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Career Aspirations

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What did you want to be when you grew up? Has anyone ever wanted an out-of-the-ordinary job? Anything funny that your FI/DH or siblings wanted to be?I wanted to be Hela Young, the New Jersey Lottery lady in the 1980s-90s (the lady who would turn the balls and announce the numbers). FI wanted to sell hot dogs from a street cart.
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  • erikag23erikag23
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    edited December 2011
    omg, those are great!!!!i started off wanting to become a professional babysitter, then a lawyer and then working for merrill lynch...don't ask.  i did one of out the 3...i worked for ml for almost 5 years.
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  • JeannineG122JeannineG122
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    edited December 2011
    I really wanted to be an actor on SNL.
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  • Angie550Angie550 member
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    edited December 2011
    Erika - the professional babysitter idea didnt happen to come from the babysitters club books, did it?  I wanted to start my own babysitters club...never happened. I have always wanted to work as an activities director at a senior living community. 
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  • erikag23erikag23
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    edited December 2011
    angie~ no, i just wanted to babysit, lol!  at leastyour idea would have made a lot more sense!
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  • Danes983Danes983 member
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    edited December 2011
    I always wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer.  The whole field intrigues me. I still love to watch the court tv channel. In High School I did decent. 86 average. My counselor told me I would never get into a pre-law program with those grades.  Now I answer phones and am someones BIOTCH.  Sad.
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  • Laurms15Laurms15 member
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    edited December 2011
    Haha I was more of a Yolanda Vega (sp) fan!Sister wanted to be a lawyer or a baker (both of which she would be great at) but she's in communications. I wanted to be a mom, a teacher, a ballet teacher, a Rockette, a princess, I pretty much just wanted a job where I could dress pretty!
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  • mrs.spunky1508mrs.spunky1508
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    edited December 2011
    I wanted to be a lawyer when I was little little, like 7 or 8. Then I wanted to be a history teacher, then science. I went to school to be a biology teacher and hated it when I went to do student teaching, so I didn't follow through with actually becoming a teacher (certification and all that). I worked at an assisted living for just under a year and wanted to do something with that, like get my MPH or an MBA with a focus on healthcare management, to become a licensed administrator. Now I'm thinking about going back to school to become a CPA. I work for an accounting firm currently but I don't have the credentials I need to go further. I still go back and forth with the assisted living/nursing home thing and at some point I will probably go back to it out of necessity. DH has always known he wanted to do something in finance, like his dad.
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  • rlb81rlb81
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    edited December 2011
    When I was in high school I always thought I wanted to go into the psychology field. When I was in 12th grade I worked as an activities coordinator at an assisted living. Hated psych in college and changed my major after one semester to Health Administration. I've been working at a hospital for the last 4.5 years doing research and finished my MPH in May... of course now that I decide I want to go to medical school I just feel like I'm too old (even though I'm only 26), but would have to complete so many prerequisites AND take the MCAT... been throwing around the idea of doing a post-baccalaureate RN program after we get married. We'll see...
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  • FutureMrsF111FutureMrsF111 member
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    edited December 2011
    I wanted to be something different every week growing up.  I went to college for photography and ended up as a lawyer-go figure. Danes- I had a way lower avg. than that in HS and college-if you still want to be a lawyer go for it!
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  • akmackayakmackay
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    edited December 2011
    I wanted to be everything under the sun at some point- ballerina, vet, lawyer, teacher, dog walker... Now I'm in sales- who knew...My friend wanted to be a toll booth collector b/c she thought that she got to keep all the money. That would be a sweet job!
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  • Angie550Angie550 member
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    edited December 2011
    I also always wanted to work at a grocery store.  Dont know why, but I love cash registers.  Everytime I do self-checkout I feel I am living out a little bit of my childhood dreams :)
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  • misskris927misskris927
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    edited December 2011
    I wanted to be a Vet for the LONGEST time! But then I realized that I couldn't handle seeing sick animals. When I got to HS I decided I wanted to be teacher. I'm happy where I am now, but DEF want to look into something else lol. DH wanted to work with computers- some high-end type of company. He ended up being a computer teacher.
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  • mrs.spunky1508mrs.spunky1508
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    edited December 2011
    The ladies on the Money Matters board will try to talk people out of going to law school. In fact, this was posted today: http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/26175848.aspx Posts like this are a common occurance over there.
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  • ffbride_0813ffbride_0813
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    edited December 2011
    My 5th grade year book said I wanted to be a painter.  I meant an artist but i had messed it up.  That was my first sign that I shouldnt be an artist.  That and I cant actually paint for sh!t.  I did take art history in college though and learned that anything can be art.  Even a toilet. 
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  • allymp13allymp13
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    edited December 2011
    I wanted to write books and I tried, can't remember what it was about though.Then a Vet, but can't stand seeing animals in pain etc.Then a lawyer until I realized the amount of schooling it took.Now, I aspire not to work.
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  • allymp13allymp13
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    edited December 2011
    Oh and FI wanted to be a stuntman.
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  • dmoney79dmoney79 member
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    edited December 2011
    i wanted to be whitney houston...and then for the longest time i wanted to be a teacher, until i started taking the classes in college....then i wanted to work in the music industry, closest i got was in the music department at the wiz....ohwell...
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  • allymp13allymp13
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    edited December 2011
    Angie:  I was obsessed with cash registers, I actually asked my parents for a real cash register for christmas a couple of years in a row.  I would look through the service merchandise catalog and drool!
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  • yusi196yusi196
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    edited December 2011
    Growing up, I used to dream of being an actress; still do actually, lol Being a doctor used to be my dream too but I hated chemistry and physics in college so I easily gave up on that......now I wish I hadn't
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  • velveenavelveena
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    edited December 2011
    Truck driver, dead serious.  And I still would!  I love music and I figure if I have no musical talent, at least I can ride around and listen to it all day.  And oh the places I would see...
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  • erikag23erikag23
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    edited December 2011
    veena~ my 87 year old grandmother always comments how she would love to be a truck driver.  small problem is that she has never driven a day in her life, lol!
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  • SinthyaSinthya member
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    edited December 2011
    I just wanted to be famous. And since growing up I was so tall and ppl used to tell me I should model, I actually did dabble in that for a while. I could never be a famous singer bc I don't have the talent, but I wanted to be a model/actress. And I wanted my break out role to be the female lead in a Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy (I had the BIGGEST crush on him! lol) MH wanted to be an OBGYN or a football player. I still wouldn't mind being famous (and still wouldn't mind starring with Patrick Dempsey!) and MH would love to coach football. haha
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  • leah2bleah2b member
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    edited December 2011
    I always flipped back and forth between being an artist or a lawyer.  Was actually pretty good at art and got some scholarships, but I was tired of always financially struggling.  I ended up on the lawyer track, a true idealist, and thought I could help "change the world."  ALmost a decade later, I now am a little more realistic,  and work in government as a lawyer so I feel I do my part.  I still dream of someday retiring and working as an artist.FI - i think a firefighter.  He ended up a lawyer too!
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  • uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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    edited December 2011
    When I was very little, I would say that I wanted to be a garbage man.  Or Jewish (it seemed really cool because it was pretty unique where I lived, and 8 days of presents seemed way better than Christmas).But by the time I was in 8th grade, I wanted to be a lawyer at a large law firm (particularly after The Firm came out -- haha).  Be careful what you wish for...
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  • alliecarrie41alliecarrie41 member
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    edited December 2011
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  • teamAandEteamAandE
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    edited December 2011
    I always wanted to be "in business" didn't realize that meant at a huge firm staring at excel all day!!! I started making pie charts with my allowance since age 7.I am beyond lame.uppereast ~ garbage man AND Jewish, quite interesting that you would pick those two...?
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  • velveenavelveena
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    edited December 2011
    Professional knottie table guest is up there too... I love dancing (again, an area in which I am sans talent)
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  • soontobemrsdavissoontobemrsdavis
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    edited December 2011
    my mom said that when I was really young i always said I wanted to be a teacher.  from what I remember i wanted to be a lawyer..then an entertainment lawyer...then when i got to college i wanted to be the CEO of my own record label.  Now i aspire to be a plus size model..even if it's just some catalog stuff.  My goal was to have gone to a casting before my 30th bday but i plan on losing a couple pounds before i actually go in for one.

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  • uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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    edited December 2011
    Hahaha Einat -- I have no idea where garbage man came from.  I don't think I actually wanted to do it ... it was just a weird thing that a 4 year old would say (but apparently often). I was totally serious about being Jewish though (this is me from like 4-6).  I drew menorahs and dreidels all over my Barbie house, and loved to go over to our Jewish next door neighbors' house for the holidays (they would invite me because they loved how interested I was).  I guess I just knew at a very young age that I wasn't cut to be a Catholic :)
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  • teamAandEteamAandE
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    edited December 2011
    That's actually really cute!!! My hometown was so Jewish that my one NON Jewish friend that SHE was the minority when we were like 8. LOL
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