What a fun thread, Tricia!

Back in the bad old days, I remember thinking my only choices were either a nurse or a teacher. (That's what all the girls in 5th grade wanted to be!) I knew I didn't want to be a nurse, so I figured I might become a teacher.

But I was lousy at college. I didn't have any self-discipline and wasted my parents' money.

I could type, so I spent my first few years as a clerk typist, put my DH thru electrical school, then started having babies. Didn't go back to work for 18 years! But I taught piano lessons in my home during that time.

So I guess I got to be a teacher after all! But I gave it up when I re-entered the work force 17 years ago (wow! how can THAT be? )

If I had it to do over, I'd go into advertising. But nobody told me that was an option waaaay back when I was a sweet young thang.