Monday, January 12, 2009
What did you wanna be when you were a kid?
I went up and down the scale and could never make up my mind. As I went to Catholic school, all of the girls wanted to be nuns. That didn't last long, esp. after we discovered BOYS! I guess I wanted to be a teacher for the longest time. Then, some of us in high school decided to join the Navy and become Waves, I think we liked the uniforms. LOL! Funny, I remember girl friends knowing exactly what they wanted to become and I was somewhere out in left field. Today, I think young people are more involved in decisions that affects their future. Most of the kids in high school in the 40s worked, got married and had families. We were a class of 220 and probably just a third went on to college. Hmmm! Comments?
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The first thing I can remember wanting to be was a missionary. Even though I was not Catholic, I went through my nun phase, too. :) I was pretty much set on being a doctor until I got to my junior year of high school and decided to become an actress and just play doctor roles. My friends used to say I was currently doing a gig as a professor. LOL I must say, my theatre training has come in very handy throughout my life.
I can remember reading about Clara Barton, RN, and wanting to be a nurse. I think I also wanted to be some sort of girl detective while reading Nancy Drew books. :) But I learned about social work in 6th grade and made up my mind then that that was what I would do. I have been happy about the decision all along! Now that I am getting tired, I think it would be more fun to run a little bookstore.
Suzassippi can put on 1-woman acts in your bookstore, Jane and I can read to your customers!
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a dog hit by a car while waiting for my school bus my sophomore year in high school. I cried on some older guy, who was really sweet-what was his name??? Jane, you knew him- a big teddy bear of a guy... I really wanted to be an actress, too, Suzassippi and dabbled in high school and college, but silly me got married at 17 and knew that I couldn't make a living acting- so I became a teacher by default. I haven't regretted it, and now I get to do the acting thing too. Community theatre is great fun.
I wanted to be a writer and even came up with newspapers in fourth grade. I was always starting mysteries and not finishing them. Loved Nancy Drew and to this day still love a good mystery. I also wanted to be a veterinarian for a while until I saw a dog get hit by a car. My dream job to this day is to be a travel column writer who gets paid to travel to exotic places and write about them! :D
I have a friend who writes a travel column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. And, he does get to travel!
Kristinn, Rich thinks it would be great to be a travel and food writer. :)
Yeah- what could be better than traveling and eating, AND getting paid for it? Sign me up!
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