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

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I invest in real estate and there is nothing I'd rather spend my time doing [beyond hanging with family]. I feel v lucky.

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Teacher. Hear me out:

I wanted to be a teacher but I also wanted to make money so i went into law. I practiced for a minute, then became a SAHM. I wasn’t able to continue to work part time or maintain connections, and for that and other reasons going back into law would be really difficult. If I had just gone into teaching like I had plannedI would have had more work experience before having kids and I’d have some in-demand credentials. A lot of my friends and relatives who became teachers have awesome jobs in government, non-profit sector, charter schools, various interesting companies, etc. And some are still at public school and stick it out despite everything.

I am a substitute teacher now and I plan on becoming a real teacher when the kids are a little older.

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David McCullough

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I think I would love to be a set dresser.

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I’m a teacher. I’m fascinated by the multiple teacher responses. I would never recommend this field and wish I didn’t pick it. I’m really good at it, but I’m burned out.

I’m not sure what profession I’d like, but I would like flexible hours and fewer of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I’m fascinated by the multiple teacher responses. I would never recommend this field and wish I didn’t pick it. I’m really good at it, but I’m burned out.

I’m not sure what profession I’d like, but I would like flexible hours and fewer of them.

I mentioned teacher. I wouldn’t want to do it forever but I want the experience and I am really jealous of the jobs my former-teacher friends have. They didn’t stay but don’t regret having done it. I actually want something that’s not flexible because I’m tired of being the flexible spouse who is always available to do stuff. DH can have a turn with that.

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Music

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Some of my favorite threads of DCUM ask this question, with someone inevitably pipping in with journalist by the third page, and all the DCUM ex-journos coming in with their regrets and horror stories. Hello my people!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I’m fascinated by the multiple teacher responses. I would never recommend this field and wish I didn’t pick it. I’m really good at it, but I’m burned out.

I’m not sure what profession I’d like, but I would like flexible hours and fewer of them.

What is it about teaching that people don’t know and should know? (I want to know)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I’m fascinated by the multiple teacher responses. I would never recommend this field and wish I didn’t pick it. I’m really good at it, but I’m burned out.

I’m not sure what profession I’d like, but I would like flexible hours and fewer of them.

What is it about teaching that people don’t know and should know? (I want to know)

NP: the stress and the constant demand of being "on." Do you have children? Imagine you now have 20-30+ of them. In one room. And they all are asking you for something. And their parents are asking you for something. And your boss, and your boss's boss is asking you for something. And you have to pee, but you can't leave your room until you get another adult to cover your class. But there isn't another adult.... and that's just the start. I am happy to go into all the different learning and behavioral challenges of the 20-30+ children, but I am too tired and burned out to write anymore. I have to go grade homework so I don't have a parent complaining on DCUM that their child's teacher never passes work back.

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Librarian. Or occupational therapist that works with preK kids. Or an instructional designer.

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Commercial real estate broker

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. I’m fascinated by the multiple teacher responses. I would never recommend this field and wish I didn’t pick it. I’m really good at it, but I’m burned out.

I’m not sure what profession I’d like, but I would like flexible hours and fewer of them.

I’m the PP who said teacher because it’s transferable to rural area. I have done some teaching and found it both intensely rewarding but also just plain intense which is why I walked myself back a bit. It’s possible I would have enjoyed teaching but it’s also pretty possible I would have burnt out within a year or two. Y’all are doing a hard job there.

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Anonymous wrote:Pro bono immigration attorney specializing in complex cases affecting poor people

So, you wish you were a trustfunder?