Profession That You Missed Out On
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
As you became an adult, is there a career/job/trade you wish you had taken instead?
I've had the same job since my early 20s and I enjoy it but it certainly wouldn't be my first choice. My salary and independence (rarely get bothered by management) at work are what keep me there.
Air traffic controller - this sounds stressful but in some cases it's not. I know a guy who sits at a rural airport out in the middle of nowhere doing nothing all day pulling down almost $150k a year. He should have been forced to retire due to his age but they can't find a replacement so he's still allowed to work. I've read there's a massive shortage in the future for air traffic controllers.
Lapdances tester - there's gotta be someone out there that tests dancers for their lapdances worthiness. I'd do it for minimum wage.
Griller at FKK club. Somebody's gotta cook the hotdogs and burgers at the FKK clubs on the patio that Londonguy talks about. How would you like to watch naked women run around all day while at work? All I can say is if I worked there I hope you like your meat burnt because I wouldn't be able to concentrate.
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I also started playing guitar, and since it was a more social exploit, I stopped riding when I went to college. was in some good bands but then I got married, had kids...had to make actual money...
My whole family (it seems) are lawyers, so a law career was on the table, but I just wasn't that interested; I probably should have gone to law school looking back.
My current wish is to be a pot farmer. I grew pot under lights years ago and it was fun. These days it's a big business....I need to move to CO I suppose!
So I got to spend 42 years in the job of my choice that paid very well and had great benefits.
If I could have everything the same but a different profession. I'd be a dermatologist. Easiest fucking medical profession out there. Even my wife says she was fascinated by nerves and the brain, hence neurology, but dermatologists have it fucking made.
But if we're talking real life (instead of fantasy), it would have to be an airline pilot. I would have loved to have been able to travel all over and stay in hotels in different cities (and have a girl in each city.)
He has 20 years of seniority, and still can choose his hub. On the plus side, he makes a lot of money. Which is handy for a band mate as most musicians are broke. Especially if they like strip clubs!
Does anyone know @GammaNut in real life? He seems like such a dipshit and slings racial epithets like "porch monkey" and uses goofy pretentious words like "impactful." Is he really married to someone who went an American med school? I would be astonished. I know someone married to a "doctor" who went to med school in Poland. She's about as much a doctor as the average homeopathic quack. There are all sorts of quack med schools in South America and that's far more likely in @GammaNut's case.
Probably my only real career regret was staying in my midwestern state and not venturing out south or west. That was due to my S.O. which may cross over to a different kind of regret...
In my retirement, my hobbies are still related to that.
I have a high school buddy that's pretty high up doing stuff with SAP which I still don't fully understand. He gets to travel to many cool places (Dubai, London and Tokyo are a normal travel month for him) but with his oh so important job he has an oh so important ego now, I would hope if I was lucky enough to get such a special career it wouldn't go to my head.
I still get tagged as the official important / mass email writer and editor in my department, so I guess I still kinda get to live out that dream in my own way.
SJG
My only real regret is I didn't take a year or 18 months and go live somewhere after undergrad teaching English.
Because I've always wanted to shoot the fuckers who trash pristine wilderness.