I'm 56 and in grad school. So, I still don't know exactly what I'll end up doing when I grow up LOL. I love what I do now though, so not in any hurry.

My mentor in life was my psychology teacher in high school. I would journal and he would comment on my writings. I would look forward to his responses. Sometimes we would talk after school. He got me started on meditation through visualization. I was a lost puppy in those days. I'm not sure I would have made it without him. Later in college I had a gentle soul I saw for counseling. He wasn't as big an influence but kept me going. These two men solidified my desire to be a therapist, so yes I'm doing what I've wanted to do since I was a teen. It is much more than just a job. Am I good at it? Depends who you ask. Hopefully I'm half as good as the gentlemen mentioned above.

When I was in high school, I swore that the last thing in the world I would want to do was to become a teacher. I became a high school teacher, a teacher educator, and later a trainer of practicing teachers and administrators and a school improvement facilitator. Iguess that much of my motivation was to help insure to help ensure that more kids had better teachers than most I had.

I worked because I need money to live on and that is the only reason that I worked. I am retired now after a 40 year work life and retirement is the life for me. The job that I retired from was just "catch as catch can luck" and was good to me from start to finish. Life is good.

It is just another job