What did you want to be when you grew up?

[TexHagrid]

When you were younger (talking about your real life age!), what kind of job/career did you aspire to have?

Like many kids, I changed my mind a lot. Over the years, some of my career goals were: Pro Football Player, Pyro Technician, Rollercoaster Designer, and Teacher.

 

[Hahaurfnuuy]

i think everybody probably hops around over the years lol...
Vet
Nurse
Mortician
Singer
Broadway Performer
Psychiatrist/Psychologist
Actress
Videographer
Photographer
Writer

i changed my mind a lot lol..

edit to add: currently budtender and professional non-profit karaoker lol

 

[Pelusos]

Archeologist
Geoligist
Pilot
My mind hasn`t been changed yet...

 

[Peepeegirl]

Ballerina
Actress
Doctor
In the end I became a teacher

 

[PaigeCherubiel]

Meteorologist
Chemist
Marine Biologist
Rocket Scientist
and in the end I became a nuclear worker

 

[jamiejamie]

Doctor. And then I became a forensic scientist. Didn’t want to go thru MCAT, Med school, and years of residency and fellowship.

 

[theancientmariner]

I wanted to be a pirate. My family went to Las Vegas a lot for gun shows, and would often witness the pirate ship battle at Treasure Island. You know, the real pirate battle with the British war ship coming from from around the corner to end the pirates? I miss that sooooo much. After each show, you could take your picture with the pirate captain, and I loved it so much, I wanted to be just like him
I guess you can say I'm living the dream job as we speak. I live on the ocean, and am only back on dry land for a short time. I live on a fishing boat, and we pump salmon from the seine and gillnetters into our fish holds, and haul them back to the processing plant. Then it's back out to sea for another 24 or 36 hours.

 

[Tenawearer]

Train driver
Archaeologist ( have some practical experience)
Cartographer
56, work in logistics, still don't know. Must be a little in denial.
Most rewarding work was teaching sailing and windsurfing in combination with setting up and packing up campsites. Seen most of Europe.

 

[LittleJames97]

A firefighter

 

[Happy2BeInNappies2]

I just wanted to be taller and normal.
Fell short on both.

 

[Nam Repaid]

At 5 or 6 a telephone lineman, I lived next to the local exchange in the Strowger Switching system era and often got a tour loving the thousands of colored wires and relays.
By 8 or 10 we lived not far from the electric company's repair yard so i wanted to be a power company lineman, higher voltages, higher on the pole.
In middle school I took power mechanics in shop and wanted to be a lawnmower repair man then Industrial arts and wanted to fix machines.
Also as puberty hit I wanted to be a porn photographer.
By high school I was a competent electrician-mechanic and my shop teacher got me a job in the maintenance department at a foundry he worked at in his off time that lasted 6 years. I recently retired as a head maintenance mechanic after 32 years at a different shop.
In addition down the years, often 2 jobs at a time I did 2 years as a welder, 8 years as a power equipment mechanic and 6 photographing wannabe porn starlets at strip bars.
I'm done with working for a living so I guess I'll never be climbing poles, they cheat and use those bucket trucks now anyway.

 

[Rakvirsza]

Well at one point I wanted to make orange crayons, (I was a very specific child, apparently)
Then I wanted to be a vet,
Then I wanted to make games.

As a video game developer, I kinda stuck with the last one.

 

[IncontinentArtist]

An artist. Always and for ever. Since I was able to talk that what I has always been. It took 28 years (January 2016) to start pursuing it and another 7 after that to start disciplining my self and being serious with it. I will be 36 at the end of this month. I don't regret not starting it earlier because I learned a lot of important and vital lesson along the way. Some were hard and expensive but if you learn something from them it's worth it.

 

[theancientmariner]

An artist. Always and for ever. Since I was able to talk that what I has always been. It took 28 years (January 2016) to start pursuing it and another 7 after that to start disciplining my self and being serious with it. I will be 36 at the end of this month. I don't regret not starting it earlier because I learned a lot of important and vital lesson along the way. Some were hard and expensive but if you learn something from them it's worth it.

Username checks out

 

[Teddy02]

I read what you have all written and realise that I never had any aspirations as a child. I was happy riding my bicycle around the parks of London. I fell into my career as a fashion photographer which was good fun (except for the incontinence/bedwetting). I travelled the world (aat someone elses expense). I got bored with that and became a film director (all tv commercials) then retired from it all. I have now realised my true love which has been boat building and furniture making. Sadly I am too old and crumbly to do a lot of it, but I am happy to have had the experience.

 

[Oaktree]

Meteorologist in my early childhood for sure.

 

[SuzetteSissy]

me. no clue other than a girl, then an artist and then life got in the way, and I became a CEO and President of IT companies around the world and now at the end I'm back to where I started, a girl.

 

[Forced]

Always wanted to be a sportsman but despite being good at most sports (apart from snooker) I was never good enough.

I was always interested in photography so went down that route instead.

I did have thoughts as a youngster that working remotely, like on an oil rig, would allow me to wear nappies & plastic pants regularly.
I never did anything about it though.

 

[ElPulpo]

When I was 4 - Garbage collector because I found those huge vehicles extremely impressive.

 

[IncontinentArtist]

Username checks out

Yeah when I signed up on the site I didn't have to put to much thought into my user name.