Are you an adult who still doesn't know what you want to be when you grow up?

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I was 52 years old before I finally found out what I wanted to be when I grew up. As a child I was conatantly changing my mind when asked this question. I was a stay at home mom until my husband passed away and I had to go to work at age 45. I had been a Hair Dresser when my husband and I married but I did not keep up my license after I became a mom. The only thing I could find in a hurry was a convience store clerk. I enjoyed the work but the pay was low and after being robbed I decided I had better search for something else. I worked and went to college and got my associates degree in Legal Assisting I worked for a family law attorney helping victims of Domestic Violence. I was offered the position of Executive Director of a Family Violence Center and accepted the job. Although, I really enjoyed helping others, it still just wasn't my ideal job nor did I have any idea what my ideal job was. I met and married a man who was a Truck Broker (he brokered flat bed loads). One day he was teasing me and said that if I would go to truck driving school and get my CDL license that we could run teams driving 18 wheelers cross country. I shocked him by doing just that. Within six months we were runing teams and driving an 18 wheeler from coast to coast. I loved every minuet of it. I saw places and things that I never would have seen had I not been driving. I have driven in 47 of the 49 continintal states. I was just as proud or really prouder of that CDL license than I was of my college degree. Had any one told me earlier that my Ideal job would be that of a truck driver I would have thought they were crazy. I told my grown children that their mom had finally found out what she wanted to be when she grew up. How about you, have you found out what you want to be when you grow up?