Looking for other people with special dreams, not like sitting behind a desk but working with big cats in africa, or artist? I wanna be a ranger in Africa and I'm gonna go to a special animals school after high school. I don't know what it's called in english but in dutch it's called a MBO. The future just really frightens me as I have to do a lot of hard work and sacrifice things and time for it, AND have to move to africa, and leave everything behind. Im very scared I wont make it and spend my life behind a desk.

anyone else wanna talk about jobs, or sacrifices you have to make to pursue your dreams?

I started working in a nursing home at the age of seventeen as a State Tested Nurses Aide. I was on my feet from 8-12 hours a day, half the time no break or lunch break, or even a bathroom break. When I worked with the elderly that had dementia, I got beaten up a lot and would come home with bruises and one time a busted lip. I can't do anything about it. It's a very, very stressful job. I no longer work because my husband told me not to work in that field because he was tired I got hurt or groped, or something along those lines.

I went to college to become a Registered Nurse but I couldn't complete the normal classes. It was, very, very hard. It's okay that I never got my dream job. I do enjoy being a housewife.

aww, that's kinda sad :( why'd you get beaten up? and in your case I fully understand dropping your dream, being groped and beaten, all on a empty stomach and full bladder. you've got guts.

It was a hard job. I worked from 2007-2013. I had to work sometimes 16 hours a day! Double-shift. I hated working 16 hours and then going home to get a few hours of sleep and return to work. I did it several times.

As the people get older and have to go into nursing homes, they need nurses aides to take care of them. My normal line of work was complex, here is what my normal day was like:

7AM. Get on the floor, get report, start to get the residents bathed and dressed for breakfast.
8AM. Start feeding those who can't feed themselves breakfast, clean up, and take them back to their room to lay down and take a nap.
9AM. Check and change those who can't go to the bathroom. They wear adult diapers. So I have to clean them up and put a pillow under them so that they don't get sores on their skin.
10am. Try to do all of my paperwork which takes the whole hour. I also finish up showers here too.
11am. Start to get everyone up and re-dressed for lunch and take them to the dining hall.
12pm. Sit and feed those who can't eat on their own, clean up, and take them back and lay them down after taking them to the bathroom
1pm. Activity time, those who are still awake, I have to keep them entertained for an hour.
2pm. Check and change everyone who needs it and rotate the pillow and try to finish up paperwork.
3pm. Go home if able to.

I want to volunteer for Sea Shepherd one day. I currently work as a concierge at an assisted living facility, which is in no way what I thought I would be doing. I have a bachelor's degree in art/graphic design, which is what I thought I really wanted to do, but I've found that as a job I don't like it. What I really care about though is our oceans and the critters in them. I don't know how I'm going to do it, other than not using sick days/vacation days and then using them all at the same time to go with SS. I'm hoping to at least spend a week or two in Florida next year when they have the sea turtle campaign, to protect the mama turtles and their eggs from stupid people. Even if I can only manage a few days, I'll do it. I'll have been at my job about a year and a half by then, so it should be okay.

I want to be a graphic designer in the music industry, specifically working with local/lesser-known bands so that they can get a good start on their careers.

I also want to work at Disneyland as a face character, but that's a pipe dream. lmao

I want to be a social worker specialized in something: mental illness especially. I've always wanted to be a doctor, but I'm not very good with maths. I'm taking a pre-med attempt right now, bundled with my social work major. It's rough. I want to travel the world and see behaviours that aren't coming from my cultures and how mental illnesses can affect other people around the world.

that's really cool! maybe with greenpeace?

I want to be a music uhh I can't use the word apparently since I got filtered but I want to be a mental health worker who utilizes music. Right now I'm just... Struggling as a musician. None of my friends have been able to use their various degrees so I'm scared to go back to school. I really believe in the idea though, of using music to help people with their brains, so I know I'll go and finish my education eventually so I can do that. In the meantime I help by making music, haha. Then again if my other dream job aka being a rock star somehow panned out I guess I'd just do that.

My dream is to work part time as an RMT/Osteopath and make money from my art in my spare time~ I have four more months of my massage program (rmt stands for registered massage therapist) and then I can write my thousand dollar exams and if I pass then I can finally be registered and start my profession!! My instagram is Katharine.grimo if any of you wanna check it out. (you dont have to follow me) I mostly have my pointilism stuff up and I dont post much currently due to being in my last semester of school (everything is so busy) but it gives you an idea of where I'm at if youre interested :p

I have half the requested courses for pre-med, but sadly I failed most calculus, quant and dif courses. I was able to maintain a really good GPA with anatomy and theory tho. They told me that I had 2 years to step up my game. Alas, I'll only do quantitative methods since it is a requested courses for my degree in social work.

My boyfriend is in physics and math in university and it sounds ridiculously hard. I it was explained the right way I could understand it in highschool but university seems to run in the way that you have to just know things and understand it on your own (at least in the physics department) I can do that with anatomy and physiology but my brain doesnt seem to understand numbers quite as well.

I'm sure your average family doctor doesnt even use calculus like ever... thats so dumb.

I'm not so sure about that - I'm not that fond of the way Greenpeace handles things. I like the way Sea Shepherd is run better. Their founder used to be a member of Greenpeace and he left because of how it was run. Not to say it's not a good organization - I have to be a fan of anyone who's fighting for the environment. But sea creatures have always held a special place in my heart and so it's got to be Sea Shepherd.

yeah I dont often agree with their methods either, they're a bit too agressive for me. i dont know if that's how you say it in english but you get me :p I haven't heard of sea shepherd before, I'll google them :)

I want to make documentaries / factual entertainment shows for the BBC. Anyone can dream right?! Ha. Horrendously tough competition and notoriously difficult to get in. And once you do, you gotta cliiiimb and climb. Just want to be part of a company whose work I am truly passionate about!

ugh this is the most stressful question. not that i'm pursuing this seriously in any respect, but i think being a dj would be cool even just as a hobby. or being a diplomat or working in the foreign service. or some position in the canada revenue agency bc i've got some v lofty ideas about how our country should trade on an international scale, but also how we should invest in specific social issues domestically. or something to do with canadian-estonian relations (this is maybe the most realistic bc i've got dual citizenship, the languages down, and diverse connections; but i have no idea what i'd be doing even).

well anyway i just took one of those "what career should you pursue" tests rn and it told me i should be a financial consultant ahahaha... no

anyways, i'm just finishing up a BA in sociology rn. i'm kinda in the process of considering doing another undergrad degree, and then grad school and who knows after that. all i know for sure is that i'd reeeeeally prefer to be a public servant than work in the private sector. the only two jobs i've had in my life have been working at an archives dealing with a bunch of old documents and doing research for a demographics institute in estonia and those were both interesting kinda but not my cup of tea. idk if these are special or 'weird' job interests per se, but this post was really helpful in letting me organize my thoughts a bit abt what i want to do. sorry d:

I wanna be an Opera singer! My major is Vocal Performance. I've only wanted to do this since my maybe senior year in high school, but right now I'm pretty confident that that's what I'd like to do.

I just really wanna sing. Right now what I wanna sing specifically is Opera! I like all types of music and singing a lot of different types of music though, but Opera is where I'm at now.

My ultimate dream job to be a cop. But I'm physically and emotionally incapable of doing so. So I work in a grocery store.

Another doctor hopeful here. I'm mostly interested in pathology or epidemeology. Thinking about how I'm gonna spend the next decade of my life in school is stressful :V

I might also wanna be an arthropodologist and entemologist if med school and the like doesn't pan out.

Big issue is I have a sleep disorder that makes keeping a 9-5 job or even a job with really consistent hours almost impossible. I can play the invisible disability card though, I guess. Autism card too lmao, that's something.

If nothing else, I know I'm at least a good enough author to get published (it's happened before and I have another offer of "write something for our anthology and you're in" on the table) so I could always try and be a novelist.

Im currently going to school for cosmetology but I want to create horror effects and monsters. My dream is to build the perfect, most aesthetically pleasing werewolf. Complete with complex animatronic motions and fully wearable suit.

I also have a great interest in taxidermy. Animals are so important to me, and I have an ever growing collection of preserved specimens, furs, bones, etc. It's just really hard to find formal training, and it is SUCH an expensive hobby. Forms and chemicals, and such a reeking mess that you cant do it in a city, or people tend to become concerned HA ! You MUST be living away from people to work with taxidermy. The process is icky and ugly but the outcome is so beautiful and artful !