What did y’all actually want to be when you grew up?

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A professional baton twirler,
An Olympic Figure Skater,
A Broadway Star,
Then from the age of 13, a lawyer. Now I am a legal marketing and business development coach and consultant and I'm the happiest I've ever been

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How’d you get into that? I’d love to know!

Journalist

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I wanted to be a cartoonist!

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Writer

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President (😂), then a judge , then a writer. Seemed like I was getting wiser, then slipped up and went to LS.

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An Attorney... Now that I've made it, it feels like "everything I wanted" by Billie Eilish.

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Yes, I’m only joking! I totally relate

I’ve wanted to be lawyer since I was 6.
Although this is nothing like I imagined it would be.

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Teacher

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A teacher.
Then a foreign service officer for the department of state.
Never expected I’d end up going to law school (first attorney in the family) but I def found my correct calling!

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Dentist.

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Wow! So you’re good at science unless most of us law nerds?

A home builder

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First a veterinarian, then an ambassador. Big law has uhh not been as cool, lol.

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Air Force pilot

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An actress and then a writer

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Something having to do with Law enforcement

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Paleontologist! Attorney was never on the list until 29.

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Photographer for National Geographic.

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An FBI agent

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