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Topic: Alternate Profession
s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 06:49 PM
flowerforyou If you were not at the job you currently have, what profession would you be pursuing? flowerforyou

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 06:55 PM
Well...it is to late for me to pursue it now but I would have made a wonderful doctor.

As for the job I have now it is the best in many ways that I have had in a long time. Don't hate going to work and that is a big improvement in my life. Would be better if I had any benefits...medical etc but still not to bad.

Ruth34611's photo
Sat 10/27/12 06:58 PM
I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.

s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 06:59 PM
that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too

:smile:

s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:00 PM

I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.


I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English
teacher or in history though...

drinker

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:01 PM

that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too

:smile:



Being or 'playing' doctor? blushing

Playing you have probably done....

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:03 PM

I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.



This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be.

thewaterbearer's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:04 PM
I am currently happy with the profession that I am in, working with developmentaly disabled people, the second profession I am curious about is a long haul truck driver, been curious about that for years, those big rigs fascinate me.happy

Ruth34611's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:04 PM


I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.


I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English
teacher or in history though...

drinker


Yeah, out of the three, I'd have to pick librarian as my top choice. The problem with teaching any subject would be the students.

Ruth34611's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:05 PM


I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.



This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be.


I throw away everything I write. So, I don't think I'd be a good writer.

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:08 PM



I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.


I could see myself doing library work possibly but not as an English
teacher or in history though...

drinker


Yeah, out of the three, I'd have to pick librarian as my top choice. The problem with teaching any subject would be the students.



Years ago I was a mass transit bus driver, the problem with that job was the passengers!

Ruth34611's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:09 PM



Years ago I was a mass transit bus driver, the problem with that job was the passengers!


Yeah....you get it. :wink: flowerforyou

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:10 PM



I would be a history or English teacher. Or a librarian.



This reminds me, I would finally be the writer I want to be.


I throw away everything I write. So, I don't think I'd be a good writer.



I keep everything I write, might be a mental disorder...

markecephus's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:14 PM
If i didn't work here, i would go back to my profession, which is an electrical superintendent. That pretty much died along with any construction in the southern states 4 years ago.

TexasScoundrel's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:19 PM
If I could do whatever I wanted and make a decent living, I'd become a musician.

s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:21 PM


that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too

:smile:



Being or 'playing' doctor? blushing

Playing you have probably done....


laugh

haven't "played" dr since about kindergarten.

laugh

but i recall it was fascinating. of course then my patient insisted
on playing nurse next....

laugh

s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:24 PM

If I could do whatever I wanted and make a decent living, I'd become a musician.


drinker

that's too easy - if you say that a decent living would be assured!
what if the music route was not a certainty?

laugh

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:25 PM



that's interesting - i have sometimes thought about being a doctor too

:smile:



Being or 'playing' doctor? blushing

Playing you have probably done....


laugh

haven't "played" dr since about kindergarten.

laugh

but i recall it was fascinating. of course then my patient insisted
on playing nurse next....

laugh



LOLOLOL

Kidding aside, what type of Dr do you think you would have been best as? I think I would have enjoyed bringing people into the world but best at helping them leave.

s1owhand's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:35 PM
I actually do a lot of detailed work sometimes using a microscope
which requires very steady hands. I could have been a surgeon. I
like to fix things and also have a strong desire to help people.

I also like puzzles so that any diagnostic specialty could have been
a possibility for me. But to tell you the truth it is very emotionally
draining for me to have to deal with death and dying of others.

I think the hardest situation for me would have been something like
oncology or neurosurgery where many patients have catastrophic illness
and a very poor prognosis.

Perhaps cosmetic surgery would have been better for me?!

laugh

seamac's photo
Sat 10/27/12 07:43 PM

I actually do a lot of detailed work sometimes using a microscope
which requires very steady hands. I could have been a surgeon. I
like to fix things and also have a strong desire to help people.

I also like puzzles so that any diagnostic specialty could have been
a possibility for me. But to tell you the truth it is very emotionally
draining for me to have to deal with death and dying of others.

I think the hardest situation for me would have been something like
oncology or neurosurgery where many patients have catastrophic illness
and a very poor prognosis.

Perhaps cosmetic surgery would have been better for me?!

laugh



For (most of) these reasons, the medicine I would have been best at, helping people leave this life, would also have been the hardest and most draining. Great success, early burnout and then perhaps onto my life as a writer.

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