I've never really known what I wanted to do. Looking back on my childhood aspirations, I didn't really have any. My first idea was to be a psychiatrist (this I decided when I was, like, 8). Next I wanted to be a teacher, but I think that was more cause it was the only profession I was close enough to to understand. And, you know, summers off. In high school I decided all I wanted in life was to live in a cute apartment in Uptown and find a job in a record store or something. That was pretty much my life goal, and it was achieved at age 19.

Now that I've become fairly successful in the corporate world, I really am starting to hate it. I do like my job, I like the people I work with and such, but man. Some of it just sucks the soul right out of you. I sit in meetings and my mind wanders and I think "Really? This is how I spend my precious time on earth, sitting through meetings of people babbling 40+ hours a week"?

My new goal is to co-own a business with one of my bffs, probably selling something, so I can hang out with my friends and cool peeps and listen to music all day. It will probably even be music-related if not an out and out record store. So I suppose I will have improved on the original plan. lol.

I really found dj'ing to be my calling it is something that was always in me to do and i have been doing it for over 30 years now

I've always wanted to be a teacher. I used to line my dolls and teddy bears up in rows with shoeboxes and play "school".
I'd make little worksheets and I had a small chalkboard and everything.

whistle said:

I'm with whistle here...although what compels me is the uncanny fact that everyone is exactly the same, no matter what language they're speaking.

That and normally I can tell what a person's talking about even if I don't know the language and it frustrates me not being able to fill in the gaps

connorhawke said:

On Saturday I was contemplating this very point after having a fit of giggles with the lady that was selling me my sushi (about Coke Zero being Diet Coke for men who don't want everyone to know they are on a diet )

ZombieKitten said:

Morning!

Men don't go on diets, silly. We work on our abs!

connorhawke said:

I had abs in my dream last night they were amazing!!!

ZombieKitten said:

Yes I remember them! Luckily I'm not so over the hill to have lost sight of my willy because of a beer gut yet....can you still see yours?

connorhawke said:

I can't see past my awesome rack

I don't remember having them really, though when I was 9 I was whippet thin without an ounce of fat, I probably had abs then

I've only ever been good in creative fields. I don't know why that is...it just is.

johnart said:

same! any other job would be like, filing and talking on the phone or having meetings all day