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im administrative assistant, and I like the work.

I don't dream anymore so can't answer your second question.

hehe rough day at work eh?

i currently work in finance. while the actually JOB is horribly boring to me, the office, people, events, perks, pay, benefits, etc make it totally bearable.

i do know what i want to do, and i intend to pursue my dream as soon as i have the funds (year end i hope). i want to be a professional dog trainer. i want to start my own business and offer tailored, private in home lessons and small group classes. i would also like to specialize in training deaf dogs. i'd love to write a book someday.

i've already done an informal apprenticeship for some experience, and i plan to get a certification through an online program, start training on nights and weekends until i can afford to quit this job. it's my passion and i want to make it my life.    

YES! I am currently working in research on a NIH funded study so I could take a year or two off before I applied to medical school. However, the longer I work here with doctors the less I want to become one! I was thinking medical anthropology but i don't want to live like they do: going to school for 5+ years and then working 24/7. 

I wish I were an heiress instead :) hahaha

YES. I'm also an administrative assistant. I took a secretarial course in order to get a decent job with regular hours and benefits. It was supposed to be a stepping stone and then I kept getting/allowing myself to be sidetracked by other events.

I don't mind the work, but I currently have a boss from hell and I want out so bad I can taste it. My house finally sold so now I can take a pay cut and go back to school. I'm pretty sure I'm going to take a medical tech course of some sort. I'm leaning towards surgery tech.

Original Post by jules817:

hehe rough day at work eh?

i currently work in finance. while the actually JOB is horribly boring to me, the office, people, events, perks, pay, benefits, etc make it totally bearable.

i do know what i want to do, and i intend to pursue my dream as soon as i have the funds (year end i hope). i want to be a professional dog trainer. i want to start my own business and offer tailored, private in home lessons and small group classes. i would also like to specialize in training deaf dogs. i'd love to write a book someday.

i've already done an informal apprenticeship for some experience, and i plan to get a certification through an online program, start training on nights and weekends until i can afford to quit this job. it's my passion and i want to make it my life.    

 Go Jules! I'd totally take my dog to your training classes if you were nearby ;] Even just over the forums you've been a huge help!

As for my career, I am a "project expediter" at an HVAC company that just happens to be owned by my parents. It's not real bad. I make a lot more money than I would doing anything else, since I don't have a degree or anything.  I'm not really sure what else I would want to do anyway!

I'm a publications editor for district attorneys.

I have way too much energy to sit and edit legal documents.

I'm going back to school to get my MS in speech pathology and audiology so I can hang out with preschoolers all day.

Oh, editorpredator, that is what I wanted to do.  I got my MS and worked as an SLP in the schools for 2 years before I stopped and had my own kids.  Maybe it was the school district I was working in (a large, urban disctrict), maybe it was my supervisors, but I felt like I really didn't get to do much with the kids.  It was mostly paperwork, and they kept having assemblies and things that took precedence over therapy.  And I was very reserved and I kinda got run over by the teachers.

I will go back in a few years, and hopefully being older and wiser will help!  Definitely no inner-city schools for me!

Good luck!

I'm a lawyer, and I've only been doing this since November (when I was sworn in) and already I'm thinking this isn't for me!  It's terrible because I work for my Dad and it is his lifelong dream that I work with him and while it's great to be so close to him all the time I'm not the fighter that I thought I was and I think I'd rather do something more positive.  I have no idea what my ideal job would be, though "heiress" sounds pretty great ;)  I think I'll give this at least another year to see if I grow into it! 

Actually, scratch that, my Dad just stepped into my office and said I should go watch him argue a brief I wrote.  He's an incredibly talented attorney, hugely respected by lawyers in this town, a hero to many, and a devoted and loving father who is SO proud of me!  And he's arguing my brief!  In 20 minutes!  I have GOT to quit bitching about my job, this is a dream for so many young lawyers! 

I'm a wastewater engineer... I design gravity and force main sewer systems.... and yes I've heard all the jokes that go with the job

I really really want to be a high school teacher... I would trade my jobs in a heart beat

Chemical Engineer - board outta my mind. I didn't realize when I was in school that engineers spend all their time in offices.. yuck. But I'm sticking it out because there are some operating jobs in the field comming up in a couple of months that I am hoping to get... that and the pay is good.

Yes! ramp agent and my problem was/is i don't know what it was/is i wanted to do hence why i have flitted from job to job.

I am a Quality Assurance Analyst and I hate it. It is so mundane and repetetive. I would love to go back to school for nursing. With one little guy and another almost here, I don't have time for the clinicals.

I don't really regret my career choice, I know it's not something I want to do for the rest of my life, but at the same time I have no idea what that is. The part that gets me is all the pressure to make a choice so young? What's that all about. I'm 23, have a BBA and a career....and while I have been blessed to have been given an education and lucky to have found a great job, I really just want to be travelling and having fun.

i switched careers... graduated w/ a BBA in business, got temp jobs in finance out of school and then my first "real" job was a campus recruiter for an investment bank which made me completely miserable... my bosses were so mean, i worked long hours and had to travel on top of that (which i did not get paid extra for).. eventually i ended up getting a job in the office where i used to work as a student, so i am now an academic advisor... it pays to keep in touch with people in your past!

I'm an In-House Recruiter at an Advertising Agency.  I love it.  But my dream job would be a writer and writing ghost stories.  Horror novels.  Pent up in a tiny cottage in the woods writing non-stop about some type of ghost and secrets they're trying to uncover other people.  Maybe one day.  But for right now I love my job-  it can get aggravating at times; but the people I work with are very smart.  Before recruiting I was a real estate sales person, before that I worked in Biotech VC investment banking.   Maybe when I win the lotto I'l start my book and not have to worry about making money off of it!!

I have absolutely zero interest in my current job. ZERO. I feel like I've gotten dumber since I started. If I had my time back, I wouldn't have gotten my degree in this field but at the time, I didn't have any other major interests.

However, my job pays so well for so little work/stress and I get a ton of vacation time. My life happens outside of work. Isn't being bored for 8 hours a day worth it to life a good life without debt? I'm debating.

I have a master's in Computer Engineering it took me 6yrs to get it, now I have what some would call a dream job for my field but I hate sitting alone in my corner all day with very limited people interaction, my interests in life have changed so much I'm simply not interested in my field anymore.

If I could do it all over again I would go into Chiropractic and have my own practice.

I wanted to be a 911 Dispatcher from the time I was in 7th Grade.. Got out of high school .. went to 1 yr community college. quit and bacame a 911 dispatcher 

I have been here 11 and a half years.. I love what I do, I love the adrenaline. 

BUT!!!

 When I grow up I want to be an RN/ Lactation Consultant/ OB post partum. I will eventually go back to school and do that.. but the economy sucks, and my job is very secure.. my husband's is not!

I went to school for English and became an editor with absolute certainty that this is what I would do for the rest of my life. I happened to fall into medical editing because it turns out that editing for publishing companies is extremely competitive and pays squat. 

I expected to be bored out of my mind and move on to something else when the opportunity came about.

Turns out I fell in love with medicine and want away with the entire corporate office desk world.

Three years later I'm finally starting pre-requisites for nursing school. Hurray!