What to be when I grow up?

[DJFyrewolf36]

When I was younger I wanted to go into Marine Biology...then I realized I don't have near the patience for all the memorization required lol. Ive always been facinated by anmals and someday I would love working with them. One of the most fun jobs I had was working in a Pet store (even though my boss was a complete @$$ ).
I really do want to persue my DJing as a carreer, but even the most famous DJs make very little money at it. Most DJs I know have an alternative job, if not two to support thier DJing. I have a feeling that music is always going to be a hobby that ocasionally makes some extra cash (doesn't mean I can't have fun with it though!)
Right now I work in an ice cream plant and it honestly sucks. It is a job and its money but production...yeesh. I may be moving over to a car lot washing cars (big improvement there ) but again its a job until I can figure out what I REALLY want to do with myself. I should just go back to school and finish my computer degree and go into gaming which is another huge passion of mine. Maybe I just might make the next huge gaming hit
Then I can buy property and rescue cats!

[carole]

Well i am all grown up now, and i would really like to train to be an ESOL teacher,but like everything else it requires money, of which i don't have to do the study, would be great though, as it is something i could do from my own home, which would suit me well.

[Trisst]

i dont think ill ever know what i wanna be.
First i wanted to be a vet (5 year old dreams!)
Then i switched to being a teacher
then i decided i wanted to be author
and im curently having doubts eith todays dream of being a director.
Ah who knows. Fingers crossed i get something worthwhile.

[carole]

You are still very young Trisst, and have a lot of time to decide, my daughter who is nearly 16 has wanted to be a teacher since she was 10 and she is now working hard at high school to achieve just that, her goal has not changed only a little she too wants to be a director or do animation, but teaching is still on the cards, just goes to show you are never too young or too old to achieve your goals.

[Twisterdog]

When I was a child I wanted to be a veterinarian (didn't we all?) and/or a cosmetologist. When I was a kid, though, they weren't called "cosmetologists", they were called "beauty operators" ... at least where I lived.

I decided I couldn't be a vet because I really, really cannot stand the sight, or even the thought, of internal organs or surgeries. No brainer there. And I am not really much of a "people person" who is friendly and chatty, so the cosmetology thing was probably out, too.

When I graduated from high school, I wanted to be an attorney. Kind of fizzled in college.

I majored in accounting, and actually worked as a financial analyst for five whole years.

Then I bought a grooming shop and boarding kennel ... hmmm ... full circle to the childhood dreams of veterinarian-without-the-gore and cosmetology? I guess so, although it was unconscious.

I think what I REALLY should have been was a biologist. I LOVED my high school and college biology courses, especially genetics. And I loved the probablily and statistics courses in math.

Alas, I thought I just needed to get a marketable degree where I could support myself immediately after four years of college. I'm a classic underachiever in a family of underachievers. We all seem to value our free time, peace of mind and sanity more than we value money and status. Not necesarily a bad thing, IMO.

Don't know what I'm going to do when the kids are all grown and moved away. Something different ... but don't know what.

[Karen]

The other day, midway through dental work, I asked the dentist's assistant, whom I have seen twice a year for years now, "When you were a kid, did you ever sit and think 'When I grow up, I wanna vacuum people's mouths?'"

She looked at me and said, "I don't think so, but my mom did make us clean the house, and do vacuuming, so I suppose she was preparing me for this career!"

I always wanted to be an artist. And lots of other things, too but that was always #1. By the time I was in fifth grade, I had narrowed it down to, if I could be 6 people at once, I could do everything I wanted, career-wise. But alas, I never got the whole cloning thing down, so had to go with choice #1!