Reply #2: I have no career - I have a job

[skygazer]

And I've had several cool ones.

I think the coolest one was training racing greyhounds which I started doing when I was 17. Yeah, yeah, I know all the drill about what a terrible exploitative thing it is yada yada but it was marvelous. I love animals and to work with a kennel full of beautiful, loving dogs every day was great.

It was hard - there are no days off in racing and I worked 7 days a week, 365 days a year for 8 years. I worked with pneumonia, I worked with the flu, I worked all day the day I had my oldest daughter (I finished up at 5:30, went to the hospital and had her at 9. I was back in the kennel within three days and would have been back sooner if my boss had let me). My days were at least 12 hours, sometimes longer, I had no real life but I loved it. It was completely different from anything most people do. I still love the atmosphere of a racetrack.

I also worked as a snowmobile mechanic which was pretty neat, worked on a road crew (concrete and steel, bridge crew, only woman, lots of fun), did some farming, worked in a book bindery... I've had several neat jobs.

Now I run a wine and liquor department which is actually another kind of fun and cool job.