If I could start over, I'd like to be a psychologist/therapist and help people better know themselves and live more fulfilling lives. Not the hard kind of psychiatry prescribing meds and dealing with people with mental illnesses/substance addiction, etc. The easy kind where you just talk for an hour-long session in a nice office with flowers, tissue, a comfy couch.

Military. My entire immediate family are (various) academy grads, and now they actively disrespect me because I did not join. Call them names and say it doesn't matter all you want, but my family life would have been easier if I'd checked that box, at least for four years.

set designer for the movies or a very successful interior designer like Bunny Williams.

Meteorologist

I'm a librarian. I like what I do just fine, and the career is well suited for my personality and skill set. The salary pays the bills; I'll never be rich, but I'm comfortable with my income + DH's. But I wouldn't say I'm passionate about it, and I doubt I'll ever be. It's a job, nothing more.

I wonder where things would've been if I'd pursued my first love: singing. I could never hack it as a Broadway or opera singer; I don't have that type of voice, and doubt I could be trained as such. However, I have a great deal of choral and solo singing experience in all types of groups, singing in different languages, and have a solid background in music theory, pitch and ear training. Perhaps I could've made a career out of it - cantoring, leading church choirs, and/or participating as a paid singer in chamber or early music groups. I currently do some of that on a volunteer basis but would love to do more. Maybe I will look into it as a second career, once my kids are older and I may have more flexibility with not sticking to a strictly 9-5 M-F job.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve realized that I genuinely don’t want a job at all. I hate working for others, but I also don’t like managing anyone, or working everyday to build something. I just want to have a series of hobbies that may or may not produce anything, that can be picked up and dropped whenever. Most of the time I just want to read or surf the internet.

Soul sibling.

sign me up, but please don't assign me any hours i have to be there

yeah, there's a lot of things i enjoy imagining doing - and so few that i would actually want to do, day in, day out then again the next day, and again the day after that.

i loved being a journalist because i got to dip into so many different areas of life, get really interested in them, understand them as well as i could, then move on. i got burned out on the industry, though.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve realized that I genuinely don’t want a job at all. I hate working for others, but I also don’t like managing anyone, or working everyday to build something. I just want to have a series of hobbies that may or may not produce anything, that can be picked up and dropped whenever. Most of the time I just want to read or surf the internet.

Soul sibling.

I wish I had gone to beauty school or become a teacher.

Just want to be a mensch

I’ve realized that I genuinely don’t want a job at all. I hate working for others, but I also don’t like managing anyone, or working everyday to build something. I just want to have a series of hobbies that may or may not produce anything, that can be picked up and dropped whenever. Most of the time I just want to read or surf the internet.

Average F1 driver.

Elementary school teacher or dog sitter.

Had I been wealthy, I would’ve loved to have been either: an interior designer with a firm like Cullman & Kravis, comedy show writer/actor, doll house creator, or city developer.

Anonymous wrote:I want to be a wedding singer.

Ooh I like her

I want to run an airbnb on maui.