I feel like we go through so many career choices as we grow up, well I did anyway. Some people pick 1 and stick to it but the majority (like me) are constantly changing there mind. I'm on about the choices we make before we even to the stage of getting a job.
When I was really young I wanted to be a teacher, I even used to pretend to be a teacher all the time! I had a whiteboard that I would set tasks for the "class" on (there wasn't actually a class) and I even went as far as doing work in different notebooks, purposely getting some answers wrong and some answers right and then going through and marking them as if I was a teacher! Please bare in mind that I was in Primary School when I did this so I was just playing one of the many role-play games that children like to play but I based the game off of what job I thought I wanted.
The goal of wanting to be a teacher when I grew up stayed for a long time but then when I went to Secondary School it changed, and it changed a lot! I started off as wanting to be a teacher and then I wanted to be an Actress and then it went back to teacher but a Drama teacher this time and then it went onto Chef which looking back on it now makes me laugh because I can not cook! After I wanted to be a Chef I then wanted to be a Sports Teacher and then at the end of Secondary I settled on wanting to become an Actress again. So I studied Performing Arts at college for a year and a couple of months, it was meant to be a 2 year course but a couple months into the second year I decided I would rather act as a hobby than have it as a job so I went looking for something else which is when I figured out I wanted to work in Childcare in a nursery but then I ended up deciding that age group wasn't for me so instead I wanted to be a Special Educational Needs Teacher in a Primary School, a slightly higher age group than a nursery, but then it was such a struggle to get into that because I had no experience, I did some work experience to gain the experience I needed but then I soon decided I wanted to be a Teaching Assistant and I loved that but I wanted to give Customer Service a go since it had always interested me so I stopped wanting to be a Teaching Assistant and ended up getting a part time job in Customer Service which was my first proper job, everything else had just been work experience but this time I was actually employed. I only had my job for 2 weeks because I was hired for the Christmas period only but as it came to the end of my time in that job I was sad because I really enjoyed that job and I didn't enjoy it because of the money, it was great earning money and all but the main things I loved was working with customers and I loved the community of staff I worked with as well so leaving that job was really bittersweet and from then on I had decided that was the job sector for me - Customer Service. Who knew that this shy little girl would end up wanting to work in Customer Service but it really does give you a confidence boost working in that area and I'm no longer shy anymore so not only did I love the job but it also helped me grow as a person.
Unfortunately I don't currently have a job after my last one ended but I am searching for one, in Customer Service of course and hopefully soon I will find one. It took me 19 years to become set on a career path but I feel like so many people go through so many different career choices when there growing up.
Did you keep changing your career choice like I did? If you did what were they and are you set on one now?
I'm excited for my adventures in working in Customer Service more in the future :)
When I was really young I wanted to be a teacher, I even used to pretend to be a teacher all the time! I had a whiteboard that I would set tasks for the "class" on (there wasn't actually a class) and I even went as far as doing work in different notebooks, purposely getting some answers wrong and some answers right and then going through and marking them as if I was a teacher! Please bare in mind that I was in Primary School when I did this so I was just playing one of the many role-play games that children like to play but I based the game off of what job I thought I wanted.
The goal of wanting to be a teacher when I grew up stayed for a long time but then when I went to Secondary School it changed, and it changed a lot! I started off as wanting to be a teacher and then I wanted to be an Actress and then it went back to teacher but a Drama teacher this time and then it went onto Chef which looking back on it now makes me laugh because I can not cook! After I wanted to be a Chef I then wanted to be a Sports Teacher and then at the end of Secondary I settled on wanting to become an Actress again. So I studied Performing Arts at college for a year and a couple of months, it was meant to be a 2 year course but a couple months into the second year I decided I would rather act as a hobby than have it as a job so I went looking for something else which is when I figured out I wanted to work in Childcare in a nursery but then I ended up deciding that age group wasn't for me so instead I wanted to be a Special Educational Needs Teacher in a Primary School, a slightly higher age group than a nursery, but then it was such a struggle to get into that because I had no experience, I did some work experience to gain the experience I needed but then I soon decided I wanted to be a Teaching Assistant and I loved that but I wanted to give Customer Service a go since it had always interested me so I stopped wanting to be a Teaching Assistant and ended up getting a part time job in Customer Service which was my first proper job, everything else had just been work experience but this time I was actually employed. I only had my job for 2 weeks because I was hired for the Christmas period only but as it came to the end of my time in that job I was sad because I really enjoyed that job and I didn't enjoy it because of the money, it was great earning money and all but the main things I loved was working with customers and I loved the community of staff I worked with as well so leaving that job was really bittersweet and from then on I had decided that was the job sector for me - Customer Service. Who knew that this shy little girl would end up wanting to work in Customer Service but it really does give you a confidence boost working in that area and I'm no longer shy anymore so not only did I love the job but it also helped me grow as a person.
Unfortunately I don't currently have a job after my last one ended but I am searching for one, in Customer Service of course and hopefully soon I will find one. It took me 19 years to become set on a career path but I feel like so many people go through so many different career choices when there growing up.
Did you keep changing your career choice like I did? If you did what were they and are you set on one now?
I'm excited for my adventures in working in Customer Service more in the future :)
All the best
Megan xo
I wanted to be a teacher too but I ended up in a whole different subject that I really thought I would like but ended up hating. The choices we make when we are young are so different years after and our liking and interests also are different. Well, I have a job that pays the bills and that's ok by me.
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