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What would you have liked to have been.
Citta
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I am now moving towards retirement and have by and large enjoyed my job. But I was wondering recently what if I had been better at maths. I was ok..I got through my training, and back then one had to calculate each dose of insulin one gave for example..
But if I had the maths I would have loved to have been an engineer. The idea of producing something three dimensional and tangible is fascinating.
I don't regret at all the path my life took...but I wonder what it would have been like..
How about you ?
But if I had the maths I would have loved to have been an engineer. The idea of producing something three dimensional and tangible is fascinating.
I don't regret at all the path my life took...but I wonder what it would have been like..
How about you ?
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Never knew what I wanted to be at school, just kind of fell in to an apprenticeship and stuck with it. Still don't think there's anything I particularly want to do different with my career so just trying to focus on things that I enjoy and already have the skills to do. It got to a point where I was so far qualified that a career change became unfeasible financially. Everything should come together for me in the next couple of years and I'll build my empire from there!
So I'm totally satisfied career-wise. The other path would have been to go more into a geology-related profession.
I do wish I had seen Afghanistan and Tierra del Fuego, but hey, you can't have everything.
They are not medically qualified.
I should think Tierra Del Fuego is spectacular though.
A year after qualifying I loved my job but still felt there was something missing and I realised that maybe I was looking for some sort of life fulfilment from my work when actually I will only get it through living a fulfilling life. Another year on and looking more internally for fulfilment I am finding life and work a lot more satisfying.
I still see some of my colleagues chasing their excitement through work and getting frustrated when they get the stress they're looking for.
Depressing to think about. :bawl:
To be honest, I like jobs where I can help people. Whether it be a job to help people relax and enjoy their time away from their work (park ranger), or help someone who is being attacked or someone being unsafe (law enforcement), or someone in need of medical help (paramedic), or helping keep wildlife safe and stop nature from being destroyed (park service or forest service), I love this line of work. I can't ever see myself sitting behind a desk surrounded by thousands if not millions of people who are doing something very similar.
Oh well....
My dad retired when he was 49. He started working at his job when he was 18. His goal from the first day onward was to retire early and be able to enjoy his life and his grand kids rather than work until he was old, sick and tired. His plan worked out well for him. He's never bored, and still doesn't have enough hours in the day, lol. I don't think I could work a job I didn't like (he worked shift work for the entire career and lived 50 miles from his job) the way he did, but I admire him for having a goal so early in life and seeing it through for 31 years.
If I knew at 18 years old that at 56 years old I wished I became a cop instead of getting into gods-forsaken corporate IT crap, I would have studied criminal justice in college and gone to the police academy. I'd be retired by now on full pension, and able to take another job. But at least as much as for the money, I really believe in "To protect and serve".
Not to mention that just in my life I'd want to say to someone as I slapped on the steel bracelets "You are under arrest for [...]. You have the right to remain silent... "
And while there have been people who have become cops in their 40s and 50s, unfortunately I am the one in the handcuffs now... the golden handcuffs.
For a profession, as long as I'm helping those in need I'm happy.
I used to want to be all kinds of things and I've done some of them... I was always too broke for heavy courses but once I turned 40 I decided to go into healthcare. It's too late to do the schooling it takes to be a doctor so got my foot in the door with a personal support worker diploma. At the moment I'm a psw/ucp at a retirement home and I enjoy taking care of them all.
Is that ego driven? Probably.
He actually turned out relatively normal.
But I almost got to follow my passion - holistic healing.
Then I fell into IT
But I have done my Reiki certification and would like to add Aromatherapy and Remedial massage to it so that after my daughter finishes high school (another six years) I can change careers and not worry about school fees
Now, I'm a shop worker in the a.m and an artist in the p.m, the shop work I have to do to pay bills and feed myself, but at least the afternoons are a blast!
I'm determined to be able to make a full time living from being an artist at some point... in it for the long haul, and very much enjoying the ride.
That feels like waking from a dream and wishing it was another dream!
For me personally, I think the consideration of 'what it would have been like' is an interesting recurring proposition.
It feels like a left over from an equation that is applied by the mind constantly, perhaps desperately.
Should I do this or that?
In that question, memories are applied and appear as indicators - but they're not reality so their perception and consideration is in a sense the consideration of fantasy.
Could one know what it would have been like?
I think for me, I accept that the closest perception to what it was like must be what it is like now rather than my memory of it or the consideration of my memory of it - or in another way, if my memory is the perception of fantasy (but applied for a specific purpose) then the unfolding reality before me must be the only stomping ground... I say unfolding as I think future gazing is in a sense akin to the application of memory also.
I think therefore that whatever career I chose, I could only perceive that person as I perceive this person and my memories would hold the same place as they do now.
In a sense, when I consider my life as it continues, I am free to apply myself in any way I choose - sure, I may not be building a massive bridge but any DIY project is engineering isn't it? Any career is human endeavour - simply by being human, aren't all opportunities available within our specific and also general human limits?
Hmmm....
Sophia Loren; chronologically, between the ages of 25 and 55.
And I wouldn't mind sticking with Sophia Loren @ 55 for the next 25-30 yrs either!
If I had the brains, I'd love to be an astronaut (now I really sound like a kid)
We all can only work with the possibilities of our aptitudes
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@MaryAnne my father in law loves Sophia Loren. Truely a beauty, happy genetics.
I'd love to be able to sing like Stevie Nicks. Settling for her voice through the earphones is pretty good though.
My mother had a brilliant brain, but she never found an outlet for it. Sadly she ended up living most of her adult life in a torment.
Don't waste time.
What ever that might look like, I hope those dreams includes the 4 NT and how such likes can become causes for suffering.
I best liked "ourself's" awake!