What is your Profession??

Question

If you are retired.. what did you do? What would you rather have done?? If you're still working.. if money wasn't an issue.. what would you choose to be your job?

Answer 1

By training I am a human services professional...most of my careers were spent doing grant writing; speech writing; legislative and legal liaison work; policy development; program evaluation; quality assurance and program direction for human service programs.

Also have worked for 'think tanks' in employment and educational research.

Headed D.C.'s homeless program initiatives and worked for the state vocational rehabilitation agency [persons with disabilities]

Worked for non profits doing counseling, substance abuse therapy and life skills coaching later.

Thought I was retiring in '05 - NOT...couldn't make it economically so went back to work...no longer wanted a 10-12 hr a day job and now work as an Admin person for a national non profit that oversees the Ability One program.

Guess I will be working until I can work no longer.

I like my current job and if money weren't an issue this would be IT until full retirement.

I DO need to make more money and MAY have to bite the bullet and go back to what I used to do IF the right job came along and they didn't mind hiring a 65 yr old! LOL

What would I have rather done? I studied in college to become a foreign correspondent....majoring in Romance Languages and Journalism....alas marriage and kids came along and couldn't pursue that...would STILL love to be in that field...Don't like being in front of the camera but love writing, research and exposure to all different kinds of cultures and peoples.

Answer 2

I'm retired nearly 15 years now but before that I was in the printing profession. If I were young again and it was 2007, I wouldn't choose printing as a career. As with so many other things it's become too automated and there's little opportunity to take pride in a job well done. I could almost run a small printing enterprise from my computer desk now. I'd miss the smell of the ink and the growls of the machinery though.

Answer 3

Senior Account Clerk for the City for the last 16 years. Account Clerk for the County for 14 years before that. I really wanted to be an artist. I am broke anyway so I wish I had followed that dream. If money wasn't an issue, I'd volunteer at a local hospital or rest home.

Answer 4

I am a teacher with 30 years experience. I was four years old the first time I was in a school - my mother was helping on projects for my older brother's class - and I immediately loved everything about it. I never really wanted to do anything else, and I still love this "job" so much. Sure, I complain. It's becoming pretty hard work these days, with so many kids living in turmoil. But where else are you given the opportunity, every single day, to truly make an impact in a young person's life? We not only get to help children learn academics, but we can contribute to their moral education, as well. We can give them love and encouragement. We have the power to hurt, or to heal. I can only pray that I have healed some wounds and helped some kids discover the beauty, power, and strength that lies within them.

Answer 5

HI, Don,t want to get too carried away here like sage seeker, but i,am a carpenter with builders experience and if i had another 20 years i would want to do the same thing. The money is great and the skills are rewarding. I am still working and money is not an issue. What about you, are you retired and single?????

Answer 6

I'm a tugboat captain.. Been going to sea for 40 years as of May this year. I'll probably retire when they roll my rotting, stinking corpse over the side. Only job I've ever come across that gives me 6 months a year off.

I'm like in the Jimmy Buffet song. Made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast. Never meant to last, never meant to last.

I may die broke, but I can claim it's been one HELL of a ride!!

Answer 7

Originally engineer (repair and build) on steam locomotives..then the RAF as airframes on the Valiant V bomber, served Christmas Island during H Bomb Tests...followed by 26 years in the police. Now retired have smallholding.

Answer 8

I am a Real Estate Broker, I am lucky enough to own my own office but most of all my two daughters work with me. I see my girls everyday. I hope to "retire" within the next 5 to 9 years and I will only come in when I feel like it. I want to babysit my grandchildren.

Answer 9

Majored in Electronics and Engineering in college. In the Air Force, I repaired RADAR in F4-D's and then worked, repairing RADAR when I worked for Hughes Aircraft (Huge Aircrash) in the 70's.

I then worked into the computer world before they were popular. I built an IMSAI in 1975 and have been building them ever since. Owned a Computer Store for 4 years and now work in a Bank's computer dept.

I wish I had worked in the trades so I could've worked outside instead of in a cubicle.

After I retire, I plan on traveling and fixing things as they come along.

"If I can't fix it, it must not be broken."

;+)

Answer 10

I am disabled, I would have liked to start a metal detecting business, with only one or two employees including myself. If money wasn't an issue, a politician so I would always be rich and have free medical care of all kinds for as long as I lived. And have houses in several different places around the world and this country. Can't ask for a better vocation. Unless you couldn't bring yourself to lying to your family, friends, neighbors, the public in general and ripping them off of all their hard earned working capital and retirement, then costing them their homes too!