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[LyndaGee]

A Veterinarian or a Rockette!

[NoelSeven]

On 7/8/2014 MomOf4 said:

I wanted to be a pilot. I realized that dream and became a Flight Instructor for 10 years!!

I love your adventurous soul!

[kittymomNC]

On 7/8/2014 lulu2 said:

From the time I was a little girl, I loved brides. I thought if I became a nun who was also a nurse, I'd always look like a bride.

I'm getting a vision of this! What an imagination you must have had as a little girl--and what a smart way to think of it!

[Lucky Charm]

My parents have a great strong loving marriage and it kinda made me want to have the same. I wasn't afraid of failure.

So my dream when I was young was to be married to the most handsome man and have children. And I did.

I had no desire to go to college as we had a great opportunity to live overseas and that was more exciting. No regrets!

I make a handsome salary without having to wake to an alarm every morning. That's living a dream to me.

[FUTURE]

A flight attendant. I'm glad I didn't do that!

[minkbunny]

On 7/8/2014 VCamp2748 said:

It changed over time. When I was 11, I wanted to be a medical doctor but grown-ups said, "Don't you mean you want to be a nurse?" That was in 1959. By the time I got to HS, I had been brainwashed enough to believe that my only options were: wife (then mother), nurse, secretary, public school teacher, waitress, babysitter, cook, or some other kind of manual laborer.

I wound up working on the admin side of health care for many, many years & really enjoyed that. When my place of business got closed by an act of Congress (literally), I went into academia, which I hate & am counting the days until I can retire.

At least the young girls growing up today know the sky's the limit & for that I am grateful.

Your story about the doctor/nurse reminded me of a story I tell about my daughter. My mom was an RN and my daughter and I were visiting her at the hospital she worked at for lunch one day. My mom looked around at the doctors sitting in the cafeteria and said to my daughter,

You are so pretty, you could probably grow up and marry a doctor.

My daughter (she was about 9) said,
Grandma, I am so smart I could probably grow up and be one.

She, however, chose a different career path and has been very, very successful at it.

I am glad times have changed and female doctors, along with male nurses, are very common.

[kittymomNC]

There was a time when I thought I wanted to be a high school English teacher. Didn't happen. But mainly, to be totally truthful, I wanted to be married to a great guy and have three kids. That didn't happen either. Got married, had one child, the guy didn't turn out to be so great. Went into the Corporate world, eventually had my own business, and have had a pretty good life overall, even though it wasn't what I had imagined.

[lulu2]

On 7/8/2014 kittymomNC said:

On 7/8/2014 lulu2 said:

From the time I was a little girl, I loved brides. I thought if I became a nun who was also a nurse, I'd always look like a bride.

I'm getting a vision of this! What an imagination you must have had as a little girl--and what a smart way to think of it!

The nun/nurses at our Catholic hospital wore white habits. A long white dress with a long white veil needed only a bouquet to seal the deal for me.

[brewhaha]

Married to a millionaire.

[FrostyBabe]

A fighter pilot. While the service academies were admitting women when I was considering my college options, both Navy and Air Force made it clear that women would not fly fighter jets so I dropped that idea. I went into finance instead.