BEDA Blog #13 - Careers

I realized today that I was a weird kid. Well, I already knew this but when I put it in perspective I was really weird. I never had those generic kid "what I want to do when I grow up" dreams. By this I mean vet, firefighter, teacher, police officer. Clearly, all of these jobs are important but I feel like kids pick them because they are what they are exposed to most often. But I never had one of those "normal" aspirations. And even more odd, I almost always had jobs that were in some way related to science. If you know me, you know I'm very right brained, english and history are my forte, I've always been OK at science. Not every job was about science but nearly.

When I was in 3rd grade I decided I wanted to be a paleontologist. What 8 year old I whated to go into paleontology? That probably explains why my favorite movie is Jurassic Park. But I was dead set on paleontology. I got just about every book from our school library out and read them cover to cover. I've since forgotten a majority of the information. That lasted for about two years.

When I was in 5th grade, I decided meteorology was my thing. I know the reason for this new career choice was because I liked watching the weather channel. Which is just weird in general. But I wanted to go into meteorology. That stopped in the beginning of 7th grade when I took "weather" in my science class and decided there was a lot more to it that I actually didn't enjoy.

After that for about two years I wanted to be a writer. I mean I read a lot right? How hard could it be to do that? Well that was just dumb, and I soon realized that I wasn't that great of a writer and the technicalities of writing bored me to tears. Also, I think if I was forced to read books, I would stop enjoying reading them in general. And I realized that wasn't a lucrative career and I'm not even big into money issues.

So in about 9th grade I did some research and found anthropology. Technically it is a science, a social science. I think this just works for me. It has all the best parts of history and culture and travel mixed into something I can spend my whole life doing. I'm so excited to start actually taking classes in this subject because I've taken a similar class (sociology) and I really enjoyed it.