What do you want to be when you grow up?

Person_one

Sorry, my misunderstanding there!

By mature I meant already working and living independently, with financial commitments and possibly a family. Most people who do the graduate medicine programme do so straight from their first degree, or without much of a gap.

I expect other courses that take many years are the same, architecture springs to mind.

New_and_Improved_Me

Well, when i Grow up, i want to be a pilot and travel the world...Unfortunately, I forgot to pick that dream up off the floor one day and it got stepped on….

So I decided I just wanted a career that gave me a decent wage and was stress free on the most part.

After 14 years of doing all sorts of crap, I finally realized my dream a few years back and am now working and doing what I love and being rewarded for it………Sometimes you have to deal with the Bad to get to the GOOD….

As for ACTUALLY ‘Growing Up’…….well, the jury is still out on that one…..i’m hoping for a mis-trial ……there is no evidence…..to support the case….J……

At the ripe OLD age of 39 and ¼ J with young children and a receding hair line…..I still act my shoe size and feel like I’m a teenager most of the time….don’t see that changing for some time yet…. J… O…and I think the Mid-Life crises has hit too...I’ve started going to the Gym, which ive NEVER done before…..lol

southoftheriver

I wanted to be a doctor. When my mum gave birth to my sister I told her that I'd be working in that hospital one day when I was "growed up". I've just finished working there. I was lucky that I decided what I wanted to do when I was 4, didn't change my mind and managed to jump through the necessary hoops to get there. I also worked my !!!! off!

My biggest dream was to become a mummy but i'm still waiting on that!

lostinrates

Dunroamin wrote: »

I'm in my sixties and it's never been that way in my lifetime. I've had 3 separate careers and nearly everybody I know of my generation has made major career changes. Even my husband changd from being a teacher to being a college lecturer.

My mother is older than you and has had vey diverse career. My father had a career in public sector from school leaving then private sector after that, a is not uncommon. It drew on the experience only in the broadest possible sense and encompassed things he had no previous experience of.

22cuddles

I work in healthcare but really wanted to work with horses. I could retrain but the work would never pay the mortgage sadly. Plus it's very physically hard going and bad hours so at this stage in life, probably best kept as a hobby. I'd love to write fiction novels but I gather it's quite difficult to break into.

kingfisherblue

Thanks for all your replies. I've been offline for a couple of days, so have only just caught up on this thread.

Mr_Toad wrote: »

It would have to be a book shop for me. :T

This was my job before giving up to become my son's carer. I wanted to be a librarian, but didn't want to move away to university. Then I managed to get a Saturday job in a bookshop, which led onto a full time job. I loved it most of the time, although we did get a few customers that spoiled it sometimes . Being told (not asked) to go into the back office and print a copy of a book on Christmas Eve, when the customer has been told that the shop has sold out, is just one example of a demand that was made more than once - only for the customer to be less than pleased to be informed that we didn't have a printing press in the back :rotfl:

Tonight my Brownies mimed the career that they want in the future - it's part of a badge, and the activity was chosen by the girls. At the end, I told them what my son had said regarding what I am going to be when I grow up. Most thought it was funny, a couple pointed out that I am grown up (maybe in body, but not in spirit!), and one girl thought that being Brown Owl is my job :rotfl: