I was a newspaper reporter, but it paid horribly and I couldn't afford little things like rent and food, so I became an admin assistant, and got paid decently and it was OK work. Newspaper reporting was more fun but I can't comfortably live that poor of a life. I haven't worked for about 12 years and instead take care of kids and have fun and do volunteer work. I LOVE not having a boss. I'd have a very difficult time having a boss again. The hardest thing about the admin asst job was that I was working for a small branch of a larger corporation, and I could not stand the inane and irrelevant rules the corporation expected us to follow. I just didn't follow any of them, ever. When 9/11 happened, everyone in the building hung out in my little office because I was the only person who dared to have a radio. (We didn't have a lot of internet usage - mainly just email. These were truly the Dark Ages.)