Calavera Diablos
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Jun 28, 2003 17:30:21 GMT -5
Go for it! My older brother is a registered Horse Trainer sponsored by Wrangler jeans. There are some great colleges in Colorado with majors in Equine Studies and the like. I have to say this ... One of my closest writer friends wanted to be a Dinosaur Astronaut when he grew up... But then again I always wanted to be the Unicorn from the book "The Last Unicorn" when I was little, so we won't talk about that... I would like to be a ficiton or poetry author, but I don't have the discipline to make myself be creative for any deadline whatsoever... I'm lazy enough to be a professional artist, but I don't think mooching off of my parents when my stuff doesn't sell would be good. I just create art for myself anyway... Right now I'd love to be a Linguist or a translator. I'd like to go to China and do that, I'm obsessed with thier culture. Even after backpacking around China, I still can't get enough of the place, people, everything. I love learning different languages, then becoming intergrated in other places and cultures. I'd love to go to Mexico after becoming fluent in spanish, study thier myths, stories, folk songs and the like. Nothing pleases me more than hearing ancient stories and folklore from different races. I'd also like to be a Medicine woman, as in a Native American shaman/healer... I've studied the religion, stories, and culture of the Native American people ever since I was little. After hearing about one of the last known Native Healer's, Bobby lake-Thom and having read his books, I would like to just throw away everything and go study under him in the wilderness. I feel too distracted and claustrophobic in mainstream society sometimes, I just want to reestablish my once strong connection with nature and live in a respectful, balanced relationship with the earth.
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Post by En on Jul 1, 2003 14:16:43 GMT -5
Oy! What's wrong with wanting to be Lady Amalfia (from The Last Unicorn) when you grow up?!
So you all know I'm crazy to be a teacher and a novelist, right, but those are... practical. At least, I know I can become a teacher as soon as I have the money to go back for more college and I think I can be a successful writer. Not like a bestseller, but successful.
But you know... if I could do anything at all... I'd sort of like to be half Joni Mitchell and half Elie Wiesel. A really good and smart artist who wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. Yeah, yeah, silly, I know. But everybody needs at least one impossible dream.
*resists urge to bust out into Man of La Mancha routine*
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Calavera Diablos
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Jul 1, 2003 18:18:17 GMT -5
En, that's not silly at all! It's every artist's dream I would think. I would have liked to go Eli Cash, publishing a novel while playing Assistant English professor at Columbia or Barnard... Simply don't have the patience for young upstarts. If I ever had the maturity or mental capacity to be responsible for others, I would like to be a teacher. Just having experienced real teachers and how heavily they have influenced my life makes me learn to be able to have that same effect on someone one day. One of my "heroes" (He teaches American history, economics/government and psychology) told me his greatest achievement (and his greatest feeling of satisfaction) came from watching his students grow and develop once the became aware of events in the real world (Thank you Time and The Economist ). And watching the occasional hardcore Conservative at the beginning of the year become a hardcore Libertarian at the end of the year was an added bonus.
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Jack
5th Year
?Good? Bad? I am the guy with the gun.? ? Army of Darkness
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Post by Jack on Jul 1, 2003 18:21:29 GMT -5
Well the question is easy for me... I want to be an actor, I love acting. Now if that doesn't work out i can always go to college and get a degree in math... I have always had A's, besides geometry, in Math.. It is ever so easy. I could always have a career as a mathmatician... But what do you do?
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Post by Mikki on Jul 1, 2003 19:22:47 GMT -5
thanks for your vote of support Calavara ;D it means a lot to me. anyways, i think that's an awesome idea tobias. ;D i've always been good in math too. next year i take geometry. i took honors algebra 1 last year. it was easy for the most part, but somethings took a little time to get down, oh well, that's life i'm cool with it. oh, and i just got a job at a stable. they hire young. ;D then, i get a job at publix with kikyo so we can annoy her brother who works there
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Post by Irishkillians on Jul 2, 2003 9:49:54 GMT -5
What i want to be when i grow up........ I would say a psychotherepist. I love listening to people, and trying to help them. But everyone in my school just laughs at me. They all hate me, so i got no support there.... Also a lawer doesn't sound too bad. I think I'll try to get into harvard law or medical...that would be nice. But i'm propbably too stupid to get in anyway
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Post by Will on Jul 2, 2003 10:48:04 GMT -5
Hey now, how are you ever going to get in if you think you are too stupid to get in? That isn't very motivational, don't you think? Maybe, just maybe if you want it bad enough, and work your way up to it, you'll get in. You don't know until you try. So no more of this "I'm too stupid" stuff. It'll get you no where.
-sighs- Yup, I'm just like Alice...Must learn to follow my own advice...
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Post by Mikki on Jul 2, 2003 16:00:25 GMT -5
FINALLY!! someone else who agrees with me! thank you willow i've been trying to tell him that all year. ::)he'll never learn anyways, i go to your school and i don't hate you, at least most of the time. it's only when you follow me everywhere that annoys me. or butt into my convos, but i don't mind that as much anymore. and besides, i don't even know what a phyco-what-ya-ma-call-it is anyways. i know you heard about it at career day, i was there. but what is it?
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Post by Ritsu on Jul 6, 2003 15:57:05 GMT -5
I think I've already replied here on my previews account. Ah well. Here it goes again.
I'm still not sure about my future career and that's worrying me too much. Because I'm heading towards Year 11. Then I have Year 12. And then university. And I don't friggin' know what to choose.
I'm in an area with little choice. Teachers, translators, public relations, lawyers, judges, journalists. This are the most important and better ones. Thing is, I want to go to the university my mother used to go to because it doesn't ask you for high marks and because I like the "ambience" there. Plus, it has cute girls. *blushes* But nowadays that university is known to send teacher after teacher to the world. And I don't want to teach. I just don't have the patience.
The only thing I'm really good at is English and writing. And drawing, but I lack on creativity. So I'm really messed up...
... if life was a dream I already knew what I would become. But since it isn't, I'm.... argh. Like this.
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Post by En on Jul 6, 2003 16:29:43 GMT -5
If life were a dream you'd be... a figure skater?
How do you feel about translating? Your English is excellent, and there are so few good Portuguese-English translators, at least on this end of the translations. Maybe there are loads of good English-to-Portuguese ones. Having only a very rudimentary grasp of Portuguese, I wouldn't know
What do you write about? Have you tried journalism? I did and I hated it but that's because I think like a fiction writer, which is more like a newspaper editor than a newspaper writer. Do you have one type of writing you enjoy more?
Hmm... you could be a lawyer too, because you're good at making a reasonable argument for things. But, the trouble with being a lawyer is that you have to argue the side of whoever is paying you. It's like being a mercenary with words. You might like being a judge better, but you would have to be a lawyer first.
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Post by Ritsu on Jul 6, 2003 16:49:37 GMT -5
The thing about lawyers, is that I could never speak up for someone I thought guilty. I'd think of it like... betrayal to my values. I don't know. I just couldn't go like "I'd like to state my client's innocence" when every inch of me knew he/she was guilty.
And plus, being a lawyer in Portugal sucks. All you get is divorces and child custodies. It's really fastidious.
Journalism... I thought about it. Too often, really. My Portuguese teacher keeps telling me that I have a gift with words and everything, but I don't know if I could do it... because... I'm really hard at delivering things on time. And being a journalist I'd always have to deliver my articles on time which I know I couldn't do. And plus I had to write in a style that... it's not my style. I'd have to go like "who?when?what?where?" without expressing any type of emotion and that's not me at all.
Translating is boring and hard. But you're right. You should see some English-Portuguese translations. As we say in Portuguese "são de meter medo ao susto", which is something like... they're so bad they even frighten the scare" - doesn't make sense, it's an idiom. LOTR is awfully translated, I couldn't read them because of that. Harry Potter sucks too. Though I kinda pity her, she's got to be in a lot of pressure... people here are hungry for Ootp.
And I just don't have the patience for kids.
Lol, no, I gave up on the figure skating issue a while ago... I mean, not entirely. I'd kill to be a figure skating commentator because the Portuguese ones suck. They don't even know how to say the names of the jumps. But right now, what I'd really like to do was photography and travel reports. Like... go wherever I want to, write reports about it, take a couple of pictures and sell it to whatever magazine was interesting. I guess that's freelancing.
I like writing fiction too. Though I'm not exactly gifted with creativity... I'm a fiction/novel type of writer. I'm working on a fan-fic right now which I believe is going to be fabulous.
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Post by En on Jul 8, 2003 13:58:00 GMT -5
I don't really like journalism either, except feature writing, but you have to be a crash reporter for years before they'll let you be a feature writer. And what you said about lawyers -- that's exactly why I don't want to be one.
I'm translating Le Petit Prince right now for a friend of mine, and of course I suck at it because I know what the words mean, but I don't know French well enough to have a sense of style. And anyway there are a ton of French-English translators. So I should learn a different language if I want to translate. But it sounds like there is a market niche for good Portuguese-English translations, so... if you could stand it, you could probably make a good living at it. Especially since most of the old-school translators everywhere are too stodgy to do fantasy and science fiction most of the time, because they think it's beneath them. Gits. They'd rather translate Sartre or Hegel, which is definite proof of a lack of a sense of humour.
Hm, you might not have the patience for most kids, but you could always teach at a school for gifted, or college, or you could teach some kind of specialised class, like theatre or fiction writing. You'd probably only be hired part-time if you did specialised classes, but then you could pay your bills and spend the rest of your time writing freelance.
If you wanted to live in the US, you could probably be the Portuguese Studies department somewhere.
And fiction could be cool, too. I can tell you -- the creativity only takes a second, and then after that it's years of making yourself sit down every night and deal with your characters. I guess it's a lot like becoming a parent
Oo, but traveling and being a photo/journalist sounds like fun... you could sell to National Geographic and magazines like that, articles at first until they invite you to do one of those big picture-books. I can see it now: "Italia by Rita _______." And there are some great books like that. Let's see... have you read Iberia by James Michener, or anything by William Least Heat-Moon, or Farley Mowat...?
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Post by hermoine on Jul 10, 2003 8:41:03 GMT -5
[glow=navy,2,300]Well, I've been asking this question over and over again for ages. But I guess I could stick either to a job involving graphics(you know-games) or else possibly become a lawyer. I've always, liked it as a job, and where I live, we don't get those really difficult cases like murder and stuff. Maybe a divorce, some guy freeking out because of having an accident, and the other person won't pay him, stuff like that. It could get pretty boring, but the more I think of this job, the more I come to like it.[/glow]
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Post by En on Jul 10, 2003 11:01:51 GMT -5
Hm... well, if you're quite serious about it, let me suggest that you get a summer job in a law office. I almost went for a law degree, but I got a job as a paralegal and realised I really, really didn't want to be a lawyer. On the other hand, one of the lawyers in my office did sort of a job-shadowing thing with a lawyer and decided it was the perfect job for her. And she loves it. (Weird. kidding)
Secondary schools or trade colleges sometimes have programs you can sign up for that would give you a job in a law office for a term, or you can always just go straight to a law office and ask if you can shadow a lawyer or work there a bit. A lot of small-office lawyers are the sort who get a big kick out of someone asking to career-shadow. Just bear in mind that they will be very concerned about whether you can handle confidentiality. Might be a good idea to have a favourite teacher write a letter telling them you're good for that, and take it with you when you go to ask for the job.
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Post by hermoine on Jul 10, 2003 11:20:33 GMT -5
[glow=pink,2,300]Well, I still have a long way to go, before I start working, but where I live, I don't think there are any lawyer offices which you mentioned. The lawyers I heard of, all have their own office. I'd have to work abroad, to work in that kind of office.
Thanks for the help though, hermoine[/glow]
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