Every job I wanted to do as a kid, was destroyed by my combination of poor vision, and most importantly, colour blindness.
In order of what I wanted to be:
Commercial Pilot - Nope
Police Officer - Nope
Firefighter - Nope
Paramedic - Nope
I would have been incredibly happy doing any of the four.
All four of them have a zero exception rule for colour blindness, even if I correct my near sightedness with surgery.
When I found out when I was 15, and everything I dreamt of doing was never going to happen because of my vision I literally gave up on school, ended up dropping out about 6 months later. I wish my parents would have told me when I was a little kid my vision would have had this impact, as they knew how badly the Police Officer/Pilot thing was all I wanted to do. I think their fear was I would give up on school.... which is exactly what I did. Even to this day I am envious of the people that work in those fields, and wish I could be them.
But in my older years, and how I grew to have an absolute fascination with astronomy and astrophysics..... if I would have been pointed that direction instead, I would be working in some field of science related to it. I am not dumb, and that is why I feel like I wasted my life. Getting a degree in astrophysics at 38 with a GED would take me a decade.
So now, 20 something years later am what amounts to a glorified, overpaid cashier in in the auto industry. "Hey, you want the warranty?..... everyone needs the warranty." And I have nobody to blame but myself. FML
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