"Employed Outside Your Career Field?" Topic

What a strange poll question? I'm not sure I ever had a chosen career. Now I'd _like_ to be a Peak Park Ranger, work one day a week and get paid 100 grand, but I'm not and don't…

I work in IT (who doesn't) but trained as an Economist many moons ago.

Never chosen a career path, I've been doing the same job now for 15 years, I mostly enjoy it but there was no thought of a career.

I still don't know what I want to do when (if) I grow up.

I'm with King Monkey. I've had three major jobs and about five minor ones. After 13 years in the same job, I appear to have chosen it as my career field, but when I grow up I might want something different. Then again, I work in a brewery, so to many people I have the dream job.

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My chosen career was Sultan of Mysore, but it didn't work out. I'm currently the Maharaja of Jind.

Not quite what I'd hoped for, but it's a living.

Yes, strange question. What's the connection with the hobby?

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perhaps he's trying to see if we as a group change jobs as often as we change gaming periods. Sort of an extention of the one period poll.

Hee, hee – "career".
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Since my chosen career was 'plaything for Victoria's Secret models and beer taste tester extraordinaire' I am saddened to admit I am indeed working a job outside that field.

I'm on plan D now.

My chosen career hopped a bus and left town 20 years ago.

I tell my wife I'd like to be a sex-slave for a rich , but she's not holding up her end of the deal.

Wow. Since when is a bleepable word?

I was a history major, so my career options span McDonalds to international spy. I split the difference and am a librarian.

Re Martin's "Now I'd _like_ to be a Peak Park Ranger, work one day a week and get paid 100 grand, but I'm not and don't…"

Sorry Martin, I'm no longer a member of the Peak District National Park Authority so I can't help there. Note: As a former Chair of its Resources Committee i can advise that we couldn't afford £100K p/a and one day a week would have been pushing at the limits of our Work-Life Balance Policies. But you'd have looked good in a red fleecy driving a silver Land Rover

Which career?
---Defense (military and then civilian contractor) Electronics tech? 14+ years, then walked away to be a
---College Student? Full-time for 16+ years, but broken there too, into 8 years doing Asian History/Language/Culture (focus on Japan and China) then 7 years doing underwater archaeology
---Bookstore worker drone? 6+ years doing that (during my Asian studies) then walked away when I moved to Texas and started underwater arch…
---Historical Archaeologist (terrestrial, Hawaiian projects) 3 years so far

Over the long run you might be able to plot a general track but there was no 'chosen career' to begin with.

Yes.

My chosen career was bum (hobo if you prefer) who won £1million on the lottery.

Unfortunately……..

I had always hoped to spend all day sitting down at the docks with my thumb up my butt; but that didn't pay very well so I bait hooks for the fishermen. I'm really not very good at it, probably never master it.

I didn't grow up to be a rock star or the Roman emperor I wanted to be… If only I had concentrated less on gaming.

Picked to be a scientist. Am a scientist. For over 20 years now…
If I thought I could make a career outta gaming, I would have.

Retired now, but worked in a number of widely different fields.

So, like many above, what career field?

Chris Rock
Jobs versus Careers

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Still a computer geek.

I still aspire to be an eccentric millionaire,if only I can buy a winning lotto ticket.Other than that,its off to the salt mines.

I lost sight of my original career so long ago, that I've forgotten what it was. I did work as a cowboy in 94/95.

Earned my first $ programming computers 32 years ago, and have never earned my living doing anything else.

I admit I started university planning to be an astronomer; but that was a choice from ignorance. I like what I do.

I don't have a career, my job is in IT though. Not what I wanted to do.

Been in the same career path for about 25 years – but it has taken some very distinct branching turns!

I've been making my living doing caricatures at parties for 24 years, but now I am also teaching cartooning at elementary schools in the afternoons. As far as I am concerned I'm still in my "chosen" field.

I've been in the museum field for eight years. However, the way this economy has hit museums and other non-profits, a change may be coming sooner or later.

Packed in mine 4 years ago, after 32 years in teaching. That really is a career – it careered out of control so I got out.

Now I paint toy soldiers for a living and sell stuff to other wargamers.

Because you miserable lot don't buy enough of my stuff I'm poor – but a lot happier than I was as a college lecturer.

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Retired and not working all at the same time. Guess I could say I am a rancher, if you call killing snakes, coyotes and boars ranching.
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James Mattes

J.M., My cousin says if you ain't got at least 300 head, it's just a hobby…………….
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Of course he's down to about 185 adults right now, and I'm picking on him too.

Not really surprised at the lack of students… I'm 21 and most of the gamers are at least twice my age.

Nice to be a young man in a old man's world ;)