How did you decide on your career?

[Magical2017]

the number of girls i graduated high school with who had the sole intent of attending college for the shortest amount of time possible in pursuit of their 'MRS degree' still boggles my mind.

Wow. I never met any females with this mindset in college. Or more accurately, they were not in my circle of friends. Everyone was very career-minded. I graduated from high school in 1986 and lived on the west coast.

 

[sasywtch]

I did like a lot of others did in this area, took the test for a state job. I got hired right away, worked while having 4 kids and going to night college. Then during my divorce, I decided I needed to see what else was out there so contracted with the county. I worked in human assistance ( welfare benefits) and the sheriff's department. After a few years, I went back to work for the state in my original department and retired from there. Did this because the retirement and health benefits are good.

 

[barkley]

Wow. I never met any females with this mindset in college. Or more accurately, they were not in my circle of friends. Everyone was very career-minded. I graduated from high school in 1986 and lived on the west coast.

i graduated in '79/california. it was pretty common among a particular faith that attended my public high school in large numbers for the girls/their parents to just plan on funding 1-2 years at their faith's college(s) b/c they were hubby hunting. i also graduated with a good chunk who had (or frequently it was their parent's) aspirations of marrying professional (or soon to be) men-they could rattle off which private and public universities had the best potential and which general ed classes fed in to which majors-and absolutly which sorority was key to a female's marital 'success'

 

[FastPasser.]

Long career as a consulting design engineer. Was able to retire very early from that and got a retirement job at WDW. Retired with full benefits from the Disney Company.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I went to school to be a history teacher. Did my student teaching and knew it was not the career for me. I spoke to my mentor and realized what I loved about history was doing the research. Regrouped, enrolled in graduate school and became a librarian.

 

[barkley]

I went to school to be a history teacher. Did my student teaching and knew it was not the career for me. I spoke to my mentor and realized what I loved about history was doing the research. Regrouped, enrolled in graduate school and became a librarian.

the teacher education programs around here have elements of student teaching much earlier in the program than when i went to college-we did'nt do any until our final quarter. i think it's so much better to find out it's not a good fit sooner than later.

 

[disneyseniors]

the number of girls i graduated high school with who had the sole intent of attending college for the shortest amount of time possible in pursuit of their 'MRS degree' still boggles my mind.

I found out later on that I could have gone to college virtually free. I was 7th in our class of 125, and didn't even know it!!! There was no college councelor at that time. It was up to you to talk with someone if you thought it would help get into college. I was really surprised at that and wish I would have gone to college back then. But it all worked out. Times have certainly changed!

 

[Buzz Rules]

I found out later on that I could have gone to college virtually free. I was 7th in our class of 125, and didn't even know it!!! There was no college councelor at that time. It was up to you to talk with someone if you thought it would help get into college. I was really surprised at that and wish I would have gone to college back then. But it all worked out. Times have certainly changed!

It's never too late for college.

 

[disneyseniors]

It's never too late for college.

Yes, I eventually went to college when my kids were in school and got my nursing degree. I loved college at that age and got a lot of use out of my RN degree I was 29 when I started college.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Chemistry teacher in high school saw that it came pretty easy and steered me into my field of study. She even filled out info at a great engineering school and got them to start recruiting me. What a great lady she was!

 

[odessaholand]

I just saw that I was doing the best and followed this path

 

[MonBam]

I chose one I found to be interesting.

 

[AlexLap]

I always wanted to be a business owner. I just needed to choose the sphere. My brother is a good HVAC specialist but he is clueless about all business stuff. So, we decided to join forces and open a company together. At first, it was pretty difficult, especially when we lacked money Fortunately, we found good employees and a helpful hvac business software to automate our work. I know that running a business comes with constant tasks and challenges, but we work on improving it. And what is more important is that both my brother and I do what brings us joy, not only money.

 

[midnightbast]

Idk. I mean I studied at university on Information systems of technologies and after graduated from there I got an job invite applications and now wotking as a developer on custom web app development company. So this is how it happend