
As a young kid I was certain I would be a teacher when I grew up. To practice, I would force my sister to sit and listen to me lecture on math, spelling and other subjects. When she ran to mommy crying, I would replace her with a row of stuffed animals. Apparently I was a mean and demanding teacher, but the stuffed animals didn't seem to mind. Then I went to university and enrolled in the teaching program. These dreams quickly died when I actually worked as a substitute teacher at a middle school and had to deal with teenage boys stabbing each other with pencils. I simply didn't have the patience to deal with the delinquents that sometimes reign terror in the classroom.
So I switched my study path and became a Writing major, focusing mostly on poetry and other creative types of writing. My twenties were filled with tortured relationships, so it was perfect inspiration! After university, I wanted to go see the world and took a job with United Airlines. That's when the travel bug bit me. Many years later I decided to get a doctorate degree in law and I now work as a trademark/branding attorney.
Today at breakfast I asked my five year old nephew what he wants to be when he grows up. His answer was "a scientist." Great to start with high ambitions in life! So tell me - what job did you want as a kid and what are you doing now?
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But - reality is sad, Ministry of defence said me "Son, you haven't enough health for military service, go fuck out of here" :)). Then I had to choose a civil career, in 1997 graduated the medical school and now I work as project manager in large medical corporation.
Interesting what part of your readers is russians :)
However, my very first childhood dream was about being a truck driver. I still love cars and driving, so part of that is very much alive.
Oh, and about your teaching aspirations - Try teaching older kids. I teach junior college and I enjoy it tremendously. It's a very rewarding experience, and at a college level I don't have to deal with a lot of discipline problems.
And now I graduated as rehab trainer, massage therapist and physio - I very excited about my work and now I came back to my childhood dream again and think that some day maybe I could be in astronautic team as physiotherapist researcher :) Even very bizarre childhood dreams could be embodied :)
Off-topic: This is amazing that you have a lot of russian readers around whole world in the livejournal now! What do you think about it? :)
But I finished school in the crisis of 1990s. It seemed almost hopeless to go to the astronomy, and I used a more realistic chance to secure my future and went to the IT faculty of a chemical engineering university.
But my further path went quite close to the plan. I worked in science for several years, and then I started my career in the industrial automation. This is a broad and interesting area of knowledge where a man can be busy for his entire life never getting bored. And it still leaves me an open door to the space engineering, though chances that I'll take this way today are small.
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where your poetry?
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Красивые девочки на фото.