What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Jenny asked Jon the other day,"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Then she asked me. Being 5 she obviously doesn't understand when you are considered grown up. (or maybe she does?) I told her that the most important job a woman will ever have is being a mom.
But, her comment also made me think about how our career choices change as we grow. (Jenny wants to be a pediatrician, a cheerleader, and a rock star!!! This is changing daily.)
My journey to my current career.
When I was in 7th grade I wanted to be a lawyer. Since I love to talk and argue my point, this career choice made since. Also, I loved watching shows such as Law and Order and Judging Amy. This career choice was actually a plan to later become a judge!
Then in 8th grade I had an awesome creative writing teacher . So then I wanted to be a writer. Thanks to this teacher and discovering this important outlet, I have now written thousands of poems. I have one poem published in a book. I also, won some poetry contests in high school. So far I have written two children books and hopefully will have them published someday.
Between my junior and senior year s of high school I took some college classes at JDCC (Brewton's communty college). One of the classes was Psychology. I loved it. So then my plan was to be a child clinical psychologist. This is why I often over analyze things. I enjoy trying to figure people out.
Well, I went to JDCC for a year on a scholarship and then went to Auburn.
I received a minor in Family/ Child Development and a Bachelor's in Arts (Psychology). Then I planned to attend graduate school. I was told that if I didn't have at least a 3.5 GPA to not bother applying to a doctoral program. I graduated with honors and a 3.47 GPA. So it was time to regroup.
Now up until this point I had commented many times that I would never ever want to be a teacher. Then I decided to try a graduate program in special education working with EC (emotionally conflicted) children. I figured this would be close to being a child clinical psychologist. Well I was in the program for two quarters. It was an alternative masters program that was designed to only take five quarters to complete. Well I was at the end of my second quarter and I hadn't worked with any students!!! This alarmed me. Also, I kept hearing about the high burn out rate.
I said to myself, Why spend all this time and money for a job that I might be able to do for 5 years? NO.
I then transferred to AUM and completed a masters program in Elementary Education. I love the actually act of teaching. You know the light bulb moment?
P.S. For the people who said I would not be successful in a doctoral program because my GPA was to low, I graduated with a MEd with a 4.0 GPA!!