Have you ever lost your hopes and dreams?

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After highschool I knew I wanted to work with children so I started a two year college course to be a Daycare Teacher. Halfway through this course I realized I had been misguided...What I had wanted all along was to work with special needs children and help them to excel and reach their full potential. That is where my heart really was and so I switched courses and ended up being at college for three years instead of two. I graduauated in May and by December I was starting a position where I was called to supply but I was at a school every day so it was like a full time job and I really liked it. It gave me a variety and a lot of good experience. Several schools really liked me and would keep calling me back soI got to know the staff and the children and it was great! During a span of two and a half years i applied to many full and part time positions but did not get so much as an interview so i continued to supply until I was ready to give birth to my son and then I decided to take my full maternity leave of a year because I wanted to enjoy my first child. So I did this and then when it came time for me to go back there had been cut backs and there was no work for me. You can't eat and pay the bills while waiting for the phone to ring which is why I work at a grocery store now... I now have a special needs child of my own and have to spend a lot of time and energy with him so I guess it turned out for the best. I must say working with my son is very rewarding and i have learned so much from him! I would not trade my son for anything...But i do wish my career had turned out differently. I blame myself,somehow i think maybe I could have done better if I had went back to work after six months but then I would have put my son in daycare at that young age and I did not want to do that... So what are your experiences and where has life taken you? Are you where you thought you would be? Good or bad share with us and maybe we can be support for each other. :)