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TTC after 35
sonpetitlapin
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GTKY: What is your career?
sonpetitlapin
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in TTC after 35
What do you do for a living, whether it is inside or outside the home? Is it what you wanted to do as you were growing up or became an adult?
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~Formerly ABabyMabe4us
Me(35) Him(35) Untied for life 4/1/2015.
TTC Our 1st since 8/2014
MC @ 7 weeks 5/2014
Me: DD#1 3/2000, DD#2 6/2001, DS 5/2003
BFP: 2/19/2015 EDD: 11/1/2015 IT'S A BOY!!!!
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Re: GTKY: What is your career?
For money, I'm a work from home web developer and I adjunct (Photography.)
For my soul, I write and make art and sustain my practice through grants,etc.
When I was little, I wanted to be Laura Holt from Remington Steele---a private eye.
I work as a victim advocate for the District Attorney's office. Tough, but rewarding job, especially when it comes to child victims.
I always wanted to be in Law Enforcement (Sheriff / Parole Officer), but I am too old fashioned in that I'd want to be home when my family is home and not be our working at night/wee hours of the morning. I figure what I do is a close 2nd.
Me: 43, DOR FI: 44, SA normal
TTC Since Nov 2013
01/2014: Meeting with RE to discuss options
02/2014: Clomid + Trigger + TI = BFN
03/2014: on the bench
05/2014: meeting with RE to discuss Donor IVF options
09/2014 - IVF#1 - converted to IUI - BFN
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Funnily enough, I wanted to be a jockey, too...and am also 5'9" ha!
I wanted to be so many things in life, have tried some, too scared or not able to try others. I still hope my dream of running a horse farm/rescue comes true some day...or a b&b (maybe combine them all)!
I manage communications at a non-profit. I like the writing and design aspects of my job a lot, and I love that I'm working for a good cause. I loathe PR and fundraising, though, which kind of limits how much further I can go in the field and sometimes makes me wish I'd thought things through a bit more carefully.
I had some trouble choosing a career path. I went from wanting to be a research scientist (I loved it in the classroom but realized I really wasn't cut out for it after my first college lab), to wanting to be a doctor, to wanting to be a professor, to my current field. I let myself wander pretty far down each of these paths, and I unfortunately have the student loan debt to show it! I'm still pretty happy with what I'm doing, though.
Me: 41, DH: 45
DD, 6/15/2013
TTC #2 beginning January 2014
AMH 1.05; FSH range 7-11
July 2014: IUI #1. Follistim + Pregnyl. 2 follicles--BFN
September 2014: IUI #2. Follistim + Pregnyl + Ganirelix + Crinone. 4(?) follicles--BFN
October 2014: IUI #3. More Follistim + More Ganirelix + Pregnyl + Crinone. 4 follicles--BFP! Beta #1=10 Beta #2=33 Beta #3=97 Beta #4=158. M/C 11/1/14
December 2014: IVF #1. Microdose Lupron protocol. 9R, 9M, 9F. 3 5-day blasts transferred 12/15. BFFN.
August 2015: IVF #3. 14R, 13M, 11F. Froze 5 blasts for CCS testing. 3 normals. FET planned for 10/2015.
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Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher. Unfortunately I had my daughter while I was in college and couldn't juggle being a single mom, work full time and go to school so I got my associates degree and stopped.
Right now I babysit from home and make cakes on the side. It works for us. My husband works till 8 and his commute is 3-4 hours a day so I handle all the kid stuff. Being home makes it easy to do all that. I love kids so being paid to hang out with rug rats is wonderful.
The cake stuff was just a hobby then friends if friends all started asking for cakes. So I get paid a little but not nearly enough. I end up making about $5 an hour but I'm ok with that because at least it lets me be creative.
Me:39, DH:40
DD born 8/96, DS born 8/04
TTC#3
NTNP since 2006, active trying 1/13
Natural M/C 3/13 at 7 weeks
CP 2/14
All welcome
Nice to see all the diverse careers, ladies.
@Heath&Jas we loved all of DD's Neonatal Nurses. You guys are the most amazing care givers and made leaving her so much easier. Another teacher here. I teach elementary and can't see myself doing anything else. Growing up I went from teacher to child lawyer to pediatrician and then realized everything job related always revolved around kids and then figured out what my parents had always known, I was meant to be a teacher. I have never regretted a minute of it.
Me 36 DH 39
BFP 11/28/14 ~ MMC 12/29/14
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I wanted to be everything from a lawyer to an interior designer to a FBI agent growing up.
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Sometimes I'm an actor or a writer, more often I'm a musician (vocalist), but these days my day job is to be in charge of arts and cultural development in my City. So, I'm a bureaucrat (I work for the municipality), but in the service of helping encourage and develop the growth of even more arts activity in our already super-vibrant city. That means giving grants to artists and arts groups, producing outdoor concerts in our parks, purchasing visual art for our public buildings, having murals painted throughout the city, and on and on and on. It's a great job.
When I was a kid, it was usually between writer and lawyer for me. Every now and then I still consider writing the LSAT and following that path.
Me: 35, He: 41. Baby #1!
I'm a software engineer for a stock images company based in New York, running their music site.
When I was younger I wanted to be a counselor and actually went to school for it, but realized i wasn't very good at it, so I switched to computer science as a dare, and now almost fifteen years later I'm so glad I did
@WinoGrrl I kind of have a desire (perhaps a naive one) to be a SAHM too. I wonder how hard it will be for me to return to work after my mat leave if and when this whole TTC thing works out.
However, I currently make more money than my BF and have a more stable long-term employment situation, so if one of us is going to end up staying home down the road, it makes much more financial sense for it to be him. Which I think he would be into as well.
My workplace has some flexibility with hours as well, so I hope that down the road I may still be able to get a compressed work week or something like that to help maximize work-life balance.
Me: 35, He: 41. Baby #1!
As a kid I knew I was going to be a pediatrician. Went to college for pre-med and hated every moment of it. I did some soul searching and got my degree in fashion design. After moving to California I started doing costumes for film and tv. Can be fulfilling but hours are long and work is exhausting. I found a new love in baking a few years back. It's what I do "for my soul" But one day I will have my own shop and get away from the "glamor" of touching other people's dirty clothes.
As for me, I've had a few careers. After my AS degree, I was an Interpreter for the Deaf. Then I realized I couldn't be a "paid parrot" repeat people all day. I got my BA in psychology and became an AIDS Educator followed doing PR/marketing for schools. Then I got my MA in Transpersonsal Psychology and I'm now a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Currently working in an inpatient substance abuse treatment facility (the one Lindsay Lohan had been mandated to in the Hamptons but didn't end up going to. This place). (Side note: I work in the Hamptons but certainly can't afford to live there). I'm back in school for another Associates degree in Business Administration so I can hopefully improve my chances of getting a position that will actually pay well. I hope to one day re-open my private therapy practice.
As a little kid, I wanted to be a pediatrician. In high school and early college I wanted to be an artist working in fashion or fine arts.
Wow, this has been such an amazing thread to read. It's fascinating to hear all of your childhood desires, college realizations, and how many of you have found your calling and are doing what you love.
@ABabyMaybeforUs - the change of pace has been difficult to adjust to. There are plenty of times that I miss the "corporate world" - colleagues, clients, etc. But then I think about all of our patients...it's not like going to your primary doctor when you're sick. People come to us because we can actually help them feel better, and then those that get it - they come back regularly to stay feeling well. I've gotten to really know our patients, and they all care so much for my FI & I. Once we got engaged last December, the questions about when we're getting married never cease. Of course they don't know about us trying to make a family...
Me: 43, DOR FI: 44, SA normal
TTC Since Nov 2013
01/2014: Meeting with RE to discuss options
02/2014: Clomid + Trigger + TI = BFN
03/2014: on the bench
05/2014: meeting with RE to discuss Donor IVF options
09/2014 - IVF#1 - converted to IUI - BFN
@MelissaMiso Thanks! I know I'm doing good work, even if to the arts community I sometimes seem to represent the bureacracy (and vice versa). It's a challenge to maintain one foot in each camp sometimes.
I have always been very interested in ASL, and even took a few night courses some years ago. I didn't keep up with it sadly, but I've found it fascinating ever since my aunt worked with the kids at the local School for the Deaf (which has since closed). Do you still have opportunities to sign, even though you've moved to a different (and also very challenging, I bet) career?
Me: 35, He: 41. Baby #1!