'This question assumes a correlation between identity and occupation. But dentist/ballerina/teacher is not an identity. It’s a job.'
My daughter recently experienced one of life’s timeless milestones: the first moment where you are compelled to make small talk with a dentist while your mouth is stuffed with gleaming, mildly fearsome instruments of torture.Gargle. Swish.“I want to be a dentist,” my five-year-old mumbled, dribbling water onto her chin.
At the dentist’s office, once the mouth mirror was removed, my daughter sat up and added, “And I also want to be a ballerina. And a teacher for babies. Do you have a baby who can come to my school? They have to be two years old. No diapers.” I recognize this phase well. The first time I laid eyes on my second-grade teacher, the warm and blazered Mrs. C, I decided I would devote my years to teaching. After I saw a caricaturist working at an art fair one summer, I spent my allowance on paints and dawdled with my sketchbooks in the sun until my neck turned bright red. It’s a common-enough stage in a child’s life to survey the career landscape. You explore and sample. You try jobs on to find the forever-one.
I suspect my daughter is drawn to the same prospect as me: possibility. There’s a kind of magic in reshaping our lives based on one change, one recalibration. It’s not that this curving, untraditional path doesn’t have drawbacks. For one, my family has stopped asking what I do for a living. The corporate world is often unfriendly to inscrutable resumes like mine .
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