Comments on: “When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Tax Attorney!”

By: Jenny Hassler

Jenny Hassler — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:04:29 +0000

When I was young I wanted to be a teacher. My first internship cured me of that – I loved the kids, but the veteran teachers I worked with weren’t the people I wanted to be in fifteen years. I reconsidered, completed my degree in political science, and promptly started being a full time parent and homeschooler.

My children are grown now – the youngest started college this past fall. I returned to school when my older daughter began college. This time I took a degree in accounting (I sit for the CPA exam in May). Strangely accounting would never have been something I considered – probably because my mother was in the field, and something rebellious in me said, “no way”.

My children grew up wanting variously to be a window, a statue, a chef, a journalist and an activist. Today my older daughter is, in fact, a chef. The younger is studying political science and very much an activist on her campus. I’ll be in interested in seeing where they journey over the lifetimes of their careers.

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I’m Pretty Sure She’s Going to Be A Litigator… — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:25:55 +0000

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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:10:45 +0000

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By: Samantha Eygendaal

Samantha Eygendaal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:29:20 +0000

My son is 7-years-old and from the time he was three, he has loved dinosaurs and wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. While most kids his age are reading Captain Underpants books and watching SpongeBob SquarePants, my son constantly checks out books and DVD’s (non-fiction only) about dinosaurs. Most children change their minds many times about what they want to be when they grow-up, but this has been going on for so long, I am anxious to see if he actually does it!

By: David Lynch

David Lynch — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:57:02 +0000

when i was young, i wanted to be an archaeologist. so, when i grew up the first time, i got an anthropology degree and spent 6 years doing cultural resources management archaeology all over the eastern U.S.

eventually i realized that i’d never be able to raise a family on the piddling salary that work afforded and decided to go to law school. for a while, i wanted to be a tax attorney, and i still do. alas, i’m not also a CPA, and am seriously hindered in accomplishing that goal.

now that i’m only a few weeks away from graduation, culinary school’s looking pretty good

By: Tim Singleton

Tim Singleton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:36:11 +0000

Had a power outage. Please correct my link. Cool blog, btw. It is I am sure helpful to lots of folks.

By: Tim Singleton

Tim Singleton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:34:37 +0000

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a math Ph.D. working for Microsoft. I had the opportunity to be one of the first 600 MS employees. My high school counselor told me that MS would just turn me into a technician and I didn’t want that. (First 3500 MS employees are all worth tens of millions of dollars.)

Now, I am a technician making engineers pay. THANKS! Note to my kids: Take career advice from successful people and except no substitutes.

Now, I want to be a horror/romance genre novelist and never comment on politics again. Politics wears me out.