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What did you want to be in the future as a child?
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Santi said on May 15, 2003 14:51:
Do you remember those days in which everything was possible in your mind? What did you want to be? :)
ally77 said on May 15, 2003 16:21:
I wanted to be a flight attendent from about the age of 4.... still do....
Working at moment in boring customer service but cannot complain as pays well....
Emil__BG said on May 15, 2003 16:23:
woooww damineh !!!
REALLY,REALLY,REALLY inspiriting!!!
It make THE SENSE!
as an engineer i know how hard is your way,so i just wanna say– go girl go,don’t stop dreaming!!!
one by one little things brings us big changes!!
YOU GOT THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD!!
xuxa said on May 15, 2003 18:29:
when I was a child I wanted to be a professional dancer. I allways enjoy dancing. Then, time passed, I went to school and realized that I really have a great skills with numbers. So I decided that, in the future, whatever I choose, it would be related with Maths.
And when i was 18 years old, I made the most hardest thing I have done until now... I left my hometown, my family and my friends, and came to Lisbon, knowing nothing and nobody, but with big determination to do what I really wanted, study Maths in a good university.
I was really scared at the begining and affraid, specially because of my parents. They had done a big effort to be possible for me to go to another place and study and I didn’t want to disappoint them.
Thank God I didn’t :)
Now i’m 24 years old and i’m a Math teacher in a high school.
I’m really enjoying my work, even knowing that it’s difficult nowadays to have a teaching carreer in portugal.
LittleGirl78 said on May 15, 2003 19:18:
as I was 4 age I want to be a kindergarten worker.
as I was 7 or 8 age I want to be a teacher.
as I was 11 or 12 age I want to be a lawyer, and that I still want to be.
as I was 14 age I want to be a cop, and that I still want to be, too.
But I have a other job now. I´m a seller and I like this job, too.
DaminehGessle said on May 15, 2003 20:17:
Xuxa: Cool. Math is cool. I love math :)
Emil__BG and kachina008: thank you. It came from the bottom of my heart :D
I believe I can do that. ANything you believe in, you can achieve and I keep on believing in myself and at the same time, I don’t let it get out of hand. Sometimes you want too much and you get drawned in it all.
Twilight-Ghost said on May 16, 2003 12:30:
I think when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I still want to be one now but I don’t think it will ever happen.
coyboyusa said on May 16, 2003 15:24:
i wanted to be happy somethign i really wasn’t growing up but now for the most part I am ...thank god
sunnshy said on May 16, 2003 16:06:
I weanted to be a doctor, but then i discovered chemestry and that’s whta i am now
zaine said on May 16, 2003 16:18:
I used to want to work in a cake shop, and cook them all myself. I used to dream of taking the leftover ones home at night! Now I want to work in theatre doing sound and lighting effects.
andmyspacebardoesntwanttowork...
Shane said on May 16, 2003 16:28:
As a child, I always wanted to be a lawyer - never had any different goals. But when I was in law school, I had a little roller-blading accident and had to take a semester off from school. While out of school, I worked in a business and realized I did not want to be a lawyer.
Now, I have a great job but really do not know if this is what I want to do forever. It seemed so clear when I was a child.
I know I am new to the site but I am open to suggestions. Only constraints - I have a fear of snakes so I do not want to be like the Crocadile Hunter and I seem to pass out at the site of blood, so I probably should not be a doctor or nurse.
xuxa said on May 16, 2003 21:00:
@Damineh: it is indeed very cooooll!!! pitty the majority of people don’t have the same opinion :((
Jackie_Radiorox said on May 17, 2003 02:23:
Hmmm I’ve wanted to be several things. For the longest time I wanted to be an Astronomer, I love space and all that has to do with it... but after realizing the ammount of MATH that I would have to learn...I said FLETCH IT! and then wanted to be a psychologist, but with all of my friends that I have to listen to problems and give advice to (people apparently think I am priest or something) I figured I would be suicidal to go after that job.
So then one of the longstanding things was music. Since I was wittle I have this uncanny knack of learning lyrics, sounds, rythms, whathaveyou, of songs and would sing in front of family and friends. I did about... hmm 10 years of choir when my last teacher that did some work with Gloria Estefan and John Secada got me more interested in it as a profession. So I’m eventually going to be studying music engineering/producing. (Work and need to pay bills gets in teh way so I only am just in the bening of music clases - theory! Yuk!)
I also have my own music that I have recorded on my PC here. (I figure I am going to start calling my demos - The Bedroom Demos heheh!)
I also nearly signed up to be a Marine and briefly wanted to be a cop.
pearls_of_passion said on May 17, 2003 08:35:
When I was a child I always wanted to be an astronaut.....well, maybe I saw too much TV...
DaminehGessle said on May 17, 2003 18:48:
Thanx xuxa and Ferdan. You just gotta love the world around you and instead of looking down on people who don’t have as much as you or be proud of having more, help them and bring them up to where they belong. I don’t want to sound like a saint or an angel or saviour of the world but that’s what I believe in. It’s noone’s fault to be born in a poor uneducated family or in countries without enough facilities for living.
sfchemist said on May 17, 2003 22:36:
i think i’ve always wanted to be a doctor, not necerssarily of medicine but of something scientific but saying that i did kind of fall into chemistry, i never dreamed of being a chemist as a child =)
@damineh, where are you from originally just out of interest.
DaminehGessle said on May 15, 2003 15:35:
My dad used to take me up on the roof and read books to me while I was looking at the sky full of stars. The books were mostly on philosophy, astronomy and life lessons. I loved watching the sky while my dad talked about the world around us and always wanted to discover some planet out there and build a path so that poor can get there far from rich people. Poor to me back then was people who were ruled over by rich.
When I was in grade 2, I wrote an essay on what I wanted to be in the future. I wanted to be an engineer/astronomer. The reason to that? Save the world and make peace!! Everyone laughed at me then, even my teacher. She told me it was hard, somehow impossible, for a woman to be an engineer/astronomer and even harder for her to save the world.
I was mad. I got home even more determined than before. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life and did anything, ANYTHING, through years to make it happen. I’ve been through obstacles and some pretty touch times for that. I even had to leave my country for it just cause people in my birth-country do not believe in women much or even men who get higher education leave the country. So yeah there was no point in staying there. My family and I left everything behind for me and yes it was horribly hard. But hey I had to do anything to get there, right??
Now I’m 23, last year of university doing a double degree in Mechanical Engineering and Honours Physics. I will get my masters and PhD afterwards and I still think I can help. I am old enough to realize I wont be able to save the world having stupid people all over but I know I can make a difference. I am involved with development in Africa through Engineers Without Borders and one day, if I’m still alive, I will make a direct difference in someone’s life, someone who needs me. Sometimes people tell me I am crazy to get involved in outside-university-work projects, volunteer projects. I might be crazy but I carry a heart bigger than the ocean and it makes me happy to help.
I might never find the planet I was looking for when I was 4 and will never be able to take those in need up there. But I can definitely bring a smile to someone’s face and I WILL do it and know I can. I don’t care about money and in fact will give it all away as I earn it to show money is not the answer. I was always surrounded by rich and still am but that hasn’t caused ignorance in me. I am filled with love and passion and owe it all to my parents who were with me through thick and thin and believed in me when no one else did. I will keep on believing in myself to make all my dreams come true and show those who didn’t believe that I could. I will fight every step of the way. Dreams can happen if you want to make them happen.
Did it make any sense?