Thread: What do you do?

1) unemployed - did R&D in telecommunications for about 10+ years. Will be running a branch office of a national mortgage company in about a month.
2) Masters in Computer and Electronic Eng
3) Pros - Great salary and stock options, etc. Cons - no job stability in big companies anymore (hence the reason I am unemployed)

Hey,

Wow, thanks for your responses!! After doing some more thinking today i'm leaning towards doing an after education degree in elementary. I think I would really enjoy this and the whole idea of summers off is pretty great. If i wanted to do sports writing, i could probably just do some free lance work or whatever and try to go about getting a job that way. And like you guys were saying, it's not so much what the degree is. I think either way though i might take a year off and just see what type of work i could get with my phys ed degree....and after 16 years of school straight, i'm definetely ready for a break!! I'm currently working as a personal trainer and that's great money and fun and everything, but i'm not sure if I see it as a career that I would do for a long time.
Thanks again for your help!
BerryBlis

Originally Posted by BerryBlis

1) What is your current job/career?
2) What education/training do you have that enabled you to get this career?
3) What is the best and worst thing about your career?

1. Paraproffesional/soccer coach at my old h.s., rockstar at night
2. bachelors in comm. @ UConn (had nothing to do with my current job)
3. I have absolutely the best job i've ever had. I work 7-2:30, M-F. The whole morning i LITERALLY hang with the kids, mess around on the computer and eat breakfast, then i eat lunch, then i'm in internal-suspension the last 2 periods (where i try to talk to the troublemakers and put some sense in 'em).

The best part about it is i'm still young so i relate to all these kids' lives/opinions/actions/thoughts etc. But at the same time, i already went through eveyrthing they're doing and then some (college), so i can give 'em a little insight.

absolutely LOVE my job.

Originally Posted by BerryBlis

i'm leaning towards doing an after education degree in elementary. I think I would really enjoy this and the whole idea of summers off is pretty great. If i wanted to do sports writing, i could probably just do some free lance work or whatever and try to go about getting a job that way. And like you guys were saying, it's not so much what the degree is. I think either way though i might take a year off and just see what type of work i could get with my phys ed degree....and after 16 years of school straight, i'm definetely ready for a break!! I'm currently working as a personal trainer and that's great money and fun and everything, but i'm not sure if I see it as a career that I would do for a long time.
Thanks again for your help!
BerryBlis

let me tell ya, working @ a school is one of the best jobs out there. kids are just awesome.....

OMG, esp. if you can do gym!!!!!!!!!

its not even work. to go to school and play sports with kids all day, then have summers off!!

damn i'd love to be a gym teacher.

Hey,

Yah the more I think about it the more i want to definetely do ed. I was thinking about doing accounting, but sitting in a cubicle looking at numbers all day would suck ass sooo bad!! What ages are the kids you are working with mostly? Which ages would you say are best? I'm thinking about trying to work with grades 3-6.

BerryBlis