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What am I going to be when I grow up?
Fri, February 3, 2006 - 4:38 AM
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Fri, February 10, 2006 - 12:24 AM
what a great question!
aloha wind sparrow,
i think this is a beautiful and wonderful question to ask. i hope your spirit embraces this question and finds the joy in asking this. have fun with it! what do you want to be when you grow up? what makes your heart sing? don't think about the money - just ask the question about what makes you happy. and write down whatever comes to mind. this will lead you to the answer to the age old question, what do i want to be when i grow up? i am on this journey as well and am loving all the ideas that are coming to me! sending you love and light and blessings for your journey, robin |
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Fri, February 10, 2006 - 4:40 AM
I think I'd be a great dietetics technician - the job entails turning dietician's instructions into food, and helping other people do that for themselves. I love food, and did that on a small scale in the group home I worked at in Arizona. In fact I had applied for and was accepted to a training program for it, but have put that on the back burner when I moved this summer. I was hoping to be able to start school in January, but have been sick since December, so once again, I am putting it off.
I have this idea in my head of opening a bed and breakfast serving healthy food, and hosting seminars for people with illnesses such as diabetes and kidney failure, teaching them how to make such delicious food that fits into their prescribed diets that they don't mind anymore about the restrictive diets they need to be on. But succeeding in this is going to take a level of time and energy that at the moment I fear I do not have. In fact the real issue may be the fear - I had to drop out of college my senior year, because I got sick. Not succeeding at something I loved, as well as having worked myself sick in order to achieve - this has cast a long shadow over me. |
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Wed, November 11, 2009 - 2:31 AM
Be whatever you want, and change as much as you want.
I'm turning 40 soon and have finally found the general direction I'd like to go. Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was loosing my job after 16 years which gave me a lot of time to ponder these same questions. I knew I wasn't happy with the previous job and wanted out, even though I was good at what I did. I've got it narrowed down to either a Sociologist, Linguist, Statistical Analysis, something in R & D, Entrepreneurship, Anthropologist, Entomologist, Economist or something similar in these fields. Very narrow heh? An obstacle is education, I don't have it yet. Long story on the reasons, I always loved learning but come from a mother who is a member of a religious cult that looks down on graduate school, naturally I didn't want to disappoint my mom. Also never had a reason to go to college, I always excelled in my work assignments and was promoted again and again and was making the same salary as colleagues with masters degrees. Now that I have my foot (and the rest of me) out of the door, I have to start over. I have my own family now with children so it's going to be a challenge. At least at the end of my life I don't think I'll be looking back with regret that I never had a chance to excel at doing something I love. It may be a late start but I plan to live at least 20 years beyond average so in the big scheme of things it really doesn't matter.
The point of this is that you can't change you circumstances but you can change your attitude about it. Look at the bright sides, I'm sure there are many. You only live once, make it long and enjoy it. If you were clinging to life in a modern day work camp in North Korea then you'd fully appreciate everything. We have opportunity, just grab it and use it to make you life better. |
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