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C-suite execs: What did you want to be when you grew up?
Fortune
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10/21/2024
Business leaders at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit shared what their dream jobs were growing up.
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A princess. Or what I really wanted was to sing in the Partridge family band and I always used to
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sing at home and hope that David Cassidy would walk by and hear me and put me in their band.
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When I was a kid my dream job was to be a fashion designer in Paris.
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I was going to be a doctor until I took organic chemistry and went to an anatomy class and that
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was the end of that. My dream job was to be a journalist. First of all to do anything to get
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out of the suburbs so I think I thought I wanted to work for the State Department and do international
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relations. A flight attendant. This was the very first inkling I had about my passion for travel
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and experiencing new cultures, meeting new people and just seeing the world.
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