What are your professional goals?

[firegal]

Retire....Ive accomplished mine..... or all ive been able to!

My career has had a emphasis on addressing the glass ceiling and road blocks facing women in the fire service.

The fire service is better but has STILL alot of room for improvement.But it is ALMOST time for me to step aside and hand the reins to a less seasoned person with fresh ideas!

It doesnt feel right to list what i achieved... but some things were breached that had never had the female experience.

So now my goal is to someday work part time at home depot...tools...wood...paint...I,ll be in heaven!

[aishah]

my goals have changed somewhat i'm hoping to get an apprenticeship at the acupuncture clinic where i volunteer, and eventually work there. if i'm able to finish an apprenticeship there and get a job i would have a pretty stable working class income plus the potential for retirement...and it would be more money than i've ever made per year in my life, in an environment i love, helping people who need access to low cost health care, with a schedule that works pretty well with my access needs/disabilities.

i'm also working with some friends to potentially open up a youth center here, and i would continue doing community organizing and consulting and speaking and stuff on the side (and possibly continue doing sex work on the side too). but i love the community i am with at the acupuncture clinic and that's much more stable, plus i really enjoy it.

[Martina]

I probably won't be able to retire before I keel over, but I want to finish some stuff. I want to be "highly qualified" in English, Math, Social Studies, and Science. It's possible. I just got my Autism Add-on credential this year, so that is done. Otherwise, professionally, that's it. I want to get better at my job, have a bigger and better tool box, learn more about more kinds of disabilities and how to work with the kids who have them.

Most of my ambitions are not work related. Health, spirituality, recreation -- that stuff.

[pinkgeek]

Not much has changed in the last few years.. Closer and closer and closer..

**Finish nursing school, a masters in pub. health, bioethics and be an NP.
**Use every resource I have made over the years to support and participate in fighting for an AIDS free generation.

I'm very lucky that my 2nd career is a passion, just like my first.

[Martina]

One post here reminded me of an acquaintance who retired from the police force. She had been one of the few women cops in that town for years, had the respect of the entire community, first woman detective yadda yadda.

BIG ole dyke. Anyway, she retired and went to work in a china shop. No kidding. That had been her dream. She consults with brides and grooms re their china patterns and sells porcelain tea sets to old ladies like me.

[Kenna]

to change career fields and get out of a thankless, brain numbing, trapped -in, narrow area of health care management/policy and entitlement programs...there's got to be something that isn't filled with such burnout

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm at a cross roads as far as what to do for school and a career. I've been wanting to be a nurse for so long, and yet now Ive found myself disillusioned with the medical field and their protocols. I also find it difficult to work in a female dominated field. Ive considered finishing my B.S in Psychology and then going to law school, or working as a probation officer or social worker. I've thought about getting my RN and working in hospice or home care. One thing I DO know that I want: I want to have a small farm (20acres or less) in NC and raise alpacas for fiber and breeding....and have chickens and pigs and ducks and all that too...that would be blissful to me