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

[gweniveeve.livejournal.com]

My mother is a teacher, so everyone always said, "I bet you'll be a teacher!" because I'm good at school and have a fetish fo school supplies. I always said, "No," because I saw firsthand how crazy teaching makes my mother.

Of course now I'm in grad school and training to be a teacher. I figured out that hey, I'm good at that, and any job my mom does would, probably, make her crazy. And summer break, yes!

When I was in kindergarten and first grade, I wanted to be an artist. (I dressed up as one with a cardboard paint palette and smock on First Grade Career-Dress-Up Day). In first grade, I did my first writing, and was good at it, so I changed my career to, "Author Who Illustrates Her Own Books." Later in school, I lost faith in my drawing ability, so I changed it to "Novelist." In college I started thinking about being a college professor, which I might still do, but right now I'm just going to be a high school teacher and see how I like it (I don't know if I'm self-motivated enough to keep myself on track if I were a prof).

My father is a lawyer, and I'm bored to tears by legal writing, so I said, "No," to that early on. My mom wanted to be a graphic artist but was told by her career counselor that "women don't do that." (But she does like teaching, so).