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shmokes:
I liked my job a lot before leaving to come to law school.  There was just no more ladder to climb, and I wasn't making enough money.  Plus, as a network administrator, I was always threatened by technology making networks more and more self-repairing, and technologies allowing maintenance, repair and backup to be largely done remotely from an off-site location.  There would always be the temptation to outsource me to some faceless company that does remote network admin.  And as much as I loved my job, I would HATE HATE HATE to work for one of those companies where I'd end up being glorified telephone tech support.

mccoy178:
I graduated in '01 with a Polisci degree and I started a pool business. ;)  After four years of that, I decided that I didn't want to do that for the next 30 years.  I've been chipping away at it for the last few years and I am finally down my last quarter of student teaching.  I don't know how things work in WV Shardian, but I was able to go back to OSU and just take the classes to get my Technology Education licensure since I already had an undergrad.  So, in short, I will hopefully have started my teaching career before my 30th birthday and I will say that when I started four years ago, I would've never thought it possible. :cheers:

EDIT:  Shardian, I also have a 6 month old at home and went to school at night.  My father in law gave me great advice a couple years ago.  He said, "Where do you want to be in two years?  How are you going to get there?  Once you figure it out, make some goals on how you plan to get there and make it happen."  I have to say that it worked.

shardian:
I don't think I'll be doing law school. There are 2 things I absolutely know with a passion I will not fit into: Law and Medicine. ;D

ChadTower:

There is the other side of that coin as well:

"In 10 years, would you rather have been in class at night or spending time with your baby?"

When my kids were that small I chose time with them over going back to school.  I'm not sorry I did.  Eventually the kids will reach an age where they are indifferent to your being there at night.   They won't be changing week to week like they are for the first few years.  That's probably when I'll go back and finish up my degree.  Until then I come home at 6pm, have dinner with my family, help my kids with their homework, and put them to bed myself.  Sure, my career isn't where I want it to be, but my parenting is, and that is more important to me right now.

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2008, 08:55:30 am ---
There is the other side of that coin as well:

"In 10 years, would you rather have been in class at night or spending time with your baby?"

When my kids were that small I chose time with them over going back to school.  I'm not sorry I did.  Eventually the kids will reach an age where they are indifferent to your being there at night.   They won't be changing week to week like they are for the first few years.  That's probably when I'll go back and finish up my degree.  Until then I come home at 6pm, have dinner with my family, help my kids with their homework, and put them to bed myself.  Sure, my career isn't where I want it to be, but my parenting is, and that is more important to me right now.



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That's part of my problem with me hating work. I appreciate my family to the nth degree after losing our son. I can't stand not being there, and when my boss tells me I should put more hours in at work I feel like telling him to ---fudgesicle--- himself.

Any other job I got in the engineering industry would probably mean 50 hour or more work weeks. I just can't do that any more. That is why teaching is so incredibly attractive to me. That, and I like math ALOT and would love to teach it.

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