What do you want to be when you grow up???

[Lay-Lay]

I hear people all the time say they dislike their jobs or careers or I hear I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

So what do you want to be when you grow up?

[Coriander74]

This makes me laugh, I always say things like "I want to be you when I grow up" or such things.

My goals are thus:

I want to return to college and complete my degree in nutrition, and also receive certification as a personal trainer. I worked for a few months as a trainer at Curves and I LOVED watching the women reach their goals.

I want to receive my Certification in Raw.

Who knows what will happen but goals are what is important!!!

[juliebove]

I'm already grown up. What I want to be keeps changing. When I was a young child, it was a nurse. Why? I wanted to give people shots and inflict pain on them like the pain I'd been given.

Next, I wanted to be a ballerina. And I was. But I didn't want to go to NY to turn professional like my teacher pushed me to do at age 12. So I quit that.

Wanted to form a rock band. Did that. Didn't go anywhere with it, but had fun.

Did an assortment of jobs over the years that I didn't necessarily want to do but brought in money. But I also did the things I loved. Such as art, crafts, writing, creating. Mainly I like to create. For years, I was known for my baking and candy making. I could make anything and everthing. I took orders from people. Sometimes I didn't ask for any money. Sometimes I asked for the cost of the supplies. In particular, I loved making hand painted chocolates.

But then I stopped with the baking and candy making. Why? I was diagnosed with diabetes for one thing. I changed the way I was eating. Now granted, I never was a big one for sweets to begin with and didn't really eat this stuff when I made it, except perhaps to take a taste for flavor, texture, etc. But I began to regard this stuff as poison and didn't feel right about making it for other people. Yes, I have done it a few times when someone asks me to. But only then.

I had been asked to teach a tap dancing class for adults and was looking forward to that when I learned I was pregnant. I gave up on that notion after having 5 threatened miscarriages and being placed on bed rest.

More recently, I volunteered at my daughter's school, helping the kids that needed extra help with reading. I also volunteered at her dance studio. I am now disabled due to various medical conditions, so there's not a lot I can do these days. I have to really pace myself. I do enough stuff I don't necessarily want to do, like housework. And due to the fact that I'm disabled, this stuff can take me a lot longer than it used to. So now I spend the rest of my time doing those things I want to do. I still do my writing, and I volunteer with things I like to do and feel able to do.

[Draginvry]

So what do you want to be when you grow up?

Myself.

If I were anything else, that would be a cause for concern.

[Revvell]

I'm already that. If you are asking what one wants to do when they grow up, I'm doing that as one can see from my sig. It did take me a long time to come to this. It took years before I found out who I was; then the question came down to ~ how do I want to express that.

Revvell

[Sharon in Colorado]

I'm already grown up. What I want to be keeps changing. When I was a young child, it was a nurse. Why? I wanted to give people shots and inflict pain on them like the pain I'd been given.



Julie this has got to be the funniest thing I'm going to read today! :D

[berrymarymac]

A pediatric psychologist or drug researcher, creating new treatments for patients.

Or sing on broadway or in an opera!!!

[Wendee]

I'm already grown up.

My childhood is gone.

I am an adult with adult responsibilities.

I retrospect, I wouldn't change a thing!

There is a time for everything.

When that season is gone,

We must say goodbye.

So, live each moment as if it were your last,

And reach into the sunset

in hopes of a new beginning

with faith that tomorows' sunrise

your future will unfold.



Wendee

[Lay-Lay]

When I began raw 3 years ago I was doing a job I disliked and had to quite my career because of my health.

I am happy to say no I have a job that I enjoy, real estate agent and a career as a minister/teacher that I love and now that I am feeling even better healthwise I am planning on increasing my time.

I believe despite whether you are grown up or not, many people don't know what they want to be when they grow up. My mom just recently found out what she wanted to be when she grew up. I think sometimes you think that you may know what it is you want to do, but when you finally do do it. Its not at all what you were expected, so you start dreaming as you did in childhood of what you wanna do when you grow up.

[Boz]

I've wanted to be a pharmacist for close to 6 years. I am 23 now, and my opinion on the pharmaceutical industry has changed immensly over the past 6 years. I still want to be a pharmacist, but not like the typical one everyone thinks of that stands behind a counter in a grocery store. I want to do research regarding stem cells, in addition to HIV and curing AIDS without needing to take 20-30 pills per day. Hopefully I can incorporate more natural methods to resolve these large issues that need to be addressed.

I got accepted to pharmacy school for this fall, now that I know what I want to do, and I got in, I just have to go through the 4 stressful years of studying hardcore, then I'll be allowed to do what I want to do :)

[Lay-Lay]

I've wanted to be a pharmacist for close to 6 years. I am 23 now, and my opinion on the pharmaceutical industry has changed immensly over the past 6 years. I still want to be a pharmacist, but not like the typical one everyone thinks of that stands behind a counter in a grocery store. I want to do research regarding stem cells, in addition to HIV and curing AIDS without needing to take 20-30 pills per day. Hopefully I can incorporate more natural methods to resolve these large issues that need to be addressed.

I got accepted to pharmacy school for this fall, now that I know what I want to do, and I got in, I just have to go through the 4 stressful years of studying hardcore, then I'll be allowed to do what I want to do :)

thats awesome, have you thought of being a herbalist.

[Boz]

No not really. Just because I've never looked into it. I'd assume that it is healing with herbs. I think somewhat similar to Ayurvedic medicine if I'm correct??? I guess I don't even know what it is :confused:

My first focus is getting my doctorate in pharmacology. Once I have that I have a whole world of options in regards to what I want to do from there.

[Lay-Lay]

yes, healing with herbs. I know at the start of my healing process herbs did alot for me. I know some people that do it and help alot of people and make some pretty good money too. Yes you will haVE alot of options.

[Revvell]

Boz ~ Two more who've made their living through herbs ~

http://www.toolsforwellness.com/ronteeguarden.html
http://www.800herbdoc.com/home_1024x768.asp

[misslinda]

First, I never want to grow up!

If I had to do it differently, I would have been a accupuncturist----a female version of Dr Weil perhaps-----medecine woman walking the fields of wild forests and crafting healing potions.concoctions............. ;)

[lifelover]

I am doing what I enjoy doing. Traveling and living mostly off of goods I sell and the land.

[spicyfull]

I mignt be getting older but I refuse to growup.............

[sport]

I mignt be getting older but I refuse to growup.............
I felt like that but I seem to think that in the last 2 years or so I have grown up at last and I am not sure that I like it.
I am not fully grown up and still play with my 5 year old grandson as an equel and that is what he has come to expect from me.
Sometimes I miss my childhood and want to go back 4 or 5 years to recapture it but there is no going back.
Do not be in a hurry to grow up. It is not what it is cracked up to be.

[petlady]

I want to be someone who can live at their own pace. I'm so tired of society/work telling me when to wake up, when to eat, when to rest, when to sleep. I just want to do my own thing.

My dream: To buy a plot of land at least 20 acres with a nice little farmhouse on it where I can grow all of my own food and raise a few animals along with the pets that I already have. And to do all of this without financial worries to stress me out.

The chances of this ever happening (short of winning the lottery) though are about zero. :(

[Revvell]

Yanno what's funny is, I'm reading this and it seem peoples' idea of growing up means they have to be serious. It is totally the opposite. All it means is we have to take responsibility for our actions. That's it!!! As adults we now have autonomy. We can do more of what we love (even IF all the voices inside of us ~ the society which has interfered with our joy of play ~ is still haranging).

So! go to the park and swing on the swings (not the lil kiddie ones, silly); slide down the slide; ride the merry-go-round; play with your food! Enjoy life to the max! It's your time now! You have freedom! (that is, if you didn't think being an adult meant smoking, drinking, getting married, having children, buying a house, going into debt, etc. and thinking this curtails having fun! ) And even then, all the things I mentioned are free.

Some of the things I do ~ hula hooping, dancing, Turbo Jamming (where are ya SweetLips?); rebounding all the things I said above and more!

I AM an adult; I AM mature and I KNOW how to enjoy my life! I don't HAVE to listen to people telling me I "shouldn't". I don't care! THIS is what comes with being a mature, autonomous, aware, loving-life adult!

Ummmm, sorry for the hi-jack yet.... *shrugs* What to do? :D

Revvell

[sport]

Ummmm, sorry for the hi-jack yet.... *shrugs* What to do? :D

Revvell
I am sure that there is no need to say sorry as long as you are taking full responsibility for the action.

[Revvell]

I am sure that there is no need to say sorry as long as you are taking full responsibility for the action.

Does this mean you don't want to meet me anymore? :(

[Dimond]

Happy! :)

[sport]

Does this mean you don't want to meet me anymore? :(
You are not getting out of it that easily. Nobody stands me up and lives to talk about it.

[Revvell]

You are not getting out of it that easily. Nobody stands me up and lives to talk about it.

*spews carrot juice all over the keyboard lmsssao*