What do you want to be when you grow up??

We have all been asked this question at some point in our lives, right?  For most of us it first strikes when we are still in our single digit years and the response is rather irrelevant to the actual outcome.  However, what happens when we are finally "all grown up" and realize the question we were faced with some many years ago has resurfaced, but the only part missing is the most important part...the ANSWER!

This is the dilemma I find myself facing today.  I have ALWAYS known what I have wanted to do with my life.  I knew I wanted to get out of Ohio as soon as possible, and that California was where I needed to be  ( I even have pictures of LA and Hollywood plastered all over my 5th grade scrapbook).  I also knew that I wanted to be a business women.  When I was younger I used to think the image of success meant me in a dress suit, walking the streets of the city ( high rises in the background), on my cell phone managing clients and ordering some intern to " have the files on my desk by 4 or he's fired".

Well....although I am not in a position of power to order around any interns, I have achieved the rest! I live in California and my first territory with my job was downtown L.A.  I spend most of my day managing my current clients and trying to build rapport with potential new ones. Soooo why do I feel like its just not for me?  This is what i've always wanted right??

What happens when we have reached are goals in life and realize it is NOT what we wanted?  What becomes of all of the hard work we had to put in in order to get ourselves there?  Do we rough it out and hope things just get better even though we hate it, or do we say "scratch that" and start over to redeem our happiness?

So here I am ....all grown up, and all of a sudden I have NO idea what I want to be. Is this normal? Maybe I should have taken the question more seriously as a child?  I guess I'll just chalk it up to yet another speed bump in the road of life.  If anything thing is certain it is that I am back to square one with my search for professional happiness.  I have decided that I am too young to get myself too far into a career that I don't like. Maybe things will come around? Maybe its just phase?.....in the meantime.... I am exploring my options...