What did you plan to be when you were young vs. what you turned out to be?

[DuckieLady]

My son said something a few years ago. "When I'm done with school and working at the job I need instead of the job that I actually wanted to do..." (Not sure where he got that idea from.)

I wanted to be a fashion designer. It was my big giant dream to go to The Art Institute of Seattle and eventually end up in Paris but I never actually did because I ended up pregnant instead, so I turned into a mom. I am still sewing, though. Just as part of being a mom.

Now I'm glad I didn't because I realize how unoriginal and cliche that is.

What about you?

 

[Pearl]

i wanted to be a hairdresser but my dad wouldn't let me. So I ended up in office work - some I liked, some I didn't. A lot of the jobs I've had were in home shopping companies and I was a customer service advisor for a big home shopping group when I retired.

 

[Amazed@grace]

My son said something a few years ago. "When I'm done with school and working at the job I need instead of the job that I actually wanted to do..." (Not sure where he got that idea from.)

I wanted to be a fashion designer. It was my big giant dream to go to The Art Institute in Seattle and eventually end up in Paris but I never actually did because I ended up pregnant instead, so I turned into a mom. I am still sewing, though. Just as part of being a mom.

Now I'm glad I didn't because I realize how unoriginal and cliche that is.

What about you?

It was a tie. My childhood family vacation one year was to Cape Canaveral Florida & NASA. And then Seaworld. I then wanted to be either an astronaut or an Oceanographer. Turned out I entered into interior design. And then due to an athletically competitive friend, massage therapy. Now I'm able to arrange Hubble sourced 3D murals with inset light fixture "animation", and floor to ceiling master saltwater aquariums. In a way I'm living the dream.

 

[Mantis]

My son said something a few years ago. "When I'm done with school and working at the job I need instead of the job that I actually wanted to do..." (Not sure where he got that idea from.)

I wanted to be a fashion designer. It was my big giant dream to go to The Art Institute in Seattle and eventually end up in Paris but I never actually did because I ended up pregnant instead, so I turned into a mom. I am still sewing, though. Just as part of being a mom.

Now I'm glad I didn't because I realize how unoriginal and cliche that is.

What about you?

I wanted to be an outlaw biker when I was a kid, no joke. I thought they were the coolest thing in the world and that's what I wanted to be. Instead, ironically, I did go to the Art Institute of Seattle and got an undergraduate in graphic design. I am an artist by nature and tried to go that route to make money. That being said, it is very hard to make money as an artists hence "starving artist" lol. I'm technically a starving artist that our Lord is keeping from starving!

 

[Tone]

My son said something a few years ago. "When I'm done with school and working at the job I need instead of the job that I actually wanted to do..." (Not sure where he got that idea from.)

I wanted to be a fashion designer. It was my big giant dream to go to The Art Institute in Seattle and eventually end up in Paris but I never actually did because I ended up pregnant instead, so I turned into a mom. I am still sewing, though. Just as part of being a mom.

Now I'm glad I didn't because I realize how unoriginal and cliche that is.

What about you?

Oh, the most I planned was when I wanted to be a Forester, I took some botany, and changed my major to bio. Science and had a vague plan to go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

When I was even younger than this I wanted to be a professional football player. I've always been really athletic and I played Pop Warner for four years...a beast on the field and we won every year. Unfortunately, I stopped going to school by the time I got to High School, so there went that fleeting desire...


I'm pretty much a lifelong student and a minister wherever I may be.

I am moving to launch a non-profit ministry and everything I'm involved in right now ties into the vision. In the whole scheme of things, I'm young and on course to do what I have been called and prepared to do.

 

[Tone]

Btw if I'm young at 41, you certainly are young as well...

40 is the new late twenties...!

 

[DuckieLady]

It was a tie. My childhood family vacation one year was to Cape Canaveral Florida & NASA. And then Seaworld. I then wanted to be either an astronaut or an Oceanographer. Turned out I entered into interior design. And then due to an athletically competitive friend, massage therapy. Now I'm able to arrange Hubble sourced 3D murals with inset light fixture "animation", and floor to ceiling master saltwater aquariums. In a way I'm living the dream.

Okay that is actually the dream... that's pretty cool!

I wanted to be an outlaw biker when I was a kid, no joke. I thought they were the coolest thing in the world and that's what I wanted to be. Instead, ironically, I did go to the Art Institute of Seattle and got an undergraduate in graphic design. I am an artist by nature and tried to go that route to make money. That being said, it is very hard to make money as an artists hence "starving artist" lol. I'm technically a starving artist that our Lord is keeping from starving!

YOU WENT TO MY DREAM SCHOOL!? NO WAY!

I always think "in Seattle" and not "of" and I think that's because I think "it's in Seattle." I fixed it because I realized that's actually the whole title and I never think about it being a whole title. I was so anxious and I had notebooks and notebooks of illustrations of designs of things that I would never wear now because I became near-Mennonite.

I wonder if we would have gone around the same time? I would have gone about 2005-2006. After I couldn't go, I signed up for DeVry for computer engineering and dropped out instead.



ONow I'm "homeschooling myself" (you know what I don't need in my life? student debt for something I can learn for free) for something and I am not doing a good job at paying attention, at all, because I am sitting here spending days at a time sewing full length dresses in pretty pastels by hand instead. And I sit there thinking, "Wow, I'm really wasting my life" and then I look at the collar and I think, "No, just look at that blind stitch. It's perfect."

Oh, the most I planned was when I wanted to be a Forester, I took some botany, and changed my major to bio. Science and had a vague plan to go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

When I was even younger than this I wanted to be a professional football player. I've always been really athletic and I played Pop Warner for four years...a beast on the field and we won every year. Unfortunately, I stopped going to school by the time I got to High School, so there went that fleeting desire...


I'm pretty much a lifelong student and a minister wherever I may be.

I am moving to launch a non-profit ministry and everything I'm involved in right now ties into the vision. In the whole scheme of things, I'm young and on course to do what I have been called and prepared to do.

@Tone, you gotta check this out sometime. I see it a little bit in between the things I hear about your ministry and your nomadic explorations. This video was a big comfort to me when I first lost my home.

Btw if I'm young at 41, you certainly are young as well...

40 is the new late twenties...!

Yeah, it is! I'm too old to see 40 as too old. I could literally and likely will at some point become a grandmother within the next three years. Seriously

 

[April_Rose]

I wanted to be a veterinarian,.. but I also wanted to be a professional writer and now it looks like I might finally have my chance!! *Fingers crossed*

 

[marks]

My son said something a few years ago. "When I'm done with school and working at the job I need instead of the job that I actually wanted to do..." (Not sure where he got that idea from.)

I wanted to be a fashion designer. It was my big giant dream to go to The Art Institute of Seattle and eventually end up in Paris but I never actually did because I ended up pregnant instead, so I turned into a mom. I am still sewing, though. Just as part of being a mom.

Now I'm glad I didn't because I realize how unoriginal and cliche that is.

What about you?

I was going to be a lawyer.

But I was so low functioning when I would have been in college that was never going to happen. So now I'm a grace-er.

Much love!

 

[marks]

It was a tie. My childhood family vacation one year was to Cape Canaveral Florida & NASA. And then Seaworld. I then wanted to be either an astronaut or an Oceanographer. Turned out I entered into interior design. And then due to an athletically competitive friend, massage therapy. Now I'm able to arrange Hubble sourced 3D murals with inset light fixture "animation", and floor to ceiling master saltwater aquariums. In a way I'm living the dream.

Wow that sounds like fun!

 

[marks]

I wanted to be an outlaw biker when I was a kid, no joke.

That was like a friend of mine.

 

[marks]

OH, I forgot to answer what I turned out to be. I mean really. I run a small print finishing company for it's absentee owners. It's slow, so I have time here.

Much love!

 

[April_Rose]

Just in case anybody is interested this is my own original story about a little help from above and what happens when you follow your dreams. And of course the magic of rock and roll. (I heard that sometimes people can make it big on Wattpad. )




Rock God - Chapter One School Bullies - Wattpad

 

[Truman]

 

[TLHKAJ]

I wanted to be a veterinarian,.. but I also wanted to be a professional writer and now it looks like I might finally have my chance!! *Fingers crossed*

I wanted to be 3 things.... a mom, an artist, and a veterinarian.

I was always very artistic, and yet after my father burned a lot of my artwork when I was 14, that part of me went dormant and has never fully re-emerged except when I sketched something for my husband after we were married (the profile of a baby in between a man's praying hands). And several years later, I sketched a logo for his business cards. Several years later, I sketched a toddler girl sitting in Jesus's lap. I sure wish I knew where that was. I taught Highschool Art when my children were in school.

I loved animals and had a knack for taming feral cats when I was growing up. I had cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, parakeets, etc. I often felt alone and that my animals were the only ones who loved me. So naturally, I wanted to care for animals.

I also loved babies, and from a young age, was often placed in charge of caring for babies and the younger children in my family. But I remember caring for a baby boy named Derek when I was about 10 yrs old, and wishing in my heart and making it a life goal to take in all the hurting, abused, and abandoned babies and children in the world.

Soooo .... those were my wishes and what I wanted to be when I grew up.

 

[Truman]

I wanted to be an outlaw biker when I was a kid, no joke. I thought they were the coolest thing in the world and that's what I wanted to be. Instead, ironically, I did go to the Art Institute of Seattle and got an undergraduate in graphic design. I am an artist by nature and tried to go that route to make money. That being said, it is very hard to make money as an artists hence "starving artist" lol. I'm technically a starving artist that our Lord is keeping from starving!

Bless you, Mantis. I saw Easy Rider when it came out in the theatres.
I'm a hippy, guitar-playing, worship leader trained by the Vineyard.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I haven't touched a needle in 17 years.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, after being declared dead at the hospital, my heart started beating again.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Caleb and Joshua have been restored to my life, along with their children.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Mathew is no longer a drug kingpin.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I have, and continue, to overcome by the blood of the Lamb, the word of my testimony, and I do not love my life to the death.
Thank You, Jesus, for loving me and mine!

 

[Brakelite]

I wanted to be a forest ranger. But I had no education in borany, forest management or any other related subjects... Started work in a bank. Hated it. Then clerk for an oil company. Then factory worker. Back to oil company as storeman. Then bus driver. All the above over a period of about 15 years. In the midst of all that husband and father.
Then a park ranger. About as close to forestry as one could get. 16000 hectares of native forest along with four large lakes...I was maintaining and building tramping and walking tracks. Living on site.
Changes in management forced redundancy. Then dairy farming. Now retired but working part time driving school bus. And now the most content I've ever been in my work. No pressure. Lots of fun. And can spend most of day with wife and family who live not to far away.
Funny thing. Retirement isn't something that as a kid we ever dream of... But I gotta tell you... It has a lot going for it.

 

[DuckieLady]

Just something funny that popped into my head..

Was really bullied in my elementary and middle school days as the nerd. (Straight up Tweety Bird patched overalls with tye-dye velour shirts, glasses, inhaler, breakouts... you name it.) After I got out of that school, I swanned up - big time, and I was rocking it a little bit, at least in my head.

I got so desperate to let one of the girls who bullied me the most and played a false friend from school know that I "wasn't ugly anymore" that I called her up "just to say hi." She asked how I was doing and what I was up to now and I said, "I'm a model now."

In my head that was totally true. "I'm a model now."

And by "model" I actually meant my cousin and I were taking pictures in the back in the woods and we decided we looked super hot doing it so we decided that this is our job now and we were somehow going to profit off of this and become YouTube actresses. We made short comedy films all of the time and put them on DVD.

Didn't work out

Just in case anybody is interested this is my own original story about a little help from above and what happens when you follow your dreams. And of course the magic of rock and roll. (I heard that sometimes people can make it big on Wattpad. )




Rock God - Chapter One School Bullies - Wattpad

Will check this out tonight! Seems I remember Wattpad from something. Can't remember from where. I think I was thinking about getting on it but I can't write fiction ever. Just doesn't come to me. That's a special talent!

I wanted to be 3 things.... a mom, an artist, and a veterinarian.

I was always very artistic, and yet after my father burned a lot of my artwork when I was 14, that part of me went dormant and has never fully re-emerged except when I sketched something for my husband after we were married (the profile of a baby in between a man's praying hands). And several years later, I sketched a logo for his business cards. Several years later, I sketched a toddler girl sitting in Jesus's lap. I sure wish I knew where that was. I taught Highschool Art when my children were in school.

I loved animals and had a knack for taming feral cats when I was growing up. I had cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, parakeets, etc. I often felt alone and that my animals were the only ones who loved me. So naturally, I wanted to care for animals.

I also loved babies, and from a young age, was often placed in charge of caring for babies and the younger children in my family. But I remember caring for a baby boy named Derek when I was about 10 yrs old, and wishing in my heart and making it a life goal to take in all the hurting, abused, and abandoned babies and children in the world.

Soooo .... those were my wishes and what I wanted to be when I grew up.

Awww <3 Like all of this. Mad about your artwork being burned but it sounds like you came out of it and blossomed out of it overtime?

Truman!!! Haven't seen you around in forever and was wondering where you were!

 

[Truman]

Okay that is actually the dream... that's pretty cool!



YOU WENT TO MY DREAM SCHOOL!? NO WAY!

I always think "in Seattle" and not "of" and I think that's because I think "it's in Seattle." I fixed it because I realized that's actually the whole title and I never think about it being a whole title. I was so anxious and I had notebooks and notebooks of illustrations of designs of things that I would never wear now because I became near-Mennonite.

I wonder if we would have gone around the same time? I would have gone about 2005-2006. After I couldn't go, I signed up for DeVry for computer engineering and dropped out instead.



ONow I'm "homeschooling myself" (you know what I don't need in my life? student debt for something I can learn for free) for something and I am not doing a good job at paying attention, at all, because I am sitting here spending days at a time sewing full length dresses in pretty pastels by hand instead. And I sit there thinking, "Wow, I'm really wasting my life" and then I look at the collar and I think, "No, just look at that blind stitch. It's perfect."



@Tone, you gotta check this out sometime. I see it a little bit in between the things I hear about your ministry and your nomadic explorations. This video was a big comfort to me when I first lost my home.

Yeah, it is! I'm too old to see 40 as too old. I could literally and likely will at some point become a grandmother within the next three years. Seriously

amen.

 

[Wrangler]

I wanted to be a scientist ...

... got 2 science degrees and became a development engineer.

 

[April_Rose]

Will check this out tonight! Seems I remember Wattpad from something. Can't remember from where. I think I was thinking about getting on it but I can't write fiction ever. Just doesn't come to me. That's a special talent!

Thanks, here's a full summary.




After Michael "Mick" L. Dawson Junior forms a rock band with his father and high school friends, he becomes extremely popular and famous. However, after the death of his father Mick threatens to quit the band forever. That is until a mysterious stranger by the name of DJ shows up and teaches him that he should never give up on his dreams.