Early Years - Work/Responsibilities - This is the profession that I often mentioned when people asked me what I was going to be when I grew up:

As a PK, or preacher's kid, I figured I'd be a minister like my dad and grandpa.  Even my mother attended seminary.  That's where my parents met.  It was destined that I would follow the family tradition, so I thought at ten years old.  My parents were both active in the ecumenical movement during my formative years.  I learned a lot about both Protestant and Catholic traditions.  Every Sunday we visited a different church in our city.  My family's denomination was Methodist but we went to church every day so I related to Catholic kids who attended daily Mass.  We had a little chapel in the seminary where we lived, and on weekday afternoons I practiced preaching in the empty pulpit with my buddy Mark, whose father was also a minister.  I ended up in the software industry instead, but every time I see a preacher or a priest, I wonder. . . .