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Originally Posted by JohnZ
A Question. What did you aspire to become as child, an adolescent and young adult. What was your dream?Did you pursue your dream? If not....why not? Obstacles? Regrets? Post a response and I'll post my aspirations. Curious?
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More than anything and from as young an age as I can remember, I wanted to be a nurse. I went to nursing school in Ann Arbor, MI. and completed 2.5 years of a 3 year RN program before getting very ill and having to drop out of school for about 3 months. My husband (who I 1st met when I was 9 and he was 10 ... we were neighbors) was studying Aerospace Engineering at U of M and I, in my infinite wisdom, thought it would be a GREAT idea if we got married while he was still in school and I was recuperating. Bad idea ... from the standpoint it was my intent to work and put him through his last year of school and then I'd go back and finish up my RN. Well, I never got back. Before my husband graduated, I became pregnant with our first child, a daughter, and one thing led to another and I just never went back to school. THAT will be my dying regret!! I currently live vicariously through that daughter, as at the age of 36 and with 4 children under the age of 10 ... She became a nurse last May. :bigthumbsup:
I went on to become a ParaLegal and truly enjoyed my years of working in the legal arena. I worked for the County Sheriff's Office, the Prosecutor's Office, and in private law. One of my favorite jobs was Director of Legal Advocacy at a shelter for abused women and children in Michigan. VERY rewarding work. I also combined my medical knowledge with my legal knowledge and worked as a medical paralegal, reviewing medical cases for attorneys and putting the medical language into that which all could understand.
Probably more information than you wanted, eh????