like what did you dream for in the future or wanted as a job for when you became an adult. what did you end up getting stuck with?

i dident really have a dream as a kid, those were the years when i messed around and learned. now im in high school struggling with life and being paranoid for dumb reasons.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    When I was a little kid people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I simply answered “Happy”.

    As I got older I learned what I enjoyed doing and I had some ideas.

    First I wanted to be teacher, then I wanted to be an engineer, then I wanted to be a teacher again, then I became homeless so I had only the dream of getting enough of a job to get a roof over my head.

    Then life got harder once I left highschool and basically all the support I was getting went away. I was homeless and I had a job that I was dumping all of my money into going to school to try and make it work. I really wanted to be a teacher.

    Then some stuff happened causing life to get even harder and I dropped out. What little support I had went away.

    I still had dreams of being a teacher as soon as I could get my life together.

    Then my life fell apart further.

    And further.

    Eventually I got my life together enough to try again. But then life got hard again and I had to make a call. Risk homelessness again or drop out again.

    I drive a forklift now… I have for nearly a decade and I’ll probably drive it for a long long time more.

    Sometimes I think about becoming a teacher, but finances being what they are nowadays I could never afford the schooling and rent. And with what teacher’s salaries are if I took loans I’d never be able to pay them back.