My mother in about the mid 1980’s started reading a lot of cosmopolitan and chatelaine magazines and pretty much overnight went from dutiful housewife/stay at home homemaker/ servant to the 4 kids and husband….to basically extremely militant feminist.
in effect she got a secretarial job for the government and told us we were now (like immediately) dividing all house hold labour by 6. I was 12 and hadn’t got my first job yet….but had this fantasy or this immediate need to become a chef, lol it was a rough few weeks of KD, hot dogs, canned pees/carrots. My first job was a dishwasher then prep then line cook but so glad I moved on from my culinary adventures after high school. Culinary is a very tough lifestyle.
I was squandering myself post-college working at a tech start-up in Texas that was making the first hi-speed streaming router that makes all the things we love today possible. Had graduated with a liberal arts, poli sci degree with no clear direction. A Personal Assistant to the C_O had become open and I wanted it 1) bc I liked him as a person and 2) he had a sweet Guard Red 1989 911. He didn’t select me and I was hurt but looking back on it he saw more in me than I did. Around the same time I applied for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car management program. Still lost and having not gotten any offers from the Pharma sales interviews id been on (I wasn’t hot or blonde) I thought this was the future. I was turned down. I consoled myself with flaming Dr Peppers at Touche’s on 6th and made the only sane decision one can make after 6-7 drinks- I decided to go to law school!
20 years later as a lawyer it was the only decision that made sense given my experiences and goals.
Going into Vancouver police. Did the written test and interview, all looked good, but the I decided screw this. Good decision. Given our lenient, woke and activist judges, race based legal system etc, I would find it extremly frustrating to catch criminals only to see judges release them over and over and over again. Often they are released on technicalities, police dog didn’t sit properly…Healthcare, warts and all, has been good to me in the past 10 yrs.