Have you ever wished that you could have a magic "Reset" button when you hit mid-point in your career that allowed you to go back and follow another path to see if you could make a better choice?
I never would have gone to University and majored in Linguistics - I would have taken a practical degree like business or finance so I could get into the workforce with a really marketable skillset.
If I hadn't gone the business route, I probably would have looked at doing something in broadcasting, radio specifically. I was voted "Most Likely To Become A DJ" out of my high school grad class and it's always been someting that appealed to me. I like to talk and could easily see myself doing talk radio or something like that for a living....I just don't know what my DJ name would be! Leave suggestions below in the comments if you have gem to pass along tho...the best one gets a whole blog dedicated to it (sorry, I clearly have no real prizing to give - I understand if you'd rather not participate in this sham of a contest...) It'd be a fun time tho....blasting tunes or antagonizing idiots who called in with their stupid opinions (apparently not realizing how right I *always* am....LOL).
Either way tho, it's easy to fantasize about how one different decision might have radically changed my life.
I was almost a teacher, except I couldn't get into the faculty when I tried to transfer from Social Sciences so "Ms. Gamache - Social Studies & ESL" doesn't exist. (Save for in the back of my mind or when I try to defend the teaching profession to those who have decided all teachers are whiny & have a pretty easy job.)
I was almost a chef, being fascinated at the idea of cooking for a living and learning to do it really well. Chef Tavin never emerged due to my absolute distaste at the idea of eating seafood of any kind (along with any kind of organ meats etc). I know you don't have to love all food to be a good chef but you have to be willing to taste and I just wasn't so I thought it was better not to go that route.
I came very close to trying to get into management with Hallmark and pursuing a store of my own after working there quite happily for 4 years thru Uni. But! being told by my then manager that they "weren't keen on putting me on a management track because I was in school and they thought I was too likely to leave to risk it" and then being forced to quit when they wouldn't give me any hours made that career vanish as quickly as ornaments on Boxing Day.
Not to imply that there aren't plent of jobs I was never in danger of hanging on to - oh no!
I was your classic case of the "will do anything for a paycheck" student once I got out of school. I happily said good-by to various chump jobs over the years: a number of telemarketing jobs, short order cook/busser at the Hudsons Bay restaurant, sandwich "artist" at Subway, Orange Julius girl (still best chump job ever!), pricing an entire hardware store piece by piece, baker at Superstore (specializing in doughnuts), selling clothes to plus sized women (including lingerie to drag queens...*shudder*).
So now I find myself doing accounting and I like it altho more of a challenge would be welcome. I've been with the same company (or a version of it as we've been sold several times) for 13yrs this Fall and have a hard time believing it's been that long. I remember planning to only take a 6month contract back in the day and never said "no" when the opportunity to stay and improve came my way. It's been a good career so far that I kind of lucked into and I'm very grateful for all it's enabled me to do as a result, but every once in a while, the thought tickles my mind...."wouldn't it be cool if I were a _ _ _ _ _ _?"
Gotta find that re-set button.....
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In my head this would make things kind of like a giant Choose Your Own Adventure book - how awesome would that be? (Unless you choose the adventure that leads to disaster...that would clearly suck!)
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In my head this would make things kind of like a giant Choose Your Own Adventure book - how awesome would that be? (Unless you choose the adventure that leads to disaster...that would clearly suck!)If I could go back in time, there are defiinitely changes that I would make with the knowledge I now possess that would have had my life roll out very differently (at least I think they would have).
I never would have gone to University and majored in Linguistics - I would have taken a practical degree like business or finance so I could get into the workforce with a really marketable skillset.
If I hadn't gone the business route, I probably would have looked at doing something in broadcasting, radio specifically. I was voted "Most Likely To Become A DJ" out of my high school grad class and it's always been someting that appealed to me. I like to talk and could easily see myself doing talk radio or something like that for a living....I just don't know what my DJ name would be! Leave suggestions below in the comments if you have gem to pass along tho...the best one gets a whole blog dedicated to it (sorry, I clearly have no real prizing to give - I understand if you'd rather not participate in this sham of a contest...) It'd be a fun time tho....blasting tunes or antagonizing idiots who called in with their stupid opinions (apparently not realizing how right I *always* am....LOL).
Either way tho, it's easy to fantasize about how one different decision might have radically changed my life.
I was almost a teacher, except I couldn't get into the faculty when I tried to transfer from Social Sciences so "Ms. Gamache - Social Studies & ESL" doesn't exist. (Save for in the back of my mind or when I try to defend the teaching profession to those who have decided all teachers are whiny & have a pretty easy job.)
I was almost a chef, being fascinated at the idea of cooking for a living and learning to do it really well. Chef Tavin never emerged due to my absolute distaste at the idea of eating seafood of any kind (along with any kind of organ meats etc). I know you don't have to love all food to be a good chef but you have to be willing to taste and I just wasn't so I thought it was better not to go that route.
I came very close to trying to get into management with Hallmark and pursuing a store of my own after working there quite happily for 4 years thru Uni. But! being told by my then manager that they "weren't keen on putting me on a management track because I was in school and they thought I was too likely to leave to risk it" and then being forced to quit when they wouldn't give me any hours made that career vanish as quickly as ornaments on Boxing Day.
Not to imply that there aren't plent of jobs I was never in danger of hanging on to - oh no!
I was your classic case of the "will do anything for a paycheck" student once I got out of school. I happily said good-by to various chump jobs over the years: a number of telemarketing jobs, short order cook/busser at the Hudsons Bay restaurant, sandwich "artist" at Subway, Orange Julius girl (still best chump job ever!), pricing an entire hardware store piece by piece, baker at Superstore (specializing in doughnuts), selling clothes to plus sized women (including lingerie to drag queens...*shudder*).
So now I find myself doing accounting and I like it altho more of a challenge would be welcome. I've been with the same company (or a version of it as we've been sold several times) for 13yrs this Fall and have a hard time believing it's been that long. I remember planning to only take a 6month contract back in the day and never said "no" when the opportunity to stay and improve came my way. It's been a good career so far that I kind of lucked into and I'm very grateful for all it's enabled me to do as a result, but every once in a while, the thought tickles my mind...."wouldn't it be cool if I were a _ _ _ _ _ _?"
Gotta find that re-set button.....
