re: Do you ever regret your career choice?

im in engineering and in the industrial side...shite is easy, barely work 40 hours, off every other friday and only on call one week a quarter and the job is easy AF. no calls after i leave either except for the once every 3-5 years my area goes into TA. Im in the middle of TA right now and still only working 45 hours, just taking calls on weekend

then we get crazy retirement, great insurance and great pay

not once do i regret it

all those that work office jobs saying they wish they went into the trades :rotflmao: yea you wouldnt be saying that in the summer. All those in the trades are saying they wish they went to school. I know, i did both....95 degree weather is not fun to be laying pipe or pulling cable in.

I should've been a cowboy

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I'm in my 30's with a decent job and I still have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up"

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Don’t feel bad. I’ve been practicing law going on 46 years now and at 72 I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.

Good luck.

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saying they wish they went into the trades

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Yep. I was a control systems technician for 5 years. Loved it at first. Got in great shape. Learned to program. Got an EE degree. No more dirty grunt work. Just fun problems to solve.

If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.

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I wish I had become a meteorologist (not the TV kind) so I could study weather everyday and not have to answer phone calls from clients.

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I had a friend who had a doctorate in Meteorology from FSU.

He worked for NAVOCEANO at Stennis during & after the Cold War. His specialty was ocean currents, mainly in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific.

His office did not have a window.

People would ask him about the upcoming local weather and he couldn't answer them.

He knew even less than Peej knows about the GoM tropical weather forecast.

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No, but I do regret the career choices of the majority of the people I work with.

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That’s fkn hilarious

I used to. After the army I was hired by a company that provides equipment under contract to the military and eventually found myself managing a number of those contracts. It wasn't anything I'd ever dreamed of or even planned on doing, but, it paid well, and the work was white collar, which is something I always thought I wanted after the military.

I banged along at that for a few years, hating it more every day, but figured that's how life goes. The job load was pretty light and I probably had accounts on a half dozen message boards just to pass the time. But my life just felt like a long meaningless blur of spreadsheets, cubicles, conference rooms, flourescent lighting, and lunches with people I was indifferent to.

Anyways, somewhere between my dad dying suddenly (without ever getting to enjoy the fruits of his own decades of corporate bullshite), and almost dying in a major health scare of my own, I decided wasn't going to do it anymore, and since my youngest had moved out I didn't have to anymore.

So now I do something I actually enjoy: cook. Simple. No mystery. You either can do it or you can't. And the feedback is immediate. For the first time in my life I didn't dread going to work. I took a pretty big pay cut, but luckily, I've always lived pretty simply, and I'd never overextended myself on debt. And I draw military retirement. Without those factors I'd never had been able to do it.

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I'm in my 30's with a decent job and I still have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up"

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45......same

I worked on farms and ranches during high school and college. My grandfather insisted I go to college so I didn't have to work so physically hard to earn a living. The farm was hard work, but I miss it often. Then again, it's probably just my youth that I miss just as much (or more) than the work

You boys should've gotten into DOD contacting.
New places, new faces and 90 days on 21 days off.
3 more years and im riding off into the sunset.