Originally Posted by
Wondergirl
I am glad you are here and hope (I KNOW!) you will get some valuable input.
Here is what happened with me -- I was in college for a teaching degree, worked part-time in their college finance office and in food service, babysat and cleaned houses around town, graduated and got married, taught school for a year and ended up leaving to work in two drug stores, a Bible bookstore, and at State Farm, then got pregnant, stayed home for 12 years raising two kids, but meanwhile sub taught and tutored, then finally went back to regular work once the kids were in school. That work was split between teaching pre-K in my kids' school and working in a public library across the street from it.
Go forward five years and I landed a job working full time in a different public library eight miles from home. I was there for 25 years and retired three years ago with a nice pension. It took me a while, but I had finally found my niche in Libraryland. Oh, and along the way, I earned a master's in counseling psych so did counseling in the evenings and also wrote material for publication.
So, career paths can be bumpy and meandering. My teaching degree always paid off, but not in the way I had thought it would. I finally found my heart and soul in library work. The main thing I will caution you on is to be sure to save money for retirement. I don't know how pensions and Medicare will be when you retire, but at least save, save, save no matter what job you have!!! It might not seem important now, but when you hit your 60s, it will mean everything to you to have that financial freedom.