mindless ambition
When I was a wee 'un, I wanted to be a runner, a writer and an artist (penchant for multi-tasking from an early age)

What do I do now? I got a degree in Occupational Therapy after school, on the understanding that there was loadsa jobs and ergo much likelihood of not getting out of uni and getting a McJob.
After spending enough years trying to motivate sick people/people with disabilities to engage in meaningful activities and identify their own goals and take resposibility for their own health, while trying to maintain a semblance of my own will to live in the face of a crumbling public health service and overworked burntout colleagues, its time for a change, but not sure what else I can do with such a 'specialised' degree.

So I'm still interested in writing, my dream is to write a book (yeah, dead original) and I'm toying with doing a course in proofreading and setting up as copy editor? Words rock my world.
I'm also wanting to do an art foundation course part time (plan b post A levels, OT won), and have just, after many years of procrastinating, got myself back into the 'zone' with evening classes.
And I started 'jogging' a few years back, nothing serious, but going from couch potato to so-called fun-runs (in my book) makes me a bit of a 'runner'(even though my run tonight is not likely to happen while I write this . . . )

RE Clapper's earlier post about not stopping growing, I think you're dead right.
So my new career ambitions also include professional dogwalker, busdriver, arc welder and mother. And yes, all at once. Why the hell not? Reach for the stars.
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Tue 3 Apr 2007, 8:36, Reply)