What job did you ever wanted but can't have it?

Philippines
January 20, 2010 6:10am CST
I have always wanted to be a professional chef but my parents won't allow me, they want me to be a lawyer or a doctor but these jobs don't interest me, being a lawyer is hard because sometimes you need to lie to save your case, a doctor needs a lot of effort and if the patient dies, it might be your fault and guild will eat your soul alive. How about you? what's your dream job? did you achieve it?
7 responses
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
20 Jan 10
My dream job doesn't sound like a "job" at all. It's volunteer work. Either for charities or environmental organizations. These causes have special places in my heart. I haven't achieved them YET, I still have a long way to go, but I realized that I'm not gonna let anything or anybody get in the way. I would also love to travel a lot (as another fun job).
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
21 Jan 10
For Ondoy? I saw your profile and found out that you're only 17. That's nice of you. And about the traveling, why would you say that it's impossible?
• Philippines
21 Jan 10
it only "seems", my family doesn't really have the money..
• Canada
21 Jan 10
I think that if you really want to be a professional chef that you should go for it! You know you dont have to listen to what your parents tell you. It is only right to do what YOU want to do not what your parents want. As for me, I always wanted to be a commercial pilot. Since I was in grade 9 or grade 10, I started to get interested in becoming a pilot and so I adjusted some of the courses in grade 11 that I had to take to become one (I needed chemistry and physics to get into a certain school to become a pilot). Some time in October of 2009, I tried to find out about becoming a pilot. I found out I cant become one because I have a mental illness/disorder called Bipolar Disorder. Im sure you have heard of it. I am on medication nowadays for it, so I am quite fine. But they still cant have bipolar people flying passengers around apparently. So that kind of crushed my dreams. But now I want to become a computer technician.
• Canada
22 Jan 10
Yes exactly! You are absolutely correct. I hope your sister and yourself find success in what you are doing and find something you really want to do and do it even if your parents dont necessarily like it.
• Philippines
21 Jan 10
I think you are right, you can never be happy if you listen to your parents and it is against you, you need to be who you really wanna be.. My sister didn't pass the board exam because she didn't want to be a nurse, she wanted to enter business management, now my mom was depressed and I was like "it's her fault to push my sister in the knowledge of nursing", you cannot be successful if you are not happy with what you are doing. stand up for yourself, parents should understand what their children feels. If their children will answer back, its just because they want to say what they want to say to let them be free, it's not disrespecting. (I heard that from mass)
@nicholaYa (121)
20 Jan 10
well. for me. i always trying to be a trader. international trader. and . yes. i made it. and now i am playing to be a professional . the mail purpose for a trader not only my interesting but think this is a short way make myself rich.
• Philippines
29 Jul 10
i have always wanted to have an online job so that i can watch my daughter and teach her while schooling.. but so far i still do not know where to go or how to find the job i am looking for. i wanted so much to have my own business but i am still at lost
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
7 Jul 10
Well i wanted to become an astronaut, but am not different line, but i still make my collections.
@camposkat (306)
1 Dec 10
I've always wanted to become either a movie director or a writer - whether a journalist for a newspaper or a writer for a local TV station or just a stage play writer or even a movie script writer. I love to write ever since I was a kid. I had that passion to create stories in my mind. I would write story after story on sheets of paper or on notebooks. I didn't get to the point wherein I had to take up a course in journalism back in my college days because I opted for the trendy course which was Physiotherapy (Physical Therapy). I did embrace it well and have loved the profession but I still "dream" that job I always wanted. When I looked back I thought, should I have gone for a journalism course instead? If I were given the chance to study again and get a degree on journalism I would surely go for it. Because at the end of the day it was my passion ever since I was a child and I don't think it would be that hard to rekindle that passion and pursue that career.
@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
20 Jan 10
When I was a young I want to be a king pin. The godfather. But I know I can never be one. First its against the law. Second life of crime is not worth living. But still I love the life that is risky in nature.