Center Fielder for the Yankees and didn't land far afield as I am the Pitcher for the Gotham Batmen!

I always wanted to be a lawyer. But what I perceived a lawyer as being and what a lawyer actually does are two very different things. Interestingly, my Mom wanted me to be a teacher and marry lawyer. :)

When I was young, I took an aptitude test. The results were that I was suited to be in any area in which a close relative was the CEO

I for many of my younger years wanted to be an ice-cream man. In a way, I got my wish as a high school part time job working for a Cavel in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Did that for four years and got my fill from making the ice-cream, cakes, shakes, saucers, brown bonnets, etc. Fun, messy and busy in the summer.

When I was very young I read a biography of Florence Nightingale...perhaps it was the name, perhaps that she helped others, but I decided to become a nurse....until my mother completely crushed my dream by giving me a very graphic job description! So I studied psychology instead....became a school counselor, still managed to help others without the blood and gore (most of the time). It was good....

So, when I was in 9th or 10th grade, in my math class they gave us something called the Job-O test, or assessment. Basically, it was a bunch of questions where you colored in a circle to select a multiple choice answer about certain scenarios - do you like working with your hands? do you like being with other people? do you like to write? would you rather get up early and end work early or late/late? All kinds of things like that; dozens of 'em. Many not seemingly related to work at all.

And, then they took the test and it went away for a few weeks until they came back with the results (yes - long before internet and cell phones and even copy machines). My least likely occupation was meat packer. My most likely occupation was working at an ad agency. Which is what I do today.

Ironically, my favorite new show on TV back then was something called Bosom Buddies, starring a little-known actor named Tom Hanks. The characters had to dress up in drag in order to live cheaply in their women-only hotel (which has nothing to do with my story.) But by day they ran their own ad agency. So, between that and the Job-O test I filed my advertising/marketing career away in the back of my head ... until it became a reality.

At my fathers urging, I went to nursing school--two years in I realized at the time (late 80's) it was more administrative work than actual patient care. I then changed my major to Health Care administration. Deep down I wanted to be a forensic detective,. took the Suffolk County Police Test in the 90's did great, and the test was thrown out because someone cheated. I am now running a medical reimbursement company which kept me in the field that I love and I get to play detective every day minus the gun and badge :)

One assessment test I took said I'd make a good Rabbi...
I'm not there yet.

Did not know what I wanted to be when I was growing up. It was only after I had already gotten my four year degree in marketing and was already working as a bookkeeper/office manager for a commercial real estate company - that I had a strong desire to go into the interior design field specializing in kitchen and lighting design. I did take classes with the goal of becoming a certified kitchen and bath designer. I did join NKBA (national kitchen and bath association). Tried networking with the members of NKBA/Long island but nothing ever materialized. Whatever I did learn I do use in my current real estate career.

Law was part of the equation, and government. I had rather high aspirations as a child. Most courses in college focused on national and foreign policy, and I attended several model UNs so that my career actually mostly included local government was not necessarily the path I expected in high school or in college. Things happened.

I'm still trying to figure out what I'll be when I grow up!