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Topic: Alternate Profession
lilott Joined Thu 10/12/06 Posts: 2295	Sat 10/27/12 08:06 PM
Does retirement count as a job?

pyxxie13 Joined Wed 09/28/11 Posts: 3835	Sat 10/27/12 08:29 PM
Well this was my minor. So I suppose I would probably be a judge by now.

Bravalady Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 1034	Sat 10/27/12 10:04 PM
Animal trainer, magazine editor, gardener, paralegal, scientific researcher. The one job opportunity I ever regretted losing was as a legal researcher for an environmental company.

Simonedemidova Joined Mon 11/15/10 Posts: 8952	Sat 10/27/12 10:11 PM
Librarian, obstetrician, film producer!

s1owhand Joined Fri 05/18/07 Posts: 29437	Sat 10/27/12 10:52 PM
Does retirement count as a job? retirement is what happens after the job! but "Hobo" is close! or banker...kinda

jaded72 Joined Tue 12/06/11 Posts: 1456	Sun 10/28/12 08:31 AM
Performing artist....paleontologist.... playwright (can still do that one)....event planner... I figure I might have a couple of career changes left in me, and my grandparents lived into their late 90's, so I might still have a chance at a couple of them!

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Sun 10/28/12 08:35 AM
I'd be an elementary school teacher. I may still decide to do that.

manOfewwords Joined Wed 10/22/08 Posts: 29908	Sun 10/28/12 08:38 AM
I recent started my new career and I love it

pennyg281 Joined Thu 11/08/07 Posts: 4348	Sun 10/28/12 08:45 AM
I have often thought that i would make a good counselor or therapist. Or a nurse or dr the medical field fascinates me.

jemare Joined Fri 04/24/09 Posts: 2105	Sun 10/28/12 02:16 PM
I would love to write, but I know I would never have the patience for it, even with my wild imagination But I have thought off and on that I would be good at a bed & breakfast. Who knows, maybe some day. A relative who owned a successful motel told me I would be really good at it many years ago... seems something about having the gift of gab and a little tact are a good combination

Gossipmpm Joined Tue 03/03/09 Posts: 19414	Sun 10/28/12 02:18 PM
ohhh i know id be in the sex industry.....where i dont know...but thats where id be

FearandLoathing Joined Fri 12/28/07 Posts: 30121	Sun 10/28/12 02:19 PM
F*** professions...I'm going to be a renaissance man.

jacktrades Joined Tue 09/11/12 Posts: 4395	Sun 10/28/12 02:25 PM
With todays economy Im in survial mode but if I had a do over veternarian my dream is a farmer

LisaVa Joined Sun 10/28/12 Posts: 9	Sun 10/28/12 02:40 PM
consultant don't know what i would be consulted about but the thought of people wanting my opinion instead of me just offering it is sort of intoxicating!

navygirl Joined Sat 06/02/07 Posts: 8118	Sun 10/28/12 05:18 PM
If you were not at the job you currently have, what profession would you be pursuing? Make up artist or costume designer.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 10/28/12 06:53 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. My school needs a teacher of history of English libraries.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 10/28/12 06:59 PM Edited by wux on Sun 10/28/12 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. I throw away everything I write. So, I don't think I'd be a good writer. Now, now... there is nothing wrong in disseminating your work to the public. Even in the form you do it in. Whatever it takes, to get your words "out".

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 10/28/12 07:02 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian. 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. You last sentence above is a profound and wickedly true statement.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 10/28/12 07:10 PM Edited by wux on Sun 10/28/12 07:17 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?! Maybe you could branch out to veterinary neurosurgery. Someone's pet canary has a stroke. You remove the blood clot from his brian. Someone's favourite bee has spinal injury. You reconnect the severed strains of nerve bundles. Someone in tears and in an apparent state of high distress brings in her favourite fruit fly. You examine the little critter, and decide it needs cataract surgery. You perform the operation on the spot, since fruit flies only live 553 hours, and every minute counts. Slow and steady hand, guiding the surgeon's knife with the decisive precision of determi-na-shun, while you feel the patient's owner up with the other hand.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 10/28/12 07:11 PM
If I could do whatever I wanted and make a decent living, I'd become a musician. If Mick Jagger could do it, why do you think you can't?