Do you practice your profession?

Good Day! I am also a professional but yes, I am practicing my profession because this is my field of study and it took me 4 years to earn a diploma. But it's practical if you choose a job that is not on your field of specialization if the compensation is good to support your family.

Fortunately I was able to practice my profession. But prior to the job that I currently have, I somehow got a different job not related to my profession. I was in sales for the past 4 years but ultimately give up because it was so stressful. Now, I'm back and finding a job wasn't easy at all, since my last experience was not Accounting related. Some of the companies that I've applied are apprehensive but my present company accepted me. And I was very happy. 3 of my cousins are recent nursing graduates and I ask my mom if they were able to get a job. Unfortunately, till today they remain unemployed. There is just too many nurses now without corresponding job opportunities. Most of them dream to go abroad, but before they do, they must have at least gain experience in our country. Unfortunately, there are not many hospitals wanting to take them. In fact, there was an expose that the graduates need to pay the hospital just to have an on-the-job training. tsk! tsk! tsk!

hello blue_servant! I have not been able to practice my profession at this time but i am currently employed. I did practice my four-year course for a time after graduation but circumstances presented me other opportunities which at that moment, were of advantage to me and so i grabbed it and jumped ship. Jumped ship for me, means i left my profession and work for another field of study, which i find more enjoyable and self-fulfilling. Anyway, life sometimes provide us opportunities and chances that makes us take serious decisions which may change the course of our life. I have my regrets for turning my back on my profession for i would have been enjoying a very colorful and exciting corporate career by now had i remained in that world. However, i realized that its not the environment you're in, the kind of work you do and the people you're with that really matters in the end, when gauging our happiness and contentment in this world. In the end, it is our own attitude and outlook in life which makes a lot of difference in the way we view life. That's why, whether you have practice your profession or not, whether you're employed or not, rich or poor, near or far from loved ones, it is your attitude that determines your own state of mind, your own state of health and happiness. As i have learned too, we should make the most out of everything we've got and not spend our time reminiscing or craving for something that's over and done with. Life is meant to be lived forward and so we should look and live forward.

I have the opportunity to practice my profession but I've resigned to get married. Now I'm practicing what loved most and earning a decent money out of it!

No, I don't practice my profession at all, but not because i couldn't get a job relating to it but because i chose not to. I fell in love with another kind of job which i have a lot of passion, since it was my dream when i was a kid. My dream changed though because of my parents but then i found out that i never lost that dream after all. So right now i am doing what i love the most and earning from it as well. I am contented!

I am not practicing my own profession. I got a license in teaching but I did not use it because I can't give up yet the good salary I am earning compared to teaching. But, in the future when things are better in my life, I will really teach. I love to teach but not this time yet, for practical reasons.

I studied Mass Communication so I can be a journalist, writer, or teacher. Now I'm a teacher and have been so foor the last four years. My two brothers took up computer courses and are both working in call centers. I can't say they're not really practicing what they studied for, after all their computer skills coupled with their English abilities got them their jobs. I am an online English teacher but I work with people who are licensed nurses, business graduates and those with courses unrelated with teaching. In the Philippines today English skills can get one a job, more than anything else.

Yeah your correct crisis and job opportunities for our countrymen. Like you me also is not in my profession. Since 1992, Im working outside our country being clerk and secretary's job here in Saudi ARabia. Imagine as BSBA major in accounting never ever try to practice it due to none job opportunity for me. Anyway now I've learned from my experience and no regret about what happened. Only I pray now is for my children that can be finished their respective courses and practice it.. see you around

for me ,I majored in Enlish language in university and majored in Psychology in Master programm. well, when back to my country I couldnot find a job related with Psychology, So now I am working now in a company as an interpretor. and maybe later I will try to do HR.

Unfortunately no. I don't practice my profession but I am glad that I am now working in the industry that I enjoy doing a lot.

greetings! i graduated with a management degree but since i graduated i've been working in the IT industry. it's not too bad since i also enjoy this type of work.

I'm a nurse. I do believe that I'm practicing my profession. It may not be in the hospital but in the other field. I'm an employee of a review center for nurses.

At the present it is really hard to find a job that is fit for the field of our profession. As what you have sited about nurses I'am one them, just as I graduated the population of nurses who have no work rises already, and now it is already at a count of 200,000 unemployed. That is why I'm working in an office job which is not related to my profession. And I don't hope anymore that I can work as a nurse, maybe its just a dream in the end. ^_^