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As a little girl I thought I was going to be an artist because I loved to draw and paint.
Later I wanted to be an English teacher because I love to read, and teachers were always my role models. I also briefly flirted with the idea of becoming a bassoonist or a newspaper reporter because I worked on the high school paper and played in the band and orchestra.
In college I majored in English but decided I didn't have the personality to be an English teacher, and so I decided to be a secretary because I already knew how to type.
When I was a secretary I was bored to death with it (and the low pay), but I didn't know what else I wanted to do.
Then I went to work for a TV station and decided that I wanted to be a studio technician. I went to school, got my FCC license, and 30 years later I'm retired from that job. It's something I would have never imagined myself doing when I was younger, but life can sometimes take you to places you never dreamed you'd go.
Oh, let's see. When I was five or six, I wanted to be a ballerina. I'd been in a holiday production at school and loved twirling and prancing around in my little tutu.
A few years later, I was quite sure that I wanted to be an architect. I spent a great deal of time drawing floor plans. Pluming stacks? Roof vents? Who needs that stuff?
I'm pretty sure that I wanted to be a veterinarian one year.
By the time I was fourteen or fifteen, I had developed a love of cooking and dreamed of going to the Culinary Institute of America.
I originally wanted to be a Ninja Turtle. Then a couple years later, a Power Ranger.
Then a cartoonist, even though the fanciest thing I can draw (still) is 2D layouts in Autocad. But it turned out I am hopeless with a pencil (so don't ask me to start copying the funnies or anything.)
Then, come high school, I decided that foodservice (i.e. the restaurant industry) would be PERFECT because, you know, I could make really good oatmeal, Kraft Dinner and Betty Crocker cakes. That I was going to go to Le Cordon Bleu at WCI then head off to New York and intern at the Four Seasons, become a five-star chef and take the world in my hands, bounce it about and play with it a bit. Boy, was I ever wrong. Survived one term at LCB (ran out of money) and didn't get any farther than five years in a dead-end line cook position at the local crappy bar-and-grill. That was when I basically went "eh, F this S all to H" and threw in the towel. My so-called "career" in foodservice had ended for good.
I always wanted to be an architect, stemming from my first box of Lego's. And thru the years, I've added 1000's and 1000's of pieces, and I now have my own "city" in my living room, with 40 floor-to-ceiling skyscrapers, and less-tall projects scattered here and there all over the house!
I recently built 2 swanky 40-story condo towers!
I'm 64, and you never-ever-ever outgrow Lego!
So glad I never became an architect, as architecture is the 2nd oldest profession! I've read some bio's of architects, and having to be within a set budget to build something, and no skyscrapers to design? Noooooo thanks!
I once knew an architect, relegated to a large architectural firm, to merely design freeway bridges!
I always wanted to be an architect, stemming from my first box of Lego's. And thru the years, I've added 1000's and 1000's of pieces, and I now have my own "city" in my living room, with 40 floor-to-ceiling skyscrapers, and less-tall projects scattered here and there all over the house!
I recently built 2 swanky 40-story condo towers!
I'm 64, and you never-ever-ever outgrow Lego!
So glad I never became an architect, as architecture is the 2nd oldest profession! I've read some bio's of architects, and having to be within a set budget to build something, and no skyscrapers to design? Noooooo thanks!
LOL! I have built the best buildings, ever, with lego.
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Originally Posted by tijlover
I once knew an architect, relegated to a large architectural firm, to merely design freeway bridges!
I wanted to be almost EVERYTHING! An actress, journalist, doctor, scientist, psychologist, writer, artist, restaurant owner, veterinarian, college professor, airline stewardess, model, etc.
I NEVER wanted to be: anything else working w children, a nurse, a police man, fireman, astronaut, truck driver, etc
My fave "career aspiration" was wanting to be a waitress because I thought they were all pretty!
All through elementary school, I wanted to be a biologist.
I'm a paralegal. Go figure.
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I've read some bio's of architects, and having to be within a set budget to build something, and no skyscrapers to design? Noooooo thanks!
LOL
