don't think I'll charge, though..
Wesley McCabe
Mustapha Naciri
Sabin Muntean 30+
So although I don't necessarily regret not having studied it, medicine is something I find very interesting and challenging.
In school I chose physics over biology ultimately because it meant learning a lot less by heart.
YURY MIRONOV
Time after time I ask to my self: what Im do now and love I do it? If I answer to myself - NO, I start to think what to do further and I start to search for a new way for self-realization. It is very heavy, sometimes on it leaves about several months.
I'm from Russian and I see right now that such kind of question arises not only at me and my acquaintances, in my city, my country, but even it is far for some thousand kilometers on other continent at people with other culture.
I'm working on my speciality for 6 years. After three years I have understood that it not to be pleasant to me and I have started to search for that could be to me interesting that I would like to do. I'm was 26 years old at that moment and I stiil don't know what to do what is my interest???
As one Russian proverb speaks: "Under a lying stone - water doesn't flow! So, In parallel with my work I have started to go on different courses in search of myself. I have studied: the web-design, has gone to learn English, I study search engine optimization at home. I have started travel in Europe studying culture of these countries and people. I spent for all it all my money and time and whether I have been assured correctly what I do.
And once, I have understood that to be pleasant to me: English language, programming and travel. After that II try to connect all these directions in a single whole.
Casually, I have told about it to my schoolmate who lives 4 years in New York. On what she has told to me: well, it is great that you learn English, practise language further, learn Java programming and come to New York or Canada. It will connect all your interests which you have already found: English language, programming and travel. And your life will turn over!!! I have started to search where I could learn Java programming and practise the English!
So I'm here and I practice right now.
And I want to tell that always it is necessary to move forward and sometime you will find yourself!
Good luck!
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Robin Patin 10+
That's the past. One thing that people will tell you today is that careers are not linear. You'll do one thing for several years then migrate to something else. The reality is that your college major or even graduate degree really are not that relevant ten years out.
Degrees are important - but all they say is that you can show up more or less for four years, warm a chair, and keep a desk from flying off into space. But degrees do open doors and employers look for degrees when making hiring decisions.
If I could do any other career - why is the question hypothetical? I CAN do any other career. Now that I am out of school, its up to me to make that leap and chart my own course.
My own story - I finished grad school at 22 with a Masters in Health. Worked in Public Health for two years and hated being underpaid and under appreciated. Decided to switch to Healthcare Consulting. Hated being overpaid and under appreciated. I was not playing to my strengths and after five years had the courage to quit.
I took two suitcases and a one way ticket to Hamburg, Germany to teach English and found that I loved to teach and I was really good at it. A year later, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and earned a Coaching certificate. I just started working in Social Media full time in Europe.
Where is all of this leading? I don't know. Its like weaving a tapestry. As you put in each stitch, you can't really see what you are making. Only after weaving for a few years, you can look at your creation and say, "wow, I am making something great!"
Mostafa Gaafar 500+
That's what really assesses your true incentive.
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Simon Tam
I'm still working on my career: being my own boss, producing/performing music, and helping others! (It's more of a nights and weekends gig right now)
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I definitely recommend completing this before you start having children. You will save much unnecessary grief in the world.
Do a number of things that intrigue you. Keep in mind there is a learning curve. Also keep in mind anything that is worth something takes effort. Then focus your energy on the subject in which you flow. When you find what you love to do and focus on doing that, you will find yourself with amazing and beautiful people.
When you find yourself amidst the aggressive, hostile, adversary, or beating someone or yourself, you should stop and ask yourself, Is this what I love to be doing. Is this what I truly want to be?? Is this who I am?? That is when you need to go deep inside yourself and find your own truth.
When your being and your doing match, you are at your best self. That is bliss.
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Tissue and organ engineering
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