If You Could Choose Any Job/Profession...

[a3a2]

Great thread. Teacher, doctor, and/or maybe an author.

 

[LoveWins]

I'd either

-Travel the world teaching languages to young children
or
-Own and run an orphanage

I also want to be a mother, but we have infertility to contend with unfortunately

 

[Robin]

Lawyer. that was what I was studing to be before the idot came along.

 

[trapped]

I still think I'd want to do behavioral neuroscience and open up a clinic for PTSD and eating disorders, combining the equine therapy and eastern medicine as part of the treatment program... it just seems to be the perfect combination of helping people, being around animals, and still giving me enough time and opportunity to do research. I'd start doing the job right now if I could- I already know a lot of how I want to set up my program... art or photography would be a cool side-job too....

If I didn't do that though, I'd probably do what I was doing in the Navy... I really miss it, I had planned to make a career out of it and it's still hard sometimes for me to accept that my shoulder is busted and I'm not ever going to be able to make a career out of the Navy like I had wanted. Perhaps it's a good thing though... I'm happiest working for myself and doing freelance stuff (like training horses or whatever), I have such a hard time not jumping from job to job when I'm in a job where I have someone always telling me what to do.

 

[Dylan]

I don't think there's a name for it. Not quite minister, not quite therapist/counselor....maybe a spiritual counselor.

I would be someone with enough of a gift of perception, and know-how to use it skillfully, to help people find their way, to find and follow their own, unique path, to find their purpose, their passion, the path to their truth, to the center of themselves.

I'm not even sure how to say it, but this quote does it:
"Purpose is where our deep gladness meets the world's need"

My deep gladness comes when I perceive and listen with my intuition/heart and can address the true need behind the spoken one.

What a great thread. Thanks, Mina.

-Dylan

 

[kers]

I am lucky enough to have my dream job already! I teach reading and writing. I get paid to read fun books and love kids. It's wonderful.

That said, PTSD and the effects of my abuse makes a lot of parts of my job harder than they are for most people and my job drains me much more severely than it does my coworkers. I can't help but think how much better I'd be at this if it weren't for all the crap.

 

[NarcSis]

Doctor working in a volunteer capacity in a third world country. If money (and PTSD for the moment) didn't rule my world, I'd happily drop everything now and donate my time and skills to a charitable organization assisting less fortunate in a third world country...or my home community, who also needs the help.

 

[popeye]

I think if I had a choice I would be a custom car designer. but that would mean i'd have to be able to draw. If i had a better singing voice I might try being a singer in a band. Or Possibly even a veterinarian.

 

[Tinyflame]

Cartoonist, or astronaut.

-And I would love to sail around the world, just once.

 

[tgrl]

Doctor working in a volunteer capacity in a third world country. If money (and PTSD for the moment) didn't rule my world, I'd happily drop everything now and donate my time and skills to a charitable organization assisting less fortunate in a third world country...or my home community, who also needs the help.

There are many jobs that assist the disabled and less forunate that aren't in a 3rd world country.

 

[anthony]

Hmmm... what job would I want if I could have any job?

I would want to be a billionaire. Isn't that a job? I'm sure plenty of billionaires make it a full time job, to just be rich and do stupid shit without concern or regard for money. I could even go lose it to be even more famous.

 

[Nicolette]

I could even go lose it just to even more famous.

Sweetheart....over my dead body :rofl: