What jobs stay consistently fresh and new?

Addictions therapist. Though many things stay the same, and you need boundaries of steel to not get worn down, it's never ever boring.

Marketing.

If you don't stay fresh you lose your job.

Computer programmer. Once you get some experience, you become a consultant and change clients whenever a job gets stale. I'm no longer a consultant because my wife was sick of me working long hours. Even before I was a consultant things rarely got stale for me because I worked on multiple projects in one job. I also changed industries with every job and for the most part, only worked on new development.

Man-ho.
Always get different clients asking different things at different locations. You'll just never know what you'll get - it's that exciting.
And you literally need to be excited in order to get the job done.
Man-ho, that's the best job ever.

Teaching. You are constantly adapting, finding new ways of doing things, and hitting new challenges. Kids are fickle, unpredictable creatures, and they make the job exciting.

Field Engineering: There is always bound to be something that can (and often will) go wrong and you have limited time and options for fixing it and in many cases, may have to jury rig something together just to keep going for a little bit. Not to mention the sheer number of times off-site offices will send out new software or equipment with little to no prior testing and little to no tech support and its up to us to figure out how to make it work.

Constantly keeps you on your toes, cause once everything is going smoothly, you get complacent and the next problem to occur usually jolts you right awake and gives you some excitement (and pulling of hair from head in some cases).

I went to RPI for 2 years and flunked out. I wasn't really ready for college. I started going to school part time and I got a job at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. I worked with a bunch of computer phobic physicists. In the interview, they told me the job was to punch numbers in to a calculator 40 hours a week year round to generate tables for reports. When I said I'd write a program to do that they hired me and let me program. I did all types of things, including preparing presentations. That may not sound interesting, but this was in the early 80s, before PCs. I had to use a, at the time, state of the art graphics program, to generate slides that included a lot of graphics. They were printed on a film printer that was the size of a room.

My next two jobs, they needed someone who knew PL/1 and didn't care about anything else. The first, they sent me out to LA for 5 months and I got to work on a SNOBOL compiler. The project was to analyze all messages coming into the CIA, determine what they were about, their classification, etc, and route them to the appropriate analysts. It was a really cool job.

My next 2 jobs were in TV ratings. Then I got a job at AT&T where I got to write another compiler that was used to maintain binary decision trees that were used to validate orders for business phone service.

The jobs after that were not quite as interesting, but still varied.

A membership system at NEA.

An n-tier client server system at FDIC that was an early adopter of Microsoft technology. The stuff we developed was the same ideas that went into COM+ a couple of years later.

A system at NASDAQ to track and analyze listed companies SEC required reporting documents.

For the last 10 years, I've been working at NEA as an employee. Most of what I've worked on is Java web app development. It's been pretty varied work. But more important, it hasn't been long hours which is making my wife very happy.

Criminal defense. You never know what's going to turn up next, you'll get an armload of wild war stories and every trip to the lockup is a small adventure.

I am thinking about going back to it. Corporate pays well, but it gets routine.

Wow. I don't even remember. Maybe six months ago-ish? grawk, n_maher, jp11801 also at same time.

I'm not sure what you mean by "traditional therapy" since they are many types of therapy considered somewhat traditional; you can think of them as tools that can be used or not. Addiction therapy also has many models (most using a selection of those different "tools"). I work at a private, long-term facility, which focuses heavily on family dynamics (the whole family is viewed as the patient), addiction interaction, addiction as attachment disorder.....how you would treat an 18-year-old male with antisocial and narcissistic traits would be different than what might work best for a 50-year-old female with an eating disorder and borderline personality disorder.

Absolutely. I miss teaching. I just couldn't afford to be a teacher. It's nearly impossible here in Florida without having a second income.

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