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  • #83641
    jock
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    Have you been to a vocational guidance counsellor or did you get good advice at school or college?
    I can’t say I’ve found taking their tests or talking to them, particularly useful in my life. I remember my first one at high school suggested I would be “good at filing”. That was about all.
    I ended up elementary school teaching which was such a shock to the system, I nearly went mad. Not used to being the centre of attention, I had some crazy notion, that behaviour management was unnecessary and kids could just take care of themselves whilst I gave erudite explanations on such things as long division. (no they weren’t erudite actually)
    Ideally, I would’ve had better guidance then which said something like this “Jack, you come across as kind of shy. Maybe you’d be better suited to a low profile job like writing. Why don’t you study writing at college? Are you interested in the way people behave or even understanding yourself better? You might be suited to doing psychology at college”
    That would’ve been very useful. I could’ve followed a much more productive path instead of suffering under the limelight every day in front of kids who found me boring pretty soon anyway. I didn’t have much of a passion for the elementary school curriculum either, by the way. It was mostly crap, now I think about it.

    • This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by jock.
    #83810
    jock
    Participant

    I still want to be a counsellor. is it too late?

    #83859
    Anonymous
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    Dear Jack:

    You are 57- depending on how much additional schooling you need to become a counselor (in school?)

    If I could get my life back I would be a court room attorney in criminal law, ahhhh… and it is too late for me at 54 for a variety of reasons: my age and things I have done and shouldn’t have done during my walks and falls in the dark of these decades. Vocational counseling I attended, tests I took did absolutely nothing for me.

    anita

    #83865
    jock
    Participant

    we need goals anita, even when we get to 57 …
    apart from just gettiing out of bed without feeling aches and pains

    #83868
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jack:

    Goals, well… hmmm.. People say that we need goals, but I wonder if that is so. Maybe a life without goals is not such a bad idea. Depending on what goals you are talking about. You already expressed your goal to lose some weight and it makes sense. You also expressed your goal of …acquiring more mental well being. Two goals. And Writing- you are writing here, and the goal of being funny and wittily-funny in your writings. What else? you are full of goals as is, aren’t you? What else is there?
    anita

    #83869
    jock
    Participant

    I guess I meant career goals.
    Strange for someone my age to be talking about career goals. I think the writing goal is BS.
    I need to find a way to make a modest living at a job I am competent in and with people I can stand. That has proved elusive for a number of years now.
    You are free to skip my posts anita. Give yourself a break.

    #83876
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Do you want me to skip our posts? Too late for this one.
    anita

    #83880
    jock
    Participant

    I’ll skip yours now and then if it makes you feel less guilty

    #83883
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Very funny, Llama Jack.
    anita

    #83886
    jock
    Participant

    I’m starting to feel like we own the place…attachments…dangerous…

    #83919
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jack:

    Here is the comment you mentioned on the other thread. Attachments are necessary and unavoidable.
    anita

    #83927
    jock
    Participant

    Attachments are necessary and unavoidable

    Memorable quote 🙂

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