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Hmm... I haven't been on this thread in a while. So here it is.
When I was growing up, my dad worked in finance and it always sounded boring to me. I went to school for music, and yet here I am, a financial advisor. And you know what? It's not bad. In my current position I make pretty good money and have a fair amount of autonomy. I spend my day talking to people about their investments and the importance of saving and how to map out a path to retirement. I kind of like it. And I still participate in lots of musical outlets.
When I was a teenager, I always loved going to New York City when the opportunity arose (which was not often). I always thought it would be amazing to live there, but that it might get to be too much. Now I go there every day for work there every weekday and go home to a little house with a garden and lots of trees. That's pretty damn cool.
And of course, my boyfriend is amazing. We have so much in common, and whenever I think about him, I smile. Maybe at some point in the future we will get married - it is legal here. My younger self would never have conceived of such a thing; with no positive examples to guide me, I always assumed that my orientation would be nothing but a source of misery.
If I went back in time and told my 15-year-old self what my life is like today, I don't think I would have believed it.
So yeah, life is pretty f!%%ing cool.