Comments on: Things you think when you’re unhappy with your chosen career http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:09:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Joey http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2464 Joey Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:36:40 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2464 Plumbing is one of the worst jobs ever. No respect, damaging to your health, terrible hours and the only ones getting rich are the business owners who would love to hire nothing but complacent illegal immigrants. Plumbing is one of the worst jobs ever. No respect, damaging to your health, terrible hours and the only ones getting rich are the business owners who would love to hire nothing but complacent illegal immigrants.

]]> By: tara http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2168 tara Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:49:05 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2168 I laughed my head off when I saw your subject heading and "maybe I should go to nursing school". I am in the same situation right now (minus the lawyer part). I have been in various businesses, currently real estate, and just don't have the passion for business. I have been tossing up the nursing thing for years, actually took a year once (and may I add was on the dean's list), but then the fates that be changed all of that. The whole, dirty bum thing sort of grosses me out, but it can't be worse than the assholes I deal with on a daily basis that suck all of the goodness out of me. At least people in the hospital really want your help, and are in a vulnerable enough position to appreciate it. Yes there is grossness and doctors, but it depends on the hospital you work at. If you don't want to deal with the God Syndrome, then go to a teaching hospital with doctors in residence...they're always nice and know that nurses know a heck of a lot more than they think they do!!! Also, if you are planning to move/work in Vancouver BC, you had best get your schooling in Canada. Canadians are very particular about who they hire, especially in medicine. If you don't want trouble, you should graduate from a Canadian school, and write the Canadian exams. I can say that, I'm Canadian...and it's true. Our employers are snobs when it comes to medical, dental...well, everything really! Good luck with your career choice...who knows, I may see you in class! I laughed my head off when I saw your subject heading and “maybe I should go to nursing school”. I am in the same situation right now (minus the lawyer part). I have been in various businesses, currently real estate, and just don’t have the passion for business. I have been tossing up the nursing thing for years, actually took a year once (and may I add was on the dean’s list), but then the fates that be changed all of that. The whole, dirty bum thing sort of grosses me out, but it can’t be worse than the assholes I deal with on a daily basis that suck all of the goodness out of me. At least people in the hospital really want your help, and are in a vulnerable enough position to appreciate it. Yes there is grossness and doctors, but it depends on the hospital you work at. If you don’t want to deal with the God Syndrome, then go to a teaching hospital with doctors in residence…they’re always nice and know that nurses know a heck of a lot more than they think they do!!!

Also, if you are planning to move/work in Vancouver BC, you had best get your schooling in Canada. Canadians are very particular about who they hire, especially in medicine. If you don’t want trouble, you should graduate from a Canadian school, and write the Canadian exams. I can say that, I’m Canadian…and it’s true. Our employers are snobs when it comes to medical, dental…well, everything really!

Good luck with your career choice…who knows, I may see you in class!

]]> By: gretchen http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2047 gretchen Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:37:37 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2047 How funny - the two places my mind wanders to when I have a particularly boring day at work are law school and library school. Ultimately, I'm too afraid of amassing additional school debt to actually do anything about either of them. But nursing school ... I'm sure that will pop up in my daydreams now too. How funny - the two places my mind wanders to when I have a particularly boring day at work are law school and library school. Ultimately, I’m too afraid of amassing additional school debt to actually do anything about either of them. But nursing school … I’m sure that will pop up in my daydreams now too.

]]> By: Zuzu http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2045 Zuzu Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:57:55 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2045 Hogan, I have been thinking about library school for quite a while now. I loved working in the law library during law school. If anyone wants to discuss their nursing or library experience, email me at kindlypogmothoin (at) gmail (dot) (com). Thanks! Hogan, I have been thinking about library school for quite a while now. I loved working in the law library during law school.

If anyone wants to discuss their nursing or library experience, email me at kindlypogmothoin (at) gmail (dot) (com). Thanks!

]]> By: Hogan http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2036 Hogan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:21:24 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2036 My wife graduated from law school in the mid-70s and worked for the state court administrator's office and then for the DOL Wage and Hour Division. In 1980 she quit DOL and went back to school for a Ph.D. in international relations, then taught for two years at a Baptist school in South Carolina. Between the culture shock and the situational depression, she ended up back at her parents' house for a year and then working at the print shop her father had started, learning to do digital imaging (which became a huge part of their business). She and her brother inherited the print shop when their father died. She quit two years ago due to management differences (intensified by family stuff), and now she has two part-time jobs, in law and marketing, plus the money she gets from her brother for her share in the business. She still wonders what she wants to be when she grows up (she's pretty sure it will involve computers). I suspect her kind of story is a lot more common than it seems. But it's not one that sounds much like "success" to most people--not like the one where you end up at the top of the same ladder you started on. She's not anywhere near as comfortable telling it as I am--I think it's cool to have done all that stuff, and also to have been able to get out of something when it stopped meeting your needs and into something else. Best of luck, and let me know if you start thinking seriously about library school. My wife graduated from law school in the mid-70s and worked for the state court administrator’s office and then for the DOL Wage and Hour Division. In 1980 she quit DOL and went back to school for a Ph.D. in international relations, then taught for two years at a Baptist school in South Carolina. Between the culture shock and the situational depression, she ended up back at her parents’ house for a year and then working at the print shop her father had started, learning to do digital imaging (which became a huge part of their business). She and her brother inherited the print shop when their father died. She quit two years ago due to management differences (intensified by family stuff), and now she has two part-time jobs, in law and marketing, plus the money she gets from her brother for her share in the business. She still wonders what she wants to be when she grows up (she’s pretty sure it will involve computers).

I suspect her kind of story is a lot more common than it seems. But it’s not one that sounds much like “success” to most people–not like the one where you end up at the top of the same ladder you started on. She’s not anywhere near as comfortable telling it as I am–I think it’s cool to have done all that stuff, and also to have been able to get out of something when it stopped meeting your needs and into something else.

Best of luck, and let me know if you start thinking seriously about library school.

]]> By: Mnemosyne http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2035 Mnemosyne Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:24:14 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2035 <i>In any event, if I leave New York, I’ll be going to Vancouver, and it’s a real pain in the ass to get barred as a foreign attorney there.</i> I would think that there would be work for a US attorney in a country that borders the US, even if you weren't admitted to the Canadian bar. Though as a New York attorney it would probably be a lot easier to find work in, say, Ottowa or Toronto. Vancouver probably wants either Washington state or entertainment law (since they have so much US film and TV production up there). I don't have any actual knowledge, of course -- it just seems logical. In any event, if I leave New York, I’ll be going to Vancouver, and it’s a real pain in the ass to get barred as a foreign attorney there.

I would think that there would be work for a US attorney in a country that borders the US, even if you weren’t admitted to the Canadian bar. Though as a New York attorney it would probably be a lot easier to find work in, say, Ottowa or Toronto. Vancouver probably wants either Washington state or entertainment law (since they have so much US film and TV production up there).

I don’t have any actual knowledge, of course — it just seems logical.

]]> By: Heather http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2034 Heather Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:45:17 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2034 Hey Zuzu, first of all, congratulations for leaving your job and I say, go to nursing school! I got my BA in Anthropology many moons ago and now currently have a life suck job at a business office in a hospital. I decided to go back to school for nursing and this is my first semester back and I love it so far (except for my douchebag Anatomy and Physiology professor who is a doctor), oh well, might as well get used to it now, right? Hey Zuzu, first of all, congratulations for leaving your job and I say, go to nursing school! I got my BA in Anthropology many moons ago and now currently have a life suck job at a business office in a hospital. I decided to go back to school for nursing and this is my first semester back and I love it so far (except for my douchebag Anatomy and Physiology professor who is a doctor), oh well, might as well get used to it now, right?

]]> By: anonymous dave http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2032 anonymous dave Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:46:01 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2032 Janis, I didn't assume you hadn't considered a change outside of private practice, I just wanted to respond to your statements on specialization and how it pigeonholes lawyers. In my experience, leaving private practice provides an opportunity to break out of those pigeonholes. As for pursuing non-legal career paths, that's great if it makes you happy. I didn't mean to suggest that going back to school wasn't resourceful; I meant to suggest that a license to practice in NY does not limit one to practing law in NY (admittedly, I inferred from Zuzu's comment on the portability of a nursing career the suggestion that a legal career was not, which might not have been an intended inference). Zuzu, you're right about getting admitted in Canada being a pain in the ass; I looked into licensure in New Zealand, a similar jurisdiction, and ultimately chose not to go through the hassle. Fewer hassles getting licensed in Washington, which is at least within striking distance of Vancouver... Janis, I didn’t assume you hadn’t considered a change outside of private practice, I just wanted to respond to your statements on specialization and how it pigeonholes lawyers. In my experience, leaving private practice provides an opportunity to break out of those pigeonholes. As for pursuing non-legal career paths, that’s great if it makes you happy. I didn’t mean to suggest that going back to school wasn’t resourceful; I meant to suggest that a license to practice in NY does not limit one to practing law in NY (admittedly, I inferred from Zuzu’s comment on the portability of a nursing career the suggestion that a legal career was not, which might not have been an intended inference).

Zuzu, you’re right about getting admitted in Canada being a pain in the ass; I looked into licensure in New Zealand, a similar jurisdiction, and ultimately chose not to go through the hassle. Fewer hassles getting licensed in Washington, which is at least within striking distance of Vancouver…

]]> By: Zuzu http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2031 Zuzu Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:37:48 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2031 In any event, if I leave New York, I'll be going to Vancouver, and it's a real pain in the ass to get barred as a foreign attorney there. In any event, if I leave New York, I’ll be going to Vancouver, and it’s a real pain in the ass to get barred as a foreign attorney there.

]]> By: Janis http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2029 Janis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:26:28 +0000 http://kindlypogmothoin.com/2007/10/21/things-you-think-when-youre-unhappy-with-your-chosen-career/#comment-2029 AD, I’m not sure why you’re assuming that I haven’t considered a change outside of private practice. All of the non-legal job changes that I’ve considered have felt so much more interesting and attractive than any non-private practice job I’ve considered. I’m not going to ignore that. There’s no reason that anyone should. Also, don’t you think that you might have been missing something when you responded to Zuzu’s thoughts about going back to school for prerequisites and a nursing program with “c’mon, get resourseful!”? AD, I’m not sure why you’re assuming that I haven’t considered a change outside of private practice. All of the non-legal job changes that I’ve considered have felt so much more interesting and attractive than any non-private practice job I’ve considered. I’m not going to ignore that. There’s no reason that anyone should. Also, don’t you think that you might have been missing something when you responded to Zuzu’s thoughts about going back to school for prerequisites and a nursing program with “c’mon, get resourseful!”?

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