I have always wanted to be an artist as long as I can remember, and everyone told me that was what I was going to do. (I suppose because I was always working at at.)
It’s quite an experience to have the adults in your life telling you you’re going to do something for about fifteen years, only to have them suddenly say "Oh, you can’t do that, you need to do something more reliable.
Pppph to them. I am selling my artwork online now, running my own business, and working a regular job on the side to save money to one day open my own studio.
A bit younger than 6 years old I wanted to be a garbage man, though I can’t really fathom why. Around 6 (1987) I wanted to be an astronaut (even with what happened with challenger). The wish to be an astronaut hasn’t really left me to this day, but I know it’s not gonna happen, unless NASA comes knocking at my door asking me to be one. Although troughout my whole childhood I always fathomed a job in fundamental research, be it psysics, chemistry, atronomy, astrophysics, nanophysics, robotics, computer science, biology, whatever. Throughout my whole life, i’ve always had 2 passions, sciences(Sciences with a really big S) and video games. As a carreer perspective, video games are gonna win, but I’ll never lose my fascination for the world of the infinitely small and infinitely big. You can see the trend here, discoveries, inventing, CREATIVITY. I realised I’m very creative, and that is probably why I’m so fascinated with video games and sciences.
I wanted to be a doctor. It was all I ever wanted to do. My mom says when I was 3 I asked for a doctor kit for my birthday but she had to get me a nurse’s outfit because they did not have doctor outfits for little girls.
Guess the times have changed.
Psychobunny M.D.
For reals. I was in first grade and our teacher was Sr. Frances Ramona, the coolest little old nun you could ever hope to meet. (She died a few years ago-I miss her).
I’ve been almost everything I wanted to be when I was six - waitress and bartender? Check. Office chick? Check. Artist? Check. Writer? Check. Actress? Check.
In addition, I’ve been a motorcycle salesperson, a restaurant manager, a retail salesperson, a teacher, an employment counselor (oh, the irony), and I once delivered a baby (besides my own, I mean.)
I think the only thing I haven’t been that I sorely wanted to be at six is a musician. Although I did write some songs.
When my next door neighbor was 6 he told his mother he wanted to be a flagger on a road construction crew so that he wouldn’t ever have to go to school.
He eventually got his Ph.D. and is an associate professor of political science in a leading east coast university.
