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Dear Reader,
What did you want to be when you grew up? Readers' lives have taken some interesting turns and twists along the way...
"When I first read the question you posed, 'When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?' I couldn't remember ever wanting to 'be' any specific occupation. Then I realized it was because all I ever wanted to be was a mom! My mom went back to work as a teacher when I was two and my brother was a baby and we were cared for by my grandmother on my dad's side. My grandmother was and always has been the person I emulate, or at least attempt to emulate. She was an incredible woman in all ways and taught me so much about love, kindness, respect and the joys (and sometimes tears) of being an at-home mom. My personality was so similar to hers that the years we spent together made me yearn to be the same kind of wife and mom.
While my mom and I were polar opposites, I learned much from her about the value of an education and being a strong, independent woman. I pretty much had the best of both worlds! I became that stay-at-home wife and mother to three wonderful kids and loved every minute of it, thanks to my grandmother. But thanks to my mom, I also earned a college degree and went back to work as a children's librarian when my oldest was in high school, that basically put all three kids through college! Thanks to two amazing women, I became all I wanted to be and more! Thank you for the wonderful question!"-- Jan B.
"When I was a young teenager, all I wanted to do was travel all over the world. I thought I'd be a street artist in Paris or some other famous tourist places. I also learned shorthand and typing so that I could back up my artist's wages with secretarial work. I never had such a transient job, but I was fortunate that my first job was with an airline and I've traveled all around the world and still love to do so."-- Jackie S.
"Suzanne, I amaze myself when I read things I wrote when I was child and find that all I truly wanted was to be a mother with twins and a station wagon and live in the suburbs. I became the mother with three children and a van and do live in the suburbs, but I also became an insurance agent, a mechanical engineer, and a middle school media specialist. It has been a wonderful, surprising life so far."-- Maureen L.
"And how did I turn out? What I wanted to be was: dead. How I turned out: I'm alive.
Why did I want to be dead? I assumed there was going to be a nuclear war. I didn't want to be one of the survivors. I assumed that the cleanup was going to be horrendous: uncomfortable at best, painful & slow death at worst. I assumed that my adults were idiots. Talking about keeping gas in the car so that we could make a dash for the middle of the country. (We lived in the northeast.) Drilling us in sheltering under our desks in case of attack. (Much good that would do us against nuclear missiles.). With idiots in charge of the country, nuclear war was inevitable & the aftermath worse than anyone could imagine.
Can you tell that I was a child during the Cuban Missile Crisis?"-- Julie C.
"The very first time I was asked this question I said I wanted to be a ballerina. Why? Because I could stand on my toes, of course! But I am now a librarian, my true love."-- Brenda B.
"I didn't really much want to grow up, but as I kid I played cowboys and superheroes, and then I wanted to be the next Sandy Koufax or maybe Jerry West, and then, as I got a little older...
I wanted to be a writer or a teacher.
I wound up getting to be both for my whole adult life (so far).
I still want to be a cowboy."-- Marsh C.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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