Anyone here have any expectations for their childrens careers?  OR do you think they will head down a certain path?

I have expectations but my children can be what they want to be and follow the path they chose when it comes that time.  I do think my 8 year old son will be a Philantropist.  He is the next Brangelina in making.  I only say that cause he talks about adopting hords of children from foreign countries to give them better lives.  His aspirations otherwise are to play football. 

I think my seven year old daugther will be a teacher.  She says she wants to be a dentist but getting her to brush her teeth is an argument each day. My other children are just too young and all over the place for me to take a guess.

Is anyone even close to having a career in what they thought they would be when they were younger?  I wanted to be a nurse, I did that got my BSN and since have taken off in a different path.

I think everyone who ever became a nurse either takes off on a different path or desperately would like to. Talk about a job with a high burnout rate! Too bad it it’s one of the few around here that can still guarantee you a good salary and secure employment future.

brebro - 20 March 2009 02:21 PM

I think everyone who ever became a nurse either takes off on a different path or desperately would like to. Talk about a job with a high burnout rate! Too bad it it’s one of the few around here that can still guarantee you a good salary and secure employment future.

This is so true.  I just found that typical bedside nursing was not for me.  I then took off to a career in mental health which with NC participating in mental health care reform is not a sercure place to be.  I am currently thinking about using my degree to teach new nurses.  It is a shame that places like AB Tech don’t enroll more students each semester into the program and give burnt out nurses from massive staffing shortages a break.  They should not lower the standards cause nursing school is the hardest thing I have ever done but it’s a shame when there are qualified canidates to attend the program and no seats.

It’s pretty unlikely your children will have even a semblance of the kind of economic opportunities you have had, Mama.

Get em well-trained in shooting guns and growing food.

I think future law enforcement will be a good field. Have them look into either being an Interceptor or a Sandman.

I didn’t steer my kids in any way and they both found very different paths in life ...

I think kids and even adults often times take winding roads on the path of life (you can quote me) so trying to guide them to do anything other than love learning and love the red sox is counter productive ... let them find their paths just teach them how to love and grow and live and learn(again you can quote me)

I’m steering my son towards misogynist escape artistry, the military, an early grave - stuff like that.

tattttms - 22 March 2009 11:08 PM

I didn’t steer my kids in any way and they both found very different paths in life ...

I think kids and even adults often times take winding roads on the path of life (you can quote me) so trying to guide them to do anything other than love learning and love the red sox is counter productive ... let them find their paths just teach them how to love and grow and live and learn(again you can quote me)

My kids do love the red sox :)  I just couldn’t teach them the woes of being a Braves fan.

What exactly is misogynist escape artistry?

Sounds like a Cirque de Sole kinda thing.

WestAVLMama - 23 March 2009 08:38 AM

tattttms - 22 March 2009 11:08 PM

I didn’t steer my kids in any way and they both found very different paths in life ...

I think kids and even adults often times take winding roads on the path of life (you can quote me) so trying to guide them to do anything other than love learning and love the red sox is counter productive ... let them find their paths just teach them how to love and grow and live and learn(again you can quote me)

My kids do love the red sox :)  I just couldn’t teach them the woes of being a Braves fan.

well you are a brilliant mother and the kids are off to a fabulous start in life ...

The (PFKaP) - 23 March 2009 07:45 PM

What exactly is misogynist escape artistry?

Sounds like a Cirque de Sole kinda thing.

It’s the ability to quickly leave a relationship when it starts to smell like forever, while telling the other party “it’s not you”.

Mr. Yuck - 23 March 2009 08:39 PM

The (PFKaP) - 23 March 2009 07:45 PM

What exactly is misogynist escape artistry?

Sounds like a Cirque de Sole kinda thing.

It’s the ability to quickly leave a relationship when it starts to smell like forever, while telling the other party “it’s not you”.

Oh. You mean being a guy.

The (PFKaP) - 23 March 2009 08:50 PM

Mr. Yuck - 23 March 2009 08:39 PM

The (PFKaP) - 23 March 2009 07:45 PM

What exactly is misogynist escape artistry?

Sounds like a Cirque de Sole kinda thing.

It’s the ability to quickly leave a relationship when it starts to smell like forever, while telling the other party “it’s not you”.

Oh. You mean being a guy.

hey hey hey .... you can’t say that ... that is a gross generalization which is the exclusive territory of spurned women ....

I’ve never done that but I hear it works, if “works” means a miserable and self-absorbed existence, which gutless me aspires to.

Mr. Yuck - 23 March 2009 09:00 PM

I’ve never done that but I hear it works, if “works” means a miserable and self-absorbed existence, which gutless me aspires to.

I’m guessing CP doesnt read this thread?

She just got home STFU. Oink.