Re: career choices When

[Guest guest]

Bruce, Career choices..a really good

topic!!!

When I was in high school I did volunteer work in a rehabilitation

hospital. The experiences there and my love of art and

crafty things lead me to consider Occupational Therapy as a career.

The only local school that had that curriculum in 1961

was the University of Pennsylvania and we could not afford it in any

way. There were few if any school loan plans back then and

scholarships were very rare. But I truly thought that I could figure

out ways to pay for the tuition. I worked with a guy who wanted to be

a doctor and he invited me to come to a seminar for pre-med students.

I went and basically fainted in the lab where the icky stuff was in

jars!!!! I would have had to take the same classes

and I found out right there that medical "stuff" would be a

problem. Good thing I knew that guy!!! Can't remember his name but

I'm thankful that

that experience helped me to focus on other career choices.

I also thought about teaching art..but the art schools really

stressed the fine arts and I was a crafter/ potter even then.

I had no portfolio of lovely paintings or sketches. That type of 2

dimensional art is not my thing at all. I'm a 3 -D person.

I need to get my hands dirty. ( Remember our discussion about

gardening?)

So, I finally went to Temple University ( took the bus and subway and

lived at home..couldn't afford dorms)

I graduated with a degree in Elemenatry Education and used art in my

classes all the time.Loved it.

When I returned to teaching after my kids were older( I was able to be

a stay at home mom for 14 years)

I had earned my MA in the Psychology of Reading and then taught 18

years at a local community college.

My areas of expertise were Reading and Study Skills, Developmental

Reading Problems and also ESL .

If I could go back, teaching would be my choice..I really loved it!

Z fibriotic NSIP/05

Z

fibriotic NSIP/o5/PA

And “mild”

PH/10/07 and Reynaud’s too!!

Potter,

reader,carousel lover and MomMom to

Darah

“I’m gonna

be iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley

Bruce Moreland wrote:

I think its cool that you've headed in different directions. Today

we

start asking kids what do they want to do when they grow up around 10-

12. Heck, I figured out at 56 or so what it was but long too late. I

guess I started realizing a few years earlier. I so focused in on one

career and never thought about it.

Certainly, Irene puts the Nursing Assistant knowledge to lots of use.

Then Social Sciences. Now she likes Quality Assurance. And, if later

its something else that strikes her fancy thats great. How many of

you if you had it to do over would choose a different career? Do we

really have any idea what any profession is like until we get into

it? Then we feel like we're invested and its too late to change. I

admire those who change and who are always open to future changes if

it makes them happy.

I spent my career in Accounting and Finance and some in Operations at

Executive levels. I started accounting at 12 in my father's office.

It was set. Yes, I had aptitude for it. I thought of getting my

degree then going to law school but I was so tired of school by then.

The only time I ever really considered a change was when I worked one

summer in high school or college for the newspaper and they tried to

get me to switch to journalism, specifically sports reporting, and

even offered me an internship.

If I was going back, I'd be a psychologist. I know the pain when you

can't help, but just being able to work with people one on one and

help some and contribute in that way to their lives. Oh, thats what I

always missed. In my profession, I know I helped people, made some

lives better, but I never got to feel it first hand. And, I needed

that as I'm a caretaker by heart and soul.

My second choice probably would have been teaching. Living with a

teacher for eight years, I saw the administrative and political bad

aspects, but I saw that feeling when she talked about her kids and I

knew she made their lives better and I think thats when I realized

that even though I made much more that her, I was jealous of her job

in many ways. It did provide a fulfillment that I was missing.

So others? Did you change? Looking back would you have chosen

different?

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> > Good Afternoon to All....I woke up this morning with a lot of

pain

> again....took the antibiotics, not the pain meds yet...I haven't

> eaten breakfast or lunch yet....This how my day started......

> >

> > I sat on the couch and poked the blister with a small needle

and

> squeezed as much as I could green pus started coming out...As soon

as

> the pus stopped, I took a cotton ball and put some Peroxide to

clean

> out the wound....some pain settled down!

> >

> > I called the 24/7 hours hotline to speak to a nurse....I

thought

he

> would tell me go back to the hospital, he didn't though. I told

him

> exactly what I had done and how I cleaned it......He asked a few

> questions, if it's black told him if it was black I wouldn't be

> talking to you on the phone right now, I would be in ER? because

> that's gangrene lol, thank god he had a sense of humour. If I get

a

> fever 37.5 degrees celcius, I should go to ER......for now it's

safe

> for me to stay at home.

> >

> > He emphasized pretty clearly not to poke it, not to walk on

it?

and

> for someone to do my errands!

> >

> > Antibiotics to start working it would take approximately 3-4

days.

> I should continue to take pain meds as prescribed. The wound care

> that I did, kind of saved me to taking another trip to ER. He

> suggested I soak my toe in Epson Salt and hot water (not to the

point

> of getting burned, as much as I can tolerate.

> >

> > I did 6 loads of laundry, it has been almost 2 months...that

I

> haven't done it! I putted away and I'm about to start on lunch!

> >

> > Irene Raynaud's Disease 09/07 PF 03/07 Canada

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