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Career history, part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3
My grandmother had passed away by that time, and I found myself sitting on some money—any number of times which quantitly I'd have gladly given to have my grandmother back, I don't mind saying. But I finally decided that the best way I could use that money was to get myself a college education and find a career that I could feel good about. So I dropped out of the business world and went back to college. I got an associate's degree in liberal arts, and then a bachelor's degree in English literature. over the last six years now, I have been tutoring, teaching, instructing, presenting workshops, grading papers, proctoring tests, basically looking for every possible way to get good at being a teacher. I'm hoping to teach literature and composition in community college. I'm getting pretty close now. I'll have my master's degree, if all goes as planned, by summer of 2006.
So that's my career history. A day late, a dollar short, but roughly as promised. I hope you enjoyed it.
So what kinds of career dreams to you have?
Talk to you soon,
Mark
Sacramento
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Career history
Hello, Mark! Thank you for your acoount.
It was interesting to read, and surely
encouraging to many people trying to find
their way in their life.
> So what kinds of career dreams to you
> have?
I graduated from a university of
technology, worked 6 years in a company
producing dental X-ray scanners, and
finally moved to a research institute
to do research in audiovisual technologies.
I have some negative experiences of
private enterprises and companies during
my phase of temporary jobs, and therefore
I am attracted to national or municipal
institutes with minimal interest in
conquering the market. I also believe
that nobody would pay me salary for doing
the things I like best, so I do my job
as a necessary requisite for the "real"
thing: to support my family and to
finance my leisure time projects, mainly
music research, science fiction writing,
and foreign languages and cultures.
(That does not mean I wouldn't enjoy
my job. I like working with computers
and my research job can be quite fun
and exciting at times.)
This could quite well be my final job.
I avoid promotions, as I doubt my
suitability for management jobs, and
like the basic research job best.
I seldom use the word "career" for my
professional development, but if I did,
I would like to define its meaning more
by my leisure time activities than my
salary job. I aim at producing something
useful and enjoyable (whether software,
compositions, or research results) that
can be easily distributed to all of the
people who may like it.
Puti
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