Future careers/jobs?

[zombiesarepeaceful]

I dropped out of high school when I was 16 to transition. I'm almost 20 now.

Still have to get my GED. I'm adhd, but wasn't diagnosed til I was 17. I'm now on meds for it and it helps, some. If I don't take them though, I can't concentrate to save my life.

I'm planning to get my CDL license after I get my GED.

And in the meantime, taking any job I can get.

[Muddy]

I'm 26, and just wasted the last 8 years of my life in the Army.

Okay, not wasted.  It just ended up not being a life career like I had wanted.  They have these silly rules about transpeople and all...

So, since I've had that carpet yanked out from beneath me, I'm taking the money I got out of those 8 years to school and pursuing my Masters in Social Work.  I'd like to work clinically as a Social Worker, within the LGBT or Combat Veterans communities.

[Turtle]

I'm a teacher, and middle manager at a Secondary (High) School. I'm leaving at Christmas as I want to start transitioning, and don't really fancy doing it in front of 1000 teenagers and their families. I'm not strong enough for that.

I'd love to work as a counsellor (therapist), but can't afford the training. At the moment I'll do pretty much any job I can to earn enough money.

If we're talking real dreams here, I work as a volunteer news reader on a talking newspaper. If someone would pay me for that, I'd be over the moon.

[Al James]

i ve spent the last 14 years as a dispatcher in a taxi office now up to manager status. once upon a time i had dreams of being a teacher but then i decided i really didnt get on with kids all that well.

[Konnor]

I'm jealous of the train driver and rocket propulsion design guys!!

I have another year before I'm done with college. My major is electro-mechanical engineering but I hope to get a job in the aerospace/aviation industry. My dream was always to be a pilot in the USAF, but that dream got shot down after a brief stint in ROTC because of anxiety/depression meds. Ugh. Oh well I guess.

[Devin87]

I'd say I want to be a teacher, but I am a teacher.     2nd grade, to be exact.  Which is why I'm sort of putting a hold on my transition for awhile.  I think I'm going to go back from my Masters probably as a teacher for the blind, and I'll hopefully transition while getting my Masters and start that new career as a man (if everything goes according to plan).  We'll see what ends up happening.

[Nygeel]

I've got a handful of things I want to do:
Childcare...preferably from 2-10. The problem is that a lot of guys that want to go into that kind of work are often seen as creepy and pedophiles which kind of deters me from going into that kind of career.
I've got a lot of knowledge in photography so doing something in a studio would be cool.
I passed a course on circus skills so that might be another possibility.
The other thing I've thought of is doing hair...another work place where men aren't typically welcomed (let alone guys that are for the most part straight).

[Jamie]

Reality is different to dreams.

Yes, it is. 

I always wanted to be in Army, but that just wasn't possible.
I also like to write, so I hope that one day I'll publish something good.

For now, I'm on college, and when I finish I'll be professor. 

[Morgan]

I'm majoring in Graphic Design to be a concept artist and a... Uh graphic designer lol. Concept art is what I wanna do, but graphic design will rake in the cash $_$

[Shang]

I'm currently getting a degree in history.  My dream job would be doing paleontology, but I don't know if I'm good enough to get an Earth Science degree.  I would also love to teach college.  And be a full-time writer.  And a stay at home wife/husband. 

So much stuff...not enough time.

Yay!  I get to add stuff.  I'm probably going to be teaching high school in a few years through a military school.  Do I want to?  Not really, but the pay is good and it'll help get to where I can do what want.  Oddly enough, I'm excited despite not liking high schoolers.

[Devin87]

I've also decided recently (I think I had an idea I wanted to do this, but I really decided on it last night around 1 am [funny the things I decide at 1am]) that I want to make myself a modern day nomad at least until I'm in my 30s or so.  I want to move somewhere new every few years.  I'm doing two years teaching with AmeriCorps starting in August in the southwest desert then I think I may try to find a teaching job for two years or so in Alaska and then I might try my hand at the Peace Corps before going back to grad school or maybe I'll try getting into the DOD school district.  I figure as long as I'm teaching in places without high demand for teachers (aka- not the suburbs) they won't mind that I only stay two years at a time.  Yeah.  That sounds like an awesome life.

[elvistears]

Screwed around for years, now I know where I'm going.  I'm going to be a practising artist. People always look at me like, yeah whatever, when they ask me what I'm going to do with my fine arts degree, but I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think it was what I was going to do.  Art is all I really can do on a regular basis and I'm very serious about it.  I want to prove everyone wrong about me.

I'm not completely unrealistic though, hardly anyone can make a living just from art.  I'm going to continue working in libraries, I have done since I was 17.  It's a good place for me, a good place to be trans, I can be surrounded by information and enjoying working in a place that is mostly women, lots of whom are very attractive 

I'd also like to teach small after school art classes for kid's out of my home.  I don't know if that will be difficult to do as a man, since most of those classes are run by women. It sucks that people will see a male name and assume they want to molest your children.  I just wanna teach kids how much fun art can be out of the school context, and my house is an old 1880s school house so it's perfect.

[gilligan]

I'm in my junior year in college, and i have decided to go into research. I am a psychology major and biology minor. I hope to research how biology influences behavior or something like that. I know that i am too messed up to go into clinical psychology.

[DRAIN]

i'll have my associate's in graphic design soon, and i'm thinking of going on to get a bachelor's in something. the something is what i'm having a hard time deciding. i might go for graphic design since i'm passionate about it and good at it, but i've always wanted to be a mechanical engineer (though i suck at math so that probably won't happen). other ideas are nutritionist, business owner, mechanic, art historian, food photographer....i'm probably forgetting a few. i basically want to do everything xD. i love machinery and designing things, and art, and i want to set my own schedule and work from wherever i want. yeah, i'm asking a lot 

[rexgsd]

my dream job is a rodeo cowboy! yeeeeeeeeeehaw!!!

[colormyworld]

Like a few others, I'm also going to school for graphic design! I'm almost done with my associates in visual communications with a concentration in graphic design. I'll probably go on to get a bachelors degree in either graphic design or advertising design. I ultimately want to do ads and layouts and stuff like that!

[Cowboi]

This question has been my nemesis for a few years now. I was going to school to be a therapist, but lately I've decided that I don't like the idea of going to school for freaking ever. Seriously, it takes way to long. At this rate I'd maybe have a decent enough client list to possibly start private practice by the time I'm like 40 something... and that just doesn't appeal to me.

The current idea is to work in a national park as a ranger. That also requires school (which comically surprises a lot of people) but not nearly as much.

I currently work in the hospitality industry doing reservations and have been doing that for a few years, I am actually really good at it and enjoy the hotel industry so maybe I'll just stick on that path... but I doubt it.

In an ideal world I'd be a stay at home husband or a professional organizer. Seriously, there ARE professional organizers. That would be the most badass job in my book.

[Byren]

My dream was always to be a pilot in the USAF, but that dream got shot down after a brief stint in ROTC because of anxiety/depression meds. Ugh. Oh well I guess.

*sigh* Me too. I wanted to fly an Osprey for the Marines sooo badly! Stupid armed forces and their depression med rules....grr! I even tried going without them for four months...er....it wasn't pretty. 

Anyway, I have several dream jobs all kinda meshed together. I want to be a novelist. I've had that dream since I knew how to write! I also want to work in film as a director or actor...small time film is fine by me. More a hobby than anything. Yay for B-movies!

I've just started back at school (already have a history degree) to pursue digital animation/modeling, but I'm going to take a few film classes too. It's only a two-year degree with guaranteed work at the end, so that's going to be my moneymaker while I work on the novelist part. It doesn't hurt that I love art of any form.

Currently I work in retail at a bookstore, but that's going to have to end as soon as I can find another job flexible enough for a school schedule. I'm planning to present as male at school starting this fall, and I can't do that in a customer service type position. Well...I could...but that's a stress I'd rather avoid. ^_^;

(any suggestions on work that's out of the public eye would be appreciated! All I can seem to find is customer service stuff....urgh!)

[Cowboi]

I wanted to join the Navy with my best friend, even before I began transition I considered it but they denied me due to an asthma problem. After they denied me I started T within about 2 months, a month after that the doctors put me in a little glass box and tested my breathing... I didn't have asthma! If I'd done that 3 months earlier I would have been in the military rather than transitioning right now. I still feel that it is a loss, the training and being able to travel (plus we could have been stationed together) *sigh*.

I also feel that I would have done really well there, she believes I wouldn't have been happy or lasted in the military. She is a life career person and has been in the Navy since we graduated high school. For some reason she can't understand or see that I'm actually very comfortable with my body and would have done fine living by their rules... I didn't want to make it a life long career, more of a shorter term thing that would have allowed me to save the money for my surgeries before I got out.

I think it's just so depressing that I didn't get in for a stupid reason that ended up not being accurate in the first place. I'd feel better if I didn't get in because I was trans or on hormones, or even because I was bipolar (hadn't been diagnosed at that point in time either). But no, I got denied because I had a stupid doctor when I was a teenager who misdiagnosed me several times with different things. I also have apparently had growing pains for like 8 years according to him. They didn't figure out that I had STOPPED growing and had an actual common hip problem in females (that wouldn't have gotten me denied from the military as a side note) until I was almost 20 years old and had to see a specialist after a dog attack. Somehow the fact that I hadn't gotten any taller since I was about 14 didn't change the "growing pains" theory he had.

Obviously I now have a different doctor since I'm old enough to choose one for myself and don't have insurance under my parents. I also realized he wasn't very comfortable with my transsexual identity.

[GnomeKid]

I'm currently in school going for 2 different degrees.  The first is a BA in technical theatre.  I'd like to do almost anything in that field.  Lights, sound, props, ect.........  The second is a BS in biology.  With that degree I'd like to work either with animals [big/wild cats especially] or on some sort of conservation land doing outdoors work.  I do NOT want to be stuck in any sort of office for the majority of any of my days. 

I'm not sure which will end up working out, but both seem great.  I also want to go to grad school.  Probably for theatre directly out of college, but perhaps later in life go back to grad school for more of the bio.  Hell, I like learning apparently.