My childhood dreams consisted of a
number of ambitious careers. My sister and brother are about ten years older
than me so while I was a young child they were deciding what they wanted to study
in college. This influenced my dreams to be more realistic and career-based
rather than something more fictional such as “I want to be a princess”.
The earliest dream I remember is,
wanting to be a veterinarian. This was because my aunt found a litter of
abandoned newborn kittens in her backyard. My family brought them inside and bottle-fed
them until we were able to contact a shelter. This gave me the goal of caring for
animals when I grow up.
Later on my dream shifted to
children rather than animals, I wanted to be a pediatrician. My brother had
just decided to study to become pharmacist, which influenced me to want to be a
doctor of some sort. My cousins and I made a plan my older cousin and I would
become pediatricians and open up our own clinic. My brother would be our pharmacist,
my sister would be the manager, and my younger cousin would be a delivery nurse
who would refer patients to us. This
dream was quite far fetched and died out quickly.
Next I wanted to be a medical
examiner. At this point I was maybe about eleven and I realized that being an
actual doctor was a lot more work than I was willing to put in. I was really
interested in mysteries and thought that forensics would be a good area. A
medical examiner would combine the doctor and the forensics interests.
Recently I wanted to be a
filmmaker. I love filming and editing videos with my cousins and I would have
loved to make it into a career. Now my experience with the tech crew made my
interest in the technical area even stronger. I am looking to study communications
in college focusing on the production of film and radio. I am also considering minoring
in computer forensics or cyber security.
While I may not go on to reach all of my dreams I hope I can achieve them by
gaining the qualities of those professions.