Did you actively choose your career?

In My Humble Opinion
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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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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.