As far back as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be a gangster. Well, I work in an Insurance claims office now so…
39 1/2 and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I guess where I went wrong was not thinking about growing up when I was a kid.
I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was a kid, but I always thought that I would know at some point. Well, I never had the big revelation, unfortunately, but next fall I’m starting grad school in public health, field I’m interested in and I think I’d like. Here’s hoping.
No. I’m not a rich world traveler that has seen everything of interest.
I always wanted to be a teacher. For some years I thought I’d like to be an archeaologist, but when I was about 18 I realized that all my daydreams involved teachering archeaology, not actually doing it, and that really, the teaching part was what was interesting, and if that were the case, I might as well teach high school, since that was a heck of a lot easier to to into. From there, English seemed the most obvious choice–it was always my favorite class.
I now teach high school English. And I really love my life.
No, when I was little I wanted to grow up to be Gerald Durrell and travel all over the world having adventures and collecting animals for zoos. Then as a teenager I wanted to be a journalist. Eventually my career aspirations came down to “do not want to work in a cubicle”.
Me, too.
I wanted to be a pilot. I didn’t need to be a fighter pilot or anything; I would’ve been perfectly happy flying passengers around, or even cargo. I mean, they pay you to fly! And to go to airports! In different countries sometimes!
I didn’t even know that pilots get paid quite a bit; I would’ve slept in the plane if they fed me (though not airline food, unless I got to fly Japan Air Lines, which had the tasty food).
Sadly, I am not a pilot. I am a professional computer herder. I started being noticably nearsighted around the time I was 12, enough to be outside the commercial-pilot requirements by the time I had to consider ROTC (if the Air Force would even let me fly). I got LASIK, but I’m told it’s expensive to get credentialed privately, so eh.
Not by a long shot. When I was little, I hated writing, and I despised commercials. And now? I write commercials.
When I was six I wanted to work at a gas station. Everyone in the 70’s was complaining about how expensive gasoline was, so I figured those guys must be raking in the dough.
I wanted to be, or aimed towards all of the following - each time, something happened to prevent me from doing it:
astronaut
singer
French teacher
Interpreter
Translator
Professor (Political Ethics)
Foreign Policy Analyst
Knowledge Manager
Now I’m studying towards being a career counsellor to help people not follow the kind of convoluted career path I have followed. In the meantime I do library stuff or records management stuff.
from the age of 2 or 3, I wanted to be a Broadway Star (I blame Shirley Temple movies - I mean if she could dance and sing…)
I took theatre classes in high school, majored in theatre in college, took voice lessons after that, did a lot of community theatre. I have (and have had for the past quarter century) a desk job that involves no acting of any kind. I do, however, sing with a Sweet Adelines chorus, so every now and then, my inner Diva is satisfied.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a cartoonist and a video game developer or computer programmer. I also wanted to own the car from The Dukes of Hazzard and have all of Superman’s powers.
My hobby is an independent animated film which will eventually be made, I work on computers all day in the printing field, I own the car from The Dukes of Hazzard (hence my username), and my super powers are…pending. So, I’m pretty close. So far, I’ve mastered the vulnerability to kryptonite.
I always wanted to be a doctor.
Looks down at white coat and checks neck for stethescope.
Yep-still boring and predictable.
Does anyone want to be a clinical trials coordinator when they grow up?
I’m still “growing up,” though, I guess, because I’m going back to school to become a nurse sometime next year. There were times in my youth when I wanted to be a nurse. However, I spent most of it wanting to be a teacher or an actress, and those are right out–I no longer want to do either.
Pretty damn close. For awhile, I wanted to be a Mooooovie Star, but I’m actually damn glad that didn’t happen.
I’m a chic New York “career girl” (yes, I’m that old), living by myself in a glam apartment, and I write about old movie stars. If you told me when I was a kid that was actually to be my future, I’d have been thrilled.