What's Next on the Career Path?

We have a "Daily Celebrations" calendar in our kitchen.  Most days I'll write something on it for the day....as simple as "had Pizza Hut for supper" or as monumental as "Allison was born at 1:52."

Yesterday I was reminded that back in 1997 I had a job interview at a Minneapolis TV station.  The job was Traffic Coordinator....which was a job I was not in the least qualified for.  But I knew I didn't want to be a computer programmer forever, and I did have some TV production classes while in college, so I applied for the job and got an interview.

(When I got the call for the interview, I had no idea what a traffic coordinator at a tv station did, and that was before you could google it, so I remember driving to the public library in Edina to research the old fashioned way - in books!)

I didn't get the job...in fact I think I called back the next day to tell them I wasn't interested.  I knew I would have been in way over my head....which I'm sure they could tell from the interview.

Any way...remembering that interview got me thinking of all the other jobs I've thought about taking over the years since I finished college and started my I.T. "career":

• Interviewed at WCCO radio in Minneapolis to be an engineer/call screener for their morning show
• Interviewed with Walgreens to be an assistant manager
• A couple interviews for different I.T. positions
• Went to a meeting about becoming an unpaid intern for an oldies radio station
• Had a couple bank teller interviews
• Sent an application to the school district to be a preschool classroom helper
• Applied to be an office assistant for the Cities Parks and Rec department
• Had a phone call about working with the YMCA after school child care
• Started working at Target

And after all that....I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up.  But as each year passes, and my kids get older and more self-sufficient, I'm getting closer to needing to figure out the next step.  The "at-home-parent" tag only works when there are kids at home that need me (or at least I can pretend they need me).

So what I'm looking for is for you all to help me brainstorm ideas.
What should I do next?
What do you do?
What would you do if you could do anything.  (mine is play third base for the Phillies.)