When I grow up I want to be...
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
I am sure you have heard this question just as often as I did when growing up. It all started with the role-playing from kindergarten and it reached its peak after graduating high school.
Just like many other kids I went through several "career fields" during my childhood. Mine were very clear-cut fields: from "brain surgeon"(not more, not less), astronaut (I wonder where I got that one from??), lawyer (I loved to argue and still do), garbage man - or in this case woman (Oh yeah baby, I used to watch the garbage men from my apartment window and envied them for the cool truck they operated), and last but not least journalist (Does anybody remember the "Sandy Bell" cartoons?).
I did also want to become a nun at some point, but that was less like a vocation and more like a last resort type of deal in case my love life ended up in disaster.
In all these career choices I was looking for prestige or a cool environment to work in (I know that collecting garbage might not be that cool, but at least they had a very cool truck to work with). The financial benefit each job entitled was not part of the career choosing process when we were kids.
I never heard any of my friends say "I want to a big bad warrior so I can retire from the military after only 30 years with full benefits, medical coverage and the option to have my college tuition paid by the government."
But now I see most of the people choosing their career based on how much money they could make rather that how much they enjoy the job. I even saw several books that list the most promising career fields for the next 5 years. And when we come to think that one of the most powerful people in the world, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, makes only $180.000 a year, we realize that prestige does not always mean a big fat bank account.
And then there are people such as airline pilots that benefit from both high pay and high glam. Are you curious to see exactly what high profile workers are earning versus low profile ones in the US?
I am 25 now and I am not a brain surgeon, not an astronaut, not a lawyer, not a journalist and I don't collect garbage, even though I would be making $60,000 a year to do that in New York. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I really love what I am doing now and there is plenty of satisfaction from being successful at it, but is this enough to make me want to wake up every morning and go to work for the rest of my life?
So now I am going to ask you... What do you want to be when you grow up?
Quote of the day:
“If you don’t know what you want to do, it’s harder to do it”
Malcom Forbes
I am sure you have heard this question just as often as I did when growing up. It all started with the role-playing from kindergarten and it reached its peak after graduating high school.
Just like many other kids I went through several "career fields" during my childhood. Mine were very clear-cut fields: from "brain surgeon"(not more, not less), astronaut (I wonder where I got that one from??), lawyer (I loved to argue and still do), garbage man - or in this case woman (Oh yeah baby, I used to watch the garbage men from my apartment window and envied them for the cool truck they operated), and last but not least journalist (Does anybody remember the "Sandy Bell" cartoons?).
I did also want to become a nun at some point, but that was less like a vocation and more like a last resort type of deal in case my love life ended up in disaster.
In all these career choices I was looking for prestige or a cool environment to work in (I know that collecting garbage might not be that cool, but at least they had a very cool truck to work with). The financial benefit each job entitled was not part of the career choosing process when we were kids.
I never heard any of my friends say "I want to a big bad warrior so I can retire from the military after only 30 years with full benefits, medical coverage and the option to have my college tuition paid by the government."
But now I see most of the people choosing their career based on how much money they could make rather that how much they enjoy the job. I even saw several books that list the most promising career fields for the next 5 years. And when we come to think that one of the most powerful people in the world, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, makes only $180.000 a year, we realize that prestige does not always mean a big fat bank account.
And then there are people such as airline pilots that benefit from both high pay and high glam. Are you curious to see exactly what high profile workers are earning versus low profile ones in the US?
I am 25 now and I am not a brain surgeon, not an astronaut, not a lawyer, not a journalist and I don't collect garbage, even though I would be making $60,000 a year to do that in New York. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I really love what I am doing now and there is plenty of satisfaction from being successful at it, but is this enough to make me want to wake up every morning and go to work for the rest of my life?
So now I am going to ask you... What do you want to be when you grow up?
Quote of the day:
“If you don’t know what you want to do, it’s harder to do it”
Malcom Forbes
posted by Camelia from Romania at 1:06 PM
2 Comments:
I think what's more important is knowing not what you want to be but WHO you want to be. What kind of person would you like to be. How will the people see you ?
On-topic: when i was little i wanted to become a businessman :)
I am on the right track. I just need 2 more years until i will be able to consider myself one.
My phases from when I was a kid went from sailor to Ilie Nastase (the tennis player). If I had to start over... hm, it's a tough one. Spy?
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