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Edit: Career
So I'm feeling pretty crappy about myself and the decisions I've made (career wise). I was planning on starting my photography business, but when my mom got really sick it put everything on hold. I had some awesome ideas, and now I'm just in limbo it feels. My nephew and I had a conversation awhile ago that went like this.
R (nephew) - What did you want to be when you grew up?
Me - A vet
R - Are you a vet?
Me- No
R- Why not?
(ahhh from the mouths of babes). But it still to this day makes me wonder why I have yet to follow my adult dreams.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
What is your current job today?
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I wanted to be:
a vet-until I learned Id have to put animals down.
a teacher just for the hours/vacation
a marine biologist so I could swim with whales and dolphins at sea world-but couldnt pass college bio
something in advertising- which I got my degree in and then was told Id have to go to school of creative design after 5 years of college in order to get a job
I am a cop. I was always good at certain aspects of policework -naturally but my dad having been in the field while I was little probably didnt hurt my taking the leap.
Which btw- I took the test on a whim with an ex. I passed he didnt
In early high school i thought i wanted to be a nurse, then i spent a 12 hour shift with my BFF's mom in Westchester ER, that ended that.
I had thought about a paralegal but wasn't overly interested in the law aspect.
I started off going to college for business mgmt and then fell in love with Accounting. Graduated with an accounting degree and work as an accountant now and love my job. I did go back to school for my MBA and focused on the management aspect because i always had the interest in it.
Many people believe accountants ONLY do taxes and are busy January-April but this isn't true. If you dont work in public accounting like an auditor or as a tax accountant you can have a pretty regular schedule. I call myself a corporate accountant, I do the monthly bookings, closings, etc for one specific company and I work a regular M-F 9-5 schedule year round.
p.s. i hate taxes and even paid someone else to do mine last year, lol
When I was very little, I wanted to be a carpenter LOL
I was always good at math and so I wanted to do something with math.
I have an accounting degree - I work for a law firm and we do audits on behalf of the motion picture industry. I love my job...as someone else said, not evey day...but I have travelled all over the world for free and have moved up within the company.
People always told me I should be a lawyer....for some reason it was the courtroom aspect I iddn't like.
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In the 4th grade, I decided I wanted to be a fashion designer. I even had my own portfolio going. However, I hated sewing and just loved the design aspect. In high school, I took fashion design classes and one of the trips was a visit to F.I.T. I chickened out and never even applied.
I also had a passion for working with children. I did follow this dream from working at little jobs such as day camps and after school programs to becoming a Special Ed Teacher. However, when I graduated with my M.S. in 2007, it was difficult to find anything other than a maternity leave (and finding a teaching job hasn't gotten much better!). After a short stint of teaching Autistic students and summer school, I ended up at a non-profit where I had my first job (after school program).
I hated my non-profit job -- working on the weekends, working long hours... just not for me. So when I was laid off a year ago due to staff cuts, I was happy! I went into Nannying thinking I would want to open my own daycare. After being around several toddlers, I don't know what I was thinking.
I currently have NO IDEA what I want to do with the rest of my life once my baby is born and I go back to nannying. Eventually, the little girl I sit for will need to go to preschool and I will be left twiddling my thumbs, lol.
began college with civil engineering and left that at the end of sophomore year - i was doing fine but i really didn't like it. thru a mentor program, i was paired with a woman that was a director at a community development organization, and she offered me an internship. i changed my major to political science with a minor in legal studies, and thought i'd pursue public administration.
moved back to ny, and first job was at a hedge fund as an exec. assistant. i had no freakin clue what i was doing. luckily, the person i was hired to assist didn't need me for much (other than constantly getting his cell # changed because he wasn't comfortable with the numbers and charging his 8 cell phone batteries daily - can anyone say anal?!) and so the firm's charter school office used me to make copies, proofread, do whatever admin tasks they needed.
i lasted just under 2 months there. i started applying to city nonprofits - anything - and landed at my current company. they just created an entry level position and hired me. i've been there almost 11 years and have had 4-5 promotions.
i did go back to school and got an executive masters of public administration. there was a focus on management and i really enjoyed the program.
i would love to move on , but the pay is good, the work is easy, i am extremely comfortable and i carry my family's benefits... i feel like i'll be there forever
I always wanted to be a lawyer but felt with my bipolar I couldn't do it.
I ended up doing registration/insurance for a hospital.
I wanted to be a teacher and dancer growing up. I quit dancing in middle school to run cross country. I quit running to snowboard and be a ski bum 4 months a year through high school.
I always knew I would go to school for teaching. I did and am. I now want older kids again after going middle school and 2 years young kids, I want older. My degrees(double major/minors) are Elementary & Special with Math and Psychology (intention was to be a math teacher), currently getting my Masters in Special Ed.
I became an Office administrator my senior year of high school and did that up until I became a full time teacher, I couldn't sit behind a desk for hours though I was going crazy. I did it 40hrs/5day a week while living in Virginia for 6 months.
I half want to go into Finance but don't have the ambition to go for it anymore, I figure maybe career change down the road and get my series 7 and other tests. (Love of math)
I really love being home with my son and want to take a few years off of being a full-time career mom and maybe work PT at a coffee shop at night. I just need DH's business to become steady and pay off more bills and stop shopping.
I wanted to be a pediatrician for the longest time...up until I was a junior in HS and I took Chemistry...I hated it and realized it wasn't for me.
When I was a senior in HS and we got to be teacher for a day, I realized I wanted to be a teacher. I went into college with this major, but then switched my major a TON of times between psychology (I wanted to be a child psychologist), criminal justice and political science (I wanted to work with at risk children as an advocate) and then switched back to teaching.
When I finally did switch back to education as my major, I took my reading classes and knew that I wanted to be a reading teacher down the line. I worked as a special ed teacher and then got my job as a reading teacher and I love it! The only other things I would want to do is work as a school psychologist or carry out staff development. Both entail another degree and money I don't have right now, so I'm happy with where I am!
When I was young (like 8) I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon (weird, I know).
Now, I'm an orthopedic surgery physician assistant. close enough!
I wanted to be a ballerina when I was little.
When I started applying to colleges, my interest in nursing was piqued. I liked how the job could use my brain and my heart. I also liked the idea of working in a hospital. I liked the adrenaline rush of a code (esp. with a good outcome). I worked in a NYC hospital for 7 years and while I loved the 12 hour shifts/4 days a week off, the people around me were predominantly nasty and miserable and it was time to leave.
Now that I'm a little older, I've finished my master's and work as an nurse practitioner in a busy internal medicine practice. I've just started in this position, but so far, so good. I feel like I've really made it, having my own exam room/office and being able to wear regular clothes to work. People come to me for help and medical care. Professionally, this is what I've been working so hard for!
When I was growing up I wanted to be everything. A teacher, a pediatrician, an ice cream man. I ended up being a retail training manager in the end. LOL. I had a love/hate relationship with it and left when I had MiniMags and only went back to work when she started kindergarten this past fall. Now, I work part-time at a kitchen and bathroom showroom owned by MH's family. It's 3 minutes from my house and if I'm ever in a babysitting bind, I can take my daughter to work with me. Unless it becomes necessary, I don't think I'll ever go back to working full-time. MH works all kind of crazy shifts and our help from family is limited so this is what works for us.
Siobhan, I would imagine that many of us go through what you're feeling right now. When I was working full-time I had a stretch when I was miserable and forced myself to make a change. It wasn't into a different field or anything but it was a switch that helped me be happy again. I hope you figure out what will do that for you.
I'm late to respond... But... better late than never!
When I was growing up.. I wanted to be a vet. In college I briefly changed majors from bio to math major thinking I'd be a math teacher. I got to calculus 4 and I realized I had enough with math. I wanted to be a vet or medical doctor all the way until maybe jr year of college. In junior year my adviser asked me what I wanted to do. He basically told me vet school and medical school would be hard to get into with my GPA of a 3.8 (scary right?) and my lack of volunteer work/sports activities. He suggested either being an eye doctor or dentist if I wanted to be a doctor still. I didn't like the idea of looking at eye balls all day (kinda ironic considering I married an eye doctor)...so I decided I'd be a dentist. (Yah... I don't know why I though looking in people's mouths all day would be better!) I worked in a dentists office as an assistant for a year or so before I applied and the rest was history.
I have had a love/hate relationship with my career. I choose one of the most expensive dental schools (stupid) and I basically work to just cover my student loans. I worked a few years in private practice for other docs and I really hated it. Now I'm working at a health center and I really enjoy it now. When I was in POK I worked 2 days a month with special needs patients and I think that was my favorite. I'm hoping to start a program like that up at the center I'm working at now. I feel like that's really helping people that most dentists probably wouldn't.