What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams

[JustGeorge]

Being a mom? Imo, that is the most important job anyone will ever do.

Yup! And actually getting to tend to my own children, rather than sending them off so I could pursue a career(I never wanted one). I even get to homeschool now, which was something I wasn't brave enough to do until Covid kind of pushed me that direction.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I never really thought about it. I just wanted to survive childhood and get out of the house, so I left upstate NY and headed for Southern California to go to college as soon as I graduated from high school.

I understand what you mean by wanting to survive childhood, and get out of the house. I can sympathize with you, my friend.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Yup! And actually getting to tend to my own children, rather than sending them off so I could pursue a career(I never wanted one). I even get to homeschool now, which was something I wasn't brave enough to do until Covid kind of pushed me that direction.

I have been homeschooling for 16 years, and I'm still homeschooling my two teenager daughters. I taught all of their older siblings at home too. My three oldest children attended public school when they were little, but my husband and I took them out of school to educate them at home. We have 9 children (5 daughters, 2 sons, 2 babies in heaven; ages 27-14 years old). I love homeschooling.

 

[JustGeorge]

I have been homeschooling for 16 years, and I'm still homeschooling my two teenager daughters. I taught all of their older siblings at home too. My three oldest children attended public school when they were little, but my husband and I took them out of school to educate them at home. We have 9 children (5 daughters, 2 sons, 2 babies in heaven; ages 27-14 years old). I love homeschooling.

That's amazing.

I've only got 3, all boys. 15, 8, 2

 

[Spirit of Light]

I don't really recall what I wanted to be but i think it was a fireman.

How about you?

Paint artist. Since I can remember it was what I wanted to be, but other people crushed my dream on a daily notice. They said it was not a job. And it was no money in it

 

[Debater Slayer]

A mathematician or theoretical physicist.

I'm currently studying to specialize in the more mathematical aspects of data science and machine learning, so hopefully I'll get close enough to something I love!

 

[rational experiences]

A teacher. Loved my teachers.

 

[Trailblazer]

That's amazing.

I've only got 3, all boys. 15, 8, 2

But you also have many cats and dogs... Those count too.

 

[The Hammer]

I don't really recall what I wanted to be but i think it was a fireman.

How about you?

Paleontologist

 

[The Hammer]

An Archaeologist and an Anthropologist.

That's what I'm.working towards now.

 

[JustGeorge]

But you also have many cats and dogs... Those count too.

Thankfully, I don't have to homeschool them all.

I think the puppy would be a good student, and a couple of the cats, but most of them would be a real challenge.

 

[fantome profane]

Lumberjack

 

[Laika]

How about you?

I wanted to conquer the world as I liked history and the Napoleonic wars at the time.

What a healthy and well adjusted child I was!

 

[Mock Turtle]

I can't recall having any particular childhood dreams or ambitions that might have been seen as such. I had an interest in science and engineering, and quite early on seeing the latter as being more like magic as to what they produced - and I did want to know their secrets. Being good at maths possibly inclined me towards engineering too and into which field I seemed to slide quite naturally. But looking back, I probably would have done better elsewhere.

 

[Trailblazer]

I became involved in other things, and then I met my husband not long after that. I got married when I was 19, my husband and I started a family, and the rest is history, as they say.

Once, I wanted to go int the Air Force but I was 29 so I was too old. I worked for the federal government back then and I forgot why I wanted to join the Air Force.

I did not get married until I was 32 and I had personal issues I had been struggling with since I was about 18 as the result of having been brought up in a dysfunctional family although that never interfered with my college or my employment because I have a will of iron. I had boyfriends before I married but I never had a never had a serious relationship and neither did my husband who was 42. We got married both as virgins three weeks after we met and that would have been a recipe for disaster had I not been proactive and found therapists to go to.

We are still married 36 years later but it has not been an easy road. Neither one of our parents really wanted children so we never had children because we were ill-equipped to raise children and we knew it. It was not such a big deal to be childless till I got older but now it is really difficult when I see other couples our age who had children and now have grandchildren. This is not how it is supposed to be but this was our fate. I have to admit I envy people who have children, but it was not meant to be.

Since we have no family,we are lucky to be quite wealthy so at least we will be able to afford to hire a caretaker care for us in older age if we live that long. I am a terrible caretaker and now my husband is starting to have medical problems it is causing a lot of stress for me. Thankfully we have good health insurance because I am still employed and I might be working forever at this rate. I have no plans for the future and nothing to look forward to. I live one day at a time and that is all I can handle, with all the problems we have. If God does not help me I don't know who will because I do everything humanly possible to help myself.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Lumberjack

How about a log driver?

 

[PureX]

I didn't dream of being 'occupied' as a child.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I was destined to be merchant navy officer. I had been accepted for places a two Naval schools, but failed the eyesight colour test.
I have since discovered that I have perfect colour vision, but would have needed glasses to make out the coloured light spots that represented Port and Starboard riding lights at two miles.

So my Photography hobby became my life's work. but added, Lithographic printing and graphic design and reprography and the management of the lot.

 

[SalixIncendium]

How about you?

Over the road trucker.

ETA: Posted this before going back and reading @Twilight Hue's post.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Actor and singer. All through my school years, I was always in glee club and drama society, and always scored good parts. I did manage a couple of professional gigs (Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris -- a musical). But I never was quite as good as I'd hoped, destined to be second or third rate and never really making the "big time." So I went into Accounting and Information Technology -- eventually making it to VP of IT for a major financial institution.

Above is me as Count von Asterberg in Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince." I was 17, so this would have been 1965 Glee Club. I actually sang another role in that same production, so the costume changing was a challenge.