As my marital status transitions from married to single, I find myself thinking about “what I want to do when I grow up” to get back into the workforce. Although I am still working on what I would like to do, there are certain professions that I am 100% certain just won’t work for me. Anything in the medical field immediately jumps to mind. For somebody who can't deal with having her pulse taken and who runs screaming whenever the sphygmomanometer is pulled out, a medical career just doesn't seem like the best choice.
Fortuitously, yesterday I discovered yet another profession that I really don't think will work for me. On my way to pick up my daughter from school I ended up getting behind a student driver. Now usually, besides being a little bit slow (a.k.a. doing the speed limit), student drivers don't really bother me. This was a completely different story. I have never seen such erratic driving in my life. This driver was slowing down, speeding up, swerving into the oncoming traffic lane, then over-correcting and swerving all the way over to the shoulder of their lane. It was quite frightening. I backed WAY OFF!! Although, while following this driver, I watched as closely as I could from my vantage point to see how the instructor was handling this. From what I could tell, despite the craziness I was observing, the instructor seemed quite calm, cool, and collected throughout the whole ordeal. I was fairly impressed.
However, when the student driver swerved past the shoulder of his lane and came within a fraction of an inch of taking out a mailbox (YIKES!!), I knew for a fact that my survival instincts are just way too strong to ever be able to sit as calmly as the instructor did through this experience for me to ever consider teaching student drivers.
Strike driver's education off my list of professions to consider!
(Good thing it wasn't my favorite mailbox - that would have REALLY sucked!!!)
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