# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/42 "2002-08-26T11:17:19Z")
A cetologist. I was a horribly precocious child. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/43 "2002-08-26T11:24:35Z")
Godzilla ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/44 "2002-08-26T11:43:28Z")
I’d be celebrating my 24th wedding anniversary any day now. Ah Rochelle, you broke my heart. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/45 "2002-08-26T12:04:28Z")
Either a ballerina or an astronaut. Most of the time I wanted to be a ballerina. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/46 "2002-08-26T12:09:51Z")
Another wanna-be ballerina here. I also wanted to be an only child… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/47 "2002-08-26T12:20:53Z")
I’d be a paperboy (yes I had an odd upbringing) egg ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/48 "2002-08-26T12:26:41Z")
Judging from **every single picture** taken of me from baby til about eight I wanted to be a cowboy. I do have a picture of me taken at age four on a pony dressed in a cowboy outfit. It’s just so adoreable! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/49 "2002-08-26T12:28:05Z")
I think I would be five. Although I do vaguely remember wanting to be a miner or a professional spelunker, as I had some kind of Freudian obsession with stuff that goes on underground. When I was about 6, I wanted to be either an astrophysicist, a superhero, a spy, or a detective, or some combination thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/50 "2002-08-26T12:37:07Z")
Astronaut. On something a bit faster than the Space Shuttle… ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/51 "2002-08-26T13:13:33Z")
I would probably have been prime minister. I used to play politics with my small teddy bears giving them names of politicians I´d heard on TV. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/52 "2002-08-26T14:17:58Z")
I would be a Solid Gold Dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/53 "2002-08-26T14:29:43Z")
A magician, a monster, or Lassie. I wasn’t even close. I hadn’t heard of computers back then. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/54 "2002-08-26T14:39:53Z")
Blissfully non-existent. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/55 "2002-08-26T14:45:38Z")
A Mandrell sister. Especially liked Louise who played the fiddle. I loved that show when it was on and thought the Mandrell sisters were the prettiest and coolest ladies ever. ---
**Author:** ![Kiting\_Illini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Kiting\_Illini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiting_Illini)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/56 "2002-08-26T15:08:21Z")
Umm…I guess I would be Ron Howard. At 4, I had this very strong belief that the Andy Griffith Show was about me and my dad. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/57 "2002-08-26T15:18:35Z")
Superman. I was particularly interested in fighting crime, but I did want to wear a cape and fly. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/58 "2002-08-26T16:24:35Z")
A mermaid. A pretty, pretty mermaid who would swim between Puget Sound, WA and Hawai’i. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/59 "2002-08-26T17:31:02Z")
I would be older than my cousin Valerie, who is four years older than I am. At that age, I was still sure that I would eventually catch up to her age, and be the one who was older, eventually.; all it would take was a few more birthdays…Since she’s now nearly 30, I’m glad that never happen 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/60 "2002-08-26T17:35:10Z")
Jane Goodall, without a doubt (this later progressed into my long-lived desire to be a zookeeper). ---
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-would-have-got-your-wish-when-you-were-four-what-would-you-be-today/125516/61 "2002-08-26T18:10:33Z")
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