How many career changes have you had?
I'm speaking of actual different career moves, not simply a new job within your same line of work.
I read somewhere that a person averages 4 career changes in their life time. That sounds rather high to me.
Did you always know what you wanted to do? Or have you yet found your calling in life?
I read somewhere that a person averages 4 career changes in their life time. That sounds rather high to me.
Did you always know what you wanted to do? Or have you yet found your calling in life?
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Factory worker
( hard yakka, for a kid of 14 ),
Then Gardener, ( fun )
Then Teacher / Lecturer
( stressful & rewarding )
Now working as artist
Poor but happy ...
How many is that ?..
Yer right 4 paid jobs.
(Did stints in other menial jobs while at University but they don't count )
As to my calling..?
Mostly trying to do my best
and staying focussed on the job at hand.
Mind you I wouldn't mind being a beach comber or riding my bike around the world.
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If someone paid me to do them, would they count as jobs ? 8)
It take me 14 years of study in order to work for my own. It's too much an investissement to change of aera.
Actually, I'm a full-time student and work whenever the opportunity presents its self.
Rare books -scouting, buying selling
Art gallery owner
Oriental rugs seller
subcatagory, 'jobs':
Factory work (seasonal)
Temp
Security Guard (pretty recently too)
Sales -assorted
Construction
Organic Sandwich cook
Temp
Temp
and Temp
etc
Freelance Video production
Artist - (current)
Teaching (Prof.) -(current)
2) Aircondition Engineer
3) Semi Professional musician
4) MVS/Jes2 network administration
Still room for more, I'm only 38
when i was young, there were a few of jobs i was interested in. for a stint i wanted to be a policeman, never really pushed that idea too far though, and luckily i've realized how disgusting that line of `work' is before it was too late. i wanted to be a magician for a long time, and managed to learn quite a few tricks (i still pull out a pack of cards, every so often, and show a few card tricks). for a pretty long period, i wanted to be a writer (and still, to a lesser extent, do). i wrote a few short stories, even some that weren't for school. i try to tie writing (though pretty loosely) into my game programming; i say loosely, because, in my experience, games that stay too strictly to a plot line take away too much fun from the game. once i realized that i wanted to program, it was very clear that it was going to be my job thenceforth, and i very much pushed that idea. i've also given some consideration to drug dealing. it's much too lucrative to dismiss entirely (and the fact that i don't like it being illegal makes it kind of extra nice, in my mind). i doubt i'll ever get the gall to do it though, atleast not on any high level. i also considered being a day trader, and managed to make myself a fair amount of money doing that, but i'm not good enough (and couldn't sustain interest long enough to become good enough) to do that full time (but, to my credit, i did manage to net 15 or 20% in a single year). and finally, i wanted to be a guitarist in a rock and roll band. i managed to keep that idea on the back of the stove, just expanding my skill set for personal amusement. if i ever do become really good at guitar, i wouldn't hesitate (not for too long) about dropping any other job i may have at the time, to pursue that.
I've decided to ignore earlier stints in food service, artificial Christmas tree manufacturing and poop picking upping because I never really considered them to be careers. I'm forced to leave out my DJing 'career' due to the fact that I very rarely get paid to do it.