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Jan

Change Your Hat…

Filed in Dreamer Mondays

If your current career was no longer an option, what would you do/be? And why?

For me? This is a hard one to answer as writing is all I’ve ever wanted to do since I was a little girl. But if I must answer (and I must, as it’s only fair) I would have to say a teacher. If I could pick my subject, I’d pick writing. If that wasn’t an option, I’d say reading. I homeschooled my youngest for kindergarten and while I loved every minute of that experience with her, teaching her to read was my absolute favorite part. Watching her learn to put sounds together to form words…and then words together to read sentences…and finally sentences together to read an entire book…

Ahhhh. It was nothing short of amazing.  smallhat

So what about you? What hat might you choose to wear?

~Elizabeth

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12 Responses to “Change Your Hat…”

  1. Lynn
    January 4th, 2010 at 10:04 am

    I’ve done a lot of career switching in my life… If I could draw –I’d love to be an architech. Or maybe a historical consultant on old buildings…

  2. Joe
    January 4th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    I hit college intending to become a wildlife cinematographer. There are days I still wonder about the path not followed, but with temps in the single digits today, I’m thinking the indoor gig isn’t all bad.

  3. Elizabeth
    January 4th, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Lynn, a historical consultant sounds really cool! Even as a little girl I loved visiting historic homes (the ones where they rope off the rooms and you can’t get too close). I was fascinated with the way people lived back when. Still am.

    Joe, a wildlife cinematographer? Wow. Do you think getting close to wild animals would have scared you AT ALL??? And now, because I have to ask, HAVE you gotten close to any questionable animals for the purpose of taking pictures???

  4. Dru
    January 4th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    I started out with the notion of being a social worker but when I discovered that the pay was little I opted to be a consumer researcher. If I had to change career, I think I would like being a psychologist – I’m a good listener and my friends use me as their sounding board and I like to think I give advice.

  5. Elizabeth
    January 4th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Dru, with as much as you love reading, I figured you’d go towards something with books…

    Fellow blog readers, Dru is a MAJOR reader. We’re talking a book a day in most cases!

  6. Joe
    January 4th, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    I’ve caught scores of snakes. Scampered up and down cliffs photographing eagles. Photographed alligators, and managed to get close to them. I snorkeled in a bay with manatees a few years ago, and while I didn’t have the right gear for the job, I came away with some nice shots, thanks to a friend. They are gentle, beautiful creatures, but they weigh in at a half-ton; you don’t want to get pinned between them.

  7. Elizabeth
    January 4th, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    Even knowing a manatee is gentle I think I’d still be terrified to get close enough for a picture. Yes, yes, I know…let the bawking begin.

    Sigh.

    I did see a reef shark while I was snorkeling last year… And a sting ray this year…

  8. Lynn
    January 4th, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    So Joe…aren’t stingrays deadly? I was looking at an island advertisement with a family posed in the water petting a stingray. The caption should have read, The Cayman Islands, the best place on earth to get your life insurance policy to pay out.

  9. Nikki
    January 4th, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    Good question! I tend to be someone who has an interest in many things. By starting to teach a few college classes recently I feel like I have started another career….and I can’t say a writer because I am trying my hand at that too….so even though as a kid I wanted to be just like Charles Schlultz, I think I would go with wanting to own and run a mystery book store with a cafe’ (just like the one in Carolyn Hart’s Death on Demand series!!)

  10. Elizabeth
    January 4th, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    Oooooh, a mystery book store with a cafe. I’d love that, too. Nice one, Nikki!

  11. Brenda
    January 5th, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    I’m a day late but I’m hoping that I can add my comment.

    This question has come up before in some coffee break discussions and my answer is I would own/run a Bed and Breakfast. I’ve even gone so far as to take classes here and there in case I ever get the opportunity to actual live out my dream.

    I live in the Atlanta area and my best friend lives in Orlando. Every year we go on our Thelma & Louise weekends and we always meet somewhere and stay in a B&B and I have grown very fond of them.

  12. Elizabeth
    January 6th, 2010 at 12:41 am

    A Thelma & Louise weekend???? Oh my gosh, I LOVE that idea!!!! And a Bed & Breakfast sounds very cool!

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