F5 jobs

[cherydactyl]

1. What job do you have, and why do you like/hate it?
I am an office manager for a school, a small private school. I do morning care, supervise lunch, I do some office work, including organizing transport for field trips, arranging subs, managing files, buying supplies, and other little details.

I *really* love my job. I love almost everything about it. (Boy I sound sickeningly fawning.) My co-workers are awesome, interesting people. The kids are totally awesome, with enough spice to keep things interesting. Their parents are pretty cool too. I just wish there were a few more hours in the day, 'cause there's too much work to do in the time allotted. Slightly better pay would be nice, but there's time for that as the organization grows.

2. As a kid, what did you want to be when you "grew up?"
I was clueless. Nobody talked to me about career, only about school. Ever. Really. Which tells you something about why it's taken me so long to figure out. I liked lots about my grad student experience in computer science, but I could never wrap my head around being a researcher or professor, for example. It just didn't make any sense to me. But I think I've finally found a job I belong in. And there's room for me to keep working on becoming a yoga teacher too. Yay!

3. Is the job you have now anything like what you imagined as a kid?
Obviously not. I had a big blank before.

4. Do you have a five-year career plan?
Weirdly, yes.

5. In order to get the job of your dreams, is there anything you wouldn't do? Why?
Yes. Ends can easily be corrupted by the means used to get them. And a job is really not an 'end' anyway...it's a process, and therefore it's even more vulnerable to corruption.