Meme: what did/do you want to be when you grow up?

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Jobs I wanted to do/be while growing up, in chronological order of memory:

• She-Ra


• not-a-teacher*


• not-a-doctor*


• superhero


• artist


• marine biologist (more specifically, the kind that plays all day with dolphins)


• animation artist


• marine biologist


• graphic artist


• lawyer


• writer


• FBI agent


• writer


• speech writer


• spy


• person who works in politics but is not an elected official


• lawyer


• CIA analyst


• judge


• lawyer

How that's worked out:

• graphic artist: I've had a part time job in a film lab & studio where I do digital restoration and retouching of old photos and portraits


• politics: I just graduated with a Political Science degree from UCI


• law: I'm hoping to score a job in a legal office and go to law school

Sadly, I never got around to the dolphin plan. Sorry, dolphin friends! In my next life, I promise! For now, I must stick with my hero complex and see if I can make the world a better place when I leave than it was when I arrived (that's what 10 years in the Girl Scouts will do to you...) Of course, that will only happen when I stop becoming a chronic avoider who avoids even going to see the therapist who will tell me that I'm a chronic avoidant.


* When asked on the 1st or 2nd grade playground what I wanted to be when I grew up, the best I could come up with was "not a teacher" and "not a doctor". It took a while to figure out the job instead of the absense of a particular job.

Comments

[ladolly.livejournal.com]

Who didn’t want to be She-ra when they were little? At that age, I was She-ra, my brother was He-man, and my mom was Evil-lyn. I also find it interesting that you made a link for She-ra. Have that many people forgotten who she is?

But that’s an interesting variety there. By second grade, I decided that I wanted to be an artist and never changed from that.