Write your own prompts

1. As a child, what was the one career that you had your heart set on following? Why did you like this career so much? Has this changed since then?

2. Would you rather stay in one place for your entire life, or never stay in the same place for more than a week?

3. If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Prompt 1:

When I was a kid, I kept this scrapbook that documented all the changes that happened to me between years in elementary school. It had a place for a current photo, favorite food, favorite color, list of best friends, and a desired career section. Most of the areas stayed the same throughout, except for the section about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Being a child within a family of teachers, my obvious first choice of career in kindergarten was a teacher. HA! That has changed. I can’t even bear the thought of spending every week day for the rest of my life dealing with children and their parents. In the first grade, I said a mailman, which was probably because I thought it would be cool to drive in a square car with no doors. Again, common sense had not hit me at that age. I don’t know what I was thinking. Second grade was a firefighter after a field trip to a firehouse and third grade was a police officer. Why I liked all these jobs? I don’t really remember, I just wrote them down. Now fourth and fifth grade was when I decided I wanted to be a vet. Being a devout animal lover, it is no shock that this was my ambition. Playing with cats and dogs all day would be one of my dreams. However, I realized being a vet couldn’t be the right choice for me because I could not stand it to be around sick or dying animals. Sadly, that’s where the scrapbook stopped, although my yearly changing of career ideas hasn’t. Marine biology was one of my more recent ideas because I love the ocean, the animals in it, and the habitats in and around it. This is one of those dreams that has stuck with me over time. It was one of my interests early on in life after visiting the Newport Aquarium and getting my favorite stuffed animal, a spotted harbor seal. Who knows? Maybe this life-long dream is the career idea I will stick with.