<p>The moms are busy over in the wedding dress thread. Some of us are Finding Fulfillment pursuing our frustrated Wedding Planner fantasies (a couple have even incorporated already, I think). </p>
<p>What career(s) do you wish you’d tried on (or maybe still might)?</p>
<p>For me:[ul][<em>]Singer - why can’t I be Linda Ronstadt or Carole King? Okay, the fact that I have “nice voice” might not be quite enough, but this is fantasy, right?[</em>]Reporter/journalist - I don’t think I’m missing any talents required to be Cokie Roberts/Nina Totenberg… Why didn’t I even consider this way back when? [*]College professor - we all know they have a cushy time of it ;)[/ul]</p>
<p>I am a high school counselor. I have loved it at various points, and been very frustrated over the 18 years. Too much testing, too much wasted paper. As far as the college counseling part is concerned I like that the best, even though my kids at school often are being very brave just to consider college: they come from homes where very often the parents haven’t graduated from HS.
Anyway, I have considered lately wishing I could go into palliative care, a form of mental health/nursing in hospitals where folks really need someone to pay attention to their whole-self needs. Just don’t think I can take off work to go back to school with two boys going soon! Dang!
jmmom, you really tickle me!</p>
<p>For me? Being a mom of 3 is the career I wish I had pursued. Only had 2. They are completely wonderful and I adore them in all their annoying glory, don’t get me wrong. I just wish I had had another one. I think I love these two too much and one more might have spread it a bit thinner.</p>
<p>I have had several careers so far but here’s what I missed:</p>
<p>In college always fantasized about being a “gofer” for the Rolling Stones.
I would love to write nonfiction.<br>
I could have made a great Princess of Wales as well.</p>
<ol>
<li> Author - if only I had any talent</li>
<li> Major league pitcher - if only I had any talent</li>
<li> Formula 1 race car driver - if only I had any talent</li>
<li> Professor of Classics</li>
<li> Professor of History</li>
<li> Archaeologist<br></li>
<li> Egyptologist</li>
</ol>
<p>Marine biologist.
Actually, I’m still thinking about marine biologist. I’m just not sure I want to <em>work</em> at doing what I love. But if I had known at 17–which I didn’t, and partly because the field barely existed then–about the connections of marine biology with biochemistry (which I also adore) (and how much I love to SCUBA dive), I like to think I would have made the choice to follow marine bio.</p>
<p>But, you know, when it was time to choose graduate school (essential in biochem, which I majored in) or a job—I went for a job in a lab, which I honestly didn’t enjoy all that much. And two years later I moved into computers, which were then the exciting growing field… so who knows, I might not have gone into marine bio.</p>
<p>Coureur: I remember telling my father I wanted to be a race car driver, and him telling me it was impossible for women to break in. A few years back I took a race car driver training course–and I did in fact have some talent. I still fantasize about vintage racing as a hobby (lots of vintage racers are in the 60s and 70s)—but it’s too expensive with two kids in college.</p>
<p>musician or an artist
I dearly wanted a guitar when I was young, I begged and begged my parents but although they supplied my younger brother with his ec adventures I was * just a girl* cue Gwen Stefani here__
and all I recieved eventually was a ukelele!
not the same thing :(</p>
<p>BUt hey DMD if you have extra $$ for an auction the Sovern spring sprints are coming up and an opportunity to ride around the race track is on the block
( I know… riding is not the same thing as driving</p>
<ol>
<li> Meteorologist/climatologist</li>
<li> Ranger (national park or national forest)</li>
<li> Horse trainer (well, maybe I did do some of that as an amateur)<br></li>
</ol>
<p>The only way to make a small fortune in horses is to start with a large fortune.</p>
<ol>
<li> Radio announcer for major league baseball team. I did do this when I was 10. I was the little league’s “color commentator” for my Dad’s radio station in small CA town. At 11, I moved on into concession work at the ballpark, but shoulda realized that the grass wasn’t greener there.</li>
<li> Run a non-profit foundation - give away lots of $$ and watch it do good.</li>
<li> Small town politician or city manager.</li>
</ol>
<p>well, dke, now that’s doable! Several of us realtors here (as first or second careers) - me, SBMom and one of the dad’s whom I momentarily forget, to show you the ropes.</p>
<p>thanks for the encouragement, Jmmom…a local realtor here (who always sees me at open houses…love to go look on Sundays) asked me to get my license so I could at least refer business to him and collect a finders fee…love “talking shop” with him…I think it would be hard working weekends with my kids’ ages right now, though as they’re 12 and 8…ah, in the future!</p>