Are you what you thought you'd be?

[spud271 47779]

My actual dream growing up was to be a professional footballer...that's soccer in this country. Of course, every other kid in the UK pretty much has the same dream. So I gave up and joined the Royal Navy instead. That fullfilled my second dream...shagging women from one end of the planet to the other!!!! :D

[VedaSloan 119179]

From about twelve until grade eleven or twelve, I was convinced I was going to be a forensic pathologist. What can I say, I was a weird kid who kept to herself a lot.

 

Then I decided I was going to be an archaeologist. And I went to university do a double major in archaeology and classics. Then in the middle of that degree, I semi-returned to forensics and was going to study forensic anthropology.

 

However, it was at Wilfrid Laurier that I discovered the Women's Centre and my passion for feminism. I started volunteering for the centre, answering the phones and watching the library.

 

Then I moved to Ottawa and started escorting and decided I was going to go back to school and study what I was really passionate about.

 

So now my plan is to go to graduate school and combine both of my degrees and study sex and gender in pre-literate societies with the eventual goal to become a professor and teach somewhere.

[Andee 220524]

From about twelve until grade eleven or twelve, I was convinced I was going to be a forensic pathologist. What can I say, I was a weird kid who kept to herself a lot.

 

Why do I have visions of you making out with Gillian Anderson (Scully)?

 

 

Back to the thread...

 

I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

 

I thought maybe a teacher, lawyer, but I didn't have the discipline to stay in school when I was younger and then life just kind of happened and now I figure I'm past trying to be a mainstream professional.

 

So I became a non-mainstream professional - ha!

 

I want to be able to keep learning - but about the things I want to learn, not a means to end (Jobs-wise), and continue to escort and work part-time doing some kind of interesting job where I can use my coordinating and multi-tasking skills to be the best I can be.

[omehgosh 736]

When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut and the President of Canada.

 

I'm living proof that no matter how unbelievable they may seem, if you work really hard ,and never give up, your dreams really can come true.

[Cara Silver 32412]

This is my 400th post. When I was a kid I never thought I'd have 400 things to say on an escort recommendation board.:shock:

 

Or if I did, I hoped they would be worth saying lol.

[Loki318 1631]

All through school I wanted to be a Photographer so much so that I studied photography by correspondence while going to high school. Right out of school I did a job with a photo studio! and it took about 4 years to realise that a small town photo studio wasn't going to pay the bills even if I owned it! So back to school to be Forest Tech> .. worked as supervisor in woods operation and heavy equip foreman... then was self employed a few years .. the last 29 yrs have been in middle maangement with a company it the public transport industry ... starting to look forward to retirement and starting a small cottage winery :)

Through all of this though I have always kept up with photography some time as a business and some times as a hobby ...

 

Loki318

[Cara Silver 32412]

Sounds like everybody found their niche eventually. Gives me hope that one day I'll be able to give up bohemian floating and settle into bohemian career happiness. Presumably everyone acquires respectability and a closet of clothes not from Walmart eventually. One thing I've always wanted to do is be a phone sex operator but apparently you don't have to wear anything for that. Cha-ching.

 

xoxo Amelia

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

... Presumably everyone acquires ... a closet of clothes not from Walmart eventually ...

 

... Frenchy's!!

 

http://www.guysfrenchys.com/shopping-at-guys.html

[Carrie Moon 68826]

I love animals.. had a pet raccoon as a kid.. lots of cats and dogs over the years.. but alway wanted a monkey and a de-scented skunk. Naturally I wanted to be a zookeeper at first. Then I wanted to be a forest ranger and went to junior ranger camp at 17.. but gave up on that idea.. I like the city too much.

 

Then I wanted to be a hostess on a cruise ship after watching several episodes of love boat... a missionary (grew up a preachers daughter) but outgrew that!

 

an artist.. a cop (never did that thank god).. a holistic physician (did that for a bit),

 

and I too want to have a B&B when I retire.. somewhere warm and teach scuba diving. (can't teach now but can scuba)

[capitalman 3861]

I have no idea what I wanted to be as a kid, however my one big fat career that I went to expensive schooling for didn't work out. I decided to quit it.

 

And I don't look at it as quitting.....I merely woke up and realized it wasn't for me and somewhere lay something else for me. I'm not sure I've found that something else, but that wasn't it....and I'm happier now.

 

Sometimes making a decision to move on is a good thing, not an act of failure but an act of intelligence!

[Cleo Catra 178382]

Sometimes making a decision to move on is a good thing, not an act of failure but an act of intelligence!

 

 

Completely agreed!!!! A lot of people look at me like I'm nuts for walking out on a government job, but it didn't make me happy. And now I've found something that does :D

[Guest S**a*Q]

I always question this. How we're supposed to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives... at 18?

 

I had no idea, at all... I dropped out of high school, went back to finish, then said "Hey, I have a diploma, I guess I have to go to school..." I did, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. Sure there are always dreams, but... nothing the community college would offer that coincided with what I thought of doing...

 

Fifteen some years later, a few career-like jobs that could have amounted to long term, but... as always, I get bored, quit and do something new. Now, I find myself in a position that I'd never have thought myself in. This job just fits who I am at the moment, just like the retail manager of the ten years past, fit who I was at that time.

 

As I keep changing, I think that my needs in employment will change as well. Being single and childless, I don't have to worry about my decisions affecting anyone else. There's only my mouth to feed, I don't have a lot of financial needs and my choices only change my personal outcomes. I can leave a 50K a year job to work in an adult store for 8$ an hour, cause i'm the only one that suffers, if at all. :D

 

I think that my personality is what doesn't really allow me to settle down with one thing, one place, one person. I crave the always changing, I need to always be learning new stuff as well, so once a job becomes repetitive and redundant, I tire and move on. *(This also leads to a lot of start overs, moves and new places. :) But I think I thrive on that, and if I had a stable career, from education and whatnot, I wouldn't have that freedom.)

 

I've given up the stability of a "normal career" to chase dreams that I think I have. I guess that in itself is a career choice. Not one to write home to mom about. "Hi Mom, Guess what? I'm a gypsy!!!" Hehe.

 

Done ranting... and no, I'm not what I thought I would be...

I don't think I ever wanted to be one thing for more than a month... ;)