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Topic: Alternate Profession
s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 06:49 PM
If you were not at the job you currently have, what profession would you be pursuing?

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 06:55 PM
Well...it is to late for me to pursue it now but I would have made a wonderful doctor. As for the job I have now it is the best in many ways that I have had in a long time. Don't hate going to work and that is a big improvement in my life. Would be better if I had any benefits...medical etc but still not to bad.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Sat 10/27/12 06:58 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 06:59 PM
that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 07:00 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English teacher or in history though...

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:01 PM
that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too Being or 'playing' doctor? Playing you have probably done....

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:03 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be.

thewaterbearer Joined Sun 10/25/09 Posts: 19759	Sat 10/27/12 07:04 PM
I am currently happy with the profession that I am in, working with developmentaly disabled people, the second profession I am curious about is a long haul truck driver, been curious about that for years, those big rigs fascinate me.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Sat 10/27/12 07:04 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English teacher or in history though... Yeah, out of the three, I'd have to pick librarian as my top choice. The problem with teaching any subject would be the students.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Sat 10/27/12 07:05 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be. I throw away everything I write. So, I don't think I'd be a good writer.

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:08 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English teacher or in history though... Yeah, out of the three, I'd have to pick librarian as my top choice. The problem with teaching any subject would be the students. Years ago I was a mass transit bus driver, the problem with that job was the passengers!

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Sat 10/27/12 07:09 PM
Years ago I was a mass transit bus driver, the problem with that job was the passengers! Yeah....you get it.

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:10 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be. I throw away everything I write. So, I don't think I'd be a good writer. I keep everything I write, might be a mental disorder...

markecephus Joined Sun 10/07/07 Posts: 13831	Sat 10/27/12 07:14 PM
If i didn't work here, i would go back to my profession, which is an electrical superintendent. That pretty much died along with any construction in the southern states 4 years ago.

TexasScoundrel Joined Wed 10/29/08 Posts: 3693	Sat 10/27/12 07:19 PM
If I could do whatever I wanted and make a decent living, I'd become a musician.

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 07:21 PM
that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too Being or 'playing' doctor? Playing you have probably done.... haven't "played" dr since about kindergarten. but i recall it was fascinating. of course then my patient insisted on playing nurse next....

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 07:24 PM
If I could do whatever I wanted and make a decent living, I'd become a musician. that's too easy - if you say that a decent living would be assured! what if the music route was not a certainty?

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:25 PM
that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too Being or 'playing' doctor? Playing you have probably done.... haven't "played" dr since about kindergarten. but i recall it was fascinating. of course then my patient insisted on playing nurse next.... LOLOLOL Kidding aside, what type of Dr do you think you would have been best as? I think I would have enjoyed bringing people into the world but best at helping them leave.

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 07:35 PM
I actually do a lot of detailed work sometimes using a microscope which requires very steady hands. I could have been a surgeon. I like to fix things and also have a strong desire to help people. I also like puzzles so that any diagnostic specialty could have been a possibility for me. But to tell you the truth it is very emotionally draining for me to have to deal with death and dying of others. I think the hardest situation for me would have been something like oncology or neurosurgery where many patients have catastrophic illness and a very poor prognosis. Perhaps cosmetic surgery would have been better for me?!

seamac Joined Sun 03/22/09 Posts: 3104	Sat 10/27/12 07:43 PM
I actually do a lot of detailed work sometimes using a microscope which requires very steady hands. I could have been a surgeon. I like to fix things and also have a strong desire to help people. I also like puzzles so that any diagnostic specialty could have been a possibility for me. But to tell you the truth it is very emotionally draining for me to have to deal with death and dying of others. I think the hardest situation for me would have been something like oncology or neurosurgery where many patients have catastrophic illness and a very poor prognosis. Perhaps cosmetic surgery would have been better for me?! For (most of) these reasons, the medicine I would have been best at, helping people leave this life, would also have been the hardest and most draining. Great success, early burnout and then perhaps onto my life as a writer.