Wwyd?

[KnottedYet]

Fisheries biologist again. Invertebrates. (not those fish. jeez, booooo-ring!)

Gawd, I miss it.

I love PT, don't get me wrong, but the patients.... some of them are soooo high maintainence. Today was awful. Mammals are a pain.

[HipGnosis6]

I wanted to do the same thing as the people who saved me from going too far astray as a teenager - I wanted to teach music. That didn't really work out, so I moved on and persued an archaeology degree. That requires more math and science and chemistry than I could really muster, so I stayed in the anthropology realm but shifted to linguistics - along with a minor in Latin, I came close to but didn't finish a Master's in Archaeolinguistics. Doesn't that make me sound smart?

Well, I was afraid of turning my hobby into my career. I'd seen what that had done to my older brother; he was a prodigy as a teenager but is now so burnt out that he's miserable. But my straight-shootin' sense-talkin' mother put my head straight when I mentioned that. "Find another hobby," she said. "You're not like your brother who can't do anything else. Make clothes for a living, go to fashion design school - and when it's time to play, go ride your bike."

I'm a year into a bachelors program in fashion design, and while it's tons of work, it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. If I could do ANYTHING, it would be to work with an existing company to develop a line of extended-size athletic gear (including bike apparel, of course!). I'm in love with technical fabrics. And if possible I'd like to help establish fair trade apparel manufacturing in Asia and/or South America - if we can do it for coffee, we can do it for other industries.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

But my straight-shootin' sense-talkin' mother put my head straight when I mentioned that. "Find another hobby," she said. "You're not like your brother who can't do anything else. Make clothes for a living, go to fashion design school - and when it's time to play, go ride your bike."

I LOVE that! What great and wise mother you have!!

[pooks]

What Lisa said!

Re: the weaving. I've always wanted to learn. To start off with a small loom and give it a try. I don't have room for such a thing and probably not time, either. But in my dream future when we retire to a place with land, I'll have a couple of sheep and goats (I wish angoras were prettier to look at!) and will card my own wool and weave a few throws to pass down to my kids.

Of course, my mother is a fabulous quilter and has never sold any (she agrees with whoever it was upthread said once it became a job it wouldn't be a joy). She makes as many as 20 or 30 a year! I don't know how many quilts she has, but she intends them to all be divided between her kids and grandkids and I have no idea where we'll store them all.

So of course I'm sitting here fantisizing about adding to the dilemma!

Maybe I'll skip that idea.

[pyxichick]

Naturalist
Nature-writer
Copyeditor (I'm actually taking classes for this one)

When I was in high school I wanted to be a musician in an orchestra. I started college as a music major and decided right away that I wasn't good enough to pursue that. I switched my major to English.

I just want a job I can do while living in a cabin in the woods.

[Offthegrid]

A teacher. Then I could spend all summer riding AND make a difference.

[7rider]

Fisheries biologist again. Invertebrates. (not those fish. jeez, booooo-ring!)

Gawd, I miss it.

I love PT, don't get me wrong, but the patients.... some of them are soooo high maintainence. Today was awful. Mammals are a pain.

My goodness. This sounds familiar.
But, I'd stick with the fish. I have your fish-response towards inverts. Spent more time picking over lobsters than I can to think about. I've oftened "threatened" to go back to school for PT, but never did. So, I end up stuck in a fish agency doing management and policy. Boooooo-ring!