[MENTION=9054]BrightWhiteHeart[/MENTION] thanks for doing what you do and that glimpse into nursing... i love to hear about when people do what they love... it’s very inspiring
not to be a downer, but for me, i feel that i am just one of those people who will never be *happy* with what they do for a living... therein lies my problem... believe me, i’ve tried and just don’t think it’s possible for
me in the long run...
anyhow, gather round children while i tell you the story of sensiko’s sordid career history if you’d like to hear why...
i have a natural aptitude for music and have loved and excelled at it from an early age... so i got my in a BA in music... that was the natural progression... i loved the 6(!) years i spent in music school... but when i started working in the industry it rather quickly became “work” and i started looking at my instrument as “work” and resented it... i hated sitting at the bench to practice... so i stopped playing and doorslammed my music career like only an INFJ could... lol... it took some time in therapy to work back up to playing... no joke
so i went into teaching... i got a master’s degree and credential rather hastily in hindsight... partially because i was freaking out about the above, partially because i was feeling pressure to get a job and make my own money... and partially because i convinced myself that that was what i wanted to do without doing enough research... so i taught grade school for 8 years... i don’t regret any part of it.... i was a damn good teacher... but for me, i put so much of ‘myself' in that it was starting to take bits of my soul... also during this time i had a small teaching studio where i taught a handful of students after class...
then i took a year off teaching and worked a fun job at a music store... i pretty much blew my dinky paychecks on stuff in the store... but after a year i got bored with it and quit... plus i needed to make some substantial $ so i picked up a a part-time teaching assignment and i was managing a tutoring center part-time...
during this time i came up with an invention... a different style of music stand... and my ex-husband and i marketed it and were getting a nice bit of profit... i’ve since given the rights to him...
my then-father-in-law asked me to sell printing and packaging for his company... i got really into this and did extremely well... i was selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of print by the end of my first year... but the ‘extrovert’ mentality and high pressure atmosphere did take a toll on my physical well-being after a couple years... this wasn’t a job... this was a lifestyle... i was *always* working... of all my jobs this was the job i liked the most, not because of the job itself, but because i did well at helping my “family” business to grow and i got to work with my ex-husband... working together had been a goal of ours for years...
but soon after my marriage bit the dust and it’s been almost 2 years since i’ve last worked!
*god bless you if you’re still reading this*
since then i’ve tried to go back into teaching, but i just couldn’t hang... i’m not having luck finding something else to do in the meantime... so right now i have an opportunity to choose a new direction if i want to...
[MENTION=1593]floatingbridge[/MENTION] i have a couple of career ideas in mind, but i can’t seem to make a decision dammit... and you make an interesting point about choosing something i can handle, ty... if i were a guy i swear to god i’d be a garbage man... lol
[MENTION=4423]Sriracha[/MENTION] i could tell you some ideas of what would make me happy, but i’m afraid they won’t make me happy in the long run... there are fields in music that interest me, but i’m not sure if i want to do the extra training to once again get shellshocked like before....