Long and winding road

Staying home with the girls is the most fulfilling job I've ever had. It is also the most challenging and while I may not always 'meet or exceed expectations' I do know that this is precious time, well spent time, and most importantly time to get to know our children. It did get me thinking though, as I do all my mommy things exactly how many jobs I've had. Really, a long road of 'career choices' led me to this place. So, I hope for my girls to some day read this-by no means exhaustive-list and know of all interesting job experiences I've had before settling on mommy (aka personal assistant to the stars)

Bus girl at a truck stop, got to run the cash register one weekend and screwed it up so bad that I was once again known as bus girl
Cashier at hardware store leading to person who counted money in very very tiny safe room
Bar maid in what can only now been seen as a really skimpy uniform
Secretary for a non-profit group(my boss was always taking me out for drinks after her divorce and seriously she had years of handling her liquor whereas I did not)
Answering phones for magazine subscriptions and sending free inappropriate subscriptions to friends
Answering phones for people who ordered coffee through the mail(I had this job for one day)
Working the drive-thru at a credit union
Day care for exceptional children(first job I was officially allowed to nap at)
Bartender in a much more appropriate uniform( I was really really awful at this, I could never remember what went in a drink, learned it was not good to ask a patron if a margarita had vodka in it)
Check encoder at a bank
Counselor at a group home where I saw things like one guy who was always trying to eat his sheets and another who often told a strange story about bodies being buried
Driver for a hotel-this lasted one week, I altered some labels on things to read Days End instead of Days Inn
Hostess at Perkins, I was always screwing up on the seating and the cooks hated me because they thought I was rich...must've been those Goodwill Doc Martens I always wore
Retail store cashier where I was moved to tiny tiny safe room to count money after checking customers through so quickly that I earned the daily prize of free nachos too many times
Overnite counselor at a group home(paid to sleep)
Counselor a children's habilitation center
Counselor at group home again
finished college finally
special education teacher
English speech teacher
got my masters degree
mama!

So as anyone can tell, I learn things the hard way. Maybe the girls will have lists like this or maybe they will know immediately what they want to do and how to do it. Either way is fine with their parents.