I am curious.
Where do you live and how was or is your work-life like?
My Dad (pic in his shop-area with clocks and rings and stuff, the glasses are (still) around the corner) asked me when I was 14 if I want to take over his business, I said no (after a night´s sleep to check my mind/heart out).
He was happy, cause sure I will marry (after a long time (13 years?) being "just like that" with Ingo I did) and give my name away (I did not).
This really was his only worry, the surname!!! His business´s name.
My Brother was not asked but told to learn to become a goldsmith (hot!!!) and later a master in ophthalmic optics (being near to strangers!!! Noooooo....).
(Dad was also a watch-maker)
I asked my Brother a couple years ago, "if you were not told what would you do for a living?"
He did not know.
Since age 16 he does the same.
I studied interior/architecture, have a degree and never really started in this men-job - I tried and saw women need to work more hours and are afraid to lose their yearly contract.
Really, after school I had no idea what to "do" had a "boy friend" (not Ingo) who did not support me so I went and had a test.
"You can study ANYTHING, congrats!", they told me.
Ask Ingo... math??? Physics...? I´m out in no time, so I went to something "creative" and that was a (fun) fail. I had a semester of sketching naked people. 30-90 seconds per take. Fun (amongst other studies, of course!).
Just imagine a small female standing in a construction site telling a male worker how to do the job right. Hahaha... No.
With Ingo´s help I went to IT, learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, was a web-designer, a consulter, then had some content management systems (plural) to administrate, later was a tester, then a Sharepoint-admin and ... Bid manager, documentation-manager (everyone is called manager these days but THAT was a TOUGH job), translation manger ... now I wait.
I always get thrown into "cold water".
"She´s a graduated engineer, she´ll manage..." not funny. I do get help, but I start all over again and again whilst my Brother does the same all his adult life.
How´s yours?
Ingo had to learn all over, too - but is in the same job since more than 10 years now.
I was told it´s good to learn.
Yes, I agree. But always new people (you meet via "teams" only) - new stuff.
I am 52. I feel too old. 67 earliest to retire - in times with work-shortage this sounds SCARY.
What´s nexy?
I wanted to type next, but doesn´t nexy sound much happier? 🤣
New job in line????
Or back to the... PAST? (This is from the internet, not my personal knowledge)
"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist
Walkman
The former cultural icon has now been replaced by digital devices. Children will never understand that the only way to listen to music used to be to insert a cassette into this bulky device."
The former cultural icon has now been replaced by digital devices. Children will never understand that the only way to listen to music used to be to insert a cassette into this bulky device."
I never had one - did you?
Henry 🦁
Into mud, baby Henry.... There are no such things as a "Walkman" anymore....
I didn´t miss that. Also I like to listen to the real world when being outside....
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Yes I did have a cassette player, a Toshiba with the best sound ever! I had others before that, different brands, but the Toshiba was the best, then I had a portable CD player which was bigger and more awkward and if the bus went over a bump the CD would "jump", then I got an I-pod and a bit later a couple of mini i-pods which I still have but they are obsolete and not recognised by i-tunes or even windows media, so I can't edit the songs on them and some are songs I really don't like anymore.
Workplaces? I worked for one day in a place where chickens get killed and plucked they get hung upside down and go along a conveyor thing and at the end of the line we had to check for feathers that didn't get properly plucked and also for eggs still in the chicken. I never went back after that first day. I'm going to stop here and write the rest in my own blog post next week.
I have been a teacher all my adult life. I started when I was 21 and when I retired I still was. But at different schools and with other colleagues. And of course, children are never the same. Never a dull moment. Colleagues, management, children. I loved it!
An iPod - the cheapy-version, I had too, years,sears later.
I think my parents were pretty strict...
OMG. I would have left AT ONCE!
I worked three weeks in an icky food factory, but yours sounds... nooooo.
At school they showed us a docu on German turkeys.. I ate no meat for two years, it made me sick (maybe that´s why I´m not taller ;-)...)
It will be interesting to read more next week.
Eggs still in the chicken.... oh, boy.
Humans are non always humane, huh.
Today schools/beaing a teacher is real tough. Back in the day I thought about that, too - I had 2 wonderful teachers!
As I've gotten older, I've realized as adults we have lots of opportunity to re-invent ourselves.
...each young person has to found their way through life. Some find it easier than others.
So true (and really we need to,"LOL")
True. And I think we all were happy in our time, too...
Your numerous changes in job skills and interests sound kind-of like an American story — we love to reinvent ourselves. I wonder about the reality: evidently despite the early specialization in vocational or academic tracked schools, Germans can change their minds just as we can. I definitely had more than one career track over the years.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Ha ha, I still have an original Walkman. No tapes, but it looks about as good as it did when shoved into a box many years ago! This year I learned about ear buds to listed to my iPhone's downloaded things. I've never made a play list however...so I'm stuck with just audio-books or music streaming. Jobs/careers! I went through many and at 60 found my favorite and last (until 65) of leading activities with seniors (as I became one!) Now I do very few as a retiree...activities I mean.
I´d really like to have a single job over a longer time. I am tired...
Audio-books, I really need to learn about that, I only have an old kindle... and soooo many books on it!
Great.. or sad? it took so long to find your fav job. At least you found it.
I usually fall in love with each and every one and then, BOOM, over.
my career of working was with the phone company. as I wanted to be able to retire with benefits in the end. I started out learning on one of the last cord boards so that was an experience for me to always remember-I moved around to different states always an operator but on a computer system instead.
difficult to work for-very strict company to work for. but I did retire with benefits-a pension and health care benefits for me and Larry
That sounds very complicated, too! But at least you got the benefits! I don´t see much money for retirement from the state here... So many pensioners collect bottles and stuff to recycle to make some extra money, it... no? They worked all their lives... too long.
Glad you made it!
Nice to learn more about you. You are the same age as my brother.
when I knew I needed to work-I applied to the phone co and also to our national post office as they both came with health care benefits and a pension at retirement-glad now that i did that
I could never work at one job forever no matter what the money was. It's got to be so boring.
Nun bin ich bei deinem neuesten Posting gelandet. Jetzt weiß ich also ein bisschen mehr über deinen beruflichen Werdegang und dein Alter, und meine Frage vom Kermit-Post hast du auch beantwortet, du bist offenbar wirklich eine kleine Frau, der M zu groß ist 😉 Auf die Größe und das Geschlecht kommt's aber nicht an, wenn man einem Arbeiter sagt, wo's langgeht, sondern nur aufs Selbstvertrauen bzw. Auftreten. Es gibt Frauen, die richten Muskelprotzen die Wadeln nach vorne ... aber das muss man (bzw. frau) wollen... Ich gehöre da auch nicht zwingend dazu.
Ich habe meinen Traumberuf "Pensionistin" vor ein paar Jahren erreicht, nachdem ich 42 Jahre lang in einem Bürojob gearbeitet habe, den ich nie wollte, aber der an mir kleben blieb wie Kleister. In Österreich dürfen wir zum Glück schon etwas früher in Pension aka Rente gehen, und wenn man Baujahr 1961 ist, darf man's noch früher als diejenigen, die noch so jung sind wie du.
Walkman? Hatte ich nie. Ich hatte zuerst einen uralten Plattenspieler, den mir mein Bruder vererbt hat. Und dann zusätzlich einen Kasettenrekorder, mit dem ich als Teenager aus dem Radio Musik aufnahm, die mir gefiel. (Mir gefiel nicht oft etwas im Radio, deshalb musste ich immer auf spezielle Sendungen warten. Die erste Nummer auf meiner ersten Kassette war Grand Hotel von Procol Harum, das weiß ich noch genau...) Und jetzt habe ich "Knöpfe", die ich mir ins Ohr stecke, damit ich auch beim Trainieren die Musik von meiner Handyplaylist hören kann... so ändern sich die Zeiten. (Aber die Musik aus dem Radio gefällt mir noch immer zu 99 % nicht).
Alles Liebe, Traude
PS: So süß, der kleine Löwe!
MY Brother is 5 1/2 years younger than me :-)
Here you get that automatically, but there won´t be much money,I fear...
Yes, but changing all the time is exhausting,too... scary... what if I´m too dumb?
Ich glaube hier kommt es noch - oder kam es damals noch drauf an,welches Geschlecht du hast - außer du bist wirklich mental sehr stark- das bin ich nicht. Ich bin introvertiert und schüchtern...
Wobei meine Freundin just gestern sagte, ich hätte mich prima entwickelt.
Aber jung fühle ich mich nicht ;-)
Pensionistin strebe ich auch an!
Stimmt, Plattenspieler und Kassettenrekorder hatte ich auch und die Mitschnitte aus dem Radio...
Es ist noch heute eine Pein, wenn ich mit Ingo im Auto sitze und das Radio läuft. Der Löwe sagt danke, liebe Grüße!
Oh gosh. In order: I was a stay-home mom. Then a farmer, a part-time mail carrier, a security guard, paramutuels betting clerk at a greyhound track while in college and also part-time library worker at the same time. Got a teaching degree, did a year of substitute teaching while still working at the dog track, then finally became a librarian and got my Masters degree in that. I became a storyteller while working as a librarian, and now that I am retired we have our booths in antique malls. Of all those jobs, besides being a mom I enjoyed being a mail carrier the most, although it was hard in winter because I did rural routes on very bad roads. But I was in my early 30s then, and it would have been hard if I had been older. Loved being a branch library manager, hated my last position as facilities manager for the biggest library system in our state. All in all, it's been a fun ride.
WOW!!!!! OK,so we are on riding!
You really did a lot!!!!
Wonder what I (or Ingo!) will come up with retirement!
We will never pause,will we.
Thank you, that lifted me up and was really interesting, too.
I feel not so alone anymore. Thank you...
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