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by PurpleDragon @ Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 – 19:43:14

A couple of folk have been talking about what they are doing vs. what they actually want to be doing.

I have been thinking about my future a lot lately. Just now, it isn't really an issue, as I shan't be doing anything until Rachel is in full time school, which isn't until August 2009. And even then it will only be 9am till 2.45! Slacker. LOL

However, because of certain things that have been going on in my son's gymnastics class, I have volunteered to become a parent helper, and also to train to be a gymnastic coach. The helper part will happen as soon as my Disclosure comes thru. That won't be a problem because I already have two. The coaching part is a bit more complicated and it will take a couple of years to get certified to the level that I need to be to live up to some promises I have made.

I also want to train to be a fitness instructor. Help folk at the gym and so on. Maybe do some personal training as well. I want to try and fit that around my Reiki (I am going for my Reiki II attunement on Sunday), and I also want to do massage and aromatherapy. I think all of that fits together rather nicely, but it takes SO LONG to get every qualification that I want.

I am rather looking forward to all the training, and the work afterwards, but I wish I hadn't left it all so long. I know I am only 43, but one minute you are 20-odd and your whole life is ahead of you, and the next you are mid-40's and your husband is talking about early retirement. I'm only just getting started, me!

So - what do you want to do when you grow up?
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- ajnspencer ^Pro
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- Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 @ 20:09:48
A millionaire?

Or, more seriously, a photographer... But you knew that!
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 15:58:25
  You could be a millionaire photographer, if you manage to get a decent commission.
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    - Friday, 27. Jun, 2008 @ 07:50:46
    Lol, I'll keep watching the email
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- subville ^Pro
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- Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 @ 20:17:23
Well, it was gonna be 'librarian' but then I discovered how much I dislike the Great British Public

Just shut me in a cupboard with some papers and I'll shuffle them
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 16:03:59
  I'm the same. We used to have a shop and it was open to the public, and it was a nightmare. There are some freaky folk out there.
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- avrilo
- Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 @ 20:21:54
Oooo, I did Reiki 2 in 1984 and still use it regularly. It's a fantastic technique and works! I'm sure you'll have a wonderful attunement.
That's fantastic news of your plans. I didn't realise that you had so much dynamism in you to be doing so much physical training.
I didn't train as a midwife until I was 41, so you have plenty of years to forge a career.
Good luck!
I wouldn't exactly call it a career, but working as a volunteer delivering meals to the elderly is quite satisfying. I would like to work with terminal patients, helping them 'pass over'. I don't know what sort of qualifications I would need, but it wouldn't involve nursing, just sitting with them, helping them pass so they weren't alone. It's an idea I've had for a while. In fact I had a dream about it, but decided to train as a midwife, being at the 'other end' instead! It's just a feeling I have that I could help people at that stage in their lives.
I may look into to it sometime.....at the moment it's on the back burner.
Enjoy sunday, it's an amazing gift, Reiki.
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 16:05:32
  I did my Reiki I recently, and am very much looking forward to II. Do you use yours on other people? Do you use it in your midwifery?
  
  I used to do a lot of work in the gym, pre-kids. I went every night after work, and used to have a cracking figure.
  
  I reckon 'career' is whatever you make of your life. Some folk make a career of being sponging lay-abouts If you find delivering MoW then that is good for you. SO many people don't find satisfaction in their lives.
  
  You know, I don't think there is a term for someone who helps someone else go over. I guess the catholics have the priest to give them last rites, but we are ashamedly lax in honoring major life events, as a culture.
  - - avrilo
    - Tuesday, 01. Jul, 2008 @ 19:13:18
    Yes, I do Reiki on other people, but not in midwifery. As you always have to have consent, and I think it would be too much to discuss Reiki with a woman in the throes of labour!
    I did used to Reiki colleagues though. I got a reputation for helping with headaches and would get staff coming up to me and asking if I could help them with a headache. It always works!
    In Reiki 2, you get the symbols for distant healing. It's like using a bridge, which goes from you to the person you are sending the energy to.
    When I was learning Reiki 2, we split into 2's and worked in pairs. One of the exercises was for one of us to use distant healing on the other, both at different ends of the hall. It was quite a large hall.
    I felt my partner's touch! I definitely felt the pressure of her hand, especially on my face, although she was about 30 feet away! Funny thing is, she said the same thing, that she felt my hands on her, though I wasn't anywhere near her at the time!
    It's an amazing technique and I feel honoured to have learnt it. It was actually a series of coincidences that led me to the workshop. I won't go into that now though!
    
    You are right, there is no 'role' for a secular help for someone passing over. Priests can help, but you have to accept all the rigmarole that goes with it.....
    Good luck with your training, both gym and Reiki.
    - - PurpleDragon
      - Tuesday, 01. Jul, 2008 @ 19:26:51
      My midwife for Rachel was Reiki trained, and she used it a lot during my pregnancy and I think in labour too. Shame you don't get to see them beforehand.
      
      We did the distance healing training, and I did Wookie, and it was so funny - he just popped right up there. Poignant too. The Reiki II energy feels a lot different to me than the Reiki I.
      
      Sometimes coincidences aren't really that - they are nudges along the path you should be taking
      - avrilo
        
        Tuesday, 08. Jul, 2008 @ 18:56:09
        
        I don't understand who Wookie is. Do you mean the furry friend of Hans Solo in Star Wars?
        Interesting that you feel the energy is different in Reiki II. I'm so glad you did it, the symbol for the bridge is quite long to memorize but worth it. I was fortunate one time when I used it to channel some good advice for a friend.
        
        A good book to read about Reiki is called 'Zen and Reiki'. It puts forward the knowledge that the energy used comes from the Medicine Buddah in Tibetan Buddhism.
        Before I use Reiki, I mentally bow to the 4 directions and thand the Medicine Buddha for the gift. Just my little thing, but it helps to put me in the healing head space.
        
        Wise words from you about coincidences......
        ax
        
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        Saturday, 12. Jul, 2008 @ 08:34:29
        
        My Wookie was one of my cats. He was poorly when I wrote this, but we had him put to sleep yesterday. He was named after Chewbacca the Wookie on Star Wars and his brother was named after Yoda in said movie.
        
        Perhaps it isnt the energy different but me.
        
        I am coming across lots of interesting books just now. More coincidences
        
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        avrilo
        
        Monday, 14. Jul, 2008 @ 16:14:33
        
        R.I.P. Wookie.
        
        ax
        
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- menhir
- Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 @ 20:25:14
How about allowing hubby his early retirement and going off to do the development.
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 16:11:27
  I don't 'allow' hubby anything - he is his own person and capable of making his own decisions. It interests me that a lot of people say "I wouldn't //let// my husband/wife so such and such".
  
  Anyway. We can't afford for him not to work just now, and I will never bring in the same level of income as he can.
  - - menhir
    - Saturday, 28. Jun, 2008 @ 13:02:15
    Okay, if the term 'allow' irks, come to an agreement that suits you both. Sounds like you've already done that.
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- jenray ^Pro
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- Tuesday, 24. Jun, 2008 @ 22:17:12
Go for it, Carol, there's a whole load of careers in that lot...LOL...if you train for them all, you'll have lots of choice in which way your life takes you...I wish you the very best of luck...great big hugs...XX
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 16:15:11
  Thanks.
  
  When I was trying to post this reply, the wee box kept flicking from one part of the screen to another, like the page was refreshing. Annoying. We shall see if it posts.
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- faffajane ^Pro
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- Wednesday, 25. Jun, 2008 @ 07:49:51
You are never too old to develop - a friend in her late 50's did a degree course and has a complete change in her profession - from an admin assistant to a counsellor - lol may not have been that different compared to some of the advice she had to give to her bosses once lol
- - PurpleDragon
  - Thursday, 26. Jun, 2008 @ 16:16:20
  I agree. It is just a bit of a surprise, sometimes, to find myself in my 40's instead of my 20's.
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