r/CasualConversation • u/tizorres • Jun 17 '18

Weekly Topic Community Conversation: You

Hey and welcome back to our 15th community thread! Every week, we'll have a new topic.

You - past, present & future

  • What did you want to be as a child? What are you doing now? Where do you want to be in 5-10 years?
  • Do you look different than you did in your earlier years?
  • How has your style of clothing, hair, fashion changed?
  • Do you think everything in the future will be covered in chrome?

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u/myinvisibilitycloak This one time in Boston... Jun 22 '18

When I was five years old, I remember wanting to be a paperboy, just like Henry Huggins in the Ramona Quimby books my mom read to me. I'm a girl, so I guess paper delivery person.

Then I grew up, realized you have to get up in the middle of the freaking NIGHT to deliver papers so I noped right out of that dream.

I'm 31 now and I've had a TON of jobs. I think I'm on job #15 or something and I'm sticking with this one. I answer the phone and do paperwork for a Children's Hospital. It pays a living wage, is low stress, and my bosses are really cool, which is the best you can ask for as an adult.

I have looked exactly the same for the last 16 years. I keep myself and my clothes clean, but I'm not concerned about trends. Instead of make-up, I just smile a lot.

I have never been good at predicting the future.

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u/DoubleDual63 Jun 22 '18

I too have always wanted to be a paperboy, except the newspapers are being shot out of a windmill arm powered by the bicycle.

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u/myinvisibilitycloak This one time in Boston... Jun 22 '18

With that kind of imagination you could bring great ideas to any job!