I’ve always wanted (and still do want) to be an actress. I was in a comedy troupe and was set to perform. I wanted to enjoy my youth as a cool artistic person going to clubs and seeing bands play. i want to be in movies. I should be working my ass off to do it now, BUT I came to Japan, got married, inherited 2 step children, and the combination of kids+non-english speaking country means my dreams have to wait.
Well…
I want to become a paleontologist but my marks aren’t good enough to get me into the course. I need an 80% average and I just found out my math sits at 53%. Also I don’t even know if they will accept my math course because whenever I try to call the registrars office I get a runaround on the machine, and my math is a substitute for math 30 which I cannot take because they changed the curriculum and I cannot take the ‘new math’ because I don’t have the prerequisites, nor the time to do them.
I thought I’d be a journalist of some kind (as a back-up career) by now but I listened to the damned guidance counselors who advised me towards “something money-making”. All hope is not lost, however.
Off-topic, I know, but at the store last weekend, I saw Leinenkugel was offering a doppelbock, with a label showing two rams about to collide, named “Big Butt.”
Great name and a very good brew.
Carry on.
I always wanted to work in animation or graphic design, and even had a kick-ass scholarship lined up for a great school, but I was promoted from my part-time job to a full-time salaried position and decided not to go (I would have had to move to a diff. state).
I’m glad I didn’t though, as I would never have met my husband :
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I tried to post to this last night but my post got eaten. Grrrr
As a child I always expected to be an artist BUT when it came time for college, I chickened out. I didn’t think I had enough talent. I do, however, plan to be another Grandma Moses someday. Since she didn’t start till she was in her eighties, I figure I still have time to perfect my technique.
My swim coach in highschool said I could have made it to the Olympics if I really felt like training for it, BUT the training pool was forty five minutes from home on the ‘bad side’ of Rochester so my mother refused to drive me there three times a week.
That…more than anything is the biggest regret of my life.
FairyChatMom – go for it! You can’t become a professional dancer, obviously, but there are beginning ballet classes for adults. I started taking tap when I was 33 – and am still at it, 15 years later. I just agreed to be in the spring show this year – something I haven’t done in 6 or 8 years. I totally lack any natural aptitude for it – but love it love it love it.
I wanted to grow up to play baseball for the San Francisco Giants and I worked hard at playing ball all day long BUT I’m a girl and Title IX didn’t exist when I was a kid and so there was no coaching and no teams that allowed girls. And then there’s the problem that, although I was great as an 8 year old, I was only average by the time I was 12.
DH and I decided we’d have 12 kids after we married BUT it turns out I couldn’t carry another baby to term SO we adopted and fostered and settled for 6 
I almost got married BUT my boyfriend left SO that didnt happen.
I enjoyed playing the cello when I was younger BUT I do not have one any longer SO I cant make music.
I do not want to be a pillion anymore BUT I only have a helmet AND its snowing