# Did you actively choose your career?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-actively-choose-your-career/668561>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 11, 2013, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-actively-choose-your-career/668561 "2013-09-11T09:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-actively-choose-your-career/668561/61 "2013-09-12T09:11:00Z")

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You’d have to specify which one.

I do a variety of tech things. Today alone, I worked for three different employers - myself, editing two different concerts I shot. I chose that one, and it pretty much is a self-invented job, being a one-man, seven camera, concert video shooter. Earlier in the day, I was installing a flat screen on a wall and authoring a DVD for an art gallery. After that, I was the photographer for an estate sale company, and updating their web site. The last two are things that have just turned up. In between, I consulted on setting frequency ranges for wireless microphones for a web streaming company, and talking two other clients through computer problems, one on Mac, one on Windows.

I sometimes describe my career as a business model for ADHD.

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-actively-choose-your-career/668561/62 "2013-09-12T12:29:49Z")

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Nope.

Got a Masters in Psychology. I had always studied nature as a hobby, and had gotten quite good in botany.

I met my first husband, and at his place of work they were hiring botanical temp researchers. I did that a couple of years, then got the chanche to temp replace someone on maternity leave. She didn’t come back and I stayed in the job, as a government policy worker. First mostly in ecological policies, then in water and communication, now again mostly in ecology and in my first love: nature education.

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