Foo - If you could?

Would you go back to school and pursue another career?
If so what career would you pursue and why?

Me, I'm looking at going back to try for a Pharm D. or an advanced bio chem degree. I want to do research.

Yes.
sports medicine/surgery

Yep - I have always regretted not going on to be a chef as cooking is one of my passions.

Yes

Either a career in the Military or some sort of trade work.

Firefighting school. Get on with a municipal FD, landscape etc. on the side.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Lumberjack_Song.jpg

is ELMER FUDD an occupation?

Yep - I have always regretted not going on to be a chef as cooking is one of my passions.

+1

That is a lumberjack ma'am. He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday's he goes shopping, and has buttered scones for tea.

Yes.
Don't know. Something in sports.

I'd skip the navy.

That is a lumberjack ma'am. He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday's he goes shopping, and has buttered scones for tea.

Ax Men (http://www.history.com/minisites/axmen)

Ax Men (http://www.history.com/minisites/axmen)

I have watched parts of that several times and have yet to see an ax. Chains saws, trucks, tractors, yes. Axes, no.

I've always thought being a garbage man would be cool. Besides the decent pay and benefits, you'd get to score all kindsa dumpster stuff, you'd drive a big, stinky, butt-ugly truck that everybody wants to avoid, and to top it all, you get to take that big, stinky, butt-ugly truck off-roading when you go to the dump to unload!!!

Guy I went to hi skul with joined the Navy and got his electrician's license. However, he separated from the service in San Diego and promptly got one of those civil service set-asides as a postman. He walked a beat in Mission Beach delivering the mail and getting to know the locals. Married a nice girl who grew up there - and they bought her parents' house when her parents went to assisted living. He retired last year and now has his Navy pension and his Post Office pension. He's 53, in good shape, and works part time as an electrician when he's not surfing or cycling.

I did the college thing and have had to change careers twice - first time when I found out that waiting tables paid more than teaching (seriously). Second time when it became apparent that journalism was going into the toilet. Now I hope I can hold on to a state job long enough to become vested in the retirement plan in a couple years.

So, Kevin, you were the smart one. Say 'hi' to Lisa for me.

Something in the sciences
or
professional drummer.
At no point during my early drumming years did anyone say you could go to school for it.

Imagine my dismay when I found out that in the real world, nobody pays you for being able to twist a doobie with one hand. :cry:

That is a lumberjack ma'am. He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday's he goes shopping, and has buttered scones for tea.

W3rd. You get to skip and jump, press wild flowers, and wear women's clothing on top of that. :D

According to the Alphabet of Manliness...



A lumberjack is a man who jacks lumber. Chopping down trees is all they think about. If there were no trees to chop down, lumberjacks would cease to exist. And yet, lumberjacks have so much contempt for trees that they are willing to sacifice their very existence to help win the war against nature. Trees are everywhere. It's getting to the point where you can't even go to a park anymore without seeing a tree. If lumberjacks didn't cut down trees, the trees would overwhelm us and take over the world. The where would we raise our families and park our cars--in the forest? Wishful thinking, and it might eve work if it weren't for one small detail: bears.

Lumberjacks evolved from pirates, and cavemen before that. There is no nobler calling than that of a lumberjack. Deep down insinde every guy, no matter how much of a pasty-thighed, white-collared desk slave he is, there's a lumberjack waiting to bust out. Not only is being a lumberjack the manlieist profession in the world but it's also the only profession to set the definitive style of clothing for me to wear for generations since the first burly lumberjack walked the earth.

Retirement...

I guess I have to say i'm lucky in that regard. I worked as a landscaper, then went corporate with american skandia ( now prudential) and finally ended up exactly where I want to be ( career FD).


But if I had to do it again, and had a choice about it, the only thing I would give up my present job for, would have to be something that offers some type of killer adventure. Maybe an astronaut or something. Discovering some type of far off civilization....I guess I never gave up that kind of childhood fantasy. I've always had a serious case of wanderlust. If NASA had some program to send civilians into space, i'd take it in a heartbeat. My only regret is not finishing college when I was there. I'm slowly going back now, but I don't know who i'm fooling. I've never been college material.......

I'm doing it right now.

I didn't really have a career before I went to college. I like to be outdoors and decided I wanted to be a field scientist when I was 30-something. In May 2009 I will graduate with my BS in geology. I'm also taking GIS classes, there are lots of jobs in that field.

I have to go and finish packing my gear, I'm headed out for 3 days of field work, mapping geology with the Colorado Geologic Survey this summer....

Definitely should have been an Orthopaedic Surgeon. MD/Carpenter and you get to use power tools:thumb:

I could have saved a ton of $ putting myself back together

I may just be going back to "school".

Apparently the economic development agency for my area offers free or low-cost business classes that could really help with doing what I'd like to do with the shop. I'll be signing up as soon as the classes are offered again.

Shouldve went for that PhD in History and became a history prof....

Yep - I have always regretted not going on to be a chef as cooking is one of my passions.

Do they offer that at the college where you work?

I already passed the academy except for one thing - I would have had my dream career if it wasn't for my eyes. :o

So my goal would be to buy new eyes. :thumb: But that ain't possible. :(

Yes...

Major changes - Geology or Kineseolgy/Exercise Physiology.
Minot Change - change to Mech Eng and get into MEMS/Nano tech.

I already passed the academy except for one thing - I would have had my dream career if it wasn't for my eyes. :o

So my goal would be to buy new eyes. :thumb: But that ain't possible. :(

I did not fly in the military for the same reason.

If I hit the lotto I would peruse archeology and brush dust off of rocks.
Tweed jackets with leather patch elbows and a rickety English sports car, aw yeah....

I have perfect vision yet lack the propensity for learning rote semantics to be a pilot...go figure.

Do they offer that at the college where you work?

There is a food service 2 yr degree - that I believe will transfer over to a 4 yr degree (not sure what degree that would be) - don't think the courses will transfer to a regular culinary institute - which is where I originally wanted to go, but at age 50 with about 3 pages worth of courses taken and no degree that I want - I prefer to do my cooking in-house and sometimes for some local places.

I'll live with my decisions but always wish I did it.

Seeing as I'm in college...I would've went back and told myself to get into freaking pilots' school. Or finish up the welding curriculum. Or to start programming way earlier. Or to get into building houses (god knows my cousin makes bank doing that). Or to get into cars to the point of building crap for them. Or design some circuits/microprocessors. I would tell myself, ten years ago, just freaking do something away from the TV! Oh, that and sell the first car I owned - stupid 10MPG POS.

If I ever have kids, you can be sure they won't be playing video games to the extent I did. Waste of a freaking childhood.

Oddly enough, I'm going to be getting out of college with god-knows-what degree, a passion for making things and hopefully enough knowledge to make a bike out of steel, titanium or carbon fiber. Hopefully those skills will be applicable to other industries (perhaps airplanes?). And there's definitely a plan in my mind for going to ground school within the next ten years.

Up until the age of eight I was convinced I would be a paleontologist when I grew up. (Okay, I probably didn't even get the idea in my head until I was six or seven, but for a brief time there it was all I wanted to do or be.)

Then I discovered music and it all turned to schidt.

Forty years and two music degrees later, yeah, if I had to do it all over again I'd probably consider being a paleontologist

...for about a nanosecond, and then I'd go to med school.

Would you go back to school and pursue another career?

possibly.


If so what career would you pursue and why?

Me, I'm looking at going back to try for a Pharm D. or an advanced bio chem degree. I want to do research.

that would be telling.

If I hit the lotto I would peruse archeology and brush dust off of rocks.
Tweed jackets with leather patch elbows and a rickety English sports car, aw yeah....

We have a couple of archeologists in our office. I always like seeing what they bring back from their surveys. One of them just gave notice and is going on a 6 week dig in Israel. Very cool stuff indeed.

There is a food service 2 yr degree - that I believe will transfer over to a 4 yr degree (not sure what degree that would be) - don't think the courses will transfer to a regular culinary institute - which is where I originally wanted to go, but at age 50 with about 3 pages worth of courses taken and no degree that I want - I prefer to do my cooking in-house and sometimes for some local places.

I'll live with my decisions but always wish I did it.

I have a pro-chef degree, but now I only cook for family and friends. It was the best day of my life(at that point) when I walked away from the restaurant bis.

I wish I had joined a union then learn a trade and stayed close to my home town.

culinary and for that matter restaurants, are not something I would recommend for anything that doesn't have the gonads. Its long hours, usually crap pay, you really don't have much creative input for many many many years and in the end, its like an assembly line. Ya you get to play with food, but at the heart of every restaurant is simple patterns already predefined in order to make the food go out looking the same, tasting the same and usually based on someone elses recipes...

I would go into a trade where I could work alone. Anything to get away from sitting at a desk all day dealing with office politics and fragile egos.

If I had my druthers, I would build custom furniture for a living. I would own one tie to go with my one suit that I only wore to funerals.

the only thing I can think of better than this would be a rock star, mega rich with bunches of groopies or groupies, what ever. Anyway my wife would be cool with the money but probably get honked off about the groupies (women). No, I would not change it if I could.