Wwyd?

[margo49]

Waiting for Kitsune's post....

[chickwhorips]

i did want to be a stunt woman for a while.

good point margo. i wonder where she is....

[DebW]

As a little kid, I wanted to be an old maid swimming teacher (I liked to swim and I had no interest in ever getting married).

In grade school I wanted to be an oceanographer, but that wouldn't have worked because I get motion sickness very easily.

In high school I wanted to be a nuclear physicist. I did complete a BS in physics but I wasn't smart enough to do that as a career. So I went to grad school in atmospheric science. Still there, but it may not last much longer as my funding dries up.

I still dream of being a bike mechanic again. It might happen. Other things I'd like to do but probably never will: paleontology (trilobites, stromatolites, etc.), evolutionary biology, glaciology.

[chickwhorips]

Waiting for Kitsune's post....

now we have it. so what to think about it.... i know how old she is and i'm even questioning it.

[HappyAnika]

I would be the one who's in charge of taking care of the polar bears at the zoo. Or any other job that would allow me to have close contact with polar bears and not have to live in the arctic.

Second would be pastry chef, mostly cakes. I seriously considered dropping out of grad school to persue this. I went through with grad school, but my current job is just not making me happy. I keep coming back to the idea of pastry chef as a later-in-life sort of thing, after my yet-to-be-born children are older.

Realistically I'd like to be a professor. I love to teach. I just have to find an area of research that interests me and that I care about, in which I can feasibly start up my own research program at a university. See? Making cakes sounds easier, doesn't it?

[CyclChyk]

I guess I missed the part about forgetting money was an issue so even tho I really do want to be independantly wealthy, I would love to have about 20-30acres of land fenced off for safty reasons, and be able to take in every stray or unwanted animal so I could nurse and love and find good homes for so they never had to suffer or feel pain again. Of course I would probably want to keep every last one of them cuz thats just how I am.....

[margo49]

Kitsune....that is what I have been doing all my life and I am now at the second-to-last paragraph. Not up for the cremation thing tho'.

[Kitsune06]

Margo, I'm jealous. I truly am. And humbled.

[margo49]

Well, the hunting my own food is a bit of an exaggeration because I am a vegetarian since 23. But I have told you all how I grew beansprouts in a nylon stocking hung from the seatpost of my Raleigh Touring 14 while riding down Highway 101 in 1980. Nearly the same thing.