# What do you want to be when you grow up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796 "2003-02-22T17:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/1 "2003-02-22T17:36:05Z")
I’ll probably never grow up, but if I do I want to play Major League Baseball. In the decade of the 1970’s. One of my former employees once told me that when he was a young child he wanted to be the Pope when he grew up. I can’t recall ever meeting anyone else aspiring to that admittedly lofty goal. Aim high. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/2 "2003-02-22T17:44:33Z")
I want a figurehead position somewhere I will make lots and lots of money for minimum effort. Or… I want to be a famous novelist, so someone wave that magic wand to give me the talent. Or… I want to be a beeeyoootiful princess with a sparkly crown and a full court of handmaidens and my very own jester! One thing is for damned sure. I don’t want to be a house painter when I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/3 "2003-02-22T18:04:09Z")
I want to be a Ballet Dancer. I could never be waitress though, all those heavy trays would screw up my center of balance. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/4 "2003-02-22T18:09:56Z")
I want to be Chief Justice of SCOTUS. Think about, good moeny, job security, and the serious ability to bring America around to your vision of the what’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/5 "2003-02-22T18:23:15Z")
I want to be a housecat. A spoiled housecat, mind you. Or perhaps a professional nap-taker. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/6 "2003-02-22T18:40:43Z")
President of Stimpy’s fan club… Or lotion-boy for the Hawaiin tropic girls ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/7 "2003-02-22T18:41:09Z")
INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY !!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/8 "2003-02-22T18:53:31Z")
My beautiful dream from my childhood is to be retired. That’s all I’ve ever really wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/9 "2003-02-22T21:40:14Z")
I want to be governor. Shake hands, make speeches, hug babies, slap backs, and then after I get elected get a statewide health plan that really works for the citizens, and get both unemployment and crime rates down to 0% and institute a full college scholarship for poor kids with good grades. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/10 "2003-02-22T21:54:33Z")
I want to be a Paleontologist. I have since I was 5. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/11 "2003-02-23T01:40:39Z")
I want to be Dorothy Parker, only more…um…alive, I guess. 😉 Except for the depressed, lovelorn, bisexual husband parts - those, I could forego. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/12 "2003-02-23T01:58:46Z")
I want to be mad genuis dancer-choreographer with a dance troupe of children. … or a florist, or maybe just a witch with a garden full of herbs and a friendly cat. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/13 "2003-02-23T04:05:37Z")
To be able to saunter up to a piano at a party and play so wonderfully that everyone is in awe, and to be able to then be croon so well that it starts a serious revival of the music of the 30’s/40’s/50’s, and the return of romaticism (without its downside)…all of which is attributed to me. Impossible, impracticable and a wild and foolish dream…but someone out there can have my dream for free…hey, you…make it happen! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/14 "2003-02-23T04:12:05Z")
Rich 😃 I think I’d be perfectly happy as a part-time novelist/part-time preschool teacher. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/15 "2003-02-23T08:21:01Z")
I want to be Chuck Connors as The Rifleman. ---
**Author:** ![simple\_homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/16 "2003-02-23T08:32:31Z")
"What do you want to be when you grow up? " Big !! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/17 "2003-02-23T09:26:52Z")
I want to be an artist. Oh wait, I am… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/18 "2003-02-23T10:36:22Z")
I want to be an astronaut and a fireman and a president. And a lion. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/19 "2003-02-23T11:16:10Z")
A teenager. ---
**Author:** ![GloriaMundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee59a6/32.png) [@GloriaMundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GloriaMundi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796/20 "2003-02-23T12:13:14Z")
I want to be an opera singer - one who can sing coleratura. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up/156796.md?page=2)