I was recently flicking through a newspaper's weekend magazine lift-out really just staring mindlessly at the photos of B-grade "celebrities", when the headline of one particular article caught my eye.
"How many of us become the things we dream about, before we lose track of our inner-child and take up a career we loathe?"
Think about it ...
Now I am not saying that I loathe my career (far from it!) ... but I am definitely not doing what I hoped or dreamed I would be doing when I was younger. I am ignoring the fact that I failed physics (tragically) and get motion sick on the local ferry - but by now I had hoped I would be flying 747s (or maybe even the new A380) across the world.
Aside from those careers which you have every intention of embarking on either through high school or university (such as medicine, law, veterinary science or architecture just to name a few), many of us stumble into our careers or fall into them by default. I am sure there are many stories of just "ending up" where you are today.
So whether you wanted to become an astronaut and are now working in finance, or whether you had aspirations of becoming a world-class concert pianist and are now a blog host (it's still active exercise for your fingers ... just on a different keyboard!) ... it's never too late to dream ...
Don't lose sight of your inner child ...
If you have a particular story to tell about dreaming of one career and ending up doing something totally different, please share it with the Oracle.
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