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re: For the old heads.....career choice
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:13 am to mmmmmbeeer
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:13 am to mmmmmbeeer
Where I am now
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:15 am to mmmmmbeeer
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given the skills I've come to recognize I possess over the years, I'm pretty sure I would've been a pretty damn good lawyer.
Keep telling yourself that, bud.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:18 am to mmmmmbeeer
Jeezus dude. I'm 49 and still don't consider myself an 'old head' who can't change. If you think you'd be a great lawyer and have passion for it, then I say do it. I know someone who finished law school and the bar and is now a practicing lawyer who was 45.
Life is what you make of it. You can still work your mundane job and go to night school or distance learn almost everything now.
I traded a family for most of what I would have been good at. I think I could have excelled and probably lived a much harder life had I stayed in the Navy until retirement or joined the merchant marine or some sort of fishing vessel. With the best job ever of being some sort of charter fishing captain. I love the ocean, but it's a hard life of booze and divorces and kids you will never know.
Life is what you make of it. You can still work your mundane job and go to night school or distance learn almost everything now.
I traded a family for most of what I would have been good at. I think I could have excelled and probably lived a much harder life had I stayed in the Navy until retirement or joined the merchant marine or some sort of fishing vessel. With the best job ever of being some sort of charter fishing captain. I love the ocean, but it's a hard life of booze and divorces and kids you will never know.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:19 am to mmmmmbeeer
Didn't realize it until I was almost 40, but what I really want to be is an accounting professor.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:33 am to mmmmmbeeer
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really think I should've become a lawyer
I’m 44 and have been of the same frame of mind as you for the last 4-5 years. I thought long and hard about going to law school but, in the end, didn’t think I could handle the work load while handling the rest of “life”. I instead went to grad school and got my MBA. I’m in sales management, and while I’ve always excelled in sales, I’ve never particularly liked it. Child psychology is another field I think I would have done well in.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 8:46 am to mmmmmbeeer
Have worn more hats then I can remember in my journey, but limited to a single choice, today I would be a retired USMC pilot. Would have flown the A-4, F-14 & retired with the F-18. Closest I got was almost five years as a flight instructor, charter pilot & parachuting instructor. Great memories:-)
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:11 am to mmmmmbeeer
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What do you think your "true calling" was now that your older?
I wish now I had been a vet.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:17 am to ZenFNmaster
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My wife constantly tells me I should have been a history professor.
This or something animal science related
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:31 am to mmmmmbeeer
I could've been a surgeon, an artist, an athlete or an attorney; but I choose to be engineer.
In the ultimate, greatest version of myself, I work as the person standing behind the speakers doing sign language for deaf people. Except, I would never attempt to express what the speaker was saying. I'd offer jokes, game spread predictions or spoilers to upcoming movies and books.
In the ultimate, greatest version of myself, I work as the person standing behind the speakers doing sign language for deaf people. Except, I would never attempt to express what the speaker was saying. I'd offer jokes, game spread predictions or spoilers to upcoming movies and books.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:35 am to mmmmmbeeer
It's pretty dumb for most to choose a career at 18.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:40 am to mmmmmbeeer
I want to be a shock jock radio host
Posted on 4/28/20 at 9:42 am to LSU_postman
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A teacher. History. Didn't choose it because of the pay. Wanted to teach highschool or college.
It's never too late. You can do like I did. I practiced law for well over 20 years then was disabled due to End Stage Liver Disease. Once I got a transplant and recuperated, I changed and went into teaching.
I don't regret either one bit. First one got me a paid off house, cars and got my kids raised, etc. The second, while just as challenging in some ways is like 1000 times more rewarding for me personally.
I think more people with practical life experience going into teaching in their later years would benefit things a lot. I've seen teachers with backgrounds in construction, medicine, industry, etc. and they all tend to be among the best ones.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:00 am to mmmmmbeeer
I don't really regret anything, but I should have taken a commission after graduating from the Citadel. But they were slashing the military during that time and it didn't seem prudent.
There is a law enforcement arm of a federal agency that I found out about after I was a couple of years too old to apply. I think I would have enjoyed that.
There is a law enforcement arm of a federal agency that I found out about after I was a couple of years too old to apply. I think I would have enjoyed that.
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