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Career choices and past lives

Chardin

Chardin

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Hi all,
I think it was Ailish (forgive me if I'm wrong) that said in a posting that she felt she could pick up a paintbrush and just paint, but what came out was not what she saw in her head. I've had the same experience. All my life I've never had a "calling" into any one career field. I'm artistic, but not called to it as a career. I love to write and thought I'd be a writer - not certain if I'm too scared, or what (I have 6 unfinished novels in the works).
I just finished my Bachelor's degree in Human Services and thought about going on to be a counselor, but again wasn't really drawn to it. I do enjoy being a social worker. So now I start my Master's in Education in December. I am good at teaching and greatly enjoy it and it's as close to a "calling" as I've had. I feel like in my past lives I've lived very easy lives with no real challenges or hard choices to make. Have any of you gone through anything similar? Do you also doubt that you're making the right career choices in this life?
 
Hi Chardin,

Yes, I definitely feel the same way, too. ;) I dance in a ballet company, but realistically speaking that only lasts about ten years. I also work in a marketing office for an insurance & financial company, which I thought (based on the job description and all of the interviews with management) that it would be a much more people-oriented job. I find myself subjected to more and more accounting....and I hate numbers! I almost dread going to work, although I love the people that I work with. I feel that I am being stifled creatively speaking.

I also feel that I need to be working with children. In what capacity, I haven't figured out yet. I have been doing a lot of soul searching as well and I have been thinking about going back to university ;) I only know that I want to do something I enjoy and feel good about doing, that is beneficial to others.

I know that you'll be busy with your Master's, Chardin, but if you enjoy writing, why not pick one of your unfinished novels and go for it? You can still get it out there, get it seen by publishers and at the same time, teach :D


Ailish :)
 
Another one here...Include me in the list, please... :o :(
I spent almost 5 years attempting to get my bachelor's degree and when i had only 6 months left to graduate i decided to drop out... I couldn't take it anymore... Teaching wasn't my passion... Do i like kids, yes... Do i feel like that is my purpose in life? NO...
Nowadays i am still around kids. I watch two other kids plus my own at my house...
Here is a little bit of my story:
When i was in fourth grade i wanted to be a ballet dancer. A few years later i also started writing a book (i never finished it)... Then when i "grew up" i wanted to be a cop... Later i wanted to be a nurse.... Now, i want to paint, be an artist...
Like Ailish i feel like i can pick up a paintbrush and create beautiful paintings but the results are never what i see in my mind... :eek: :(
I better stop now or will remember something else i wanted to do... : angel

((Chardin, Ailish)) I wish you all the best! I am sure we will all find something that we LOVE to do one day. ;) :)
 
**Ahem** Miss Fabi, you may not paint exactly what you see in your head, but what comes out on paper is still amazing & beautiful. I think you are very talented, and I love your art!!!!!!! :D :D :D




your artful admirer ;)
Ailish
 
Thanks Ailish! :o

Chardin,
I forgot to mention that you should finish your novels!!! Don't be scared! :)
Good luck to you and let us know when your books reach the stores! ;)
 
Hi Chardin,

What a great thread! At this time in my life, I am exactly where I want to be career wise. I work in the legal field as a paralegal, but wanted to be an attorney from the time I was pretty young. However, now that I've gotten older and worked with attorneys several years, my desire has pretty much left me and I'm content doing what I am doing. This ties back to a past life where I believe I was a crooked lawyer- perhaps I just know what lawyering is like and don't want to do it again, or I am unconsciously punishing myself for being crooked. :confused: :rolleyes: Who knows!!

My other career choice has always been writing-- which I do wonderfully, I just have not submitted anything in a very long time. This is my first passion, and my final project for my Bachelor's Degree was a novella!!

I think it's amazing how many career choices we can have in one lifetime-- why limit ourselves?! I say go for the gusto of whatever is on your mind at that time!!! It will work itself all out! :D :D :D :D
 
thanks for the replies

Thanks everyone for your replies! College starts for me in December and I will keep writing a bit at a time and hopefully be published someday. I have set a goal to have one novel finished by my 40th birthday next October.
 
My calling is deffinetly a mixture of singing/modeling.... too bad I'm 5'2 and my vocals are not anything to be proud of :laugh: but like... I'm very versatile, and my callings in this life seem to consist of writing, photography (which is ironic because I was highly photograped in a more recent pl), and some sort of psychology (something to do with categorizing people?? my counselor told me once what it was called, bt i forget...)

But yeah, I deffinetly know what it's like to have this beautiful image of what my voice sounds like and what a song i just wrote like will sound like... and then i sing it and it's all wrong... :(
 
Chardin,

You will know when you have found your calling when you do something that makes you feel alive. I have a fairly clear idea of my calling. It's not surprising as I loved to read as child. But in high school, I hated writing because of how it was taught in my classes. The teachers were just so nitpicky. But I would write in journals and enjoy that. Anyways, you might be surprised to find out what your calling is.

If you want to discover your calling, look at what you love. Look at what deeply resonates with you. Do not put any limits to your aspirations. Just envision your ideal career. If it has value to society, someone will pay for your services.
 
intuit said:
Chardin,



If you want to discover your calling, look at what you love. Look at what deeply resonates with you. Do not put any limits to your aspirations. Just envision your ideal career. If it has value to society, someone will pay for your services.
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Thank you, Intuit - wise words. If it's ok with you, I'll take your words and post them alongside my computer. :thumbsup:
 
Past lives in a scientific field?

I'm wondering if anyone here has ever been in some field of science in a past life. There seem to be few when compared with other catagories. Is it just that people don't see much to mention about them, or do less people really remember them? I believe I've heard that less people who had science-y past lives may be less likely to remember them because many scientific minds would've probably been among the most skeptical of concepts such as reincarnation, etc. What do you think of that?

As for me, though I haven't had any concrete memories of such a life, I think I may have been a paleontologist once. And because of the strength of the way I was obsessed with it, I think it was probably my last life. I was FANATICALLY interested in dinosaurs when I was young. I could pronounce the names of practically every one I ever came across (I can't do that now! :eek: ). When my mom took me to the library, I never, ever went for fiction books (I seem to remember thinking they were for people who weren't smart enough to read about real things : angel ); I just came out with a huge stack of books about dinosaurs.

Even before I could read, I would tell anyone who would listen that I was going to be a paleontologist when I was big. No one knew where I could've heard such a word. Most of them thought I made it up, actually.

I kept thinking that's what I would do until I hit fourth grade. Then I discovered a passion for writing 'for people who weren't smart enough to read about real things.' :tongue:

Anyone else have anything to share?
 
It seems to me that how you viewed reincarnation in your last life would not affect how much you remember in this life or even whether you remember.
I think if you seek your memories in this lifetime of your past lives, you are more likely to find them. However, I know from personal experience that it is not necessary to even want to know for the dreams/memories to come to you anyway. I was a scientist in this life for many years and i believe it has a direct effect on my desire to explore reincarnation. The effect is that it makes it harder to believe and explore.
Vicky
 
I am not sure if I were a scientist in any of my PLs, but if I were I would say that I studied Greek mythology a lot. When I was 7 I knew lots of their myths almost by heart, and I could name all the Gods and more interestingly kings and heros (and I am not talking about household names). I tried Roman mythology as well but it wasn't that interesting. Curiously, I tried to read a book of Greek myths, the same book I read in my childhood, when I was about 15 and I couldn't do it - I got completely lost in those names I couldn't pronounce let alone spell.

I also don't think that being a scientist in previous life would prevent you from remembering it in any form. And being a scientist does not really prevent you from believing in reincarnation now. My father is a professor of physics and he is quite materialistic. However, after his visit to Venezia he came back visibly shaken. He said that the city felt like he lived there before and he could find his way around without any maps. He may still turn it into a joke when he talks about it, but he remembers it and I know him enough to tell that he is not so skeptical about the concept.
 
Fortune's Fool, that's sort of weird...I was exactly the same about dinosaurs when I was little. From about ages 4 to 8 or 9, I fanatically read everything I could about them; my parents had me enrolled in this club that sent me a book about a different dinosaur each month, and these books were my prized possessions.

Like you, I told everyone I was going to be a paleontologist, which is not a word anyone expects a 5-year-old to know.

Chills. This is strange. Also like you, my interest in the dinos slacked when I discovered I could write. I'm still writing, and dinosaurs don't interest me at all now. Are you still into them?

This is weird. Have I expressed that sentiment yet? :)
 
I was told in a past-life psychic reading that in one life in Europe, during one of the plagues, I was orphaned as a child by the plague; adopted by a doctor, studied medicine but instead of practicing, became a researcher. The psychic told me I came very close to the germ theory of contagion, and that there are records of my work preserved in some small church in England. The lifetime makes sense in terms of my personality, but I have no memories from it.
Steve S.
 
Current Occupation

Just curious...Does anyone feel their current occupation is the same or similar to a pl? Do you feel you went into your current occupation because of a pl experience?

I work with children and yes, I feel my choice is based on pl experience.
 
I sometimes wonder whether I'm an archaeologist because I desperately miss lives I've had in the past. I specialise in the Roman era and I know I've had at least one life back then. I find myself feeling fiercely proud of the Romans and constantly slip by using the word 'we' when referring to them. I am repulsed by warfare and brutality.....but when it involves the Romans, my attitude polarises instantly.

So, even though I obviously wasn't an archaeologist in a past life, I do feel that my past lives might have influenced my choice of occupation.
 
Do you feel you went into your current occupation because of a pl experience?
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I do. I'm a professor, and I believe I had a past life (in 16th century England) in which I was abused by my parents and my only escape was into my studies. I was intellectual in that life, but had no formal standing as such. It's as if my present life is the one I wished I could've had back then.

Perhaps it would've made a difference if I'd encountered Shakespeare's work, but I died before he came on the scene.

The only past era I have any positive feeling for is Baroque Europe. I visited the Chateau de Versailles (in this life!) and had an intense feeling of deja vu (but no memories). Perhaps I was a courtier there, or one of the thousands of visitors the French kings (Louis 14th --- 16th) hosted.
 
I definitely do. In one past life I never had the chance to realize my dream of becoming a ballerina -- which I was training vigilantly for at the time of my death. This time around it was something I just had to do. ;)


Ailish
 
Yes!

I'm a paralegal in this life, but I've had memories of being a crooked lawyer in a past life. I used to want to become a lawyer but something within me kept telling me no. I listen to my intuition-- and I really do love the career I've chosen.
 
mikesnana said:
Just curious...Does anyone feel their current occupation is the same or similar to a pl? Do you feel you went into your current occupation because of a pl experience?
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Well, sort of, I think...I used to shoot Spaniards in the Eighty Years' War (I was a Dutch "Geus", a kind of resistance fighter), and now I make a living teaching Spanish, among other things...the irony of it only dawned on me a month or two ago ;) Maybe it's my way of making up for the things I've done, I'm not really proud of that lifetime and others where I was a soldier!
 
Very much so. I was a writer and editor before I retired early due to severe arthritis. I've also always been interested in anything esoteric, which seems to have led me here. I sense past lives that have involved being an alchemist, a scribe, and a book seller.

My parents had told me that when I was 3 I began making up stories of my own, and I sold my first story when I was 7. Writing and editing were second nature to me, and I reply to countless posts even though my hands and fingers are in agony. I was born to write and fully expect that my next life will also involve the written word somehow.

John
 
Careers in a past-life.


Has the "Dirty Jobs" series on the Discovery Channel served as a "trigger of sorts" of jobs we had in a past-life?
 
I play the viola da gamba, an instrument whose popularity declined in the 18th century and is enjoying a recent revival. I also played it in a 16th-17th century past life.


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Interesting thread as regarding one's career choices and occupations with one's past lives. In my personal life I find this interesting because of how much in this life I have not had some business career or occupation in the sense of this modern day culture of ours. How much in this life have


when needed just gotten some job for a short while then gone wandering and living in the deep mountain or desert wilds extensively and loving it. How much in this life since little have really believed and identified with the old Native American and Hunter Gatherer ways and had such a problem with many things regarding this modern day society including working careers and occupations. It is as if in this life my wilderness wanderings and wilderness living has been my career. I find this as indeed interesting when it seems how many of my Past Lives I have been Native American or a member of some Hunter Gatherer group of people. And to go a little further is the location of many of my wilderness wanderings seem to be in places where I lived in some Native American / Hunter Gatherer Group in another life. For example how many of my mountain wanderings have been in the Wyoming's Absaroka Range where in some of past lives, lived in this same area as a Mountain Shoshone. Now to end sometime ago a very gifted local Psychic said that a theme of many of my past Lives has been "Barefoot with the Earth" which struck such a deep cord in myself at the time.
 
I have found my calling in life: archaeology. Is that choice past life related? So far I haven't encountered any pl personas with an interest in archaeology. I do think that my 'longing for the past' helped me choose and I have been drawn to specific eras within my studies.


For example, studying the palaeolithic and mesolithic brought up a few memories from that era. I'm also rather certain that I lived during the bronze age in Greece and the North European Iron Age.


Being on digs also brings up the memory of being a monk (digging in the garden or perhaps a cemetery (or both) of a monastery).


Strangely enough it seems as if my most recent past lives didn't have a proper job. My most recent one died before he could get one, so he's excused, but my second-most recent was actually trained as a nurse. I don't think she liked it very much and I have no recollections of her actually working as a nurse (except doing some volunteer work in Africa). In this life I've never ever been attracted to the social jobs. I feel a great degree of respect for those, who want to perform them, but I also feel that I could never do it.
 
Careers/past-lives...Cont.


Hello,


Glad this discussion thread regarding careers/jobs in past-lives is being continued.


A possible PL memory was of a red-haired, and bearded fellow wearing overalls; hence a blue-collar job. The jobs my family and I have had were white-collar jobs; hence I've never seen anybody wearing overalls in my present life.


I had mentioned Discovery Channel's 'Dirty Jobs' series; as the show demonstrated occupations, some of which have changed very-little in the past century. Personally, the 'Dirty Jobs' series did not evoke any memories of PL jobs; despite memories of a fellow wearing overalls (indications of blue-collar work).


Incidently, I seemd to remember the fellow's overalls being relatively clean; hence indications that my PLs blue-collar occupation was well.....less dirty!


Marc
 
All the past lives I can remember


had an element of violence associated to their work, colored by the defiance of authority. In fact, I suppose they all put me in danger of being hung. In adolescence, I remembered three lives: one where I fought as a rebel in an uprising (for Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland), then as a privateer captain, and then as an outlaw. In the past couple of years, though, certain events have occurred that make me wonder if the life I remember as a privateer isn't a confused remembering of the life of John Paul Jones, who was a Naval Captain that was considered a rebel and a pirate by his native country, but a legitimate officer in the newly formed United States. He certainly was in danger of being hung during the revolutionary war.
 
Marc Ross said:
A possible PL memory was of a red-haired, and bearded fellow wearing overalls; hence a blue-collar job.
...Incidentally, I seemed to remember the fellow's overalls being relatively clean; hence indications that my PLs blue-collar occupation was well.....less dirty!
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I thought when I read this, "Gosh, that sounds like me". :laugh:


The few pl's that I have memories of always contained an intimate connection with the environment I lived in. Really getting myself immersed in the dirt, dust, water, even blood and guts. I don't really like getting dirty in this life and avoid doing so but, when I have to get down and roll in the dirt, I think about the extraordinary opportunity to experience and manipulate the world around me and how lucky I am to do this - a strange feeling.


The "dirty jobs", in my experience, are more about who you are and less about how miserable the work may or may not be. A lot of dirty jobs require you to be tough and able to work with other people who consider themselves to be tough - tough enough to do work that not just anyone can do. There is a camaraderie that goes with the dirty jobs that makes the work worthwhile.


I also like to be "one of the guys" and stand with the toughest of them and tell stories and command their respect; standing toe-to-toe and staring into each others eyes to see who can exert their will over the others. It is all a game of brinksmanship - a big charade - and I enjoy it at times from the perspective of a sojourner on this planet just playing a part.
 
I feel that in all my past lives that I'm aware of, I've always been some sort of artisian, especially when it comes to making clothing and things to be used as tools. I also think that in many of these same past lives, I've also had quite an extensive knowledge of plants and herbal medicine. Many PL memories I've had certainly make me feel that way, at any rate. In this life as well, I'm what you might call an artisian, and I still know a lot about natural medicine. I have a feeling that it's all past life-related. But there's something else. There's only maybe one of my past lives that I'm able to remember, in which I had any children, and sometimes I wonder if that's part of the reason why I feel the serious urge to become a mother in this life. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be happening. I've been infertile in other lives, and it looks like I might be in this life as well. Why? Where could it all have come from?
 
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