i went from Foreign Service Officer to MBA corporate guy to business owner...

Apr 28, 2015
12:02:15pm

run26

I see pros and cons to each of my three career tracks. I will say this...not a week goes by that I don't wonder if I should have stuck with the FSO career even though it would have been financially disadvantageous to do so.

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run26

Previous username: whoppercougar
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Author

Time

If you could push the reset button on your career right now, what would you

Bobby Dooley

4/28/15 8:25am

Bra designer

thebruce

4/28/15 8:26am

I would have done BYU's construction management or accounting programs

Iman23

4/28/15 8:27am

I went through the BYU CM program and have had pretty good career success so far

Flippy

4/28/15 8:37am

Occupational Therapy

Epileptic Beagle

4/28/15 8:30am

real estate developer.

Cougar-Duck

4/28/15 8:31am

i changed my mind. I would be one of the early Microsoft employees/shareholders.

Cougar-Duck

4/28/15 8:40am

Dentist. Money and three day weekends.

cougfanblue

4/28/15 8:33am

Orthodontist is where the real money's at. And 3 day weekends.

Left Shark Coug

4/28/15 9:03am

Chemical or Petroleum Engineer

Texas Hammer

4/28/15 8:33am

Medical Physics. Same job as mine but more pay.

JamDownSouth

4/28/15 8:35am

Dana Carvey impersonator

uberslacker

4/28/15 8:36am

Lucky you changed it, the first one could have gotten a lot of people banned.

My Soapbox

4/28/15 8:38am

Reality tv star

WDaddy

4/28/15 8:38am

Engineer maybe

jrob30

4/28/15 8:40am

Pharmacist.

Niiineteeen84

4/28/15 8:41am

Not a bad gig ... but school can take forever

tassell

4/28/15 8:49am

Self-employed immigration attorney.

BigD Coug

4/28/15 8:43am

I don't think I'd change it

donnerstag

4/28/15 8:44am

I don't know . . . I didn't choose my current career path (I lucked into it) and

BlueSage

4/28/15 8:45am

I'd stick with where I am.

Belboz

4/28/15 8:49am

Plastic Surgeon.

BE-WHY-YOU

4/28/15 8:49am

Nothing. Freedom rocks

TNT

4/28/15 8:50am

Air traffic controller

IrishBlue

4/28/15 8:52am

This is easy. I would have invested heavy after the recession and retired.

rad dawg

4/28/15 9:01am

Super Bowl winning NFL QB.

RalphWiggam

4/28/15 9:02am

You want to go to Disneyland that bad?

TNT

4/28/15 9:10am

SAHD. Truly. I genuinely believe that I missed my calling in life.

jayriggity

4/28/15 9:22am

Did you make your wife quit her high paying job or something?

rad dawg

4/28/15 10:53am

No. We followed the traditional path. I took the career path, and she

jayriggity

4/28/15 11:00am

air port frisker

thebruce

4/28/15 9:59am

i went from Foreign Service Officer to MBA corporate guy to business owner...

run26

4/28/15 12:02pm

BYU Animation program would be pretty cool. Working for Disney or Pixar...

Cougarrr

4/28/15 1:22pm

I just turned 39, and I'm in the process of starting over. BM if you want detail

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