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Would you choose differently if you could choose your occupation again? Why? How?

Interesting quesion for me since I have been thinking alot about going back to work. When should I go? What type of job/field would I look to enter? Etc. So to answer this I need to tell you first about where I have been.

My college degree is Graphic Design which I did for several years after college. My career began to morph at somepoint as I took on Marketing and PR type projects and eventually I was hiring out the graphics and concentrating my time on Marketing and Strategic Planning. I worked for a health care organization so part of my job involved promotion of health care careers and I worked with student High School age up thorough college. I really enjoyed helping students find the health career that was right for them.

It's been seven years since I held down a full-time job other then MOM that is. I have worked part time as an Art and Computer teacher for a Private Christian School and I absolutely LOVED that job.

So Now What? I have been asking myself that same question over and over. I had thought I'd be working part-time by now with Olivia in Kindergarten but with Amelia's arrival those plans got pushed back. I have been looking into returning to college to get a teaching degree as Secondary Art Teacher. The market where I live is not the best though for teachers there are so many of us. So much so that to substitute teach in my area you must have a teaching degree, then you wait on a list to be called. I have several teaching friends who have only been called a dozen or so times to sub.

We do have a large number of hospitals and a Medical School so going back into that type of work might be possible. Just harder on the family due to the working hours for health care centers.

I go back and forth and back and forth and don't know what to do so I do nothing. Not the best of plans I know. I figure I really don't have to start making any decisions until next year! As to would I choose differently my occupation/career? I'd have to say NO, I love Art and Art College was a wonderfull experience. I do however wish I would have taken the additional teaching classes so that I graduated with both a B.S. in Graphic Design and Secondary Education.