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Bob/PKB
Many thoughts went through my mind in high school, including being a lawyer, a stewardess, a journalist, an author. I went through a period of wanting to be a speech therapist/audiologist and, again, a journalist in college. I settled for clerical accounting and teaching.
Now, in my 60's, I'm going to be studying to become a drug/alcohol counselor.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
tabber
I love this question. When i was 5 i was studying piano. my parents could not keep up the lessons, so i had to stop. when i was 5, 6, 7. and 8 i use to organize plays in our giant back yard in st. louis, mo. 5 apartments buildings on this block of land, with no fences dividing them. so we had sheets and blankets for stage curtains and we kids put on show for the adults. when my family moved to california when i was nine, i figured i'd make a record and also go to disneyland. when 10 i studied clarinet and learned 26 songs. i thought i would make a good song writer. in jr high i started writing poetry and drawing and dreamed of being an artist. my art teacher told me there was no money in art. he was wrong. i had a burning desire to be a writer also at that time. i studied writing from then on, and have written many things for people and tutored college kids in writing. I always got along with everybody, so in junior high kids wanted me to run for school president. what i discovered then, was that i was a good speaker and a good persausive speaker. i got a b.a. in psychology and wanted to do social work and help people. my father told me, you can't help the whole world, but i tried in each job i had. i'm pretty happy now because all the things i wanted to do as a kid i've done in one form or another. i play percussion instruments in shows every now and then, (last week was my latest), i write poetry, speak to groups on various topics, have produced a lot of talent shows with kids and grownups. i draw faces of people. i wrote a news paper column for 5 years, i wrote a great song i'm looking for a famous person to record. i always tell people what ever you like or love try to do it when you can. i believe when we were little we had great wisdom about who we were and what we wanted to be, but often society drills or kills it out of us. i say keep going, have fun even if it's watering your plants, which i love to do, and do a passion until the day you die. my dad's passion was going to bay meadows race track in san mateo, ca. he went every day, like a lot of senior citizens did in san mateo. one day they announced on the radio they were going to close the race track. that announcement made me cry cry cry. what's my dad going to do now? well he sat on the couch hour upon hour until he got the leg blood clot, had his right leg cut off, and died in march last year. but don't be sad for dad. he had a wonderful great life and carried out most of his passions. building a house with my 5 brothers, having 8 kids, having a wife he loved and adored, working as a carpenter for 40 years, which he said was the most honorable profession since Jesus Christ also did that work, with a passion.
| 9 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
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terryfossil 1
14 years old when i got shunted to my uncle,,i was that skinny kid that had been chucked into homes and beat up by everybody,,then came a mongrel uncle that punched me around untill i would fight him,,then i went to school and beat up another kid,,it was amazing how other kids looked at you if you could beat them up..the next 16 years was all about booze fighting drugs hospitals jails...i became a christian and the last 30 odd years have been a lot better life...i should simply have become a boxer,,who knows were that would have went...>>>>>>>><<<<<<<..
| 9 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
zorro
