If you could go back in time, would you change your career?

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  1. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    I mean nothing sinister. I am a mathematician -- 15 years without a job. Its a long story which I am likely to tell in this thread.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No because God has led me on a path and all the experiences I have gone through have been for a reason.
     
  3. Seth Bullock

    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've enjoyed my law enforcement career. I joined the Army in the 70s and was a Military Policeman. After the Army, I became a Deputy Sheriff in a large metropolitan Sheriff's Department, and then I moved to a smaller city as a police officer. All told, I did 33 years on the street, and now I teach recruits at my state's police academy.

    It was a good career, but if I had it all to over again ....

    I think I might have been a pilot. Navy or Air Force, and then a civilian career.

    If I were talented enough, a professional musician.

    Seth
     
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    Yes. I worked end stage rehab for 27 years and it took a toll. I was an auctioneer for 12 and loved it. I would have liked to do the latter longer.
     
  5. Moonglow

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    I would have stayed working as a stripper and porn actor longer than what I did..
     
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    I'm sorry to hear you were so short. Did that result in a direct reduction in pay? I've always wondered if the salaries are scaled by the inch.
     
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    I would've gone to school to be a gunsmith/machinist instead of a jeweler/artist.

    I mean I'm still gonna make guns (legally, of course) but I wouldn't have spent the last 10 years working in the sewer if I knew then what I know now.
     
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    I would - I'd work for NASA (Deep space PR department) and get rich for making up ridiculous stories and 'facts'.
     
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    I'd screw with history changing things for my own personal gain and also just for the comedy of it as well. Shout duck from the Grassy Knoll that sort of stuff ;)

    I'd make my money off betting and of course eventually bitcoin ;)
     
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    While I appreciate your recognition of the dynamic that none of us would be who we are today had we not travelled the precise path that we have... I think you're missing the point of the question.

    ...or perhaps you just really love your job?
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I had a lot of various jobs. Most were when working in an actual trade. When work slowed in construction, not willing to lay about, I sought various jobs to tide me through.

    Careers Construction for 9 years Very good pay. Dangerous work. Too much travel and living in bad areas. We would build freeway bridges out where it was still an open field. Tiny towns close to jobs. Poor motels.

    Machine shop. I started shop and ran it for 3 years. A lot one learns in a machine shop can do you good in other things.

    Real Estate which includes broker, appraiser and loan firm owner. My appraisal firm usually had about 8 workers. My RE office has never had more than 10 agents. My loan firm employed normally around 6 agents plus staff to help them.

    As Seth says, a career in the Air Force would have been a good starting point since I did qualify for pilot school.

    Commission work is like you are seeking work all the time. Pays very well but you can't let down at all.
     
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    Probably. I think I would become an accountant or a pharmacist.
     
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    Yes. I would have spent odd jobs doing tech support instead of as maintenance guy. Could have used the experience to get into a IT Networking systems job of sorts rather then being tied down into power engineering.
     
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    So cooking the books or drug dealing I like your style ;)
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Have you ever stopped to think that bookkeeping now has two functions? First all firms must keep accurate track of the business so the use of books to do that is invaluable to all firms. But you mention cooking them. This has to do no doubt with Government. Do you not think it is strange that in a free society business must deal with government on at least a quarterly basis and submit to government funds and papers to do this? Does that really sound to you like freedom is at work? This nation never was originated to put government in charge of business.

    Why do people put up with this crap in their own lives and demand it be done to business too?
     
  16. CCitizen

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    Great work! I should have been a lawyer.
     
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    I should never have been a mathematician.
     
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    That would have been boring to me -- not as boring as a mathematician, but still.
     
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    It's not the size of the ship but the motion in the ocean..
     
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    So change what you are doing. Nobody is forced to be anything.
     
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    Most jobs are either boring or stressful.
     
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    Sad but true.
     
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    I'm back in time now 'according to me of the future'.
     
  24. CCitizen

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    Very sad and yet completely true.
     
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    I wish I would've pursued a career in psychology, but it always seemed to be a shot in the dark, and I just couldn't bring myself to take on such a ridiculous amount of debt obtaining a degree. It's alright though, I'm satisfied with my current line of work, and grateful that I'm basically debt free.
     
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