Dream Jobs

When you were younger, did you ever happen to say "I want to do that" or "I want to do this"? Well, before graphic design became a choice for me, I had all these things I wanted to go into. For a long time when I was younger, I wanted to be a doctor, but when I found out how much schooling it required plus additional schooling for a certain field of medicine, that quickly killed that hope. Then I thought about maybe going into video game design, but since there were no schools that offered that around where I live, that one shot down. And then when I was 14, I thought, "hey, maybe I can go to school for forensic science like on CSI, but then I found out there were, yet again, no schools that offered it, so that one shot down. I really don't know how I got into graphic design. I guess I figured maybe it will lead me into something else, who knows. But here are some of the 'dream jobs' I have.

CD Cover Designer

Artist

Dancer

Tattoo Artist

Bartender

Jewelry Designer

Video Game Designer

Cook/Chef

Writer

World Traveler

Foreign language interpreter

Interior Designer

Teacher

Back-To-School Nightmares!

Back to school, known in my book as night terrors! Admit it. You've had these awful nightmares, too where you're sitting in class – whether it be high school or college – you're faced with the big exam and you haven't opened a book in days. Weeks! Or, in my case, Years!!

This is how the Dream Dictionary interprets this dream (nightmare):

This dream may be interpreted on several different levels. If you are the student you may be feeling inadequate or lack self-confidence.

Ya think? Isn't that the nature of all authors? My school nightmares are always the same. I'm sitting in class, happy, confident, no worries until I realize I'm staring at an opened textbook and have no clue what it contains.

The class is always some terrifying subject like Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, or Applied Physics. I start to squirm, sweat and try to sort out how I got away with skipping class for a whole year...or ten years, and begin to madly cram for a semester exam. Dire consequences await if I don't pass. I won't graduate! I'll be publicly humiliated! (see above - inadequate, lacking self-confidence) Worse yet, although I'm a full-grown adult, I'll be grounded by my parents!

Have you had a back-to-school dream? Leave a comment below.

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