“Btw, it might be more prudent if your hubby could wait until after the twins are born before leaving the current position, as pregnancies are a “pre-existing condition” and might not be covered by the new health plan.”
This happened to a new guy at a company I worked at in Denver. They had NO insurance for the pregnancy. It sucked. And with twins…
My career changes:
Clown/Juggler > Restaurants > Pilot/CFI > Student > Trust Officer > Economic Researcher > Office Manager > Operations Manager for a Hedge Fund start-up.
I’m in the middle of one right now. I decided to go back to school because I really didn’t like what I was doing. I was a medical billing specialist. I am now in school for communications and journalism. This does not preclude my going into medical journalism, but I got so sick of billing (and the job market isn’t nearly as good as those technical-training ads would have you believe) that a career change seemed like a good idea.
Heavy equipment operaror>Quality control technician>Disabled (traumatic brain injury)>Heating and Air Conditioning technician>no studying civil engineering technology.
Police Officer----->Computer Geek------>Taekwondo Instructor
I’m lucky. I get to be a computer geek by day and teach Taekwondo in the evenings. Most folks can’t even find one job they like; I have two that I love.
But your hubby’s thinking about going into politics? Slap him upside the head a couple of dozen times until he loses that idiocy. Or goes braindead, which I guess would then overqualify him for politics…
New job is going well. I’ve working on a marketing plan this week, and this afternoon am having a meeting with our Accountant (“H” in the last thread) to go over cash flow projections and cost-cutting ideas.
I don’t want to turn my boss onto the SDMB so I’ll tell about her career change myself. Nun/biology teacher —>married (now widowed) mental health counselor.
Hi fessie we meet again!
I was a critical care nurse for 30+ years. One day I had an epiphany; I hurt people. Even though it was to help them, every day I had to do something that made a small child cry. Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it. My wonderful, then boyfriend, now husband, understood. I quit. (Retired) but we couldn’t quite afford to live on just his income. So I took a job as a file clerk at a photocopier wholesaler. I had such great fun! I never had to stick a needle in one single person. And the filing spoke to the inherent OCD one developes in ICU.
Once we got used to living on half what we previously had, I was able to retire completely, turning fully to dabbing paint and making big pieces of glass into little pieces.
I love my life.
I went from teaching to full-time sahm-ing to newspaper carrier. I make a heck of a lot less as a carrier than I did as a teacher, but it’s fun, gives me some solitude (worth a lot when you have four kids!), and pays a lot better than most part-time jobs.
Inbetween, I did a bit of free-lance proofreading. Not my favorite job, but it paid a few bills.
My plan is to go back to school when the babies begin kindergarten…I’m leaning toward some sort of rehab therapy, maybe OT or something like that.
paper boy -> car wash attendant -> forklift driver -> grocery store clerk -> typesetter -> hydrotester -> insulator
out of all of those, I liked hydrotesting the best, got to operate on this funky Star Trek-ish console and I surprisingly had a lot of fun doing it, wish I could find a job doing that again (was laid off)
Though there was a lot of proofreading and dishline work in there, too. And my first job with my doctorate in Clinical Psychology was at a Hickory Farms (“I’ve got the gloves on–you know that that means!”).
Retail schlub–> Sales for a glass manufacturer–> Chef
I know the retail to sales wasn’t much of a jump, but going from that to chef was a major move for me. Went to culinary school and slaved in restaurant kitchens before landing the job as sous chef in a catering company. Still working my ass off, but getting paid more than I did at the sales job plus I get two months off a year (hooray for working the television-filming schedule!).
In the morning I call repeat customers for a big carpet cleaning company and in the afternoon, I’m a zookeeper (Mammal Dept.) at a small zoo that specializes in movie, tv, and ad work as well as doing a little tour-guiding around the building.
at 14 container yard employee/hyster operator.
Car porter
Found myself… (whee party!)
Car porter
Car salesman (couldn’t do it, i.e. rob a guy who made 26K a year, with 3 kids out of 2600 bucks on his trade in)
Sold lawn care (gives dogs cancer, I quit)(sales is bad)
Set marble tile. (skilled, ask me!)
Steel worker
Chicago Board Options Exchance “clerk” Rich tightwad, criminal bastards. (quit)
Made steel tubes to within a thous. of an inch tolerance for 3 years. Blew piss test, (Quit)
now… TEAMSTER at the Railroad. I love it. Work outside with some great guys for a good company. (common, retirement )
Mr emilyforce went from being a tree surgeon to a grad student in linguistics. If all goes well, he’ll end up a professor. He still does tree work whenever he can get it. He worked part-time at an artificial intelligence development place for about a year, before the office pollitics got too bad.
Me: library aide --> acting student --> “exotic dancer” --> go-fer/stand-in on a weekly TV drama’s set --> actual paid actor --> office manager --> PhD student --> copyeditor.
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