What job or career do you wish you'd chosen?

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Anonymous wrote:If I came from money - teaching because we need teachers and I'd be a good math teacher. If I had the brains, medicine or healthcare administration because again I like to help people. My real life job pays well but isn't that transferable and career gaps are a big negative.

I’m a nurse. Wow, I’m not at all used to the concept of healthcare administration helping people.

Lol right? That’s like saying the medical insurance execs are doing their jobs based on “helping people”.
- also in the industry

I'm not even in the healthcare industry but in government. I had a former boss when I worked in retail who had eteranl RBF and worked in HR. She would ignore serious complaints such as people in authority having sex with their peers at work but then overworked people in her department until they left. She got her masters in healthcare admin and works for davita. Supposedly they've been under fire for their ethics and for overpaying their managers and underpaying the nurses. I can totally believe sick f.cks like her work in healthcare admin and how they do their least to help people. More like help themselves to the cash.

This, healthcare administration and pharma lobbying are just sick profiting from people's illness and stress when they are at their most vulnerable. Unethical and gross.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s never too late. I was working in a boring DC job where I had been for almost a decade when I decided to start applying for any job on LinkedIn that looked interesting and sending people general resumes. Got a call back from a really cool tech company I had been following/using products from for many years in my personal life. Long story short they ended up offering me an unadvertised job making more than double what I was making and working with the company head who I admired deeply (but I had never met).

I love this story! Congrats.

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Anonymous wrote:Initially, I wanted to be a flight attendant. Grew up in a very strict household and pretty much could only leave home to get married Ended up working in Administrative positions. I wish I would have gone into foreign service, like working at the US Embassy around the world. When I attending college at night, didn't know that was an option

If it makes you feel better, it’s almost impossible to get into the foreign service

Also it kinda sucks. Just sending "cables" lol and other paper pushing.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to be a wedding singer.

That does sound incredibly fun.

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I would like to be a philanthropist.

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A professional encourager - would this be a therapist?

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I am a math teacher.

I think I would have enjoyed being an occupational therapist. Still teaching, problem solving, working with people, helping profession, but a bit more flexible in terms of how I could use it--in a hospital, in private practice, work for myself, in a school setting, part time, etc.

I love (most of) my job, I love (most of) the kids, but I'm burnt out on the workload and can't find a way to make it a reasonable level of work and still pay the bills. If I were independently wealthy and/or didn't need benefits, I'd just private tutor. I love working one on one with kids and being able to actually teach them at the speed and level that is appropriate for them.

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National Parks Ranger

NYT Bestselling Novelist

Cotton Candy Artist

Florist but with a wealthy spouse

Fig Farmer (ditto above)

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Oyster farmer! Allergic to regular farms.

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to be a philanthropist.

or

A professional encourager - would this be a therapist?

Life coach

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My biggest career regret is acting. My mom was a widowed and overworked but did have braces. My teeth pretty crooked and one tooth even slightly yellow. I did not push it as she said boys don’t need it and who has time.

Then to my annoyance I had a chance to audition to be a Friend of Blackie on All My Children. Blackie was played by John Stamos. My damn crooked teeth did me in,

Sucks

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I'm a college administrator but I wouldn't mind being a historian at the Spy Museum.

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Anonymous wrote:Initially, I wanted to be a flight attendant. Grew up in a very strict household and pretty much could only leave home to get married Ended up working in Administrative positions. I wish I would have gone into foreign service, like working at the US Embassy around the world. When I attending college at night, didn't know that was an option

If it makes you feel better, it’s almost impossible to get into the foreign service

If it makes you feel better, I have seen more foreign service officers with imploded marriages, toxic personalities, substance abuse problems, and delusions of grandeur than I have seen in the civil service/general workforce. That is an incredibly tough lifestyle that takes its toll on many. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't know about it/do it.

You forgot messed-up kids.

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I'm a waitress, but would love to be a nanny or a tutor.

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Anonymous wrote:National Parks Ranger

NYT Bestselling Novelist

Cotton Candy Artist

Florist but with a wealthy spouse

Fig Farmer (ditto above)

This is totally my list too, minus cotton candy artist! What job do you have now? (I’m a public sector management consultant.)

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Anonymous wrote:Initially, I wanted to be a flight attendant. Grew up in a very strict household and pretty much could only leave home to get married Ended up working in Administrative positions. I wish I would have gone into foreign service, like working at the US Embassy around the world. When I attending college at night, didn't know that was an option

If it makes you feel better, it’s almost impossible to get into the foreign service

If it makes you feel better, I have seen more foreign service officers with imploded marriages, toxic personalities, substance abuse problems, and delusions of grandeur than I have seen in the civil service/general workforce. That is an incredibly tough lifestyle that takes its toll on many. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't know about it/do it.

You forgot messed-up kids.

Yes to all of this! I happen to have one circle of friends which includes a group of FS officers; what a strange, intense and bitter bunch! All have f-ed up kids, marriages and seem to lean more narcissist than interest in the public good. Growing up, it seemed to be a neat lifestyle - you get to travel! learn new languages! learn new cultures! instead, it's a group of people who act like they are better than anyone else, in any other career choice ('I'm exceptional!') with screwed up lives.