Working in one's dream job.
Remember when you were a kid and everybody asked you what you would be when you were a grown person? It was also the same thing when your teacher asked you that question when you were at school. To me it was one of the worst questions I ever had to answer. I remember being in my small kindergarten called “La Belle Aventure” just behind the mosque in Beau-Bassin and being surrounded by kids already seemingly aware of what they wanted to be.
There was a simple explanation to all this. I spent the first years of my life in a small village completely cut from the outside world. The only white people I knew were tourists seen going through the village. I even ended asking a white kid at the kindergarten “to enn touriss toi?”. It was inconceivable for me that there could be a “White Mauritian”!
Other things were inconceivable in my small brain. How could only one human being make a thing like a plane fly? Actually I wouldn’t even have known what a “pilot” was. The word was a discovery for me when kids said that they wanted to be pilots. The same went for doctors or firemen. The worse for me was to hear some of them wanting to become policemen. My deep belief as a kid was that a policeman would put anybody in jail had that person had the slightest cheek of looking at him in the face! How the hell could someone want to become such a person?
The tragedy for me was that I knew nothing but the sugar cane, peanut and tomato fields my grandparents worked in. Everybody had all those great jobs lying there in front of them, at least I believed, and I didn’t even know what they were. Incidentally I burst out crying because I thought that you HAD to have a dream job as a kid! Well this is what the adults made you believe.
At the end of the day I’m still wondering if all those kids knowing what they wanted to become have done those jobs. I think that many must have succeeded in their quests for their dream jobs but how many have shifted, how many have abandoned? In my case, things are different. I did not have a dream job because I’m interested in a too many things. I think that I just needed to experience all types of jobs and gather the experience to find and carve myself a job to my measure.
To tell you the truth, I do have dream jobs now but I don’t think that I’ll ever get into them because of the specificity of my current job which I simply love. Those dream jobs are: high end restaurant cook and wine maker.
Let’s talk about this…
Do you have a dream job? Are you still looking for yours like I did or are you currently working in that dream job? Are you one of those who wanted to get a specific job when you were a kid but never made it? Tell us about your dream jobs!
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well like you have always asked myself which career would suit me…till now i still don’t know…am not even sure if the field am majoring would really suit me…think its the big A question most people ask…in Mauritius it would have been highly appreciated if we guys could have known from form 3 as we choose which subjects we gonna do (reflect on choice of degree and career later) which fields we gonna be would have been fine…at least we know which road we are taking…but I hope gonna work in the CSR field really love this dynamism where you have to auto challenge you to find new projects and strategies and at the end of the day you are helping people (not only the company)
The main problem in our education system is that you can’t really choose your way. Parents look for prestige and kids bear the burden of having to take courses just for the sake of going for the laureate battle. It is always like that. Parents choose and impose in most cases, especially at the age when a kid gets in form free.
Good luck for your major and I sincerely hope that you enjoy your work.
I think kids don’t necessarily have serious dream jobs, they playfully like things like planes, cars, spacecraft,…etc and want to do something associated with those things. These desires disappear quite quickly in most cases. At primary school level, I seriously wanted to become a policeman lol, purely because my dad works in the force! I was also into Sunil Shetty movies where he was the cop and would beat everyone to death!
But later on, like you, I liked everything and was pretty good at most things, with a heavy penchant for science. And guess what, I now work in something extremely different, it is mostly mathematics, but in the finance world. The other day, I was talking to my dad and he told me he still can’t believe I work in the financial world when throughout my teens, I was a science fanboy! I guess you reach a point in your life where you pitch your tent wherever you have reached and make your job your ‘dream’ job. Obviously, you still harbour aspirations, but unless you really hate your current job, you tend to think you are settled in the right job.
My dream jobs would be: working in films (mainly acting, writing or directing), I actually wrote, directed and acted in quite a few plays when I was a teenager. It’s always been a passion, but I don’t think I could settle in such a job. I like stability too much.
I completely agree with you that sometimes people just settle in their job and make it their dream job or live it like that. Even if I still harbour aspirations in terms of jobs, I worked my way to the one I really wanted. Maybe the others are more of the less “white collar” oriented and have something more magnetic to me for I remain the son and grandson of labourers.
It’s great to see that you also made your way really differently of your original likings. I really like the “Sunil Shetty” bit
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Dream jobs… Well it started as a Pilot, then to become a Spaceship Pilot…to become an Astrophysicist, to become a Singer…to be become a war commander..and the last was to become a Magician like David Copperfield.
.-= Kurt Avish´s last blog ..Tips to be a successful freelancer job seeker on the web =-.
Dude, I wouldn’t have thought that a big guy like you would have wanted to become a singer or a David Copperfield copycat
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The only white people I knew were tourists seen going through the village. — Er, are you sure there wasn’t an albino in your village? But if, as you say, the village in question was so cut from the outside world, what were these tourists doing there? Were they lost by any (mal)chance?
I remember being in my small kindergarten called “La Belle Aventure” just behind the mosque in Beau-Bassin and being surrounded by kids already seemingly aware of what they wanted to be. — May you should have tried “Les Super Génies”. I believe they have a section that prepares kids to go directly to Oxbridge to become a Nobel Prize winner.
No we didn’t have an albino in Cottage but we did have a Chinese shopkeeper called Ah-Toon who talked Bhojpuri like no one else. For those tourists going through the village they usually were on their way to the Paul & Virginie memorial at Poudre D’or.
Wow, my parents were really dumb not to get me to that Super school
Hum, Sachin, your blog doesn’t seem to accept the usual <i> or <a> tags. Can you fix up the above comment? (Mo konn enn bon web designer pou ou. Mo coire li res Forbach !)
Yes, the tags have been disabled but I’ve put a toolbar in the comments allowing you to add those directly in the text because not everybody knows what tags to use.
I don’t know my dream job. If only people could pay me to sleep