What made you decide to follow your own particular career path?

Also, if you weren't doing what you do now for a living. What would of been your backup plan?

 

Mine is a mind bender:

I was always good at natural sciences but was not one bit interested in going to college so I did a 2 year dual education program (welding combined other basic college classes). I was more interested in music and having fuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnn

I later on found myself in the hospital w a tumor in my spine, while my step mother was diagnosed with leukemia and my sister had a tumor on her ovaries.. at the same damn time, not a joke.
I was in the hospital and rehab (for the spinal injury) for 4 months and the experience w all of us having cancer scares made me pick up natural sciences books and had a teacher come in (Social medicine payed for that) a few times a week.... I all of a sudden found myself w a passion for cancer research and the rest is history.

 

Ok lets see.
I did very well in physics in high school so I decided to major in it in college. I, then, did more research and found that you need a doctorate to get paid well so I moved to Electrical engineering which was close to physics. I found out that I would get paid more for doing less by doing computers over electrical engineering so I stuck to computer engineering or science. That is it for now. I got a lot college still. I don't think I will be done till I am in my 30's so yea .... a lot of education.

 

lol string theory for dummies.

It is like my college physics teacher said after finding differential equation for dummies. The dummies are getting smarter!

 

Damn girl that's a total lifetime story. I am very proud of you my friend.

 

one of the many, many reasons i have so much admiration and respect for our fg just there. what she allows us to know is really just scratching the surface of an amazing woman

 

Impressive stories guys. I am an army brat and I enjoyed the travel and lifestyle. I knew that once I complied university I would want to have a military career. Backup was high school math teacher/coach, which I'm working on transitioning to now.

 

mines not an inspiring story really. my path was somewhat chosen by my parents. my parents were breaking up & i was failing high school, so it was decided that i would go to secretarial college so at least i could have something under my belt. from that decision i've worked in numerous industries. from banking and finance to airlines, advertising, exhibitions, fashion and entertainment to engineering, architecture, law and government. in most fields i excelled and found myself working up the corporate ladder very quickly, but nonetheless tired of it at the same rate, until i realised that i wanted more, and ended up being a massage therapist lol. who knew that at the end of it all, all i wanted was to make people feel good.

 

Not true, yours is a story of resilience, independence and versatility.

 

wow... I admire you <3

 

Awesome, and I had no idea u were a massage therapist! I could USE YOU!

 

the more I learn about you, the more amazing to me you become.

 

I got won a 4 year visual art scholarship to the University of Kentucky. And partied my ass off my first year. My scholarship was pulled and I figured the 1st Gulf war was safer then telling my Marine Corps Colonel father I got kicked out of school.

.....stayed in the Marine Corps for 9 years.

...a brief stint with a BioTech company called BioVeri/IGEN..

...and the rest is not-so-popular military history.

 

My career path: I don't really have a career path at the moment.

I wanted to be an archaeologist since I was a child. I went to school and have a bachelor's degree in Anthropology. The thing is: you need a PhD to do anything in it. After college, I realized I wasn't ready to pursue a higher degree. My brother was causing problems in the family. My parents were pushing, pushing, pushing me to continue and it got to the point where I didn't want to because I felt I wasn't doing it for me anymore. LOL. And my Mom refused to believe me when I told her I wasn't ready.

Fast forward a few years after college and I got married and my husband at the time got a job in Denver. I followed him there and whilst I was there, I volunteered at the Denver Museum of Natural History. I only volunteered there 2 days a week, and I temped the other days. I fell in love with working there.

When we moved back to Chicago, I volunteered at the Field Museum and the Oriental Institute. I did that for about 6 months (he had a good job which allowed me to do that without getting a paycheck). Anyway, after 6 months of volunteering at the Field Museum, I was offered a paying part-time job. I took it. Then 6 months after that, I was offered a full-time Collections Management Assistant job in the Anthropology department. So I worked behind the scenes. To this day, that has been my favorite job. I loved it.

I quit when I got divorced. It was a rash decision. One I regret making every single day. I went into the business world after that. :smt011

I hate it.

I got a job as an HR Assistant for a broadcasting company. I did that for about a year. I'm now working as an Engineering Administrator for a manufacturing company. :smt015

Along the way, I've had fits and starts with going back to school, but I never finished the applying process, because deep down, I don't think I was ready to go back. Also, along the way, I also started realizing my passion for making movies.

Now, I'm focusing on two things: trying to make it into Hollywood and going back to school. I can't stand my job. It's slowly destroying my brain and everything about my personality. I need to be in an academic setting and a setting where I can use the creative part of my brain.

I recently found an online program to go back to school for my master's in Museum Studies (I truly want to be a Forensic Anthropologist but there aren't any programs in Chicago for that). Those are my interests: museums, Forensic Anthropology and movies. LOL.

I'll be making a career out of one of them. Which one, only time and luck will tell. But, that's all I've ever really wanted to do.

I can teach community college with a Master's degree. So, hopefully, that'll allow me to go for my PhD in Forensic Anthropology.

Until then, I work at my boring job and continue to make movies and look to go back to school to finally further my career.

 

Your honesty is refreshing Books, so many times people try to trump up what it is they do. I hope you get into your desired field, maybe you'll be involved in an Indiana Jones sequel given your set of interests.

 

Professional accountants are well paid in my part of the world and thankfully i am paid in greenback instead of my local currency so i guess i made a rational choice.If i hadnt studied accounting i would have done languages and worked at the United Nations.

 

lawd gawdd!! i wld give my left eye to be massaged by you(hopefully you would be wearing very scanty clothing)

 

i can see you as a math teacher...!!! best of luck shnozie...!!! :smt038

thanks shnozie :smt058

it's amazing how many peeps say that once they find out that little secret of mine

lol...if i'm massaging professionally i'm always fully clothed...and i should also add that i'm not cheap ;-)

 

amazing life stories everyone, it's fascinating to hear about how you got where you are in the world