Heya guys. Just out of curiousity, what are your plans for the future? Dream jobs, planned careers, anything.
Me, I just flunked out of a four year college (combo of ADD and GID completely destroyed my schoolwork). I'm going to the local community college for culinary next semester and I am totally pumped. I am going to school as Matt, and I'm going to try and pass the whole time as male. I can't wait, and I love to cook so I can't wait to actually learn something and work hard at it.
I'm currently working as a Graphic Designer (and have done for the past 8 years), but my long-term goal is to get my degree in Industrial Design.
Good luck with the culinary school, hope it works out great for ya! :)
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.
I've given up, will only be disappointed anyway. Only vicious canutes win in this world.
My dream career is to be a journalist because I love writing, but there aren't really any jobs left in the field because of the internet and such.
I'm gunna be a police man ;D
God i sound like such a kid.
I originally wanted to be a psychologist, or a therapist, but then I realized I had too many problems of my own, and that i really don't need other peoples issues on my shoulders as well.
I'm the future inventor of the one-charge battery.
I'll be using this technology to power more specifically designed space rocket propulsion systems, amoung other as-of-yet unplotted mechanical/electronic wonders.
Essentially, I'm going to revolutionise the entire power industry and by monopolising the whole thing, I'll swiftly and easily take over the world.
Just a heads-up. And not to encourage ass-kissing, but I do enjoy the ring of "Your Greatness".
I plan to teach middle school! 8D English, social studies, and ESL to be precise.
Why yes, I am slightly insane. I enjoy a little craziness in my life, thanks. |D
Quote from: DaddySplicer on June 24, 2010, 06:40:47 PMJust a heads-up. And not to encourage ass-kissing, but I do enjoy the ring of "Your Greatness".
Only if you promise to pay for my surgery.
Quote from: Lachlann on June 24, 2010, 07:16:51 PM
Only if you promise to pay for my surgery.
Psh. Please. All you have to do is ask. I'll have an entire bureau dedicated for these things.
I really want to be a musician (a rockstar would be nice) or a skateboarder. You know dream big. Haha. But just incase, I'm taking classes and going to tech school for drafting so my realistic plan is an architect.
Quote from: michaeljay33 on June 24, 2010, 02:43:41 PM
My dream career is to be a journalist because I love writing, but there aren't really any jobs left in the field because of the internet and such.
I work in the newspaper industry, and journalists will still have jobs FOREVER. Just because things are going digital these days, does not mean that there aren't many people out there who want to hold a physical product while they read. Books, magazines, newspapers, still have a long life left - at least as long as your career would be and then some. Also, even with the eventual shift to digital, who do you think writes those articles? It's true that anyone can write a blog, no credentials necessary, but when you want "real" news that you know you can trust, the major hitters are still the way to go. That aspect of news won't change drastically over the years, as accuracy and accountability are tradeable commodities. There will be work in the field, so don't give up your dream yet. Besides, I know many a reporter/journalist/writer and the majority of them are really awesome people, who I expect won't give up their passion without a fight, just TRY to get them to go silently into the night! lol ;D
this is something i've been thinking about a lot lately. currently i work m-f as a caretaker to my grandmother, who is recovering from a stroke. prior to that i worked full time for the last five years as an EMT. should my caretaking job end any time soon, i could go back and probably get full time hours on the ambulance fairly easily. however, my transition is beginning and i'm going to have to figure out how to explain that to my co-workers and bosses. ideally, i could start all over with something new, as male, and that would be incredible. i'm still just taking it a day at a time though.
Comic book artist would be cool, probably wouldn't happen.
Maybe biotechnology or genetics or something like that. Those things interest me. I could be working on those possible stem cell ideas you all like to mention.
I am lost and it's pissing me off. I'm juggling everything at once atm.
My original plan is to become a police officer but I feel like I can't do it. I'm dumb and unfit :( TINY aswell. For now, I just want any job so while I work I can go for policing and I'll still be financially stable for my transition, my needs and to make my gf proud. Really need to buy a house and a car.
Well I know this is in FTM but I'll post anyway if you guys don't mind :)
My future plans are to be either a translator, actress, or maybe a mix of both :]
Quote from: SilverFang on June 24, 2010, 09:27:21 PM
Maybe biotechnology or genetics or something like that. Those things interest me. I could be working on those possible stem cell ideas you all like to mention.
I've just finished a degree in genetics. I'm taking a year out to transition etc and generally sort my life out, then hoping to do a PhD in the stem cells area.I intend to spend my life in a lab!
My goal is psychiatry. (Yay being in school forEVER. :-\) Haha, but anyway, yes. Psychiatry. Part of me wants to focus on trans-issues, but I'm not sure how much money I could make if I focused too intently on that. (Either way, I'm at least minoring in LGBT studies now.) So probably just general psychiatry. Point is, working with other people's issues. :laugh:
Reality is different to dreams. What you think you want to do, might not be how you envisioned it when you get there. Or when you get older, you realize you aren't really the person you thought you'd be as an adult.
I was in IT. When I was a kid, I thought it'd be my dream industry. I still love the tech, but...
To get anywhere in IT it involves wearing a suit and brown-nosing people. The higher you get, the less it is about the tech and the more it becomes about business lunches, meetings, conformity and politics.
I thought I'd enjoy the suit and climbing the greasy pole (Why? Because it's there! </yesminister>). I thought I wanted to be some sort of business man.
After a little while, I eventually owned up and accepted the fact that I'm just too much of a laid back, open minded, non-conforming and generally chilled guy to stomach that sort of thing. And honest... waaaaaay too honest :laugh:.
I really wanted to be a yuppie so badly. I wanted to drink the kool aid, and be more "successful" than my blue collar parents. But alas - you just can't take the steel city out of the boy ;).
So I said "F*** that noise!" and went and became a train driver :laugh: (well... technically I'm still in training for the next 9 - 12 months).
And might I say - I freaking love my job! ;D
Quote from: Teknoir on June 25, 2010, 08:40:11 AM
and became a train driver
That. Is friggin' aweesoooooome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'd say I want to be a teacher, but I am a teacher. ;D 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.
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).
Quote from: Teknoir on June 25, 2010, 08:40:11 AM
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. :-\
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 $_$
Quote from: Shang on June 24, 2010, 12:58:05 PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ;D
my dream job is a rodeo cowboy! yeeeeeeeeeehaw!!!
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!
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.
Quote from: konman on June 25, 2010, 08:17:11 PM
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. :icon_zombie:
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!)
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. :P
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.
I'm doing a PhD in soil sciences so I suppose I am going to end up working in some sort of scientific field. Don't want to be an academic though.
As long as I can get a job earning over £27k in the city after I finish this, then I'll be laughing. I write novels too, I would love to get a few published one day. And when I get old I want to either start a business or work for a business restoring classic cars or scooters.
When I came to Enlisting age, I figured I wouldn't be able to do it. I'd have to drop 60lbs to get into the end range of overweight soldiers and who knows what else. I wanted to be a United States Marine, just like my father. I still yearn for the chance, but knowing I wouldn't be able to do it as a man makes it hurt a little less. :-\
Another dream would branch from my music. I played for 8 years and knew the entire time that it was what I wanted to do, but here I am, not doing it. I wanted to take the amazing potential that I had to new lengths and audition for a spot at Julliard. I still dream of the chance. ::)
As for reality, I'm taking to an interest I had and really enjoyed in high school. I took Auto Tech and I just felt great using my hands. I figure this is my calling and so I'm taking classes this Fall semester to get working my two certificates and finish up my last two GE classes for my AA. ;D
Yep. :)
Well as of now...I'm now a janitor. Well, not technically. But I work for a cleaning company that contracts with businesses and we clean them. I do bathrooms (which oddly, I don't mind cleaning and could do it all day) and floors. I get to run one of those little floor cleaning machine things, and then a giant rotating pad that polishes them....fun fun...I fit the typical male stereotype now...HAHAHAHA.
Post Merge: June 29, 2010, 04:01:06 PM
Well as of now...I'm now a janitor. Well, not technically. But I work for a cleaning company that contracts with businesses and we clean them. I do bathrooms (which oddly, I don't mind cleaning and could do it all day) and floors. I get to run one of those little floor cleaning machine things, and then a giant rotating pad that polishes them....fun fun...I fit the typical male stereotype now...HAHAHAHA.
I'm currently only 15, so at the moment I'm not able to do much towards my future. My first plan is to be a rock star (like every other teenager wants to be XD), and then my backup plan is to join the circus. And my backup plan after that is to become a doctor.
Quote from: Wolf Man on June 29, 2010, 02:19:30 PM
As for reality, I'm taking to an interest I had and really enjoyed in high school. I took Auto Tech and I just felt great using my hands. I figure this is my calling and so I'm taking classes this Fall semester to get working my two certificates and finish up my last two GE classes for my AA. ;D
Ah, the dream of all dreams :)
My fiancee actually is a mechanic, although now that she is transitioning and passes as female easily it is harder for her to find work. We live in Nebraska so a lot of people are very close minded about female mechanics here. The funny part is she's only 30 and has had her certification as a mechanic for 13 years and her certification as a parts specialist for 17 years... so obviously experience should not be a concern with her. Her father owned his own shop and she was raised doing work there with him.
If we had the money I would open a shop with her and get my certification as well. Realistically though it is just something we'd never be able to afford to do :(