Up until about the fourth grade, I wanted to join the circus and be part of a trapeeze act. I knew I would be very good at that---I practiced a lot on my swingset. lol
Around age nine I started thinking about changing my career choice. I decided I wanted to be an airline stewardess. It appealed to my adventurous spirit and desire to travel. I even fantasized about being on a trans-continental flight, working first class on our way to Europe!! I would be able to meet some very interesting and influential people.
Believe it or not, this was still my career of choice when I was a senior in high school. Four year college was not that important back then. Mom wanted each of us girls to at least go to a trade school. This was when I was living at our resort on the lake in the Ozarks. (I haven't blogged about moving to the Ozarks in southern Missouri yet). Kathy had gone to a business college but that didn't appeal to me at all.
I couldn't have gotten the training for being an airline stewardess in Springfield Missouri. I would have had to go to Kansas City or St. Louis--maybe even farther. I was still just seventeen when I graduated from high school. I was not ready to go off that far from home. I could go to a beauty college and learn to be a hairdresser and a manicurist in Springfield Missouri and it wasn't as far away as the other cities. So I gave up that dream, sold myself out so to speak. I was never actually sorry about this, but have sometimes wondered about what my life would have been like if I had followed my dream. That would be a whole other blog, to put it here would make this one too long.
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Something I haven't told a lot of people..when I was four I wanted to be a school bus when I grew up. Not a school bus driver, but the actual bus it's self! It's funny how dreams can change based on our location.
ReplyDeleteJimmy you would have been a wonderful school bus!! lol
ReplyDeletei'm sure you'll blog this, but if you had went to be an airline stewardist, i would not be here... so i'm very glad you "sold yourself out"! lol
ReplyDeleteI liked the old days of having a "stewardess" better than a "flight attendant".....seemed like more service. LOL. What i don't miss about the old days of flying is that smoking was allowed. I loved that part of the plane was smoking and one row away would be non-smoking. We all know smoke respects that line.
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