Childhood Dreams

As a kid I wanted to be a superhero. Batman or superman, anyone of them would be fine because that was what was shown on tv regularly. As I grew up and faced reality I thought anything closer to that would be a teacher's job. I've since worked with the disabled. Glad you are living yours.

I recall wanting to be a journalist when I was around ten. I always loved writing ever since I started school. My dream was put on the backburner for many years while I allowed life to take over. I worked primarily in banking and hated it, yet it was all I knew how to do and it was difficult to make changes. I became a mother later in life and took the customary year off for maternity leave and when the year was up I could not go back to life in the bank so I resigned. I focused on my daughter until she started kindergarten. It was at this time that I decided it was ‘now or never’ so I enrolled in a course in freelance journalism, completed that and managed to sell a couple of articles! I don’t make very much money from writing these days but I love it and I am so thankful that I am in the position to be able to stay at home and do it. I only earn pocket money but I love it and yes I have a fulfilled a childhood dream. I would love to write a book someday... Good on you for following your passion, that is what life is all about! Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life…I don’t know who said that but I believe it!

Hi there Coffee shot! Yes, I know that - I mean ever since I was seven, I wanted to be a teacher too like you. When I was in high school, my dream career turned into a journalist, a politician, a dentist, then a journalist again until I reached college and wasn't able to take the entrance exam to my dream college, I had to settle for a nearby one and just took education as course, my second choice at that time. I wasn't able to finish my course and had to stop on my third year for a total of five years because I got married and gave birth to my son. I only returned to college when he was four. That's when I realize that I still really want to be a teacher so I shifted course but only from elementary education to secondary. Now I am on my third year (again), and hopefully I will be able to graduate this time around and I am praying really hard to pass the board exam. Congratulations on being a teacher - truly the noblest profession.

Yes, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher since grade school, too, and although I have done other things, teaching was always my favorite occupation. I thought I would return to it after retiring, but it is so wonderful no longer working that I think I will just stay retired. When teaching it did not seem like work but now it does, lol.

i always wanted to be a cop, up till i was in my last yr of school. no one was able to tell what i had to do to get in, then it was always being changed if someone did tell us something useful. so i went to in to horses instead, which i should have not left doing. i now milk cows for a living and have been for best part of 9 yrs now.

coffeshot, I dreamt of becoming a damsel in distress, waiting for my knight in shining armor to rescue me. He never came. So I came back to reality and became a teacher, too. I taught my students to dream right, Many of them are living their dreams now. I am happy. Glad you chose the noblest profession.

I did not had a clue what I was going to do. It was my teacher in TAFE who convinced me to become a house painter. And I turned out to be a good one, and became self-employed at 21.

I always wanted to work with bats, but when you reach real life, you realise it's not really a making a living line of work. but. some years later, I now only work part time, and was thinking of doing some voluntary work. and at that point, we found a grounded bat, and had to contact people for help getting him back to health and free again. and once I was in contact with the right people, I started looking into training, which I've just started. which is fantastic

I still haven´t decided what I want to do with myself Lol

When I was little I used to want to be a teacher. Then I wanted to be a waitress. There was even a point when I wanted to be a dentist and would want to look at everyone's teeth when I was a little girl. When I got older I changed my mind and decided to just work in an office for many years. Then I got married and had kids and am still a stay at home mom. Now my goal is to be able to work from home online to make a full time income. So, I'm still trying to pursue that dream.

Hey coffeeshot! It's so nice to have you back here again! I missed you~ I always wanted to be a nurse, but sadly things didn't quite work out that way because my father got sick and I left school to help my famiy. I did end up working in the medical field for a few years and I absolutely love ever minute of it~ But, I needed to make more money and somehow I got into the Legal Field which I ended up hating with a passion and nearly lost my mind from the stress! So, now it is a bit late in my life to go back to school or at this point even get a job. There is a big job shortage and people younger than me can't get one, so who will hire me?

I could still remember how I wanted to be when I was a kid. During my graduation day as a kindergarten I told those who were present at school that I wanted to become a doctor in a speech. In my elementary years I dreamed of becoming an accountant. When I was in high school, I wanted to become a journalist but I realized that my English isn't good enough so I took Mathematics in College. Now I'm an English teacher...what a heck!

I always wanted to be an author when i was younger until i was about 12, i would always start to write something and then lose track half way thorugh and just stop, i could never finish anything that i wrote. Now i'm set on becoming a doctor, in my first year of post 16, it took alot of tihnking about.

You´re totally right! Just a bit after I was born, I´ve been interrested in money. Until I was about 11 I´ve wanted to be a money banker, but it has totally changed these 4 years. Now that I´m 15 I want to be a technical designer, which pays really good I may say and is my dream job. But even through I really want that, I really wanna work. So my morale is great and I´m always ready to help. I sure do hope the kids keep on thinking, one day they´re wishes may be granted. M.S.A

luckily i am what i want to be at my childhood....i don't change so many careers at my childhood right from the childhood i was very clear what i had to do and today i am what i want to be.....today my daughter was saying mama i want to become a doctor....ypur topic reminds me of that...