What is the first career you dreamed of when you were a kid?

Aneeda72

Aneeda72

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I wanted to join the army. I joined when I was 17, want to basic when I was 18. Was in two years, then married, got pregnant. In those days, you received a medical discharge for being pregnant. Lol, getting married one of the first of many big mistakes.
 

Wow! You’re a tough cookie Aneeda. Good for you. My husband joined the military when he was 17 also and stayed for 7 years.
This is going to sound horrible but I never dreamed of a career. Both my parents had good careers but the subject was never mentioned. My dad once said he thought I’d make a good airline stewardess :rolleyes:
Oddly enough I did apply but I didn’t know my French well enough to get the job.
I may have liked traveling while I was single and I was much more outgoing.
Something I considered when I got older was to become a police officer. Lol
I ended up in Electronics/ Quality Control since I was so good at finding fault with things :lofl:
 

I always wanted to be a journalist.... Having had to leave school very young with no real qualifications and no chance of going to university, I never thought I'd get the chance..

It took me 20 years but I finally managed to get into something I enjoyed more, as a researcher in the Television and Film industry .
 
I wanted to be a nurse from when I was a little girl. About 6 of my older cousins were nurses so that's what I wanted to be. When I got older I changed my mind and never went into nursing, The funny thing is my daughter is a Pediatric RN.
 
I left home at 16 but stayed in school. I worked for the next 3 years in a petshop, baby sat and did odd jobs to help support myself in school. Since I hated Math I barely attended and did grade 9 over 3 times so I only got grade 10 math and couldn’t graduate. Here at the time we had grade 13. I started building gyroscopes under high powered microscopes then moved onto Quality Control. It paid well but I didn’t like it. I travelled a bit but in my mid twenties I quit it all to go back to school and got my grade 13 working nights and weekends as a waitress. I earned more doing that due to tips. It took me a couple of years of doing this to get the courses I needed to apply to university but I ended up with over 90% in Mathematics. All my grades were far better since my focus was on my studies plus had a nice apartment in the city.
I then got my degree to become a Registered Nutritional Consultant and my work was fun and diverse. I’m glad I went back to school. It was a very rewarding part of my life.
 
Sassycakes said:
I wanted to be a nurse from when I was a little girl. About 6 of my older cousins were nurses so that's what I wanted to be. When I got older I changed my mind and never went into nursing, The funny thing is my daughter is a Pediatric RN.
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That was the first job I had , as my mum was a nurse I felt that might be the career for me.. but boy was I wrong.. so I left half way through training!!
 
A drummer, at which I did become, but only a "fun" thing, not a career. A State Trooper, but, instead, worked beside law enforcement as an EMT/EMS. After a few years of that, and more than enough blood I'd seen, I started working in manufacturing, and for a short time, drill press operator. Found out that I was much better at driving a forklift, shipping/recieving things, stockroom work (electronics), working in Purchasing, Inventory Control and computer entry than any other type of career.
 
I wanted to be a nurse for as long as I can remember. I did become a Practical Nurse and was trained in our county hospital in exchange for free labor. The first day we were given a tour of the hospital and once I saw the occupational therapy department I wished I had pursued that as a career, so different than physical therapy which I found repetitious and outright boring.

I did enjoy nursing though and don't regret it.
 
I was always going to be a teacher, but changed my mind in high school. It's a good thing, because I'd probably be in prison for beating the beejezits out of one of those little snots. My granddaughter is a teacher and loves it.

My nephew currently teaches in Taiwan and will probably never come back to the US to teach. The students over there have great respect for their teachers; the parents and school administration also back up the teachers. Here in the US, the teacher is always wrong.....always.
 
jujube said:
I was always going to be a teacher, but changed my mind in high school. It's a good thing, because I'd probably be in prison for beating the beejezits out of one of those little snots....... Here in the US, the teacher is always wrong.....always.
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That was my second choice, and for which I worked. My dad was a teacher. But I saw how things changed over the years and what was considered 'constructive criticism' of students, appreciated by parents and given by my Dad to help students achieve more, turned into 'persecution' and 'leave my kid alone'. Yup, if Johnny can't read, it's the teacher's fault.
I felt as you do --- 'beat the bejeevees out of the kids'. So, no teaching.
 
Paleontologist, at 5, musician, at 10. First rock band at 11. Made my living in the music biz for, about, thirty years. Left the dinosaur bones behind, although I still have my dinosaur figures and models and posters and fossils and - - - -
 
Keesha said:
And you are the most beautiful of all:grin:
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Yes, I'm the fairest in the land, LOL

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I was interested in the legal system for quite awhile because my dad was a lawyer,watching TV shows like'The Defenders,'Perry Mason' thought it would be cool to follow in his footsteps,maybe as a paralegal
In the late 70's early 80's I worked in a local law firm in the mail room,as a 'gofer' with couple other people. We did all sorts of jobs delivering the lawyers mail,copying lots of documents,filing papers at the different courts.The firm was so cheap,instead of hiring movers to change their furniture,they used us instead.The pay was lousy back then,making 25cents over miniunim wage
I was there for 3 1/2 yrs,I learned the ins/outs how a law firm works but came to the conclusion I didn't want to be a paralegal
I found another job that paid better,stayed for 27 yrs as a pharm tech at a local hosptial
 
moviequeen1 said:
I was interested in the legal system for quite awhile because my dad was a lawyer,watching TV shows like'The Defenders,'Perry Mason' thought it would be cool to follow in his footsteps,maybe as a paralegal
In the late 70's early 80's I worked in a local law firm in the mail room,as a 'gofer' with couple other people. We did all sorts of jobs delivering the lawyers mail,copying lots of documents,filing papers at the different courts.The firm was so cheap,instead of hiring movers to change their furniture,they used us instead.The pay was lousy back then,making 25cents over miniunim wage
I was there for 3 1/2 yrs,I learned the ins/outs how a law firm works but came to the conclusion I didn't want to be a paralegal
I found another job that paid better,stayed for 27 yrs as a pharm tech at a local hosptial
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Interesting MQ, but you ended up with a fine profession!
 


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