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If you could get a "re-do"

Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
What profession would you choose?

How would you spend your "labor" hours of the day?

Would you change it at all?

NS
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would go into the funeral business...
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by txlawdog
    I would go into the funeral business...
    Interesting.. care to expound on that point?

    NS
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    Electrical engeneer, they can screw up a soup sandwich in the
    rain and still get payed big bucks
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have requested mast in 1980 to protest being made a supply clerk. I had the highest score on the DLAT of anyone who had taken it at Indianapolis AFEES at that time. I should have gone into the 02 field and learned Arabic or some other towel head language but I wasn't given the test again in boot camp.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can't really say that I would want to. I'm pretty happy as it is. I love my job and my life.
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A really good left-handed pitcher in the MLB [:o)]
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    I believe I would have gone more creative. Musician or artist perhaps. Perhaps an artisan skilled trade like custom built guitars.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just like the idea of a non complaining public to deal with...

    Customer service... People come to you, you aint gotta go look for work.... Dealing with people in a time of need. Dirty job that someone has to do. All those apply...
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by DarkStar11
    A really good left-handed pitcher in the MLB [:o)]
    Very nice!!!

    NS
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skicat
    I believe I would have gone more creative. Musician or artist perhaps. Perhaps an artisan skilled trade like custom built guitars.
    I think I would move towards the arts as well.... cool.

    NS
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have gone into banking
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
    I would have requested mast in 1980 to protest being made a supply clerk. I had the highest score on the DLAT of anyone who had taken it at Indianapolis AFEES at that time. I should have gone into the 02 field and learned Arabic or some other towel head language but I wasn't given the test again in boot camp.
    Henry:

    As a guy who spent more than a year in language school learning Arabic, please believe me when I say that whatever you did with your life is far more enjoyable than the *-pain I endured learning the language you would have probably hated!

    NS
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JnRockwall
    I would have gone into banking
    Why do you desire to be hated by so many?

    NS
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  • rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    Electrical engeneer, they can screw up a soup sandwich in the
    rain and still get payed big bucks

    That's because us Mechanical guys are the last ones'
    on the totum pole and we get the blame when
    the schedule's slide .
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  • swopjanswopjan Member Posts: 3,292
    edited November -1
    I'd probably do highschool over. Don't mind my job, but things would be a lot more to my liking if I'd met a particular girl during highschool instead of after.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
    Can't really say that I would want to. I'm pretty happy as it is. I love my job and my life.
    +1
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I love owning my own bussiness but I always wanted to be a trauma nurse and work in the OR.I was a paramedic when I was younger and like the medical feild.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gigolo for the Swedish womens volley ball team, no really. And if you have to ask why I feel sorry for you
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
    Albert Einstein
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,159 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have spent a lot more money on land in the 70-80 period, got a write off of my over extended debt,ditched the Grouch Attack before the land got too valuable, and would now be a multi millionaire.
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  • tomh.tomh. Member Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have been an optometrist.
    "Is it clearer now?....Or now?
    Your glasses will be ready in about a week.
    Please pay my assistant on the way out."
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    I would have been a diesel fitter.
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  • SWAT 50SWAT 50 Member Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TV weather man.

    The only profesion that you can lie to folks ,or be wrong half of the time and get paid 6 figures for it.

    Or an auctioneer, for same reasons.
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  • SWAT 50SWAT 50 Member Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    I would have been a diesel fitter.


    If I recall correctly that's a job for D.F.Ns.

    Just like a Ho Dee Doe man.
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  • Blade SlingerBlade Slinger Member Posts: 5,891
    edited November -1
    Having worked for a couple of years in a heavy equipement engineering lab as test driver I would have liked to be heavy equipement operater.
    Second choice; Undercover investigater......not for sure spelling teacher[:D]
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Professionally, I wouldn't change anything.

    Personally....that's a whole different story.[;)]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Locomotive engineer.
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  • djh860djh860 Member Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Id like a redo with my second wife but she is a horrible life destroying * Im not sure it would work out. ;-)
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  • CSI21CSI21 Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I would have ducked when I instead zagged, and would never have climbed that mountain. Not to mention I would have brought more water and rounds when in Somolia, at least I brought my NVGs.
    Given more, taken less!
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,936 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Through luck and hard work I got it right for me.

    I have all the education and professional certifications I could need, I am on the very leading edge of a growth industry that will boom beyond my retirement, and I really enjoythe challenges, successes, and setbacks of my job.

    It is vey demanding and I have to be careful not to ever let work come before my family.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I honeslty would not change a thing.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unless I could be born rich, I would not change what I did. I got paid to do what I would have done as a hobby if I had sold shoes for a living. Only being rich would have been better.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Journeyman Electrician.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have moved west 20 years ago instead of now and got into the outfitting business. Firearms and hunting are my only real passions.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'd opt out of being in a 'profession' and remove myself from the 'system' to the degree possible.

    Subsistence-farmer, hunter-gatherer, trapper, ridge-runner, moonshiner, and liberty-pamphleteer, living in a remote area.

    A rugged-individualist, as it were.
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  • Wyatt EarpWyatt Earp Member Posts: 5,871
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Night Stalker
    What profession would you choose?

    How would you spend your "labor" hours of the day?

    Would you change it at all?

    NS


    One of the biggest career mistakes I made was letting my mom talk me out of joining the Marines 3 days before I was scheduled to go for my physical.

    I would have probably put in 20 years then joined the FD for career #2.
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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    I wanted to be a pilot when I was younger In small craft. Alaska style. I would probably be dead now but I would have liked to tried my hand at it. I would have like to do the military stint not a career just done my part. The year the draft ended was when my time was coming. If I was a ten years younger now I would switch over to wind turbine tech, and do a little traveling
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Night Stalker
    quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
    I would have requested mast in 1980 to protest being made a supply clerk. I had the highest score on the DLAT of anyone who had taken it at Indianapolis AFEES at that time. I should have gone into the 02 field and learned Arabic or some other towel head language but I wasn't given the test again in boot camp.
    Henry:

    As a guy who spent more than a year in language school learning Arabic, please believe me when I say that whatever you did with your life is far more enjoyable than the *-pain I endured learning the language you would have probably hated!

    NS


    The hostages were still in Iran when I was in boot camp. I couldn't believe the Corps sent me to supply school instead of Monteray.

    When Carter's rescue mission failed, I told everyone who would listen that if it had been an all Marine team they would have succeeded. [:D]
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by txlawdog
    I would go into the funeral business...

    my in-laws own a Funeral Home...business comes in spurts, and they do a lot of "welfare" funerals that end up costing them money.

    shockingly, the ones that they make no money off of, are the customers that are the most demanding, and unappreciative.
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  • jamesjojamesjo Member Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Always thought being an under water welder would be cool!
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