What have you wanted to become when you were younger? Have you fulfiled your dreams? Would you pursue your career or your dreams, if at all possible or have you given up?
I wanted to work with animals...LOL...guess you could say that I do now..kids can be like animals! LOL...pursuing my dream..yes...slowly...but my hopes and dreams are more centered around my kids growing up safely..happily..and to be good people. Guess my focus changed with them....
My dreams have changed over the years in some ways. I set out to be a photographer but somehow got involved in design...I would like to work my way back to photography and art. Every day i am working towards how i really want to live, i am not there yet, unfortunately. I dream of a home of my own, a backyard, garden, studio...maybe a kid. I feel like a very late bloomer, and that i am about 5 or so years behind where i thought i would be.Time is definitely slipping away...
Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I'm fulfilled doing what I'm doing for now- kids, managing Mr LM's business and sitting on several non-profit boards.
Would like to finish my CGA, but I'm lacking time right now.
Possibly law school in the future. Profs and mentors have encouraged me to go. I find contract law really easy to navigate, but I'm bored silly. I'd need a really good personal reason to go to law school.
A fantasy/sci-fi writer. I'm still working on that. Never give up, never surrender!
Those are wonderful dreams you guys. I do hope that one day, you can get back into them.... as long as it makes you happy. :)))
I've always wanted to be an elementary school teacher. Now, I'm working in an office. Ah well, I guess that I could always just move up in my company to become a supervisor or something. Maybe one day.....
I use to dance and dance when I was a kid, danced ballet, wanted to be a ballet dancer and when puberty hit that was out the door. My breast grew to be DD, now what kind of a ballet dancer has big ass tits. I always loved fashion one day when my kids are all grown up I may open my clothing boutique...... of old peoples clothes I guess. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/2.gif)
I have street fighting vigilante dreams all the time. I wonder if that means something?!
I'd be afraid of you. You know kick boxing!
Lil Me wrote:
I have street fighting vigilante dreams all the time. I wonder if that means something?!
ROTFL. I can picture you kicking butts!!
Same here. You're a strong lady, Ms Lil Me. :)
I hope you guys all follow your dreams and/or do what makes you happy.
CK- a clothing boutique sounds great.
Over the years, I've figured out what I DON'T want to do:
-anything involving blood
-anything involving birds
-anything involving sales
-anything involving drawing
I also have an inability to process visual/spatial information. Didn't realize this until I was an adult. I can't read building plans worth sh*t, have piss poor quantity surveying skills, and can't do math in more than 2 dimensions. I'm hooped when I buy a product with no written installation manual, just an exploded diagram. My oldest kid helps me navigate the waters.
Mr LM often takes disassembles anything that I've built and reassembles it. Problem is, Mr LM can't stick to the task at hand and often makes a simple project complicated because he doesn't like the design of it. Things end up becoming complicated and expensive because Mr LM wants a product to be bigger, faster, stronger, whatever. I usually ask "Is this a good idea, Tim?" when he's in Tim the Toolman Taylor mode.
oh LM..*bless* you are truly priceless!
Well- Pitbull, you've got your dogs.
Lise- your creative spurts on DS continually amaze me. Keep writing! (and send me something to read, pleeeze)
purelife- you keep your office mates in-line and organized with special events, so it must be like elementary school some days! A teacher friend suggested to me that elemetary school teaching is more enjoyable later in life, when you're older. Bear this in mind. (at the time, she had kids the same age as the class she was teaching- so she dealt with the same behaviours and attitudes at home and at work. she took a couple of years off and said it was better that way)
Awwww...bless ya Lil Me. :))
I agree. I'd prefer teaching when all my kids are much much older and I'm more "settled" so to speak. I would love to open up my own daycare centre one day and incorporate teaching in it. :))
That sounds like a great idea, purelife. It's totally creative, because you don't have to stick to the gov't curriculum. School teachers are somewhat restrained that way.
It's funny how when we were small, we would dream about being an astronaunt or the president or prmie minister, only to grow up with a smack of reality dose. Kinda sad but for the few who have never dreamt of being one and became one, I stand in awe of them. They believed in themselves, in their dreams and made them happen. I sure hope our kids will continue to believe.
It's also tough to live up to your own dreams due to lack of support and money. It's so expensive these days, to live in Vancouver, to study here, to afford a house, even.
Some parents are the most supportive parents in the whole world and some, like mine, don't give a rat's ass!
As a young child I had visions of being a magician somewhat in the manner of Merlin, I later changed this to a shepherd. Naturally both eluded me.
When I was young, I dreamt of being Chewbacca and Han's third co-pilot. As I got older and matured..ok, I never really matured, I wanted to work in an environmental field. Now I have a job I love, doing what exactly what I wanted to do.
I would still give it up to ride the Milleneum Falcon all day mind you
I would so volunteer for your crew, Devil. I'd need laser eye surgery, because I don't even meet the qualifications for a pilot's licence on THIS planet.
What a great thread purelife. Kudos
....and great stories too.
I'm with Lil Me....I haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up.
As far as dreams, I think I just dreamed that I WOULD grow up. To some extent, I have not achieved my goals.
Goals and ambitions are elusive little enigmas. Sometimes I remember wanting to be something or other when I was little, but also lacked whatever it was that allowed me to believe that it was an option for me....or availlable to me.
Since I was little I've always wanted to be a tv journalist in war zones or something.
Then politics came calling
Then I wanted to be a lawyer
Then I wanted to be a national park worker
Then it was back to politics
Then I wanted to work for the BBC World Service (news). (still would)
Now I want to be an urban planner, work for the city of vancouver or something and have a cottage in the mountains.
I also wanted to become a nurse or a paediatrician(sp?). I'm not too smart to go into med school though... :(((
I know that I would enjoy being a nurse and would love it to pieces but I know that I would have no love life, no kids if I were a nurse. There's no AND, there seems to be OR. You either want a family OR become a nurse. I'd be starting at the bottom working those long shifts and nights and get yelled at for a few years then maybe, move on up.
At least, helping others and taking care of them is satisfying to me. :)))
well that's not necessarily true. All of the nurses at the hospital I worked at had kids, albeit you'd probably miss out on a lot.
Devil wrote:
When I was young, I dreamt of being Chewbacca and Han's third co-pilot. As I got older and matured..ok, I never really matured, I wanted to work in an environmental field. Now I have a job I love, doing what exactly what I wanted to do.
I would still give it up to ride the Milleneum Falcon all day mind you[/DIV]
ROTFL. I'm with you, D. When you get a chance to become Chewie again, I will gladly be your one and only powerful Solo. *coughs furballs from mouth*
I would need 10 lives to be all the things I am interested in being! Still working on the big dreams though...yes, smack of reality is right Lise...who ever dreamed of working in stupid office doing some boring job? Where is the passion? But the reality of making a living and living your dream sometimes dont jibe...sigh.
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[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Totally agree, Grey Cat. Who wants to sit infront of a computer all day long and have your manager annoy you like crazy as well as some of the coworkers? I couldn't just up and leave my job to pursue education because somebody has to pay for the bills. I wasn't a silver-spoon-fed baby, either, that's for sure. We just have to try to work our way up and try to make other areas of life more enjoyable....
I think the real answer is to be your own boss...well, for me anyway. My husband and I had our own business a couple years ago, it was the first time i really felt like i was doing what i was supposed to be doing. ALL my skills and talents were being used, which is much more than i can say for every company i have worked for before and after. In fact, my job now is so slack i am learning absolutely nothing and doing very little! Its a joke. I do, however, like the fact that i am open to absolutely anything now...planning to move to the island and see what happens...
hahaha I keep chuckling at the idea that one day I'd like to direct the scariest horror movie ever. So scary that a whole bunch of people - no matter how young or old - in the theatre start screaming / crying like little girls!
that's funny. You interested in filmmaking, Marik?
well life is funny. As greycat said I don't think anyone dreams of working at a cubicle in some high rise growing up. Well maybe a few but not all.
I wouldn't mind the corner office.
hahaha Lil Me, I don't know, it seems pretty interesting, but I guess it's because I like horror movies so much. Maybe I'd think: hmm, I could direct the movie this way, have the lighting like this, etc. to make the scenes more scary.
But I'll probably end up slaving away in an office because I suck at math :(
I wanted to be an inventor and make stuff.
OMG....lol...ME TOO. And I have. Um.......Just nothing noteworthy
a couple years ago I wanted to be a lawyer
a couple months ago I wanted to be a politician
Now I want to design cities/change cities, design city layouts.
Russ wrote:
I wanted to be an inventor and make stuff.
Me two. Only half the things I invented people have already patented. (like hairdryer, washing machine etc.) LIFE IS SO NOT FAIR!
I've always wanted to invent some implement which would make it easy to eat spaghetti rather than struggling with a fork. After this has been accomplished, I'd like to patent it and sell it to the Italians.
Do you have a spoon in your other hand, Gopher? That's what I do with my spaghetti. I'd roll my fork into the spoon and make this perfect lil ball of spag. YUM!
Yes, I use fork and spoon too, I just think that there should be an easier way of doing it: something that you stick into the spaghetti and then it swirls round and lifts you out a good helping.
Ah I see...and something that would collect that spag ball with the spin.
Yes, you've got it!