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I am NOT kidding...I wanted to be a nun.

no

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A Nun! LOL

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I wanted to be a secretary, a stewardess or a lawyer. Various phases I went through.

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My sister want to be a nun. I wanted to be the first woman president. I don't remember not being interested in politics...

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TrudyML wrote:

A Nun! LOL

 I know, right?!!!

There was this super-strict nun that I had in 3rd and 4th grade...Sister Agnes Christine.

I think she's at the root of some of my issues, actually. Nothing was EVER good enough for her & I do deal with perfectionism even now.

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A veterinarian or a professional basketball player. Maybe play in a rock band, lol.

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A veterinarian. Then I took biology. Changed that pretty quick.

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2nd grade teacher.

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Secretary until i became one. Then paralegal until I became one. Then lawyer. I just wanted to keep moving up and find something better. But I was always interested in the law. I wanted to know what I could get away with.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

A veterinarian. Then I took biology. Changed that pretty quick.

 That explains a lot.



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A librarian. The thought that I could be surrounded by all those books was bliss.

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huskerbb wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

A veterinarian. Then I took biology. Changed that pretty quick.

 That explains a lot.

 Haha.  Funny.  It wasn't that I couldn't do or understand biology.  It is that I realized I'd be having to cut into animals and that some would die on me. 



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weltschmerz wrote:

A librarian. The thought that I could be surrounded by all those books was bliss.

It is!

And getting to share those books with kids...it never gets old.

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A mom.

But other than that, as a little girl, pastry chef.

Then I became interested in architecture. I wanted to design amazing homes and buildings.

Took two years of drafting in high school.

Then I graduated and went to work and kept saying to myself, I'll work and save one more year.



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flan327 wrote:

I am NOT kidding...I wanted to be a nun.

no

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I did too. I was sad later to find out you had to be Catholic.  I'm Baptist.  I wanted to be like the flying nun.  That was my favorite show when I was a little girl. 



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I never really wanted to be anything. It was kinda sad. Everyone else was really excited about their choice and I would just pick something so I wasn't left out.

I always knew I wanted kids though.

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I never really wanted to be anything. It was kinda sad. Everyone else was really excited about their choice and I would just pick something so I wasn't left out.

I always knew I wanted kids though.

 Being mom is the best.

 



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Indiana Jones! My uncle even got me on a dig once with a real archaeologist.

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I wanted to be a psychologist at one point. I thought about being a veterinarian but needed calculus and I can barely do pre-Algebra. I volunteered at my pets' vet's practice over the summer to see if I could hack it and was fine. I cried at every euthanasia but I don't view that as a bad thing. I assisted with a surgery on a turtle - that was interesting. I got a lesson in duck anatomy thanks to a duck coming in with a broken wing that was beyond repair. The only thing that really threw me was "the freezer" - where dead animals were stored until disposal. It was a shock opening it for the first time. Had I been able to do calculus, I probably would've went that route.

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Indiana Jones! My uncle even got me on a dig once with a real archaeologist.

 So cool! I love archaeology. It and Biological Anthropology are two of my favorite fields of study.



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Marine Biologist. HS guidance counselor told me "forget it, you will me married and pregnant within two years". I hate him.

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Hold on to your hat. I wanted to be a missionary....

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I wanted to be alive ... and reasonably wealthy. And a Dad.



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karl271 wrote:

Hold on to your hat. I wanted to be a missionary....

 I see you blew that thought off! wink



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Yep. A lot of things changed when I got out into the "real" world... LOL

As opposed to the one I was living in as a child...



-- Edited by karl271 on Monday 28th of September 2015 09:13:32 PM

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I wanted to be a pediatrician, a pharmacist, a lawyer and a Congresswoman. I wanted to help people somehow and I just wasn't sure how I could do it.

I got a job in high school in a store at the mall and I loved it. I loved the merchandising the most and while I was still in clothing, merchandising was my forte. I could take a bunch of nothing and make it look like it was a million bucks.

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I also wanted to be a airline stewardess.

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When I was really little I wanted to be a ballerina. I was in ballet but unfortunately fell way behind in my studies because I had to sit out first when I broke a leg, then when I broke an arm, and then when I broke a collarbone, and then there was that time I had gangrene of the foot. My teacher gently suggested to my mother and me that I might not possibly maybe be cut out for a life of grace and beautiful smooth movements. I wanted toe shoes so badly I cried.

Then I wanted to be a pediatrician. I thought that would be a lot of fun because I loved kids and wanted my own. That stage lasted a long time until my parents told me I was too dumb to go to medical school.

For a short while I thought I'd become a clothing designer. I took a bunch of classes in high school and did really well. I was so proud of the work I turned out. But again, my parents told me I wasn't smart enough for college so I kind of gave all of it up.

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After I graduated, I still had NO idea what I wanted to do. I puttered around in retail (Target & Service Merchandise) and found that I had a surprising affinity for working in the cash office: balancing the registers, making the deposit, ordering change, etc.

And...my mother told me that I was wasting my degree...

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