Career Help and Advice

Again.

Career. Hrmm. What to say about that. I've been several things throughout my working life: A program assistant, an administrative assistant, a medical office manager, and a technical writer. That last gig had me see more layoffs than at any point in my previous working life.

I'm sick of being a laid off IT worker. And enraged. It's not what I wanted at all. I would have wanted a professional career that I could work at and master until I retired. That's not what I got.

Also, as I look back over my career, I never was able to convince anyone that I was anything other than an "assistant." Evidently whatever I was projecting, it wasn't what people were seeing. I'm disgusted with that too. Nothing wrong with being an assistant. It's that I have very much more to offer in terms of drive, creativity, focus, and strategic planning. None of that was possible in any of the jobs that I've had before.

So, at 49 I'm angling to go to cooking school to become a chef. After that, I hope to open up my own chocolate business and bring to fruition what I longed to share with the world.