# If you would have got your wish when you were FOUR, what would you be today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516 "2002-08-25T20:16:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/1 "2002-08-25T20:16:56Z")
Today as an adult of age 30 I would either be a Magician… or a butterfly. I can still see the look on my fathers face… “Son, wouldn’t you rather be a LION!!!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/2 "2002-08-25T20:23:00Z")
Me? I’d be a teenager. I’m not anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/3 "2002-08-25T20:26:31Z")
A sixth-grader! ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/5 "2002-08-25T20:41:52Z")
An orphan ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/6 "2002-08-25T20:43:38Z")
I know this sounds weird, but I wanted to be Pope. I liked his dresses and cool hats. ---
**Author:** ![evolutionbaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9bcb4/32.png) [@evolutionbaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evolutionbaby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/7 "2002-08-25T22:21:40Z")
A waitress. My mom was a waitress back then at a fancy steak house and got to wear a cool uniform with a white apron. I thought it was soooo glamerous! Either that or a high-schooler, because I adored my aunt and wanted to be just like her. Evo ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/8 "2002-08-25T22:58:07Z")
A member of the Thunderbirds/International Rescue Team. That’s right, I wanted to be a puppet. Either that, or Marine Boy. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/9 "2002-08-25T23:04:37Z")
the catcher for the boston red sox, who by the way, won the world series every year i played. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/10 "2002-08-25T23:18:57Z")
Aretha Franklin ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuyWithPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@ThatGuyWithPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuyWithPants)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/11 "2002-08-25T23:31:14Z")
I’d be a _real_ boy! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/12 "2002-08-26T00:28:54Z")
A truck driver! I really loved trucks when I was a kid. A close second was this vague dream I had about shouting at people over a global electronic network. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/13 "2002-08-26T00:33:26Z")
4 years old? I think that was the ice cream truck driver period… ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/14 "2002-08-26T00:46:17Z")
I would be a ballerina. 🙂 I suppose it’s best that things turned out differently; I don’t have the self discipline to practice as often as I’d need to. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/15 "2002-08-26T00:59:42Z")
An archeologist. I was weird even then. ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/16 "2002-08-26T01:00:17Z")
Mrs. Claus… ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/17 "2002-08-26T01:02:25Z")
Ronald Reagan’s personal physician. Not great, but better than being a sheep farmer with seven children, which was my ambition a few years later. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/18 "2002-08-26T01:04:35Z")
Oh, a fireman, without a doubt. What’s cooler than riding around on that truck all day? And yes, I watched a lot of _Emergency_ and lived in LA. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/19 "2002-08-26T01:09:40Z")
At four? Hmm. I’d just begun to talk. (or was that walk? can never remember what my mom tells me…) I think I’d be a teacher, today. That, or my definition of a “big kid”: say, someone in high school or something. Like all our family friends’ kids seemed to be at the time, at least to me. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/20 "2002-08-26T01:21:15Z")
Don’t know what I’d be, but I’d be driving a bulldozer every where I went. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/21 "2002-08-26T02:12:24Z")
My grandpa. He was a broadcaster for a local TV station, and he was just SO COOL. I worshipped him until about 20 years ago, when I finally realized that he was human, just like the rest of us. _sigh_ Now I’m 35, and I just want to be Indiana Jones. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516.md?page=2)