Its so interesting to read about everyone's professions, especially the way people started out in one profession and ended up doing many other things. I never knew what I wanted to do - was a professional college student for about 10 years. Finally got a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and am a licensed civil engineer now. I spent many years doing Traffic Safety Engineerin g - looking at high accident locations, determining the cause of the accidents, then initiating projects to correct the accident causes. It could be something as simple as correcting traffic signal timing, or more complex such as correcting a geometric deficiency. I've later moved on to a more administrative position, which I work at now (hope to retire in about 6 months), and I also added on the duties of web page design and maintenance. Its never been a really exciting job for me. I get much more satisfaction from volunteer work I do for a group called EAP (Employee Assistance Program). It is a counseling and referral service for employees with problems such as alcohol, divorce, elder care, etc. EAP also sponsors a Wellness program for the employees. My big project was to establish a Wellness room for employees - we were donated space in our office building, where we now have a mini-health club of sorts, which employees can and do use during their breaks and lunch hour. We were able to have donations of equipment such as exercise bikes, a treadmill, rowing machine, etc. We held some raffles, and got carpeting, free weights, etc. Its quite gratifying to see a project like this make it off the ground and become successful.