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My subject this time around is: They say that in the next 25 years many of the jobs we work will
become extinct to be replaced with jobs we've never thought could exist. If you
had a choice, what job would you like to be retired forever, and what job would
you invent in its place?
It was submitted by: Searching for Sanity
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This is a tough question. I
actually don’t have any answers for it. My jobs are mom, wife and writer. Three
jobs I hope never go extinct. As for the future, well, I just don’t know.
My daughter once told me that she
wants to be a mommy, just like me, when she grows up. Nothing anyone has ever
said has made me feel as good as I did in that moment. My little girl wants to
be like me.
She has recently added to her list
of future positions. Ballerina, construction worker and astronaut currently top
the list. “I’ll still be a mommy, too,” she says after her latest vocational
proclamation. “Just like you.”
I always knew I’d become a mom. I
am the oldest of a handful of siblings and even more cousins. My mom ran an at
home daycare while I was growing up. Children have surrounded me since I was a
kid myself. I knew that one day my own would become an important part of my life,
but I had no idea just how much.
The only career related dream I
ever possessed was to write. It always seemed just out of reach, beyond any reality
that I would find myself in. I fumbled through an assortment of entry-level
little-experience-needed jobs until the middle of my pregnancy with my
daughter. Bed rest was the end of working and the beginning of my real job.
Here I am, three years later, following
my dream of writing, all thanks to the freedoms allowed by being a stay at home
mom. All thanks to the little girl who wants to be just like me when she grows
up.
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So sweet!!! I love that your little girl realizes how great and important being a mommy is and she wants to be one just like YOU!
ReplyDeleteOF COURSE Kiddo wants to be just like you - AWESOME :-)
ReplyDeleteI imagine "work/life balance consultants" will have a bright future. Also any job that is related to the environment. Recycling, efficiently using our resources, along that line. Growing organic food.
Also I kind of hope that some "old fashioned" jobs make their way back. Shoemakers, doctors who make house calls, carpenters, blacksmiths. Honest jobs.
Which ones might disappear? Greedy managers who play BS Bingo at meetings all day long and once they finally get out piss everybody off. Just saying.
I think a lot of us are happy you get to be a writer :)
ReplyDeleteI think (luckily for us) that writing is one job that can never be taken over by robots. I love that your daughter wants to be just like you. I sometimes get the feeling my daughter is mildly ambivalent about her dear old mum, so I don't think she'll be following in my footsteps any time soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. My job as wife, mom and blogger I'll keep. But I have added grandma to the list. It is a pretty cool gig too!
ReplyDeleteDarling, you are an AWESOME mama. So if your little one grows up to do your job, then you know she'll do it right. You're also a pretty awesome writer and I'm thankful for that as well!
ReplyDeletemy heart just melted. in a huge puddle. and i agree....I hope those three jobs never ever become extinct.
ReplyDeleteAw, this is so sweet. I've had a few jobs, but being a mom is by far the most important one. How wonderful that your daughter wants to be like you. Keep rocking that Momma-writer job!
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