Jewish musings, Tuesday, Aug. 15

[gazelle18]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:

Frieda
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[gazelle18]

Good morning,
Actually, as I am typing this, I am at the same time watching the news, where it is being reported that Trump has been indicted for the 4th time. My head is spinning with all of the details. I am one of the small number of ordinary people who will actually read all 98 pages of the indictment. I'm that much of a geek!

This actually brings up the topic of the day. I have often thought that if I had it to do over again, I might have preferred being a criminal prosecutor, as opposed to a lawyer specializing in civil, non-criminal cases. I have always been fascinated with criminal law, but probably would have hated being a defense attorney.

So: If you had a chance for a work life do-over, what would you have chosen to be? Would you have chosen a different career path, and if so, why?

[hollygail]

I read yesterday's thread relatively early in the day, but no movie came quickly to mind (regarding influence on my life) so I thought I'd come back later... Ha! Still no movies have come to mind, so let me just say that I keep hearing about how great Oppenheimer is and that I should go see it. I've been hearing it from friends from so many different parts of my life!

Over the years I too have thought about what other career (or other categories of) decisions I've made. I am satisfied, for the most part, with what all has transpired in my past. There are definitely other avenues that were open to me, and for the situation I was in at the time of each, I'm satisfied with the choices I made. One in particular is probably one of the first decisions. I had finished my undergrad years (still in NYC) and contemplated going directly to grad school at another location in NYC in order to be able to take courses from one particular professor at another school I couldn't afford (but could probably take his classes for credit to be applied to the school I was interested in). However, the agreement I'd made with late DH#1 was that I'd finish my undergrad and then he'd finish his; he chose a state school in another city. While in the next city, there were two jobs openings for which I qualified and was interested in. One was a 10-month gig teaching math (and my field at the time was NOT math, but I'd accumulated enough math credits to qualify to teach math in NY State); the second job opening was full-time permanent, which is the one I chose. Had I started teaching that early in life, I have often wondered whether I'd have remained a teacher (although not necessarily in math!). There are very few other life-decisions I made that I've thought about questioning... marrying my 3rd husband (after late DH#2) (I divorced #3) was definitely one of them...

[peachymom1]

I thought I wanted to be a teacher, but learned the hard way that I wasn't cut out for that job. I turned to clerical work simply because I could type and had some experience at that point, and it was the best way to help support my family at the time. I've been happy with my jobs.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a doctor, and later in life I thought I would want to study law and be an estate attorney, so I could help people take care of the people they leave behind when they die. Or I'd be a professional backup singer, the kind that works for a recording studio, not the kind who goes out on the road. Getting paid well to sing and still be anonymous -- that sounds wonderful!

[lee058]

Good afternoon everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE!

Today I solved a difficult situation with DH's medication. To make a very long story short, he was out of refills, his doctor had retired, and the mail order pharmacy sat on the order until he was out of meds(!!). I was able to arrange his getting a few extra pills from a local pharmacy to last him until his package arrives (which I also arranged his getting). It was quite a day.

Re today's topic: I would have liked to solve problems for people for high pay. Or maybe I would have been a good advice columnist. Or president. I don't know; there are a lot of possibilities.

Have a peaceful rest of the day, Lee

[brgmsn]

I always wanted to be a nurse, since I was little. As I got older and further along in my nursing career, the law called to me. I got my MSN as a legal nurse consultant. Unfortunately there are not a lot of lawyers willing to pay for my expertise, so that went out the window. But I loved the studying of the law and the whole learning about it and still do!