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XanaDUer2

(15,740 posts) Fri Mar 14, 2025, 12:32 PM Mar 14

Would you choose your same career? [View all]

I wouldn't. I wish it was 1985 again. I'd finish my BA and then I would have trained to be a court reporter.

I could have stayed in my home town, where there was so much crime and lawyers I would have been able to work for yrs.

Instead, I chose a demanding low-paying stressful career*, and I deeply regret it looking back.

* that required a master's

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Would you choose your same career? [View all] XanaDUer2 Mar 14 OP

I have a different view PJMcK Mar 14 #1

I spent 45 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner and loved it most of that time. 3catwoman3 Mar 14 #2

I hope you know the Tom Hanks Gene Hackman movie "Big". /nt dickthegrouch Mar 14 #5

Wife is a home care RN for babies. She loves the kids multigraincracker Mar 14 #7

Absolutely dickthegrouch Mar 14 #3

TY XanaDUer2 Mar 14 #4

Yes. LoisB Mar 14 #6

Had a clerk job. Just a job, have 23 years of retirement multigraincracker Mar 14 #8

I probably would have been XanaDUer2 Mar 14 #9

Same here. A job, not a career. Boomerproud Mar 14 #12

Its too late for me XanaDUer2 Mar 14 #13

probably mike_c Mar 14 #10

I would. I taught for 42 years. Didn't like some of the principals. Low pay--nonunion. But I loved the kids. debm55 Mar 14 #11

I would have made better choices in my late teens and early twenties. Iggo Mar 14 #14

I'm so old XanaDUer2 Mar 14 #16

No...i would have become a doctor, a diagnostician. KewlKat Mar 14 #15

I would choose the same path MissB Mar 14 #17

I've always had jobs, never what I would consider a career Niagara Mar 14 #18

It's a bloody miracle I didn't end up a belligerent homeless person... hunter Mar 14 #19

oddly enough, even though I never loved what I did - yes Skittles Mar 14 #20

Yes. Just fifteen years earlier. Aristus Mar 14 #21

Yes ProfessorGAC Mar 15 #22

Yes, I love IT and systems analysis. Was also a programmer back in the day when companies Ziggysmom Mar 16 #23

Yes, I would LogDog75 Mar 16 #24