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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Jun 29, 2013 5:07:58 GMT -8
or if it still applies to you, what do you want to be when you grow up?
as for the rest of us oldies, how about sharing your ~dream~ when you were a kiddie? And how different it is now?
When I was like 6 or 7, dancing was the path I was going because I'm a hyperactive kid. But eventually I decided I want to be an actress and since my stay in elementary, that was my longest goal. I wanted to join national acting competition but I'll have to miss a school year and my mom is paranoid about completing education. She has little faith in my skills despite the extracurricular achievements I've earned until now orz I don't think acting would have been for me though but I would have really loved that experience. And if someone walked up to me and asked if I would act on TV, I would be hell yeah.
I wanted to be a veterinarian but lol biology but I was a kid. Of course science would scare me but yeah my mom discouraged me on that too. Sure I wasn't a studious student but maybe with a little faith from your parent, you would have.
BUT MY MOST IMPORTANT CHILDHOOD DREAM WAS TO BECOME A GYMNAST. Too late for that. Also my mom again is too overprotective. She wouldn't buy me rollerblades until I was 18. I know I asked my mom about it and she was like flat-out no lol.
Now? Well, I want to be a teacher and yes, up until now my mom doesn't think I can do it. She thinks I'll fail the license exam because my cousin did (me: ???). I have to admit that she does have a reason to worry because I messed up my academic life a few years ago because I was such a college n00b but what does she know anyway. I want to have a career that I'll enjoy, not a financially-stable one. I can't really blame her (but I do anyway) since she grew up having to work to earn, not to follow your dream.
I didn't think this post would become a semi-bitter-rant IT WAS HAPPY AND FUNNY IN MY HEAD. I thought of becoming a director, video editor, photographer and writer too but never considered them as a dream or goal. I want to script and design a Philippine-culture-focused video game someday but it's more of a "hopefully" thing.
All in all though, if I can make a living out of roleplaying, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
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Post by gojira on Jun 29, 2013 5:19:09 GMT -8
if i could make a living out of roleplaying, i would.
i'm currently a shop assistant in an electronics shop and ngl, working sucks. it's not like in school where you can fuck up and laugh it off.
as a kid i wanted so bad to be a detective. i grew up reading mystery novels, so yea, up until thirteen or fourteen i still wanted to be one. up until then, i lived on a diet of sherlock holmes and detective conan amongst other detective series. (one series i never touched was kindaichi. idek why.)
then i wanted to go into acting. still do, actually, but i don't think it's going to happen. my mom actually laughed at me for wanting to do that because all i was going to do was bit parts in a show i don't even enjoy. i can't sing, either, so going into acting from singing was out of the question.
rn i still don't know what i want to do. one of my teachers encouraged me to write a book and get it published because of an essay i wrote, but more than one had actually told me to go home and think about what i wrote because it sucked and kids shouldn't really write morbid and bad-ending stuff like what i did.
i considered software engineering alongside game design, but i can't draw, code or math. (i can math, but i can't math math like if it suddenly becomes english instead of numbers what do i do?) i really wanted to do software designing for a living, though. i couldn't see myself living off whatever i did as a detective or actor, so this was more serious an idea.
but yeah. we'll see where i am in a couple years if i'm not dead.
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Jun 29, 2013 5:51:43 GMT -8
then i wanted to go into acting. still do, actually, but i don't think it's going to happen. my mom actually laughed at me for wanting to do that because all i was going to do was bit parts in a show i don't even enjoy. i can't sing, either, so going into acting from singing was out of the question. Dude, I can't sing either and that too had been the ultimate problem in my last acting attempt. The theater was all about musical and while they did say actors wouldn't be made to sing if you really can't, it really blew my confidence to audition. My normal voice itself isn't pleasant. I think it might be different from culture to culture and country to country though but while we may never be actors making our faces in billboards and advertisements, theater groups are really nice. Trying to find one myself nearby. So if you really want to give acting a try, theater is the closest you can get. Though it is pretty scary because it's complete perfection. Make a mistake and shit. But when you're really into the role and you finish the show, it's very fulfilling. ps. never trust teachers to judge what you write. pss. I'm not that sure what software engineering and software designing are but they both seem to be post-college, programming-related jobs. Meaning you don't really get to learn them in college that much. Just basic and prerequisite stuff, then you become an expert in a specific field when you get to job training. If you haven't already, ask your counselor about it. I don't know about math but I think you can definitely draw and code. Those two are something you can really learn over time - and math too, if you get used to it.
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Post by KANE ♅ on Jun 29, 2013 6:23:13 GMT -8
my whole life was basically me just wanting to do SOMETHING with animals.
I think it started when I went to the Aquarium for the first time in my memory (like 4-5ish somewhere in there) and wanted to be a marine mammal trainer after I saw the staff working with dolphins.
then I discovered Steve Irwin and Animal Planet in 1999 (two years after The Crocodile Hunter show came to America) and wanted desperately to do what he did in his line of work in the line of being primarily a zoologist, but with ties in working as a naturalist and conversationalist. The guy was my hero and still is after his death. How passionate he was about his work and how he so readily talked about what he did and about the animals he worked with was just...amazing. I loved his work and I loved him too as my hero, lol. He taught me about 70% of my base knowledge about animals, lol. Needless to say I just sat in my room and sobbed for the day he died but y'know. Parents should not wake their children up by telling them their hero just died.
I stayed with the zoologist goal for years until like middle-high school, meanwhile developing the idea to be a veterinarian specializing in small and exotic animals until I attended a camp at Sea World in Orlando and my interest shifted to possibly being a Marine Biologist. That didn't linger for too long because come my second year of high school I was flip flopping back between vet, diagnostician, forensic anthropologist, federal agent, and blah.
then I got to college and it's just like "WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO." I was a biology major (after being an IT major first followed by Mass Communications major whoops) on-track to become a vet, but the broad topic was something I...honestly didn't like so I narrowed my focus and am currently a Wildlife major. Vet school is still a possibility in the future (I would probably go international for that, probably to Australia) but I'll really need to work toward it, or I would potentially be able to get a government job working for associations to do with wildlife, the national parks service, etc.
Heres to hoping I made the smart move lol.
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Post by WILLOW on Jun 29, 2013 8:00:24 GMT -8
when i was little i wanted to be a princess, and even now i don't think that's such a bad idea. i could sit in a castle and do whatever the fuck i want and i don't even have to worry about being forever alone because arranged marriages to a prince. (though yeah, there are a lot of alternate endings to that marriage, let's just use the ideal ending)
throughout most of my elementary years - after my princess stage - i wanted to go into marine biology for the simple fact it sounded cool. i had no interest in animals, i couldn't - and still can't - swim, and needles gave me the chills. grade four/five were the years i dropped that thought and wanted to be an author, i still kind of want to write a book but i don't want to make a living out of it. funny how i just failed my english course, woops.
in middle school, i was introduced to roleplaying and media arts and i fell in love. roleplaying has slowly died down as a passion over the years, mainly because of my lack of energy in it and just in life in general, but (new) media arts has been my passion ever since and i honestly can't see myself going into anything but it right now.
of course, there's my ever-changing that could possibly want to switch to something else, but right now i'm planning my life for media arts. oh and i guess at some point i wanted to into law, but i'd make the shittiest lawyer ever.
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Post by katya on Jun 29, 2013 8:09:22 GMT -8
i wanted to be a fairy princess
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Post by kirbop on Jun 29, 2013 8:11:05 GMT -8
when i was like 5, i wanted to be an author lol. well, specifically i wanted to write stories for games but "video game writer" was too long of a title so i just said author then `3`kept this dream all the way up to college (even chose a college that had both a good liberal arts and comp sci focus 'cause i wanted to double major comp sci and creative writing... then i just ditched comp sci 'cause lol programming) until i wasn't all that interested in writing just for games anymore. not that i don't still want to, but i guess i didn't have any confidence getting into the game industry? that and now i just wanna tell stories, no matter what the medium. although i'd still prefer visual storytelling; i just think in pictures so getting as close to that original image as possible would be cool. now i'm just rambling though lol
well storytelling's my dream but the reality is... yeah i don't actually know what the hell i'm doing lol. japanese major so i tell people i'll translate for a living when they ask me wtf i'm going to do with that major just to look like i know what i'm doing, but it's not like translating's my dream or something. as vague of a dream as it might be, storytelling is! hell if i know where to start with that though. i don't really like thinking about the future either 'cause it stresses me out. bad habit, i know, but i'm sure i'll be knocked right out of that thinking once fall semester starts. last year of college hahaha ha
... this also somehow got slightly bitter c8 oops
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Post by konya on Jun 29, 2013 8:11:08 GMT -8
My earliest memory is wanting to be a palaeontologist. I was a less-than-five year old who knew what that word meant. I could talk about dinosaurs all fucking day, including which ones were found in Australia, the relatives of the triceratops and how they fought, that the T-Rex was definitely NOT the largest meat-eater, and I even knew who Lucy was and why she's important. But as I got to five/six, digging up old things started to seem a bit dull so I decided I'd rather be a Lady Knight instead. Fuck being a princess, I want to kill dragons.
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Post by Pool Boy on Jun 29, 2013 8:14:09 GMT -8
i wanted to be elle woods
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Post by darth vader on Jun 29, 2013 8:38:22 GMT -8
i wanted to be a person
i'm going to be a doctor i guess, but my ideal career would be writing and translating.
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Post by GMOT on Jun 29, 2013 9:12:45 GMT -8
i wanted to uh, be a palaeontologist. i wanted to be a artiest. i've made a few bucks off of being a poet, but then i found out it isn't really my calling. i want to pursue a science or a graphic arts or game design career.
um, i still really love dinosaurs though.
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Post by spring on Jun 29, 2013 9:20:34 GMT -8
i wanted to be what everyone wanted to be; princess, author, actress, musician etc.
but then i started media school and i wanted to be a journalist/photographer. failed said school. then i wanted to be a chef. passed culinary arts school, but lost interest/motivation and didn't proceed to apprenticeship.
now i want to be a historian.
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Jun 29, 2013 10:53:14 GMT -8
Psst, I also failed my English course once. It was the academic year I flunked. I was stupid really and I can't say that it didn't affect my confidence at all.
Just gotta prove myself I can write good!
And I never got into the princess stage. I am...actually surprised people actually get into that. I've always had a hatred for it because it represents all the girly stuff I've seen in an all-woman family and in an all-girls school. It freaks me out when I see myself looking pretty.
Kane, I think you've got a pretty good path with you, knowing that you would want to be strictly somewhere animal-related. I want to be something people-related but having a minor social withdrawal has its setbacks on that.
No such thing as a terrible lawyer if you're making good money. And the chance to quote Ace Attorney is a + dream come true
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Post by redox-kun on Jun 29, 2013 11:01:08 GMT -8
i'm pretty sure that i wanted to be everything at some point.
i think i got into the author phase in middle school. wrote like fifty pages before realizing that what i wrote was crap and deleted it lol
freshman year of high school, i realized that there are these things called college majors and i was so convinced that i wanted to major in english which was HAHA A HUGE JOKE CONSIDERING HOW AWFUL I AM AT IT NOW idk i wasn't very sure
friends talked me into taking a history major in sophomore year. i did some research in the academia field last year and interned for a museum. it was...really not what i expected. not sure if i still want to do either of those but idk maybe it would help if i was older before applying for shit
now i just want to be a trust fund baby and eat pizza all day tbh. sighs where has my idealism gone
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Post by apo PRO QUO on Jun 29, 2013 12:09:43 GMT -8
i wanted to be... a vet - i used to toss my stuffed animals down the stairs and then pretend they were hurt to patch them up
then a marine biologist - one time i came back from the beach with a massive bucket of tiny crabs i'd collected from beneath rocks. they were a ton of fun until the third day when they all died and i cried for like four hours
a mermaid like the ones they used to pay to sit in the lagoon at disneyland back in the 60's so the submarine ride was more interested. i would still have loved to have been able to do this...
nowadays i'm more inclined to say my future lies in writing and maybe graphic design and computer science like a lot of people on this site. but since i'm so indecisive and flaky i think i might have to travel a bit before being able to focus on my life's career path... it just seems like i'm going to post secondary school out of habit right now, you know? not because i'm passionate about learning the subject matter more?
it's not that i don't love my school or learning for that matter but i don't think i have the right appreciation for it yet. i'm a bit spoiled and i know it. i need to see and do more with the newfound freedom that comes with graduating high school before working on my second year i think. i'm slightly terrified to mess up my uni situation since i know no one will ever pay for it for me again ;-; so i don't want to be doing it until i'm more motivated and i know i'm going in the right direction
lol sorry for the memoir
this is actually really cool though, like that's a really interesting skill set. you could become a food blogger with focus on the history of culinary cultures or something, tie it all together somehow if you wanted to
for a short while i wanted to be a historian because i had a crush on my history teacher and thought he was really cool x3
i feel this so hard [/size]
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