Friday Five
Aug. 23rd, 2002 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
siercia1. What is your current occupation? Is this what you chose to be doing at this point in your life? Why or why not?
I am a jill of all trades for a small software company. I do tech support (my actual job description), I maintain their web site, I used to travel to do installs and training, I do a small amount of basic web coding. I did not chose this - working in computers fell into my lap when I left college, and I've stayed longer than I meant to. I'd thought I'd be in grad school by now, but then I got pregnant, had a baby and bought a house. So, I stay in the soul deadening world of computers.
2. If time/talent/money were no object, what would your dream occupation be?
Personally, I think including talent here is silly, (unless perhaps I were to suddenly gain ability, I can't think of why I'd want to work in a field in which I was not talented). However, if time and money were no object, I would either A. Own my own stitching supply shop and run classes, workshops and stitch-ins out of it. B. Be a curator in a museum with a specialty in hand crafted textiles (embroidery, knitting, quilting, etc) or C. Be a librarian in a small-town library, and build a HUGE collection of local history materials.
3. What did/do your parents do for a living? Has this had any influence on your career choices?
My father is a lawyer in some obscure specialty area of institutional investment law. My mother didn't work outside the home until I was in college; now she is an assistant manager at Borders and loves it. I'm not sure if it has or not. Certainly not in any obvious ways.
4. Have you ever had to choose between having a career and having a family?
Well, yes and no. No, in the sense that if I liked my current job/career path, I wouldn't be chosing, because I have both a family and a career right now. Yes, in that I'm not doing what I'd like to be doing, and my obligations to my family prevent me from taking the steps I would need to take to be able to switch into the careers I'm interested in.
5. In your opinion, what is the easiest job in the world? What is the hardest? Why?
I'm not sure about easiest. For hardest, I'd say parenting except that, well, parenting isn't exactly a job. OUtside of that, I'd have to say the generic "lower management" of many corporations. You have the bosses and owners leaning on you to do one thing, and make the employees do things they don't like, and the employees who frequently want to do the exact opposite. It seems impossible to keep everyone happy, and that you walk around constantly miserable because of it.
I am a jill of all trades for a small software company. I do tech support (my actual job description), I maintain their web site, I used to travel to do installs and training, I do a small amount of basic web coding. I did not chose this - working in computers fell into my lap when I left college, and I've stayed longer than I meant to. I'd thought I'd be in grad school by now, but then I got pregnant, had a baby and bought a house. So, I stay in the soul deadening world of computers.
2. If time/talent/money were no object, what would your dream occupation be?
Personally, I think including talent here is silly, (unless perhaps I were to suddenly gain ability, I can't think of why I'd want to work in a field in which I was not talented). However, if time and money were no object, I would either A. Own my own stitching supply shop and run classes, workshops and stitch-ins out of it. B. Be a curator in a museum with a specialty in hand crafted textiles (embroidery, knitting, quilting, etc) or C. Be a librarian in a small-town library, and build a HUGE collection of local history materials.
3. What did/do your parents do for a living? Has this had any influence on your career choices?
My father is a lawyer in some obscure specialty area of institutional investment law. My mother didn't work outside the home until I was in college; now she is an assistant manager at Borders and loves it. I'm not sure if it has or not. Certainly not in any obvious ways.
4. Have you ever had to choose between having a career and having a family?
Well, yes and no. No, in the sense that if I liked my current job/career path, I wouldn't be chosing, because I have both a family and a career right now. Yes, in that I'm not doing what I'd like to be doing, and my obligations to my family prevent me from taking the steps I would need to take to be able to switch into the careers I'm interested in.
5. In your opinion, what is the easiest job in the world? What is the hardest? Why?
I'm not sure about easiest. For hardest, I'd say parenting except that, well, parenting isn't exactly a job. OUtside of that, I'd have to say the generic "lower management" of many corporations. You have the bosses and owners leaning on you to do one thing, and make the employees do things they don't like, and the employees who frequently want to do the exact opposite. It seems impossible to keep everyone happy, and that you walk around constantly miserable because of it.
