OT poll - what do you do for a living?
My plan is to give up teaching at the end of this year and do a Master's in Chinese here in China. After that 2 year program, I hope to go back to the US to start another Master's before I turn 30.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
My Chinese is at an intermediate level now. In late 2007 after I graduated college I decided to go to China on a whim! I didn't know a single person in the country or a single word of Mandarin! Nor had I ever heard of the city that I was going to move to. Here we are 4 years later and it has worked out wonderfully.
Rhonda
I work in Technical Support for a large cable/internet/phone company. I worked in healthcare for 11 years in alot of patient care roles before burning out, it was rewarding but also very trying. I figured it out in my 2nd year of nursing school that it wasn't for me. I admire anyone who works in healthcare. Somedays I miss it, but most days I'm extremely happy with what I do now, and it definitely pays better than healthcare did. The biggest struggle now is that I sit at a desk for 9 hours a day...at least with healthcare I was "moving".