I wish I could live multiple lives because so many careers fascinate me.

[u/piggy-poos5R]

Honestly, maybe Barbie has ADHD.

But, I had a lot of trouble deciding what to do with my life as a teenager. SO MANY JOBS SEEM FASCINATING.

Some jobs I remember researching were Bee-keeper. Optometrist. Model. Dermatologist (pimple-poppinngg). Voice actor. Veterinarian. And even today I come across occupations that leave me in awe. This year I've been interested in the world of Crime Scene Forensics and Detective work.

I'm currently 28F, and ended up teaching ice skating/figure skating for the last 8 years. I love it. Lets me put my energy into children.

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[u/fishonthemoon]

I always say that if I were rich I’d stop working and just learn how to do a variety of things that interest me. I don’t even want to master them, I just want to be able to learn something or dabble in it without the commitment of having to “work.” 😂

[u/mykki-d → u/fishonthemoon]

Yesss same here! I’d go to culinary school first

[u/Xanavaris → u/fishonthemoon]

Yes!!! I want to learn everything.

[u/Same_Ad6043]

37 and just diagnosed. I was having this conversation with someone just a couple of weeks ago. I want to live all my possible timelines simultaneously

[u/BabySeal11]

This made me lol. Barbie definitely had ADHD. This is so me.

[u/dijie]

I'm 47 and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. 😄

But seriously, I have a stable job and have been in IT for over a decade now. Wouldn't chose anything else. Only possible with my meds.

[u/colormek8]

I wish I could rewind time and be a vet, or a marine biologist, or someone that studies rocks, or a carpenter, or computer programer, or a mechanic, or a detective, or a conservation scientist, or a material scientist or a building inspector or an architect, or a ship captain, or a researcher of all of the things to be researched.

[u/MOGicantbewitty]

Katie Couric used to have this thing on CBS where she'd shadow different people in their different jobs. I've dreamed for decades about have THAT job. To get paid to try out everyone else's jobs 😂😂😂

So, yeah, I feel that!

[u/itstheballroomblitz]

This is the only reason I'd say yes to immortality, lol.

[u/Healthy_Chipmunk2266]

55 here and I STILL think of new ideas of what I want to do when I grow up. Archeologist, lawyer, proof reader (get paid to read?!), Social worker in a hospital setting, private investigator, and on and on.

[u/whatwhatwhat82]

Ughh I'm 28 too and still research different careers every couple months. And I'm currently a substitute teacher, so I can have lots of variety everyday

[u/sagefairyy]

So has anyone figured out how to deal with this? 🥲

[u/L-u-n-e → u/sagefairyy]

I got a job helping people who needed helping to get jobs, and it helped me to sort of live vicariously through them!

[u/sagefairyy → u/L-u-n-e]

That‘s actually amazing!

[u/Any-Weather492]

same! i did at home microneedling today and thought man, i really missed my calling for being an esthetician lol

[u/Light_Lily_Moth]

“Everything, everywhere, all at once” the movie explores these themes. It’s based on ADHD, and it was so relatable that I cried from how much it touched my heart. My husband looked at me a lil funny 😁 crying over the multiverse.

[u/Wilted-yellow-sun]

Tbh this is the reason I have 2 jobs at any given moment and like 50 hobbies. (I can keep a job, it’s usually a matter of picking up a sort of hobby, side job thing to explore while working my main job… and going to college, and being on up to 4 different college club boards at once. Yes i am constantly stressed, no I don’t sleep much)

[u/Propinquitosity]

Omg I say this all the time out loud! “If I lived concurrent lives…”

Librarian. Physician. Sniper. Composer. Writer. Veterinarian. Lighthouse keeper. Naturalist. Rock star.

[u/Weird_Squirrel_8382]

Same! I think that's why I write romance with big career subplots. 

[u/PantryMonster]

YESSS! I finally decided on a college major+career path, but I'm still looking longingly at other things that interest me wishing I could do it ALL

[u/RealMermaid04]

Let me say "Im a Jill of all trades, master of none"

[u/New-Rutabaga6945]

I also never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. Still don't. As a kid, it blew my mind that every other kid seemed to be dead set on "fireman!" or "veterinarian!" or whatever it was. I also didn't understand how other kids could so easily answer when asked what their favourite colour was. Mine changed all the time, and it was usually different combinations of three-color palettes! I've had many different jobs in my life and I'm in a weird turning point in my career where I actually have no idea what the near future will bring. But I don't think I'll ever stop feeling undeclared. I have so many interests I still haven't explored, so many random skills that fit no real job descripton, and I just don't dream of labour like they want me to.

[u/Lonely-Conclusion895]

I have said the exact same thing many times! Was just discussing this with a colleague the other day in fact lol. I've worked in hospitality for most of the last 20 years and have been a full time artist, but am really interested in horticulture, environmental/wildlife work, high-paced/high adrenaline jobs like ER or paramedic, archaeology etc etc...

Like,we have So Many years in work before retirement, why not try as many different things as we can?! I'm in my mid-30s now so could very realistically retrain in a completely different field. But then will get restless again and want to try another industry lol

[u/L-u-n-e]

OMG ARE WE THE SAME PERSON 🤣🤣

[u/sipperbottle]

Yesss :,)

[u/SearchLost3984]

I'm doing a science degree that's "open" in first year and as you progress you're supposed to narrow your studies into a niche subject. I've taken second year twice because I can't pick which path I'd want to do in third year... Let me do it all!

[u/Dragonslayer-5641]

I can relate to this and also, I have hundreds of great business ideas. But once I feel like I could commit to one, I get distracted and forget about it.

[u/victorianfollies]

My brilliant career as an astrophysicist was violently curbed by Math. And Physics, tbh. So I became a historian of science and medicine instead 😅

[u/tomram8487]

Oh there’s a quote I love about this:

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” Kazuo Ishiguro

I find it comforting when I have that overwhelming feeling of “why didn’t I become a…?”

[u/ashleydougherty20]

this is literally why i keep hopping from major to major at my college. i can’t pick just one thing to get a degree in because i need my job to have a several different things i can do in order to not get bored.