Did your career happen by chance? or did you plan it?

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How did your career happen?

Did your career happen by chance?

Or did you plan it?
 
It was no accident, but no, I didn’t plan it.
God chose it for me, clearly. I expected I would be dong something else.
 
I didn’t plan it. I was drifting through college, working in retail and only taking a few classes. Then my son came along and I needed to make a decent living right away. My dad was already an electrician, and that helped me to become an apprentice. It was a good fit for me, though. I did well throughout my apprenticeship and career. Now my son is an electrician too!
 
Initially by chance as I was about to be drafted, so I enlisted in the navy, but it was planned when I re-enlisted.
 
It was not planned out. I just did it because that’s what I do, what I’ve always done.
 
I don’t think I have ever had a career.

Maybe someday I will. 😏
 
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My career is just being alive on this earth which I will be until God calls me home to be with Him in Heaven.
 
Absolutely planned, and encouraged by my parents. It started when I plugged a Bobby pin into an electrical outlet when I was 2 or 3.

As a kid, people would ask what I wanted to be when I grew up. Without hesitation it was an engineer.

My first lab was set up in 4th grade.

Never ever waived.

Now after over 50 years as an engineer, if I had to do it over again, I would do it over again.

I suspect my case is uncommon, but, hey, I’m uncommon.
 
Little bit of both. Things just sort of fell into place. I sometimes wonder if I should have been more ambitious, or less ambitious, stuck with teaching (my first plan), etc. but I can’t say that I haven’t enjoyed the work I’ve done and still do, actually very much. I think you sort of gravitate to your career, providence, skills, orientation. Most of the people I know who have really pushed their career as the crowning center of their life, ego, fulfillment, are pretty messed up. But of course they are also usually pretty important in their field too, not to mention financially secure. :slightly_smiling_face:To every cloud…

Moral of the story is do something you like to do, not something you would like others to know you do or that others want you to do.
 
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I’m still trying to figure out my career but it’s a good question you have.
 
By chance, and a silly decision on my part. Could have gone in a completely different direction. Oh well.
 
A chance friendship in grade school with the only Hispanic kid in my rural hometown made up of primarily German descendants led to a growing and insatiable interest in Spanish and Latin American culture.

That friend did not have a stable home life, and they moved after just over a year and I never saw them again. But the interest never went away, and I finally learned Spanish in college.

So that friendship affected what I studied in college, which led to my first job as a bilingual parish secretary, which led to me meeting my future husband. Weird how some things work out, isn’t it? Planned by God, not by me.
 
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i planned what general field i wanted to work in. However i had never heard of my employer until i stumbled across them at a career fair trying to find a different booth. i never did find that other booth.
 
Mine happened by chance. All through high school, my plan was to be a video game designer/developer. That was it. After high school, I started taking classes and realized I hated programming. I thought I would like it, but nope. With no plan B, I stumbled around for a bit, before ending up in a general IT position.
 
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