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What did you want to be when you grew up?
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I always wanted to be an astronaut, I dreamed of flights to the moon!
I am a Debt Collections Manager at a bank.
I am a Debt Collections Manager at a bank.
I wanted to be a teacher. I did that, and was totally and completely miserable.
Just not the right place/time/choice for me at the time.
Now I'm an Administrative Assistant/Marketing Coordinator with a small mechanical engineering firm. I like it for the most part. Work stays at work, and I do like the people I'm working with here for the most part. Pay isn't great, though. On the site I build & maintain websites and do some graphics work when it comes up. I sure wouldn't mind being able to do that full time. Especially being able to to Stray Pet Advocacy and Save Samoa full time!
Now I'm an Administrative Assistant/Marketing Coordinator with a small mechanical engineering firm. I like it for the most part. Work stays at work, and I do like the people I'm working with here for the most part. Pay isn't great, though. On the site I build & maintain websites and do some graphics work when it comes up. I sure wouldn't mind being able to do that full time. Especially being able to to Stray Pet Advocacy and Save Samoa full time!
From the time I was 6 years old, I wanted to be a nurse, mainly in the nursery. My first year of college I didn't so well in anatomy class and... now I'm not.
Currently I work at a TV news station but I'm taking courses to become a teacher.
Good luck to you!
Currently I work at a TV news station but I'm taking courses to become a teacher.
Good luck to you!
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A doctor. And that's what I'm doing!!
Thanks a whole lot for the info...I'll look into what's available in the way of coursework here in Mississippi. I know by the ads I see for jobs that it must pay pretty well here. Be nice to have a job that could be done at home, too. I must admit I had not considered that possibility.Originally Posted by J. Otte
Unicorn,
I don't have much info on getting "certified" to be an MT. I got with a woman who trained me for 10 weeks, 2 nights per week - she had her own half million dollar MT business for 30 years. So I sorta got into this through a "back door". It is highly recommended to take a good extensive course through a local college or through a reputable MT school like The Andrews School (you can find info for this at mtdesk.com).
The pay is excellent. I have yet to find something else I could do at home, no weekends, part-time (25 hours per week, M-F only) and I make $50,000/year. Not all MTs make that much and some people make even more... I've known MTs full time in the six-figure income but it is few and far between (you should see the on-line arguments as most MTs think the pay sucks but they aren't trying hard enough in my opinion), but it takes lots of practice, being on your own (not working for anyone else who takes part of your pay), and cutting all corners (like utilizing short cut programs - I use the heck out of ShortHand - and doing all clinic notes for the same set of doctors over and over and over again).
I highly recommend it but I always make sure people know - yes, you need to put money into it to get anything out of it, and you need to be highly detail oriented and determined to really make something of it.
Okay, I'm getting long-winded... must shutup now. I'm sorta just bored of it right now and want to expand my horizons!
That does sound like it'd be a fun job and probably pretty interesting too, I can't argue with you there.
Oh, wow, I always thought I was the only one who was looking forward to that. I figure that'll be me in about thirty or forty years. I can scream at the neighborhood kids to stay out of the flowerbeds and they'll call me Leigh the Witch. Probably TP my yard on Halloween, too.
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I've always wanted to be a firefighter. My great-grandfather was a firefighter. I thought that would be a cool job. But I don't think I could handle seeing hurt people all the time. I would strictly want to fight fires.
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WOW, I'm amazed at all the response I got on this. Right now I'm in the process of deciding if I should drop the class I'm in (I've only got a week left). I'm also just begining the process of getting a meeting with a career counslor from the school I got my first bachlors at (I don't know if I said, but it's in behavioral science). They now have a masters in community counsleling & I could become a licensed counselor, something I've thought about on & off since I graduated from school, but before I make any decisions I figure I'll go see someone who helps people find careers for a living (I could even do that with the masters in counsleing)
Interesting! You are the second one who wanted to be a ballerina! My whole family was into Ballet (they owned the San Francisco Ballet) and out of 3 of us kids, I was the only one who did NOT want to be a Ballet Dancer! I was the Black Sheep of the family - I loved Horses and drawing! I wanted to be an illustrater of horse books and raise horses.Originally Posted by katspixiedust
Growing up I wanted to be a ballerina/Mrs America/vet all rolled into one..
Well I found out I could not draw worth beans BUT I was fortunate enough to have a mare, breed her twice and keep both foals!
Oh, you are SO lucky, MyBabies. I'm going all green with envy!
I'd love to have horses, but so far I've never had the land and the money to do so at the same time.
I have to make do with a bunch of Breyer models that I've been collecting since I was about 8 years old. They don't quite manage to scratch the itch, but they do minimize it.
I'd love to have horses, but so far I've never had the land and the money to do so at the same time.
I have to make do with a bunch of Breyer models that I've been collecting since I was about 8 years old. They don't quite manage to scratch the itch, but they do minimize it.
I wanted to get into design and photography. Both! Interior design... decorating people's houses. Well in my Freshman year, my Home Ec teacher gave me a horrible grade on this "decorate your own house" thing where the class decorated every room of this little cardboard house. I flunked because she said I had a very "vivid and abstract" way of decorating, and that it wouldn't work in a 'real house for real people'.
I feel like hunting her down and showing her pictures of my house now!!! Bah on her!
Re: photography, as a teen *I* was the one who captured every single moment & memory on film. And now, I'm never without my camera. I have taken some really nice shots & framed them in my house & posted them on my website, entered a few contests but nothing ever comes of it as far as payment. Just for fun.
Weirdly enough I DO get paid on the side, here at my real job, to create & design stuff for the guys I work with. And my office is a museum of my own photographs. And I made $20 today to bake TWO Guinness Chocolate Cakes for the Irish singing group I work for.
I feel like hunting her down and showing her pictures of my house now!!! Bah on her!
Re: photography, as a teen *I* was the one who captured every single moment & memory on film. And now, I'm never without my camera. I have taken some really nice shots & framed them in my house & posted them on my website, entered a few contests but nothing ever comes of it as far as payment. Just for fun.
Weirdly enough I DO get paid on the side, here at my real job, to create & design stuff for the guys I work with. And my office is a museum of my own photographs. And I made $20 today to bake TWO Guinness Chocolate Cakes for the Irish singing group I work for.
What gorgeous horses!!Originally Posted by MyBabies
Interesting! You are the second one who wanted to be a ballerina! My whole family was into Ballet (they owned the San Francisco Ballet) and out of 3 of us kids, I was the only one who did NOT want to be a Ballet Dancer! I was the Black Sheep of the family - I loved Horses and drawing! I wanted to be an illustrater of horse books and raise horses.
Well I found out I could not draw worth beans BUT I was fortunate enough to have a mare, breed her twice and keep both foals!
