When I was young I was a straight A student, so of course my parents more or less expected me to be  lawyer or a doctor, but I since I excelled artistically, I wanted to be a cartoonist. Then after my accident at ten years of age, things changed, but I still had my artistic ability and I had pursued  drafting, but couldn't go that far with it because it required a lot of math, which I was lacking in. Right now I'm happy to have the knowledge of a home improvement business that I've been a part of for the past fourteen years, and the ability for writing suspense novels.

Gina 

Cheez wiz man. If after transition you are lucky to keep the job you have or start something else that is more suited for a lady and you like the work you do, hang on to it tooth and nail. Being retired is not what it's all cut out to be. I am on my knees every night adding to my prayers to be useful again. Especially having a good chance at starting a drop in center and support group for Trans girls, and guys. I am just not ready to be put out to pasture yet. This old grey mare is quite alive and kicking.

Cindy 

I like to go fast, so maybe like a race car driver.. although I don't like nascar maybe like rally or something. I do have a former race car :-D
I would like to fly a fighter jet, but I don't believe in them as a use for war. And as some of others on here.. I would love to go into space, once you get there might not be fast.. its still something I would love to see and do. Sadly I have never reached any dreams.

~Rachel~

The concept of retirement isn't to be lazy, it's to be uncommited?  Mmhmm.  10 horus of work a week is IDEAL.

If there's any uber rich guys who don't care about XY and XX, marry me:-O

I also wanted to be a JEDI MASTER.

I still do>.>

If you do what you love, and love what you do retirement is a death sentence. 

Growing up my dream was to be a girl.  I just wasn't sure that it was possible at the time.  Now that that has happened (well mostly) I can move on to other things.

I think I have a pretty good idea of what I will be when I grow up.
I want to be a RN and work in a nursing home.  I am starting school this fall to take some classes to be eligible to apply for the nursing program.  If I don't make it in the first time then I will work for another semester and do some volunteer work, etc, and then apply again, and again if necessary.  Normally a competitive program like ours would dissuade me from applying over again, but I feel that this is what I really want to do.

Audrey

"Amen to that!!!" Tekla hon
I didn't really have any choice in retiering from my last job and I am doing everything I can to even just volunteering doing similar type of work except this time it is going to be working with Trans folks instead of mental health consumers, they became like a family. I can only just hope I can have the opportunity to do that with my sisters and brothers.

Cindy

Quote from: tekla on February 24, 2008, 01:40:54 PM
If you do what you love, and love what you do retirement is a death sentence. 

Retirement gives you the opportunity to expand your experience and passions to enjoy at a greater level.

I've always had a variety of interests. I've gotten several out of the way now. I've worked as a mechanic on both automobiles and aircraft. I've worked on avionics systems. I raced cars for 2 years. I've worked as a medical assistant for several years now.
I'd like to work with hi-tech prosthetics. I've always been interested in robotics and who knows? I might even get a shot at that some time.

Karen Lyn

Quote from: Audrey on February 24, 2008, 01:48:16 PM
Growing up my dream was to be a girl.  I just wasn't sure that it was possible at the time.  Now that that has happened (well mostly) I can move on to other things.

I think I have a pretty good idea of what I will be when I grow up.
I want to be a RN and work in a nursing home.  I am starting school this fall to take some classes to be eligible to apply for the nursing program.  If I don't make it in the first time then I will work for another semester and do some volunteer work, etc, and then apply again, and again if necessary.  Normally a competitive program like ours would dissuade me from applying over again, but I feel that this is what I really want to do.

Audrey

LOL, Want to be a RN too...

Few American girls dream of being nurses, turns out, they can be doctors now too.

For someone who didn't even have have a high school equivalent I did manage to get the education required to secure employment as a Social Worker. Those twenty years were the best twenty years I have had on a job, I never had any other job I liked as much in. I worked at prior to that. I don't know, but trying to help others in need is what was, and still is in my heart. And Audry my dream of being a girl never diminished though the years and at least I am thankful I had the honor to serve as a Social Worker for the last 8 years as Cindy.

Cindy

I know people who do jobs they went to college for, and others, well we work, its just not a traditional application - which does not mean we are not using our education. 

Anyone who works as a social worker has my love and respect.  I know I could not do it. 

I just don't like the "boys are doctors, girls are nurses' deal, and even less from those who are otherwise trying to shatter gender lines. 

Its not that I think that I couldn't be a doctor I just don't want to be one at this point.

Audrey

Retirement gives you the opportunity to expand your experience and passions to enjoy at a greater level.

What I do, and what I love to do, is not possible at any sort of non professional or part time level.  You do it, or not.  No in-between.

And I joke - though I'm not kidding - that I took my retirement up front, when I was in my 20s and could still enjoy it (despite the fact I had no money) rather than at the tail end, when I had money, but no physical ability to do it anymore, regardless of what 'it' was.

i wanted to be an architect; i chose criminal psychology & forensics instead.  tsk tsk tsk.

HAHA, Thats kind of funny Tekla that you said that about your retirement.  A friend of mine who is in his fifties has always said the same thing.  He went to cali during the hippie days and lived it up.  He is always telling me about the eccentric people he was friends with and seeing the rolling stones.  Actually he was the first person that I came out to.

Audrey

I wanted to be:

An Oceanographer - I went through a stage where I was obsessed with the oceans and the life in them.
An Astronaut - What kid didn't want to be one at some point?
A Computer Game tester - Too bad it rarely pays well.
A Comic Book Artist - I wish I'd stuck with this one, only recently have revived my art talents.
A Psychologist - Another that I kind of wonder how things would be different had I persued it.  I really like the idea of helping people.


I ended up going to college for a couple years (no degree though) and then got hired on at a software company that I've been working at for the past 8 1/2 years doing support and later software testing.  Not the happiest career choice I could have made, but at least it pays pretty decent.

Well I grew up in Cali, so it was not a choice, just a chance.  And that white boy walking the streets of Tangiers after hours like a total idiot, or laying on the beach at Goa stoned out of my mind - yeah, I've been there.  Road a Ossa 250 from San Diego to Rio de Janeiro , so stupid I can't even imagine it now, yeah, I did that crap too. (not to mention having sex with a ->-bleeped-<- in Rio, I'm lucky to be alive for sure. - And that is not even mentioning crossing the border into Nicaragua while Reagan was President - had to clean my pants after that one.)

But it sure beats playing golf.

And, if nothing else, once you have had a couple of very foreign guys lock and load a few AKs on you when you are far from home, those teen age girls in the mall are no big deal.

i just wanted the world to leave me to my own devices, i'd show them what I had done when I was finished.