Nov 28 2007
What do you want to do when you grow up?
You’ve taken the survey, now answer the question: What are you going to do when you grow up?
When I was in high school, I thought I was going to be a radio 
DJ, but everybody else told me I should be a teacher. The teacher thing was a pretty cool idea because then I could coach soccer or baseball easily.
Sophomore year, I did a survey like the one you folks just did and discovered that radio announcers have trouble paying rent, their salaries are so measly. I dropped that idea and moved on, thinking I could write advertising or be a spokesman for a company or something. Then, in college, I decided I could solve the measly pay thing by living in a cheap apartment and eating nothing but pasta and rice – my ticket into the radio gig.
The rice was good for a while, but then I thought it might be 
nice to eat some chickens that had already hatched, if you know what I mean. So here I am as your teacher, eating the occasional chicken dinner and enjoying myself thoroughly. I guess all those folks were right about me.
All that said, what is your story? What did the little computer program say you should be? What are those all-too-practical careers it suggested? Will you make enough money to live? Then, what I really want to know is, what are your dreams? What would you do if there were no official profiles and recommendations and pressures to make money? Would you return to your third grade choice – a fireman or cop? Answer the question – what do you want to do when you grow up?
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- Original image: ‘1986‘ by: Raffaella
- Original image: ‘My New Mic
‘ by: Kieran Connellan
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