I may have posted about this exact subject before, so if this is a repeat I apologize.

I have been working as an engineer for 6 years now. Some days my job is interesting. Most days I feel like a wheel in a corporate machine. I have felt a desire to do something with my life that gives back to the community. I have this thought that it would be very rewarding to give back through my career, by doing work that actually means something.

There are a few problems I am facing:

1. My new career of choice would be a veterinarian. This makes zero financial sense for me. But it is what my brain is telling myself I *really* want to do.

2. A reasonable suggestion might be to volunteer at an animal shelter. Problem with that is that my husband fears it will add fuel to the pre-existing vet fire. Part of me feels he’s being really unfair and controlling about volunteering, but he is my husband, his opinion should matter, right?

I don’t know how to talk to him without him thinking it’s just another obsessive bipolar whim (I really am diagnosed with bp). I have had obsessions like this before, like the idea of buying a house for example. I guess I’m just looking for suggestions about communication, and whether he is overstepping in saying what I should and shouldn’t be doing. Thanks.