Chatterbox Career Day!
Chatterbox: Down to Earth
Chatterbox Career Day!
Chatterbox Career Day!
So it was career day at my homeschool Tuesday, and this idea popped into my head. What are everyone's dream careers? For some of you older CBers, do you have jobs now? Do you like them? Is your dream career the same now as it was when you were younger?
When people ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I say, "I want to be the next Mary Oliver." For those of you who don't know who that is, she is one of the few people in modern-day America who can make her living off of poetry. THAT job is still a dream. My actual job is agritourism!! It's only part time, because the farm I work at is open specifically during the fall months.
So what about y'all?
submitted by Rose bud, age 15
(October 22, 2017 - 3:32 pm)
(October 22, 2017 - 3:32 pm)
I have big ambitions. One day I want to be a Soccer Player, Actress, Photographer, feminist and Animal Rights Lawyer (Im not sure that last one is a real job but I'm working on it!). It's cool that you want to be like Mary Oliver. Your poetry truely is amazing.
(October 22, 2017 - 4:17 pm)
I have big ambitions, too. I want to be an America's Cup sailor, a successful author, and an engineer/inventor. Right now I have the most idiotic job ever- a chicken monitor for my neighbors.
(October 23, 2017 - 6:02 am)
My current job is teaching the Children's Program at my synagogue. It's usually pretty fun, though some weeks can be super tough! This week in particular was probably the third worst I've ever experienced. (The first worst was the very first program I ever ran, where one child got hit in the face with a swing three times and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.)
In the future I want to be a marine biologist? Or an artist? I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do with my life, which apparently is a problem because I am supposed to be looking at colleges now.
(October 23, 2017 - 8:55 am)
I'm going to be a veterinarian and a dairy farmer. I work on my family's farm so I don't get paid, but it's still work!
(October 23, 2017 - 11:08 am)
I'm hoping to open my own vegetarian resteraunt. Currently I walk dogs.
(October 23, 2017 - 1:13 pm)
I want to be an author, then after that an editor. And maybe a lawyer. And/or an actress. I think ahead a lot, and I may already have college brochures...
(October 23, 2017 - 5:47 pm)
I want to have a bookstore, but I'm not sure if I'll acually get to do it.
(October 23, 2017 - 6:25 pm)
I want to be a plant biologist with a side job as an artist. OR maybe a scientific illustrator. I don't know. Something involving plants. Currently I own sheep and sell them.
(October 23, 2017 - 9:07 pm)
My dream job would be to be a freelance artist, but that all depends on whether or not I can get good enough and popular enough to earn a living from that. I definitely want to do something with art. I was looking at this job the other day called a medical artist, and it seems great because there aren't very many so you're basically guaranteed a job, it pays pretty well, and there's a school in Chicago where I could get a degree in it, so I wouldn't have to pay out of state tuition if I went. I think illustrating books would be really fun, too :)
(October 23, 2017 - 9:36 pm)
I have really big ambitions too! I'd love to 1) be a journalist for a huge newsroom like the New York Times, or something, 2) be a district attorney 3) edit a news magazine, 4) publish a few novels along the way! I used to tutor little kids for $7 an hour, but now I just volunteer at my local library.
(October 23, 2017 - 11:05 pm)
I want to be an author, teacher, scientist, and/or Irish dancer. I would like to open my own dance school, but I doubt I would be able to do that. In the near future I would like to start babysitting.
(October 24, 2017 - 8:49 am)
Currently, I’m working on several cancer research projects and I might be going to Colorado Labs this year to present my ideas. We know a few people there. So, either I’ll be a cancer researcher/scientist, FBI, CIA, or an actress or writer.
(October 24, 2017 - 11:34 am)
My childhood dream was for me to be a veteriarian, working alongside my cat, Kitty. Now...I'm not so sure. I'll probably end up doing something involving music. Minor, Major, Masters, or just teaching, I don't know. Though probably not Masters. I really love music, though I only play the piano. I was taking lessons from a local person, then in March I went to a competition, called the MTA (Misic Teacher's Association). You don't really compete with anyone else, just against yourself, to see how you do. Though there are judges. Well, the doorman, (the person in charge of ushering in the students) who just happened to be a professer at the college where the competition was at, heard me play. He talked to my teacher, who in turn talked to me, saying that the professer wanted me to be his student. So, yeah. That happened. I got hand-picked by a college professer. Lessons are going well, and A (Let's just call him A) said that I can go anywhere with my music. That I can, learn, be, or do anything. Still kinda adjusting to all that, but yeah. I think it's pretty cool, if I do say so myself.
Though before college, I will most likely baby-sit. And of course, at some time in my life, I would like to publish a book or two...:)
In addition to teaching or performing music, you might consider studying music therapy.
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(October 24, 2017 - 3:30 pm)
I'm not really sure what I want to do... maybe an editor, or a teacher, or a scientist. Right now I'm helping with the kindergarteners at my Hebrew school, and it's really fun.
(October 24, 2017 - 4:00 pm)
I am an aspiring Film Director/ Author, and am already working on some stories in my brain for what I'm gonna do. I want to be able to put them to action though, before I forget about them. I'll figure it out. Hopefully.
One of the problems wih my aspiration is that Hollywood doesn't really have a good place for a Christian film director. Everything has to be so politically correct and if you look at a list of movies in theaters right now, half of them are rated R for gore and language, and things that I am against. But they make money, and that's what the audience wants to see. There's not really a place to relay good messages in today's film production. Which is what I hope to change.
(October 24, 2017 - 5:30 pm)