Choices....

Not a career change as such, but in hindsight, I would have stayed in the Military for a few more years instead of leaving to be with my girlfriend at the time. Two years later I found her in bed with another man from work and that relationship came to an abrupt end.....

Wouldn't mind so much, but I was only a week away from moving over to Canada. Had a sponsor and a job at Crowfoot Camp all lined up and threw it all away for love. Oh, to be young again!

The flip-side to that though is, if I had stayed on that path, I most likely would not have (eventually) met my gorgeous wife of today and have the two wonderful boys I have now.

How the roads of our lives take us........
 
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There were times during my career I would have chucked it all, dealing with bureaucracy and people who didn't get paid to think was mind numbing. Then having to contend with the sad/disturbing aspects of the job was distressing at times. Looking back in hindsight, however, I don't think I'd change much even if I could. I got to work with amazing people from the world's two finest military forces (US and UK), travel the globe, and work on technology that was beyond my wildest dreams. I was both lucky and blessed.
 
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Paulm said:
ive had "jobs" that were just jobs. they didnt define who i was or my personality. it was a path to i guess be where i am at at this point in time. i wouldnt change that path i dont think. it has led to some interesting places and times and life experience's. met many cool ppl, and changed how i saw the world....I learned somewhere through it all to just follow the wind and let fate be the guide.... hard to explain
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Paula, my dad always said, it doesn’t matter what you do. It’s that you get up and have a job. If this damn pandemic hasn’t showed people that every person and every job matters. Look we know dr’s and nurses have always been important, more so they are front line people. God Bless them!!! But I hope, what comes out of this is that people who work at grocery stories, baggers, McDonald workers everyone matters. They are working every day. Everyone matters. I say if your happy in the company you keep, while working. Your in a good place. As long as you have a smile and a warm heart you have been blessed. ❤️
 
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Paulm said:
ive had "jobs" that were just jobs. they didnt define who i was or my personality. it was a path to i guess be where i am at at this point in time. i wouldnt change that path i dont think. it has led to some interesting places and times and life experience's. met many cool ppl, and changed how i saw the world....I learned somewhere through it all to just follow the wind and let fate be the guide.... hard to explain
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Well said.
 
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If I had to do it over again, I probably would have followed my high school aptitude test suggestion which indicated I was best suited to be a priest. I might have even quit school right then and dived head first into the baptismal fountain.

That might have been better than struggling for two years with telepathic and empathic communications while trying to untangle who I really needed to be when I would grow up.

I finally settled upon my teenage interest in computers as a possible career.
 
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WitchAndShaman said:
If I had to do it over again, I probably would have followed my high school aptitude test suggestion which indicated I was best suited to be a priest. I might have even quit school right then and dived head first into the baptismal fountain.

That might have been better than struggling for two years with telepathic and empathic communications while trying to untangle who I really needed to be when I would grow up.

I finally settled upon my teenage interest in computers as a possible career.
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Follow your heart! ❤️
 
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I have been blessed. I have done many things and MOST I enjoyed it. I like making things and working on things and that is what I've done all of my life. Each job has been a learning experiance that led to the eventual ability to do almost anything that I liked. I can build or make nearly anything or fix nearly anything that ever worked. For the last 30 years of my working life, I was self-employed and did pretty much whatever I wanted to do.

My customers were my friends and many of the older ones got visits from me pretty often just for me to say hi and do the little things that were hard for them like changing light bulbs and little tasks that I did for coffee and maybe a cookie or two. I enjoyed what I did and who I did it for. When you own the company you just don't work for people that you don't like.

I didn't marry a rich woman BUT I sent mine off to college when my baby went to school. We didn't believe in daycare for our baby. That is kind of funny because we turned our home into a sort of daycare for other people's kids. Those kids were like our kids too. We kept them for pay Monday through Friday but then sometimes kept them on Friday night or Saturday for free so our co-parents could go out or just have a kidless night. I love kids and especially babies so for us the spare kids were a blessing and a pleasure. I worked at night most of the time and then played with the kids in the morning and slept in the afternoon. llff vcffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff`vvvvvvvvvvv
 
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