Making Childhood Fantasies a Reality! By Youth Ambassador Shewtel
“All grown-ups were once children –though few of them remember it.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince
We all grow up wanting to be something totally different than what we are (at least the majority) or wanting to make the childhood talent into a profession, but as time passes we get so entwined in the daily dogmas of life that we leave what gave us happiness and meaning to our childhood behind.
- Were you a story teller? A dreamer? Did your imagination make others go “Ahh!” then being a TV producer is your calling card. With enough reality shows thrown at us, the world craves the old school fictional characters that have lost their presence somewhere between big brother and Jersey Shore.
- Were you the one always asked to check the amount of sweetness or saltiness and sometimes you wondered if you could make money off of this? Most food companies hire taste testers.
- Did growing up watching the Disney show “That’s so Raven” sometimes make you think
You Might Be An Entrepreneur If… you too can predict the future? Well companies such as Hershey’s Chocolates are now hiring futurists.
- If all you ever wanted to do in life was travel and see the world, you could also get paid to do that as a travel journalist either on TV or with a magazine or a newspaper column, or start your own blog and get paid by sponsoring ads on it.
- Did you dream of being alone on an island surrounded by beauty, nature, creating art with no cell phone reception well then this is the best job in the world for you! Queensland Tourism paid this man to promote this tiny island as a tourist destination for two years which lead to a spin-off TV programme.
These are just a few of the childhood dreams turned realities, there are many such dreams which in today’s world are not distant dreams such as – The internet fed generation, Have Voice Will Sing, The pen is mightier than the sword
