When you were growing up...👩‍🏫

I had realistic expectations which is to say not high. Being at the low end of the economic ladder combined with poor health and a less than stellar education ( to say the least ) meant that my options were limited. So it was mostly pen pushing and later keyboard tapping office jobs for me.

When you come from the lower economic end and family life is a grind or worse you seem to develop a very limited mindset. It never occurred to me to emigrate to America when I was young for example. If I bought something that didn't perform very well I stuck with it because that was just the way things were and so on.

I wanted to be an Historian
It just didn't pay well at all

i never really had any clue or real drive towards any specific career or anything like that. i had a vague notion that i'd like to study mathematics or stats - math & calculus were the only subjects in school i was really good at - but i just didn't have the discipline. & i definitely would not have been cut out for a career in academics or anything. i think it's for the best i didn't go down that path.

it wasn't until i was 25 that i decided i needed to get serious & pick a real career - my testosterone wasn't getting any younger, y'know, so i basically threw a dart at a board & decided to become an accountant. solely because i'd never heard of any starving, homeless accountants, so it seemed like a good move.

I wanted to hit the lottery and not have to work. Or come into money somehow, like the Beverly Hillbillies.

As a kid the only job I can remember fantasizing about was being an executive in a company. At the time I thought that was the best thing a guy could be.

According to my parents, as a little kid, I wanted to be a doughnut maker so I could give free donuts to all of my friends and family. Sadly, I never became a doughnut maker...

I wanted to be a fighter pilot but I needed glasses since middle school and I have partial color blindness. Still, I was an Infantryman in the Army.

I had a book that I wrote in every year at the beginning of the school year and it had a place to write what you want to be when you grew up, and I wanted to be everything from a famous dancer, to a brain surgeon, to a psychiatrist, and mostly a teacher.

I did get my degrees in both psychology and education, but I now work in the theatre.

Many years ago, I used to think about being a teacher as well. But that never happened.