Doors

There is a saying that when one door closes another opens. Since my job seems to be ending I have decided to end my career and seek a new career. I have decided to go back to school to become a DPT, I have looked and decided I want to stay active (I hate excersing, but I love to move.). So I will focus on a new career to fit my new lifestyle and that is healthcare and DPT.

It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, wanted to be an MD when I was younger but didn't happen, then wanted to be a dentist but didnt happen, then wanted to be a chiropractor but didn't happen. Now things have aligned in my favor and I will become a DPT.

Anyone else have a career epiphany after surgery?

It's funny too cause I used to be a bodybuilder and the lactic acid burn while painful was highly addictive (for me anyway). So maybe not a new door so much as an old door reopening.

I helped my husband open a BBQ restaurant when I lost my job as a corporate trainer 2.5 years ago.  I went back to the corporate world last year leaving hubby to continue on with the restaurant, however am now back on the look for a new job.  At my last gig, I self-studied for another evolution to Training - Change Management.  My son just started college, so I'm ready for something that has me traveling more, which I always enjoyed, be it for training or Change Mgt.

I worked for a major grocery chain in Houston before I moved to Iowa and now I work in a factory. However I went to school to be a funeral director while still in Houston and just never pursued it because I felt to self conscience because of my weight. I would like to get in to funeral directing after I have my DS surgery.  

Do you feel more confident about changing careers now that you have had surgery? I'm sorry for sounding stupid but what is a DPT?

I'm changing careers because my current employer is squeezing me out of my job, and since they are I am changing my career because I want to do something new. DPT is a Doctor of Physical Therapy.  I will have to start at Physical Therapy Assistant which is a 2 yr program but I will go from there.  So while I am confident it's not really because of the DS, it's because I am the eternal optimist and been ridiculously confident since birth,  there's nothing I can't do(if you ask me)  LOL.  I look at things this way,  you're going to get older anyway so the question is what do you want to do.

I've been trying to reinvent myself but the economy here is so bad it's going at a snail's pace.  I also have a house remodel to finish and the list goes on and on.  But it's the age old conundrum, I either have time or money.  Never both!

Actually I wouldn't even mind a McJob if it was fairly painless.  But I'll tell you something amazing....people work harder at those McJobs than I ever did at my 'real' job where I made a lot of money.  Anyway, I look every day but there's not much here.

I'm the Assistant Director of a state licensing board for addiction counselors.  After being sleeved and losing weight, I decided to go back to school for psychology...  But working in the mental health field, I realized that as much as I enjoy solving problems, the kind of problems I'm seeing from this end would take an act of congress to fix. 

When I was younger, I wanted to be a pathologist.  This was before the days of CSI and Bones.  I was enrolled in a medical magnet high school and I did several internships in the pathology labs at several of the local hospitals.  After being switched, I had that light bulb moment.  I will never be able to get promoted to Director.  Because of budget cuts, we are all working part-time hours - yet doing full-time work.  We have no benefits - no health insurance, no retirement, no vacation time, no sick days...  The state is on a raise freeze for all state employees so getting a raise any time soon is out of the question and has been for 3 years.  The cost of everything is going up, but our pay is decreasing.  I'm going nowhere here.  However there are some plusses.  The other ladies I work with are flexible.  We all work together very well and if someone needs time off, we work to help accommodate them.  I haven't discussed my plan with them yet, but I have decided to go back to school and change my major.  I found a medical college that is run by a local hospital that offers a Bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory Science.  Once I finish my BS (which will be at least 2.5 years away), I'm considering medical school to get my Ph.D in Pathology.  I'm almost 32 years old and this is what I've wanted since I was 5.  Everything else just pales in comparison and feels like I'd be settling.  I don't want to settle anymore.  I want to do what I've always wanted to do.  I'm so intimidated by this plan...  but I have to try.