I don't know if I had a real dream when I was a teenager (when it was the 90s!)...get married, have kids...it was what good Christian girls did....I got married at 20 and got a degree in music and taught piano and homeschooled my kids for a dozen years....then I developed a dream (also deconstructed faith) went back to grad school at 40 and got my masters in social work last year....on my way to becoming a therapist. (Still homeschooling the teens too).
My dreams and hopes majorly shifted once I had kids. My girls at the time were only 1 and 3 but I realized as a college dropout who never reached my full potential that I now HAD to go back to school and do something to better all our lives and to set a couple of examples for them: it's never to late to change your mind and follow your dreams, hard work and determination do really pay off, and as a woman how important it is to earn your own income, enough that you can be financially independent if/when that day comes. I just wanted them to be proud of me. Now I also have a son and I'm so glad I've given him this example too. At ages 13 through 19, I wanted to be an engineer. At age 26, I decided to become a nurse. Now in my 40s, still a nurse but I just want more time and freedom to do the things I enjoy and I'm focused these days on working to live instead of living to work. I wish I would have made life, relationships, health, and experiences the most important things 20 years ago, but I'll take my own advice that it's never too late to change your mind ❤️
Dreams definitely change but I feel like its the same things you have always loved just redefined as you experience new things. Often things you where good at as a child, can merge with other careers. Mine is as follows:
Age 10- Dreams= teacher, librarian, mom, build a log cabin in the woods
Age 20- Dreams= nurse, professional artist, mom, physical therapist, Forest ranger
Job= designing custom retainers for an orthodontic lab
Age 30- Dream= teacher
Job= mom of 3 sons❤️, and early childhood teacher. Organic veg+fruit garden.
Age 40- Dream= live on an organic farm, professional artist, speech pathologist.
Job= public school teacher assistant and art teacher after school. Loved teaching art❤️ ( jobs in between: home daycare for special needs children, preschool teacher)
Age 50- Dream: move to the country, own woods+ chickens, travel
Job: teaching profoundly autistic preschool in a low income public school❤️, RBT therapist.
Age 60- im turning 60 in 2 monthes. My dreams are the same as 50 except i want to work part time now. A full day is alot. I get my artistic outlet by doing project with my students, painting cards for birthdays, weddings, babyshowers ect for family and projects at home. I go to the woods often for walks and vacation in the white mountains alot. Read alot, garden alot.
I have incorporated teaching, parenting, nursing (sort of as my students are disabled, autistic, medical issues)and artist into my work and home life.
Just have to say partner and I loooooved the Detroit show.... I wanted to holler that I know Sandi Patty.... but you may have kinda figured since I was singing higher harmony than Sheryl Crow ;) in the houndstooth jacket that I clipped the shoulder pads out of.
I don't know if I had a real dream when I was a teenager (when it was the 90s!)...get married, have kids...it was what good Christian girls did....I got married at 20 and got a degree in music and taught piano and homeschooled my kids for a dozen years....then I developed a dream (also deconstructed faith) went back to grad school at 40 and got my masters in social work last year....on my way to becoming a therapist. (Still homeschooling the teens too).
SHAMALA HAMALA KEVINNNNNNNN!
Love your stories, personality, All of that! Just wanted to say HAIIIII!
My dreams and hopes majorly shifted once I had kids. My girls at the time were only 1 and 3 but I realized as a college dropout who never reached my full potential that I now HAD to go back to school and do something to better all our lives and to set a couple of examples for them: it's never to late to change your mind and follow your dreams, hard work and determination do really pay off, and as a woman how important it is to earn your own income, enough that you can be financially independent if/when that day comes. I just wanted them to be proud of me. Now I also have a son and I'm so glad I've given him this example too. At ages 13 through 19, I wanted to be an engineer. At age 26, I decided to become a nurse. Now in my 40s, still a nurse but I just want more time and freedom to do the things I enjoy and I'm focused these days on working to live instead of living to work. I wish I would have made life, relationships, health, and experiences the most important things 20 years ago, but I'll take my own advice that it's never too late to change your mind ❤️
Dreams definitely change but I feel like its the same things you have always loved just redefined as you experience new things. Often things you where good at as a child, can merge with other careers. Mine is as follows:
Age 10- Dreams= teacher, librarian, mom, build a log cabin in the woods
Age 20- Dreams= nurse, professional artist, mom, physical therapist, Forest ranger
Job= designing custom retainers for an orthodontic lab
Age 30- Dream= teacher
Job= mom of 3 sons❤️, and early childhood teacher. Organic veg+fruit garden.
Age 40- Dream= live on an organic farm, professional artist, speech pathologist.
Job= public school teacher assistant and art teacher after school. Loved teaching art❤️ ( jobs in between: home daycare for special needs children, preschool teacher)
Age 50- Dream: move to the country, own woods+ chickens, travel
Job: teaching profoundly autistic preschool in a low income public school❤️, RBT therapist.
Age 60- im turning 60 in 2 monthes. My dreams are the same as 50 except i want to work part time now. A full day is alot. I get my artistic outlet by doing project with my students, painting cards for birthdays, weddings, babyshowers ect for family and projects at home. I go to the woods often for walks and vacation in the white mountains alot. Read alot, garden alot.
I have incorporated teaching, parenting, nursing (sort of as my students are disabled, autistic, medical issues)and artist into my work and home life.
Can't wait to see you in Portland
Just have to say partner and I loooooved the Detroit show.... I wanted to holler that I know Sandi Patty.... but you may have kinda figured since I was singing higher harmony than Sheryl Crow ;) in the houndstooth jacket that I clipped the shoulder pads out of.
Score.
Can’t wait to see you in Kansas City. Make sure to get some barbecue while you are here! We love Smokehouse and Hawg Jaw.
We’re around the corner right now and can’t WAIT to see you tonight!!!!