Abuse effecting your career choice

[xxjj87yub]

I don't really know if this is the right place to ask this, but has anyone's choice of what career they want to pursue been effected by what they have experienced?

[Mortal Coil]

Yeah, mine has. It's kind of dumb, but I wanted to be a lawyer like my parents until they turned against me. Maybe my aversion isn't rational, but I can't even debate without thinking I'm turning into them.

[CuriousDestruction]

Abuse will be a part of us, it's something that we can eventually get past and have behind us but it's a part of us like any other major event in life. But everyone has a different story of abuse so some people are affected more strongly and others less strongly. I am still too young to know how my career will be affected really but I know already some options are no longer open to me because of it.

[xxjj87yub]

What careers are closed to you, and how did you find that out. I know people who were abused with all kinds of careers including ones requiring pyschological exams and security clearances

[CuriousDestruction]

I know I will never be able to work directly with young children due to flashbacks, I know that from volunteering at schools. There are a few other careers I won't risk either but for various reasons I don't really want to talk about them. And like I said, some people are more strongly affected than others.

[MangoLoop]

I was told was I was going to be. My dad told me I was going to be a computer engineer. I'm enrolled in a special program that my school offers where, for certain careers, you can take classes that train you for a career.
I've never had an opportunity to explore careers and if I do pursue this career, I will always think of my dad forcing me into it.

[xxjj87yub]

Do you have to continue in that program if you don't want to? I know in my old school they would switch you out if you asked them to and had a good enough reason, which your situation would count as.

Unless you want to continue

[MangoLoop]

I don't know. I've never thought about doing anything else and wouldn't even know where to start looking...