Comments on: What Do You Want to Be?

By: StephanyFaith

StephanyFaith — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:22:17 +0000

Hello !

hmm … when i was little i dreamed of either being a Vet, wonderwoman (haha), Actress, or a shapeshifter. now in highschool i realized i want to be a Nurse practitioner, Writer, and breed German shepherds. a ninja sounds good too. or an FBI agent. . i like the ice cream namer idea…haha or maybe a archaeologist…..hmm so many occupations out in the world.. chocolate taster is good too …

By: LoriHandeland

LoriHandeland — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:34:19 +0000

I find it interesting that you flunked out of English and are a NY Times bestselling author, Rache, and I got a D+ in Math and am the financial officer of a large contracting company. Go figure.

That’s the one, Miranda! Just looking at it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I was driving a suburban load of high school kids to a FB game, came over the hill, saw it and said, “F*%$!” I made my oldest drive us over it on the return trip.

Nancy–Counseling sounds like a great idea to me. Those first few years are a killer. Like the first 20.

By: nancyg

nancyg — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:02:26 +0000

Lori:

Yup, we’re Catholic, and “the Church” won’t marry a couple unless they go thru “pre-Cana”. You have to take a bubble-sheet multiple-choice questionnaire. Then meet with an older, established married couple in the parish a few times. They go over your test results, and tell you stories from their marriage and what happened, what they did to work it out, etc.
They told us what the test said we were going to agree on, disagree on, and to keep it in mind the first few months/years. Keep it in mind when the various subjects came up – family, finances, religion, etc.
Reminded us that marriage is a marathon, not a sprint.
We hated it at the time, being in our 20’s and knowing everything about the world, but I tell ya, the test was DEAD ON!
15 years later, we chuckle about it, actually, even when we’re arguing about the very thing(s) they said we would!

Rachel:
Would LOVE to read your treatment of GWTW!! Did you submit it?

By: Miranda

Miranda — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:59:11 +0000

*Popping out of lurking for ages with comment*
Lori-That bridge north of Green Bay WI I grew up calling it the Tower Drive bridge… here’s a nice picture of it
http://packerland.blogspot.com/2007/10/tower-drive-leo-frigo-bridge.html It’s much better in this view than having to drive over it , I have family near there.
To be a bit more on topic
When really little I wanted to be a spy, a mermaid (not a job I know but gotta love being able to breathe underwater so you can check all the cool fish out and if you’re the Splash version of a mermaid you get all the perks of dry land too), a super hero (mostly just in my imagination not sure how many I told) archeologist until I realized it was paleontologists that dug up dinos then I wanted to be a paleontologist. In high school decided on biomedical engineer… got the bachelor’s but felt too burned out (and too deeply in debt) to go for the masters that you need as a minimum ’cause they expect you to work in research. Currently I’m a systems engineer on military stuff. Dream job mmm.. chocolate tasting *drools* actually, maybe running a bakery wouldn’t be that far off… I could see myself doing that.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:55:23 +0000

Nothing like setting your sights high, Rachel. How did you change GWTW? Anything would be better than the pitiful sequel that was written some years back.

By: Rachel Gibson

Rachel Gibson — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:21:35 +0000

I don’t know about talented. I just know that I flunked my way though English classes in school, so writing didn’t ever occur to me until I sat down one night and rewrote Gone With The Wind. It took me a year and a half.

By: LoriHandeland

LoriHandeland — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:59:12 +0000

Madeline-I think my test came out teacher and writer. I always wondered if they were that right on for everyone.

Mandatory pre-marital counseling, Nancy? Sounds like a good idea to me.

By: nancyg

nancyg — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:33:12 +0000

Sabrina:

That’s too funny you mentioned Ghengis Khan – I just picked up Conn Iggulden’s latest Ghengis novel in his series. I read his Julius Caesar series & fell in love with his writing.

Madeline:

I never took one of those personality/job compatibility tests. However, my husband & I had to take one during mandatory pre-marital counseling. It was uncanny what they said our similarities & differences were and what we would argue about years down the road!!

By: Madeline Hunter

Madeline Hunter — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:38:58 +0000

Writer was right up there from the beginning. But in H.S. I had a spell when I wanted to do theater work. Not acting. Costume, directing, etc. I guess being a teacher was always there too, but not in “ooooh, I wanna be a teacher.” Just an awareness that maybe I would do that.

I took one of those tests in college where they match you with jobs. I think they base in on similar interests with people in those fields. I came out teacher and librarian. Pretty close.

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Sabrina Jeffries — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:55:37 +0000

K-Ha would be better at stand-up than I am, I fear. *G* But I actually do have a cousin who’s a stand-up comedian. I don’t think he makes much money at it, but it’s probably fun.

Of course, my brothers all THINK they’re stand-up comedians. And one of my brothers gave me one of my favorite lines for a book: “That was like Genghis Khan calling Attila the Hun cruel.” Except that HE said the Marquis de Sade. Which I couldn’t use. I didn’t think the heroine would have heard of de Sade, gently bred as she was. *G*

My brother is a smart-aleck. It runs in the family.