Career choices and past lives

[Val]

When I was a child I used to pretend I was saving orphans, and in my mind it always seemed to take place in the 1800's.


Now I have an AA degree, and I am an SFA tutor, and I work with children from Kindergarten through third grade. I love working with these children, but sometimes I find the subject matter (beginning phonics) dull and repetitive, which at that level it tends to be. I find myself wanting more of a challenge, and have been considering going back to college to get a BA in English or Literature, and maybe teaching at high school level.


Ironically, spelling and grammar have never been my strong suit. But I enjoy editing someone else's work, and I seem to be good at it.


And another irony is that I didn't get into this line of work until I reached my late thirties. As a young adult I worked in fast food, and later as a cashier. I didn't hate these jobs, but I didn't love them either. We moved around a lot, and my focus was on my family's needs. It has only been in the past few years that I have been drawn to possibly teaching English at a high school level.


I have only vague flashes of past life memories, and I strongly believe I took care of children in some capasity in the 1800's.


Thinking back on this life, and the career decisions I have made when I was younger, it feels as if finding my calling at a much older than normal age is the way it was supposed to be. Until recently one of my favorite sayings to people was, " I am xx years old, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up."

 

[Obie]

In my PL's I was a male warrior in many lives. I fought passionately for the side that I was on, thinking that the other side was wrong.


In this life I'm a female civilian but I work on an AF base surrounded by military men and women. Now I am surrounded by modern day warriors.

 

[Sunniva]

I fought passionately for the side that I was on, thinking that the other side was wrong.

Is your mindset the same as in your previous lives or are you able to see both sides today?

 

[Marc Ross]

Possible work-related PL memory.


Hello,


The possible work-related PL memory I experienced was of a red-haired, and bearded fellow wearing overalls. This might not necessarily be from a blue-collar job, but that of a shopkeeper, or employee at a shop; as the overalls appeared very clean, and unstained.


As a youngster, I remember playing as a mock shopkeeper (complete with miscellaneous items from around our house, and backyard that simulated a shop's stock). I also remember enjoying illustrated books, TV cartoons, and variety-shows that portrayed examples of shopkeepers and their staff!


Marc

 

[Spatz]

Well, coming out of a military past life and living now a purely civilian one it seemed at first like there really wasn't any comparison, but after a bit of time and getting to know myself both as an individual and as a worker I can see a lot of similarities.


With engineering I can have my cake and eat it too, I like a technical focus as well as a very-people oriented focus day-to-day. In that respect it's not so different, I like working with teams. A pretty strong viewpoint that I might have picked up in the last life (or before, dunno) is that it's not about 'I', it's about 'we'.


Maybe the 'fields' are different these days, but methinks my sense of adventure is still around and can flourish these days too. Maybe the instruments have changed but my work ethic and values, not so much.

 

[tanguerra]

I worked in the *ahem* 'oldest profession' in my most recent life, during the 1920s-30s, but I dreamed of having a nice job in an office. The idea of being a lady stenographer greatly appealed to me back then, going to the office, wearing a nice outfit and having my own little desk and so on seemed like a wonderful thing. Earlier on I'd wanted to be in the movies, or be a singer, but that never happened.


This life I have a nice job in an office and I sing and dance for fun. In my youth this life, before I got my nice office job, I owned my own very groovy cafe for many years, in partnership with my former husband. There's something that is still a bit magic to me about nice cafes and bars and hotels that I like - maybe it's the people who tend to frequent them? I am very connected to the fairly lively 'bohemian' element in my home town - lots of actors, musicians, artists and the like. So, in many ways I have the best of both worlds now.