My Ideal Life Essay

When I was in kindergarten I had my life seemingly planned out. I was going to be a teacher Monday through Friday, work at a pizzeria on weekends, and work at a local jewelry shop, Lu’s, during the summer. Now that I’ve grown up a bit, I’ve realized how incredibly impractical this employment path would be. My dream job has changed exactly twice in my life. Once in middle school, where it went from teacher to lawyer, and once this year from lawyer to linguist. I don’t have an idea of where exactly I want to go to college, but I do have some guidelines. I don’t have big fanciful dreams about a home, instead simplistic needs about transportation and mortgage. As a highschool freshman, I don’t have many things set in stone, but I do have two definite

I would live with a few friends in a house or large apartment. All of us would have jobs and we’d split rent and utilities. This isn’t sustainable many years past college. People have lives and move and fall out of touch, but it is a quixotic dream of mine. It fits into my plan for the future as marriage and kids don’t appear there. My more realistic home plan is to live alone in a small house or apartment, depending on if I live in the city or suburbia. Even if I could afford a larger house, I wouldn’t buy it, because money spent on mortgage could be spent elsewhere in recreational things such as travel or in donating to charity. Since moving to Germany, I’ve thought about living in Europe in my adulthood. It would lend itself more to be being an English language teacher however, which isn’t ideal. As I am studying French, France is the European country that comes to mind. Keeping that in mind, I do want to keep my American citizenship, as well as participate in the local politics of wherever I will reside, so the country must permit dual citizenship. The main pulls to Europe I feel are mostly superficial; I especially love the avid recycling and more pedestrian-friendly spaces, but perhaps I love the change of pace and not the