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

RadishRose said:
Interesting MQ, but you ended up with a fine profession!
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Thanks RadishRose,I got my job as pharm tech by volunteering in the dept for 2 yrs before there was pharm tech opening.I was the only tech who wasn't certified since I was hired strictly to deliver narcotics.Once in awhile I would help the pharmacists/other techs who delivered other drugs to nursing units Sue
 

This one is gonna sound strange but even in high school almost half a century ago I wanted to work with numbers, like a mathematician or physicist and I definitely didn't look the part being on the schools football team and getting into fights all the time...
 
Pete said:
This one is gonna sound strange but even in high school almost half a century ago I wanted to work with numbers, like a mathematician or physicist and I definitely didn't look the part being on the schools football team and getting into fights all the time...
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Doesn't sound strange at all!
BTW, nice to see you again.
 
Professional scuba diver. I never thought to question whether there actually was such a job, but I loved the water and really liked the TV show Sea Hunt. Later I learned that, in fact, there was no such job except in the military so I set my sights on becoming a field biologist.

Went on to get my degree in freshwater aquatic biology, only to learn that the ratio of jobs to qualified applicants in that field was only slightly better than 1:100 and it didn't pay squat. I never did work as an aquatic biologist.

Finally, many years later, I got to know a guy who really was a professional scuba diver. Yes, there actually is such a job! He worked for the oil industry as a saturation diver. It's a painfully boring and tedious job (nothing at all like Sea Hunt). The people who do it for a living make bucket-loads of money and have a very, very short life expectancy.

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I wanted to be a doctor, but only after seeing that nurse kit my sister got at Christmas

then Roy Rogers, but only after seeing my sister's Dale Evans git up she got for her birthday


...then I went back to wanting to be a cop

so, I became a service station attendant
 
Well, you have to go back to the early 60s. Rock&Roll, AM radio, and "The Top 40" were what we teens listened to. If you were in WBZ's "50,00 watt" broadcasting area, you heard "Juicy Brucey Bradley". This was in the days before talk radio took over AM radio. So I wanted to be a radio announcer/DJ. I thought about applying to a Boston school of broadcasting. Sent away for brochures. Strangely, I took one of those "what profession are you suited for" tests, when I was a Sophomore. It came back-radio announcer.
 
I wanted to be a writer..(Please don't laugh).

Oh OK.. you can laugh..I do.

I was an avid reader at a young age and was mesmerized by the fact that you could actually get paid for setting down at a typewriter and spill your guts.

I just have no skills.......
 
I wanted to be an astronaut. Science fiction was big stuff in the late 50's and 60's, and the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo space programs were much in the news, and exciting stuff to a kid.
 
You can still be a writer, just sit down start writing about something that you know about , like your family stories, stories about where you live, the people that live there, give yourself time to think, just some of my ideas , I was asked yesterday if I wanted to be famous, I been thinking about this all day, I'm not sure if I want what goes alone with this word, My book has not sold like I wanted, but yesterday, a person offered to put in in a major chain, I'm older now , I wrote more as a self help thing , than anything else , please write your book for yourself, to help you heal, the writing helped my ptsd.


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Oh OK.. you can laugh..I do.

I was an avid reader at a young age and was mesmerized by the fact that you could actually get paid for setting down at a typewriter and spill your guts.

I just have no skills.......[/QUOTE]
 
When I was in high school, back in the dark ages, our counselors were just teachers who had a free period. Not a one of them, as far as I can remember, had a bit of training or talent for counseling callow youth.

If you were a "college material" girl, you were advised to go into teaching or nursing because "you could always go back to work after your children were old enough for school", never addressing the prospect that a woman just might have to work practically non-stop for the rest of her employable days. And if you were counseled to become a teacher, it was always English or Literature or Elementary Education. Girls were not encouraged to become math or science teachers.

Not going to college. Well, make sure you take shorthand and typing because "you can always go back to work after your children....."

"College material" boys were pointed to medical school, engineering, law, accounting. "Jocks", of course, were encouraged to become coaches, while teaching math or science.

The "hoods" were shuffled off to industrial arts or prodded toward the military (to "straighten" you out).

Also there was very little counseling aimed to making sure your high school days prepared you for college. Going to college? Take three years of Latin! You know what my three years of high school Latin did for me in college? Nothing. I found out my senior year in high school that I would have to "test out" of a year of foreign language before I could get any graduation credit for a course I took in college. And Latin only counted if I was taking Latin in college, which of course I wasn't. AND, even though I was majoring in journalism, I still had to take two years of "science" in college, all courses of which were geared to you having taken the earlier courses in high school. I took biology and botany in high school, both of which were "baby watered-down" classes. Neither of them helped me pass college science classes (of which I failed three).

When my daughter was in high school, she had a counseling session and asked "What can I make the most money doing that I'm interested in?" She was tested and advised to pursue law or accounting. She ended up in accounting, which lead her to making a lot of money. By then, the counselors were actually trained to work with the kids.

The kids today are being steered in the right directions. At my school, we were steered in directions based on our socio-economic backgrounds and gender.

Some of us made the right choices; some of us didn't.
 
I wanted to be a brick layer. Not an option in the 1950's. I became a nurse and many years later a friend of my husband , who was a builder let me lay a few bricks. You've never seen such a mess
 
I wanted to be a wife and homemaker. Maybe it was the times. Now I have the "babies" but no husband. Not really looking either.
 


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