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So, I'm restless, I can't study, I can't write, I can't unpack the boxes around my house to get ready for the garage sale or swap meet. I'm just so unfocused it's not even funny.
Then, when I am attempting to do my homework, it hits me...there's a reason I'm stalling everything. I'm not facing a nagging, gut-twisting feeling of dread that has haunted me since about the start of this weekend.
Some of you may know, I've spent the majority of my adult life as an HR professional. However, that's not all I've done. I was actually a business owner of a large commercial contracting company. In the end before I sold out, I had close to 100 employees at any given time and I was the CEO. I started out in my career working on the roof. I've done everything from manual labor, estimating jobs and submitting bids, payroll, bookkeeping, legal, market, public relations and customer service to mediating. And that's not all I did for my firm. But you get the idea, I wore a lot of different hats all the time.
So, I retired 12 years ago, sold my half and went home to raise my kids as a single mother. Now, I've been studying part time and having a great time with them and now, they are grown.
As you may or may not recall, last week I was going on in a thread about my HR law class. I'm taking this because I assumed it was a logical step for me to go work for someone else as their HR Director and I need this certification or for the self employed consulting route, I would want it.
But guess what I've just realized. I hate HR. I mean, it just hit me in one of those OH MY GOSH! I HATE IT! moments. Yes, it comes very naturally to me, and I liked doing it for those years as the OWNER of a business. Why? Cos I got to do more for those employees, than a normal HR professional could do. By the time I retired I had a secretary doing the paperwork part of it in tandem with accounting so I didn't need to worry about that. And really paperwork's really no biggie.
I love my field of study. It's communications: practice and theory. So, what job can I do with my degree? Because I can tell you right now, I get sick to my stomach just thinking about being in the thick of HR ever again.
Has anyone else discovered they needed to find a different field of work and were good at what they did but couldn't stomach it? What am I going to do?
This is like INSANE!
Thanks in advance, even for those of you who hate me for my pettiness.
Then, when I am attempting to do my homework, it hits me...there's a reason I'm stalling everything. I'm not facing a nagging, gut-twisting feeling of dread that has haunted me since about the start of this weekend.
Some of you may know, I've spent the majority of my adult life as an HR professional. However, that's not all I've done. I was actually a business owner of a large commercial contracting company. In the end before I sold out, I had close to 100 employees at any given time and I was the CEO. I started out in my career working on the roof. I've done everything from manual labor, estimating jobs and submitting bids, payroll, bookkeeping, legal, market, public relations and customer service to mediating. And that's not all I did for my firm. But you get the idea, I wore a lot of different hats all the time.
So, I retired 12 years ago, sold my half and went home to raise my kids as a single mother. Now, I've been studying part time and having a great time with them and now, they are grown.
As you may or may not recall, last week I was going on in a thread about my HR law class. I'm taking this because I assumed it was a logical step for me to go work for someone else as their HR Director and I need this certification or for the self employed consulting route, I would want it.
But guess what I've just realized. I hate HR. I mean, it just hit me in one of those OH MY GOSH! I HATE IT! moments. Yes, it comes very naturally to me, and I liked doing it for those years as the OWNER of a business. Why? Cos I got to do more for those employees, than a normal HR professional could do. By the time I retired I had a secretary doing the paperwork part of it in tandem with accounting so I didn't need to worry about that. And really paperwork's really no biggie.
I love my field of study. It's communications: practice and theory. So, what job can I do with my degree? Because I can tell you right now, I get sick to my stomach just thinking about being in the thick of HR ever again.
Has anyone else discovered they needed to find a different field of work and were good at what they did but couldn't stomach it? What am I going to do?
This is like INSANE!
Thanks in advance, even for those of you who hate me for my pettiness.