career pondering

[rmd]

i'm on my second career now. soon i'll be due for a career change into career number three, but i have *NO* clue what career #3 might be.

which makes it difficult to try and bring it about, you know.

Comments

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

I could see you doing something with animals although I don't know what. There's something, I just can't figure out what it is. I could also see you working with teens, outreach or something. Pretty radical shift from what you've ever done before, but I think you'd be really good at it. Are you willing to go back to school? I have this dilemma myself. I'm definitely going to grad school sometime in the next couple years (when we can afford it and i don't have to pay childcare + tuition) but first I need to figure out FOR WHAT? I like helping professions - counseling, social work. Maybe working with the elderly. Maybe teaching, but the hard part is I hate the idea of dealing with the other administrators.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

The trouble seems to be that all the careers that appeal to me for their intrinsic worth, you know, the kinds of jobs that you'd do for love alone... you end up having to do for love alone. Plus maybe a stale cheese sandwich. Crime may not pay, but doing good works doesn't do much for the pocketbook either, alas.

Still, in my 'employment haitus' I'm really enjoying imagining all the jobs I could apply for that would really feed my soul, not just my bank account.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

You could move to Vermont and become an ostrich farmer.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Professional sloth. I'm finding that I'm pretty good at it.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Swashbuckler! You've got great swash.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Take a page from the gospel according to Travis McGee and become a "Salvage Consultant".

Seriously, same problem here. I know career #2.5 is coming, and I'm hesitant to jump directly into another job of career #1 unless I can see some way to use that to get to the next step. The trick is figuring out that next step, and hoping it can actually keep me fed.

And I agree with Janet. You swash like nobodies business. If you have crew openings on your galleon, I'm there. :)

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Do they have a wharf in Boston?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i don't think my knees are up for that. they're sore today just from kneeling on the floor of a machine room for an hour or so.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Yarrr, kneeling is for cabin boys. You'd be a cap'n.