2: When you finished high school, what did you expect to be when you grew up?
3: Did you end up doing what you expected to do when you went on for further education?
4: Have you had any mid-life changes of career?
5: Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
My Answers:
1: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Rich - beyond that no clue.
2: When you finished high school, what did you expect to be when you grew up? A professional Photographer.
3: Did you end up doing what you expected to do when you went on for further education? No, I went to law school at mid life expecting to do construction defects litigation and never did a single case in that area of the law.
4: Have you had any mid-life changes of career? A couple of them.
5: Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? I guess this is it, a happy man of quasi lesure. I really thought a million dollars would be worth a whole lot more than it is today.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Nothing really.
ReplyDelete2. A forestry officer, which is kind of like a park ranger and you needed a tertiary degree.
3. Not at all.
4. Not mid life.
5. Older would be a bonus. Yes, a million dollars is a very disappointing amount of money now. It was once unimaginable wealth.
1. No childhood aspirations of which I remember.
ReplyDelete2. Journalist.
3. In college moved from Journalism to English - with no idea what I'd do with it. Possibly law school.
4. No. Most of my adult life has been spent in healthcare administration.
5. I should be working at a doggy daycare playing with dogs.
I was going to say "it is never too late for law school" but you would be a natural at doggy daycare.
Delete1: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? To tell you the truth, it's not something I thought about when I was a child but in my teens I fancied being either a published writer or a singer for a rock and roll band.
ReplyDelete2: When you finished high school, what did you expect to be when you grew up? Again I didn't think about it much but I suppose I expected to drift into teaching.
3: Did you end up doing what you expected to do when you went on for further education? Yes. I guess so. I became a high school teacher and did that job for thirty eight years. After all, I had a family to support.
4: Have you had any mid-life changes of career? No but when I was twenty seven I tried to get out of teaching. I resigned but in the months that followed I couldn't find anything else that suited me. It was a time of high unemployment.
5: Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? A corpse in a graveyard.
Are you working on another book, the last one was fun to read.
DeleteUncle Dick had a neighbor who was chief homicide inspector for the county. Only one problem, his other had instilled in him, that you always looked at the camera and smiled when someone took you picture. He would be on a crime scene, leaning over the dead body, and the press would point a camera at him and he would look directly at the camera and SMILE.
ReplyDeleteBeing happy is the greatest life goal.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good life.
ReplyDelete1: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Like a lot of little girls of my era, I wanted to be a princess.
ReplyDelete2: When you finished high school, what did you expect to be when you grew up? No expectations at that point. College was the next step and I was hoping for a path from those four years.
3: Did you end up doing what you expected to do when you went on for further education? As an English major, I didn't want to teach English after graduation. One of my sorority sisters was going to paralegal school in Philadelphia after she graduated and that caught my attention. I went to that school after my graduation.
4: Have you had any mid-life changes of career? Yes. Full time stay at home mom after my first child was born, started a Masters in Education when my 4th child was in 3rd grade, then 8th grade English teacher.
5: Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? Happy and grateful for the life I've had and for the life ahead of me. Oh, this new role as a grandma is just the best!
Great things happen when we follow our dreams in mid-life.
DeleteAlso, did you see my reply to you on my pothole post? In case you didn't...Jim Bachor has filled some potholes in DC. Check out his website, bachor.com, click on Pothole Installations, and at the bottom are his DC potholes with their locations. Happy hunting!
ReplyDeleteI made note of the site, I will see if I can find them later this year.
Delete1. When I was a child, I thought girls had these choices - mommy, nurse or teacher. I didn't like blood so I wanted to be a teacher and a mommy.
ReplyDelete2. I felt the same way after high school - teacher and mommy.
3. I did become a teacher but only lasted 2 years as I found I didn't really like it!
4. After I had kids, I found out I enjoyed working in the library so went to school to study that and went to work in school libraries so I was off in summers when my kids were off school.
5. I am a Mom and now a Grandma and that has taken up most of my grown-up life. Every other job I did was just to help pay the bills and afford a divorce.
Libraries are such special places, and make such a difference in the lives of everyone
Delete1. Older
ReplyDelete2. An electrical engineer.
3. Not in the slightest.
4. Oh, many. From radio-tv journalist, to bookstore owner, back to radio journalist.
5. Oh, gawd, no idea. But is the job of rock star taken?
It is never to late to be a rock star, rock on!
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