Your P O T E N T I A L ?

[dan27]

Woulda, coulda, shoulda.....?

What were your career desires?

Me: Gamee Warden, Bush Pilot or Heavy Equipment Operator.

In reality. I ended up a factory worker, fork-lift operator & printer assistant.

 

[user 188522]

I had my career desire. I was training sea lions and dolphins at the NY aquarium. I gave it up for a guy who said I smelled like mackerel. Guy left, and I left my career. Now that I am older, I would never give up something I love for a man!

 

[Bones 2.0]

- Undergraduate and graduate studies in education (teaching)

- Completed teacher practicum and found out working with kids would put me in the slammer for life

- Worked as a social worker for mental healthcare on the children & adolescent units; social worker for seniors obtaing their healthcare & social security benefits; grant writer for healthcare disease prevention; auditor for healthcare claims; and finally data warehouse specialist for healthcare claims at the same agency past 24 years.

- Never used my teaching degree and certification in my life, but the upside is that prevented life imprisonment lol

 

[4No1]

Asrtrophisicist in Nasa.

Reality: mediocore software devloper dreaming of becoming a data scientist

 

[Bones 2.0]

Asrtrophisicist in Nasa.

Reality: mediocore software devloper dreaming of becoming a data scientist

If I could go back in time, I would strongly consider getting a data scientist degree. However, in the 80s for undergraduate and post graduate, I don't think we had a degree program for it. As you can tell from above, it was by accident that I ended up being partly a business analyst, data warehouse specialist, data scientist, etc roled up into one without a clear distinction. I did it because being mediocre - the Samford and Son of IT related things - I was sorta, kinda; as a general, average population person, was fascinated by it all and being a little ahead of my time because my roommates where in engineering school and liked to build things such as computers. Around here, personal PCs for home and work did not start being mainstream until the early 90s for everyone - 10 people shared a computer and no one knew had to use it in our office/department except me and was responsible - by accident - setting up networking, transitioning our work onto a computer, etc. Maybe out of 200 people total, maybe less then 10 people were computer literate in 1990. On the other hand, it was fun being in the wild west of computers. And, someone in our office being here just now since 1990 said everyone finally had a computer by 1994. The green bar paper system and using graph paper for excel spreadsheet by today's standards wasn't fun. Lol.

 

[Finished]

I had lots of potential. Took the college SATs in 6th grade because I aced the exams for my age group. Scored high enough on SATs to be considered mid-level college. But, was ignored and made to waste my time in mostly regular classes. Although I did help teach the computer classes in school. I also taught adults programming at night in 8th grade. In 9th grade I found drugs and a way to make lots of money. So, most of things went to the waste side.

Should / Could Have Been: Electrical or Chemical Engineer with a night time hobby as a killer of bad people (Dexter). Maybe a political hit man.

Reality: All kinds of different jobs. Both blue collar and white collar. Programming, project manager, sales to ditch digging, vehicle restoration, home restoration, welding, electronics, handy man. Private sector and government. Several degrees. Many certifications. Did well at all of them. Liked none of them. Zero passion. But, the biggest problem was working with other people. I faked it. But, it stressed me out terribly. I gave up at age 40 after I realized I could live like I was poor and get by on my savings. My stress level plumeted and my health inproved.