<p>This is something I often think about. There are a lot of things I wanna do with mine, and it's hard to pick just one.</p>
<p>Part of me wants to join the military. It's something I've always wanted to do, for many reasons. I wanna help people, serve my country, and simply... experience it. There's simply something that draws me to military service.</p>
<p>Related to that is a desire to be in law enforcement, again I want to help people and my community. A lot of cops get a bad rap, but I'd be one of the ones that tries to reverse that.</p>
<p>Yet another part of me wants to help people and really humanity as a whole. I sometimes entertain the idea of majoring in biology with a focus on cell biology and genetics. I imagine myself working on a team that finds the cure for some sort of disease. That would be far more rewarding for me than making millions in investment banking.</p>
<p>And of course, there's the part of me that wants to just do something comfortable (and this is often the loudest of the voices). Major in something I enjoy but is manageable (like information systems), have a job that's somewhat challenging but not draining, do the 9-5 and live comfortably but without ever really having had an impact on people's lives.</p>
<p>I’ve known I’ve wanted to work in TV/film since before I can remember. Honestly I’ve always just been like, I don’t care if I’m just serving coffee to talent, I just want to be in that environment. I don’t know what it is about it, but it just makes me happy. Now I realize people expect you to have more specific goals, even in an industry where you really can’t be too picky about what you do. </p>
<p>In a perfect world:</p>
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<li>video editing</li>
<li>screenwriting</li>
<li>script supervising would be cool too</li>
<li>audio/sound production</li>
<li>technical jobs, like camera operating and just equipment operating</li>
<li>or possibly an office-type job, like working and traffic and dealing with sales. But judging by what I saw at an internship I did that’s like surrendering yourself to a lifetime of insanity, so I dunno</li>
<li>working in Master Control somewhere is probably a good goal to have to start out with, with the right connections (which I’m starting to develop :D)</li>
<li>obviously pretty much anything, lol</li>
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<p>My immediate goals is to try to work my way into the company I interned for or another smaller station, regionally. Then branch out. I’m not going to jump into Hollywood just yet. </p>
<p>But I’ll take whatever, wherever. I just want a job where I’m happy, or at least where I’m in an environment that I like. Even if it’s a job I have to take in order to move on to something better, as long as I’m on that career path I’m good. I’m perfectly aware that it can take years or decades to make it anywhere close to your ideal job in this industry, but I’m ready for that challenge. </p>
<p>And no, I’m not concerned with money, lol!!</p>
<p>Most of my want to do research. A small part of me want to join the peace corp or the army, even though I might not even be eligible to do so. I’m not crazy about serving in Iraq. But if I do decide to pursue something like that, it would be temporary, and the purpose would to be to be influenced by people who have a strong mentality. I was raised around marshmallows and cupcakes (figuratively) and I feel like that ain’t me.</p>
<p>In the ideal world, I’d play professional soccer. getting paid millions to play a game I happen to love, are you kidding me? YES!</p>
<p>Well, right now I’m not sure what I want, but I would like to get a degree in Nursing, go to grad school, perhaps become a Nurse Practitioner making 90k/yr. Travel the world and write a New York Times Best Seller. And I want to have a **** ton of babies. </p>
<p>If I could do anything, it would either be working for the CIA or FBI within their fraud/white collar crimes department (like forensic accounting). If not that, I would love to be a caddie for a professional golfer (seriously, it’s really an amazing job without being in any spotlight, as long as the person you are working for is successful).</p>
<p>Ultimately, will those happen, unlikely, so I’d rather just hope that I can get at least 50k out of college at a decent job, hopefully 60k.</p>
<p>What I actually want to do is work for a school or a university or some sort of non-profit or the government developing programs for people with disabilities. I do that for fun at my university at the moment and it would be BADASS if someone would pay me to do it. Someday, I would like to be involved in legislation related to disability rights.</p>
<p>Although at the moment my plan is to get certified in court transcription and work from home with my mother for a while unless I manage to find a good opportunity in disability service. Unless I get an opportunity for my dream job, I want to take a break.</p>
<p>I would love to be a veterinarian. What type I’m not sure, but maybe exotic animals because I’ve always had a strong love for them.</p>
<p>Later on in life, I think it’d be fun and profitable to breed fennec foxes as well. They’re an amazing species and doing so would help repopulate them, which is something they could use.</p>
<p>Be a doctor. I cant imagine me not being one. Everything i do is for this. I think about day and night. It consumes me and its the only job that can really make me happy IMO.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about fennec breeding, but for dogs if you’re making a profit you are doing it wrong-- it’s an expensive hobby, not a job.</p>
<p>I want to be famous, as cliche as it sounds. I want to travel a lot. I have a lot of selfish desires, but I also want to help communities that need help.</p>
<p>As far as academics, I have absolutely no idea what I want to do. At this point, I think I will take a gap year or two.</p>
<p>I’m currently majoring in engineering and I recently came upon Stanford’s Product Design program, and I’m trying to model my schedule after that because it reconciles the disparate parts of my life (I really enjoy math/science, but I’m exceptionally creative at the same time [I was in a GT program for K-12, not just arbitrarily deciding this].) So I’d love a job in that area, so I can really see a tangible effect of what my work is doing.</p>
<p>Later on in life, I could transfer to consulting or something, which I think is interesting, but too far off in the future to give serious thought to yet.</p>
<p>Also, reading the Vanderbilt admissions blog has always piqued my interest, so I think being an admissions counselor would actually be a really enjoyable job. I love it here, and I want other people to be able to experience its awesomeness too.</p>
<p>And I think I’m going to start a blog soon, because my friends say my humor reminds them of Allie Brosh (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com) so if I get famous with that, I won’t complain. </p>
<p>Commission out of ROTC as an Army officer. Possibly fly Blackhawks if I can get that job. If not, then something in communications. If I make the Army a career, serve 20 years and retire at 42. At that point, the world would be my oyster. I’d probably write a book, travel, maybe go back to school.</p>
<ul>
<li>I want to be a speech therapist. </li>
<li>I want to write novels on the side. Maybe novels for children and graphic novels.</li>
<li>I want to volunteer with my community and mentor young girls</li>
<li>After I get better at French and Spanish, I want to learn German and Swedish.</li>
<li>Compose music (maybe start a small band – like three people or so. Maybe a duo with me and some other guy or gal. Almost everyone wants to be a musician these days, lol)</li>
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<p>I don’t know about marrying/having kid(s) thing, but if it happens, it happens! I don’t see myself getting married, so whatever. I guess I’ll be one of those independent women at forty without a spouse and kids. I’ll take it =)</p>
<p>I want to work in a museum or archive or something along those lines. I want to continue to be an advocate for LGBT rights, pit bulls, and a few other causes. I would be sad if I didn’t have some sort of impact on people’s lives. </p>
<p>I want to live in Spain for a few years and work in the Museo Arqueol</p>
<p>I want to travel around, see the world, see as many beautiful things as I can before I attach myself anywhere.</p>
<p>Then I want to help people with mental illnesses. Ideally I’d like to work in a practice, or have my own. I want to live somewhere beautiful and interesting, a city, but without too much traffic.</p>
<p>I want to adopt one child, maybe two, and marry a beautiful girl. I want to live in a nice house or maybe a big apartment and write poems and books. I want to see plays all the time and travel to see my family and friends in their various places all the time.</p>
<p>I just want to find all the beauty that’s out there, and just experience it.</p>
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