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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes! I would have never gone into anything education related. The pay is horrible and the hours are horrible. I would have gone into corporate America and at least would have been paid for the long hours.[/quote]

I’m the opposite. I would’ve gone into teaching because summers are off and there’s a pension![/quote]

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Same!  I have that corporate job and look longingly at teacher summers, stability and that pension.  Guess the grass is always greener.

I suppose we don't know when we choose careers where we will be living, what our child situation will be like, what our partner situation will be like, what the job market will be like.  It's to look back and say "oh this career would have  been a much better fit for my current lifestyle" but none of us have a crystal ball in college.[/quote]

Exactly. The career i picked in my early 20s (academic field science) involved lots of travel but also lots of early to mid career instability. That was fine! I was young, single, healthy, and could live cheap, and I really looked down on being stuck at a desk in an office.

A decade later, of course, I'm stuck at a desk in an office because academia and fieldwork weren't giving me the security, pay, and benefits necessary to raise the family i have now. If i could do it again I'd explore a wider variety of options but hindsight is 20/20. [/quote]

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