I had been interviewed by the marine core on base at Pearl Harbor for a position where I would have been trained for and involved in criminal investigations. Darn it!

But I became involved with a person in the NIS office on the same floor. We were married and sent to Washington D.C.

In the words of the LDS employment specialist that sent me to the interview, "It would have been perfect for you!" Sigh!

I would have been a nuclear tech in the Navy, at least to start. It would have been a different path, that is for sure.

If possible, I would have wanted to attend law school and worked in JAG had I thought this through.

I would have gone to the college I really wanted to go to rather than BYU. It would've meant lots of debt, which might have been a disaster or turned out okay. Also, I would've majored in vocal performance and tried to build a singing career.

I would have been a dentist.

How funny Mia.....I would have been a hygienist already. :)

I did that. I went to school when I was 40. Graduated when I was 44.

I always wanted to be a farmer and was lucky enough to be able to fulfill my dream. I even rented land from the church for 6 years...and never paid a penny in tithing from the money I made off that land...and never got questioned about it.....

Ron Burr

I would have been a school teacher. After my mission, I fell so behind in college, because I had been out of school for so long, and had to take a bunch of remedial classes to relearn algebra. I got discouraged, and ended up dropping out of school because I simply couldn't keep up with all the formulas I was supposed to be using.



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I leaned more toward the science/medical side when I was in college, but that was because we were pushed that way by parents. My dad was a math and physics teacher and really pooh poohed English and History majors. But even more than that, he kind of dissed his daughters doing anything in college except looking for husbands. But if I hadn't been LDS it would mean that I would have had diffferent parents. And following my own ambitions, I think I would have majored in History, hoping to teach at the high school level. I used to have ideas about how I would teach different historical subjects. And I loved (and still do) the idea of having summers and holidays off.

No change. I was always interested in software. I would have gotten better grades without Mormonism's demands on my time though.

Me too. I think I was set to be a computer programmer from like 10 years old. :)

Would have been nice to go elsewhere than BYU, though.

Special Fucking Forces. I'm still pushing...

As a missionary in Australia, I saw Daniel C. Peterson speak at a special meeting. The talk was essentially, "I'm so godamned amazing, listen to all the neat things I've done." We listened to him verbally masturbate for nearly two hours. Afterwards, we were "honored" to shake his hand, and when my turn came up I told him how it had always been a dream of mine to study archaeology and perhaps specialize in Middle Eastern studies. He smiled, shook his head, and told me that it was a very difficult job, and that it took a very special kind of person to make the sort of sacrifices necessary to make that field of study work as a career. He suggested I might want to think a little smaller.

I was crushed. As an idiot child I had looked up to him and thought that he might actually have some sage words to impart, but he just told me I wasn't good enough.

DCP can suck it. I have made a very successful career out of Middle East studies and I encourage any and all young people to pursue it. He is known around these parts as a lying sack of sh*t - go figure.

I'd absolutely be a musician, a very serious one too, but Mormon culture very much discourages that sort of thing.

I was a professional musician for years and years. It was about 50/50 bar gigs and semi-religious gigs (like weddings and festivals). You can find a lot of work as a professional musician within the Mormon church.



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I was offered a position as a photo editor/air brusher for Playboy... who knows where that would have taken me. Declined the offer to be a good TBM.

I think I would have followed the same path, just much quicker. My tendencies run deep and were only slightly influenced by Mormonism.

My mom told me I'd never need math, so even though I started taking advanced math classes in junior high, I stopped taking them after my sophomore year of H.S. I probably could have skipped some math in college. I thought about going to a women's college in the midwest but was too chicken to leave Utah. I got a degree but changed course after getting a chance to do something else at my job. Maybe if I'd been encouraged in a different way I'd have gone on to be an engineer or lawyer and I'd have tried to get into Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, etc.

I went into Computer Science, and I love it, but the impetus to study computers came largely from the company Valve (they make video games, including my all-time favorite Half Life).

I studied computers, and was going to apply to Valve & other game companies... when one of my CS teachers at BYU-I mentioned that it was immoral to go into video games, because sooner or later you would have to violate church teachings. You'd be programming violence, sex, profanity, & other lewd behavior.

I pondered it for a long time, and still thought I would apply to Valve, since their games tended to have adult-content filters. Then I saw their Leisure Suit Larry game, and decided that I just couldn't work for them.

...anywho, I'm still in computers, Valve is still my favorite company but I work for Adobe making internal tools & reports. It pays the bills, but it is not as cool as Valve (granted, I might have failed miserably in the gaming field, who knows)

If you are a techy (or just interested in business models) google Valve's employee handbook. They released it, and it made me love their company even more. They have zero management, and people just manage themselves, form groups, and get things done. It's frickin' awesome.

surf bum

Followed my dream and made it known that anyone who stood in the way would be buried under the reeds in the marsh. But something where I showed my junk for money would be lovely.

Morg didn't prevent me from being anything; I did that to myself.

ETA: flutist in the symphony



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I would have been something. I totally bought into the whole stay at home mom being taken care of by husband thing. I got a two year degree and went to work at something I didn't really like but it paid the bills and paid for hubbys college. Now I'm a stay at home mom with no work experience in the last 10 years. I wish I would have thought more of myself and figured out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Maybe after these little darlings grow up I can have a redo. Luckily hubby does take care of me but I don't like the feeling that I can't take care of myself.