What I want to be when I grow up...
The first memory I have of wanting to be something when i grew up was whenever I was four years old and crawing around in bed with my parents after I woke them up on a Saturday morning. I told my mother that I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. She was expecting something profound and probaby something to do with animals because that's what I loved most in the world.
"A waitress in the Big Apple!" I said with a large grin.
My mother's smile faded. "No, Aidan, you want to be a vetrinarian."
"Why?"
"Because waitresses don't make enough money."
"Oh. Ok!" And from that day up unti the age of fifteen, I wanted to be a vet. After that, I thought about going into advertising for about a week, and then I decided that I was going to manage a farm and would go to school for business. That is, I had planned on that before the bitterness.
When I was a senior in high school I finally go my driver's license. That's right, I didn't get it until I was a senior because I never had time to go get it. I had spent every moment at the barn after school ever since I was eleven years old. I don't care if it was thirty below or one hundred degrees, I was there working with my horses because I liked to win. And the only way to win at horse shows was to be the best. But after I was told that I would have to sell Stubben after I went to school I became a little resentful of the barn. I wanted to spend time with my friends before I went off to school and since everyone was so accumstomed to me being there all the time, it was a "big problem" when I wanted to take a night off.
So, at this time I was applying to college and I looked at Westminster and decided that I could get in and that it was far enough away from home that I could go home if I wanted and that they couldn't control me anymore.
That was a random tangent story that needed to be told to understand why I'm here. Sorry for that. Anyway, I gave up on business and looked at the choices westminster offered me and I figured, "Hey, I like theatre, but I want to make money...so broadcasting is close to that." And the rest is history. Now here I am, I like what I do, but I'm back to wanting to incorporate the horses into my life because at the end of the day they truly are my passion and my love. And I'm a damn god rider and teacher too. I should be, for sixteen years doing it.
So all in all, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but, hopefully, one day I'll figure it out.
"A waitress in the Big Apple!" I said with a large grin.
My mother's smile faded. "No, Aidan, you want to be a vetrinarian."
"Why?"
"Because waitresses don't make enough money."
"Oh. Ok!" And from that day up unti the age of fifteen, I wanted to be a vet. After that, I thought about going into advertising for about a week, and then I decided that I was going to manage a farm and would go to school for business. That is, I had planned on that before the bitterness.
When I was a senior in high school I finally go my driver's license. That's right, I didn't get it until I was a senior because I never had time to go get it. I had spent every moment at the barn after school ever since I was eleven years old. I don't care if it was thirty below or one hundred degrees, I was there working with my horses because I liked to win. And the only way to win at horse shows was to be the best. But after I was told that I would have to sell Stubben after I went to school I became a little resentful of the barn. I wanted to spend time with my friends before I went off to school and since everyone was so accumstomed to me being there all the time, it was a "big problem" when I wanted to take a night off.
So, at this time I was applying to college and I looked at Westminster and decided that I could get in and that it was far enough away from home that I could go home if I wanted and that they couldn't control me anymore.
That was a random tangent story that needed to be told to understand why I'm here. Sorry for that. Anyway, I gave up on business and looked at the choices westminster offered me and I figured, "Hey, I like theatre, but I want to make money...so broadcasting is close to that." And the rest is history. Now here I am, I like what I do, but I'm back to wanting to incorporate the horses into my life because at the end of the day they truly are my passion and my love. And I'm a damn god rider and teacher too. I should be, for sixteen years doing it.
So all in all, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but, hopefully, one day I'll figure it out.
2 Comments:
I so enjoy your tangent stories. How about a show about horses? I personally volunteer to be the star. (I am only thinking about you and your career of course.)
When you have all the other stuff out of your system, you should move to Chincoteague and paint the wild ponies.
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