Everyone is asked one question, at a very young age. That question is: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” There isn’t a time I can remember when an adult didn’t ask me this question. When I was six, I would respond with the usual movie star, fashion designer, or veterinarian. My answer would be said confidently, as at this age I walked through life as if it were no big deal. My answer occasionally changed to fit with my many childhood phases, but my view on the question stayed the same. When I was a child, I replied to this inquiry the same way everyone else did; I answered with an occupation. It took me years to discover my new approach to this question. My new response did not include my dream job, but how I saw myself in the future.…
Since I was around 4 years old I wanted to have something to do with sports. Now im going to try to be a Sports Medicine Physician. But I also wanted to make a game that I could call my own.Since I wanted my own game I’ll try to gbe a video game designer. So now that I’m in highschool thinking about my career in life, im going to try and achieve both. It might be difficult getting there but I will do my best to earn my success.…
Unfortunately, in today’s society, this timeless and straight forward question has been morphed into another creature. That being, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” We are constantly asked this question from the very minute that we learn to make coherent sentences. As a toddler, one only knows about a dozen occupations, half of which being princess, power ranger, or superhero most of which are not real options. Later, society pushes the “respectable” occupations into our minds such as doctors, lawyers and judges. Society does such a great job at doing this, that some people do not even realize that these occupations are not their Joie de Vivre until they are already working in these fields. For the longest time, I was also a casualty to this façade, wanting to be a doctor most of my life. Though, to find out how I got to where I am, we have to start at the beginning.…
The Last Lecture: Archiving Your Childhood Dream by Dr. Randy Pausch is helpful, meaningful and valuable lesson to me. It took me back to my childhood memories and reminded me one more time about a thing that I forgot when I was a kid, my childhood’s dream. I think as like as Randy, we are all had a dream when we was a kid. So, in Vietnam last eighteen years ago, when I was a kid, I dreamed about become an astronaut, a super hero, or become a psychologist. However, when I grew up day by day, I realized that all of my dreams seem unrealistic, so I needed to forget it and back to reality that my family is too poor. I think this is a trouble of a lot of people who gave up their childhood’s dreams. After I watched The Last Lecture, I admire the way Randy Pausch archive his dreams. Although he got many challenge or “brick walls” in his life, he’s never give up, be stronger, and keep forward to success as he says “If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”…
“What consumes our life, controls our life.” We all dream about being a pilot, doctor, firefighter etc. during our childhood. Even I dream about many occupations, but ended up deciding to be a dentist.…
Ever since I was younger, I’ve had a large imagination, filling up my days dreaming up endless scenarios of the future. Thinking of possible careers was never a problem, but choosing out of the many life paths I wanted was. I alternated between wedding planner, creating a notebook filled with torn out pages of poofy dresses and possible wedding locations; author, stuffing short stories and poems into a floral folder; and psychiatrist, researching the process to become a doctor. The thought that these may not be options for me never crossed my mind. I only knew I would do whatever I could to live out the future I saw in my mind.…
My parents hard work and accomplishments have taught me that I can do whatever I set my mind to do. At this time I am not sure what I want my career to be but I know I want to be successful. Everyone wants to be successful but not everyone is willing to work hard to be successful. My parents have taught me that the key to become successful is to work hard. In the end my goal is to work hard, become successful, and to repay my parents somehow for their hard work.…
Throughout High School and college I didn't know what career path that I wanted to take. As a college student, I just gained the opportunity to express myself, to spread my wings and to go after my dream only to realize that I didn’t know what it was that I wanted to pursue. The pressure and expectation from everybody did not help the cause either. So I decided that I am going to pursue engineering because it is a profession that I could finish and get a job after 4 years, plus I had friends I knew that were also doing engineering. I attended an engineering seminar along with my friends to attain a better understanding of the job and what it entails to achieve the goal. The classes I needed to take to be an engineer required a lot of math and physics, and once if I became and engineer I would need to apply those subjects in the job. I knew right then that engineering wasn't the right profession for me because I would…
Almost everyone in the world has dreams of what they want to be when they grow up, I am no different. I am going to share briefly about my story and my plan of setting in motion my dream of what I want to be when I grow up.…
As a child, I’ve been told I was quite inquisitive and creative. My imagination was just like any other child, but my pretend world was vast and extended throughout my youth, as a whole. I guess one could say that I’ve never stopped imagining. As I get closer and closer to my academic goals, I can now imagine myself as that English teacher in South Korea, or that social worker who gave a child a better life, or even a content creator who makes art films. These are all my dreams, and with some help, I will make them a reality.…
When I was a five years old, my mom asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For years the answer was different every time she asked. After my eleventh birthday, my reply to the question began to develop into the same response. I wanted to join the United States Air Force. Entering into my teenage years, that continued to be my dream. Along came my senior year and that was still my plan. Little did I know, my future was being shaped by forces bigger than myself, sending me into a different direction.…
Being a freshman in High School, I did a lot of worrying about my future. I wondered what I could do that will make me happy, that I’d be good at, and that would make me financially stable. Back then, I had a very close minded view of the world. I didn’t see myself as being anything more than average. As I went through High School, my views totally changed, and I finally found my calling by the middle of my High School career. It was a pretty broad vision, but it was a start. My dream field of work, would be business.…
It is sad how my expectations have gone down with every year of high school, but I guess that is just what the real world is all about. I started my freshman year out talking about wanting to be a doctor or a scientist or a millionaire. I am about to leave high school not having a clue on what I want to do with my life. I has been hard to observe my grades going from practically straight A's as a freshman to the sad state of nearly having my credits denied this senior year. But now that I know that one has to face the responsibilities for every decision one makes, I might be ready to make some smart ones.<br><br>No, I do not think that I can become a brain surgeon or a world-renowned scientist or, unless I win the lottery, a millionaire but…
As a child, just as many others, I had dreams of becoming something completely different than what my heart later desired as a young adult. During my childhood, I wanted to grow up to become a veterinarian. I had a passion for helping animals. My first job in the real world was a car-hop at a local Sonic Drive In. Within a few months of working at my current job I had quickly moved up the chain of command. I was thrilled about the new responsibilities and daily task. My interest on my long term goals began to change. I was intrigued by the knowledge I was learning on how to manage a crew, the responsibilities of a boss and the financial side of things. It wasn’t until many years later and a few other jobs that I actually decided to pursue a…
Do you pay attention in how fast time goes by? From the age of 5 we spend our time busy with school, and then we grow up to find a job and build up a family. Before we realize, time has passed by and all the dreams we had for our future have not yet come true. The reason is because our dreams are just dreams and haven’t yet become goals. The only way to achieve our goals is to know what we want to plan how to get it. Life is a dream, realize it.…