What do you want to be when you grow up?
When asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, my answer has changed very little.
Up until middle school, I wanted to be an Elementary School Teacher. Preferably something like first or second grade. When I actually looked at what the teachers went through and realized that kids are really mean and unbelievably annoying, I changed my mind. I knew I wanted to work with people and psychology was just fascinating to me. I also wanted to work with law enforcement like my dad. So I put two and two together and decided that I would love to be B.D.Wong in SVU. I’d love to work with criminals, trying to see what makes them do what they do. Trying to understand them and how their minds work. It still is incredibly interesting to me and I’m going to school for it. However, I was relaxing over the last couple weeks and found out that it’s not my dream job.
There’s a place called Upstart Crow in Seaport Village (San Diego, California). It’s a little book store and café that’s been there for quite some time. It’s rickety, comfy, worn, and has an incredibly homey feeling to it.
I want to own it or a place just like it.
The thought of getting up in the morning, opening my own store, and having people want to spend time there - just sitting back, drinking some coffee, and reading a book…it’s just intoxicating to me. Knowing that I’ve made a place they like to spend their time. I know it’s not something like a doctor or an engineer or some other dream job that parents like to brag about, but I think it honestly would make me happy and want to go to work in the mornings. Especially if I was able to own it with Drew (doing the books, inventory, etc) and a few friends (Lizzi, I’m lookin’ at you!).
It’s a really simple dream, but I do think it would make me really happy.
Maybe I should think about it some more.
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