Have you ever worried about waisting your talent?

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My co-worker has gotten me thinking about this recently. A friend of mine came to my worker with her baby and warned me that he is in the stage of playing strange, but when I took him he just snuggled into to me and was happy. Someone else took him and he cried. When I started working again my co-worker asked me why I never went into a field that involved children. I kind of shrugged it off but really It got me thinking, I've always been very good with children and was the babysitter everyone called because all the kids loved when I watched them. When I was young I had aspired to be a teacher or something with children and it never happened. I still love children but my job and training has nothing to do with them, have I wasted my talent or not? I am good at my current job so I guess there is that but I still wonder. Is there something your good at that would have been good for a job? Do you go into that profession?