When I was a kid I wanted to be famous - dancer, actor and singer lol.
Then I wanted to be a vet, until I realised I'd see a lot of seriously hurt and ill animals, and have to put some down. I couldn't handle that without spending a good part of my day crying.
Next I liked hospitality, particularly hotel management. But on work experience the customers were awful and I realised the hours were even worse.
I settled on wanting to be an accountant. The main reason was that two of my parents were accountants and I liked their lifestyles, and I was good at maths. At the careers expo at Uni a bank was there, and it seemed a lot better than accounting. I got a job there and I'm still working for them. Problem is I really don't like it. It's very bureaucratic and there are so many systems, departments, rules, forms, it does my head in.
What I would *love* is anything to do with property. I love houses, I always have. I wish I'd realised earlier. I'd do real estate, architecture, development, anything.
Now I am a writer, curator, working generally in the arts.
Oddly, after DD was born I started thinking about studying law. I've been drawn to the notion of justice of course but also attracted to the language and persuasion side of things. The idea that this is a profession where words and the specific, explicit use of language is paramount. But to start a new and very specific, detailed degree just for the fun of it?!
I wanted to drive a cement mixer. Not just any, a pink cement mixer!
I'm a nurse midwife by trade, haven't worked as one in 20months though...
Now, if I could make enought money as an artist and from my drawings I would never go back to work. I did at one stage want to be an architect, and all my high school classes reflect this, never did it though...even though now I'm itching to do more study, this is appealing to me again
But ended up starting a teaching degree. Left that to become an aged care worker for a brief stint which I enjoyed but was incredibly draining both physically and emotionally. Then had kids and am a stay at home mum who will be homeschooling them starting this year with my eldest.
My dream job would still be a marine biologist and to work in conservation and hopefully one day that will happen. I'd also love to be a published author.
I wanted to be a policeman for most of primary school. Secondary school I wanted to be a doctor, specifically OB/GYN. However my brother got into medicine first. So I did law.
Wanted to do law. All my year 12 subjects were geared towards it. Particularly wanted to worked juvenile justice.
Ended up a nurse. Currently working older adult mental health.
Planning on going back and doing my midwifery. Dream job is combining mental health and midwifery as a maternal mental health nurse.
I found a piece of paper from when I was in primary school of what I wanted to be when I grew up it said: nurse & mum
I am both
Dream job is to be a midwife, but will be hard given I've not been working for a few years now and need recent work and limited student positions available...but I won't give up!
you will get there Eenee, might take time, but there is still time =)
I find it amazing how many people wanted to go into law!! for me it is the last thing I'd like to do!! I'd rather get on my hands and knees and clean out sewage pits than do law! (please dont see that as me dissing law and laywers...cause im really not. its just not me, but it is others who are great at it. i know i wont be). I do though, like knowing people who do it/know it so i can ask them things, hehe.
I always wanted to be a primary teacher, but did work experience when I was in year 10 and hated it.
Then I wanted to join the cops, but when I left high school I wasn't old enough so did nursing. I loved it and got to work in some awesome places. Then a stupid ex dared me. Said I wouldn't survive at the police academy.
I showed him. Top 5 out of 997 in a very large intake.
Left after the beaurocracy got too much to be a SAHM and we moved states and DH police forces.
I truly have no idea what to do now and some days im truly sad about that. My choices are limited by remoteness, but we are happy here and there isn't a real rush I guess.
All through primary school, I wanted to be a lawyer. Defence actually, because I loved debating at school and loved a challenge. Then some things happened to me in early secondary, and I decided on primary school teacher. Did work experience in year 10 and hated it. Then I worked as an assistant stage manager for 2 years, and I thought I'd always do that.
My current job is nothing, I've been a sahm for the last 2.5 years, with a few short certificate courses here and there.
My dream job is to open my own independent practice in Melbourne, offering low cost midwifery and doula services to young and disadvantaged mothers, and free information and support for pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting. It would be a huge collaborative effort, and I don't know if I'll ever achieve it, but that's the dream.
I always, always, always wanted to be a primary school teacher. However, there was a time when I wanted to combine it - a teacher who writes children's books and has a herb farm!
The week before uni preferences were due, I changed to Business (Human Resource Management) and did a year of that. Hated that it was so money focused. Changed to Education and became a primary school teacher like I'd wanted all along. (Second) best job ever! Now I'm a SAHM and have been thinking about what I'd like to do. I miss teaching almost every day, but it's a big job. Not 9-3 with 12 weeks holidays (well, not for me anyway) and I just don't have that time to devote to it anymore. I did some part time intervention work with kids who didn't meet the national literacy and numeracy benchmarks, and was working implementing a school wide literacy program before we moved interstate, which was great. Maybe that.
I also love the idea of having a little B and B with attached tea rooms. I'd work in a school part time and do that with DH on weekends
I have a dream!
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