# When I grow up I want to be a ... ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827 "2005-07-02T13:55:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827/21 "2005-07-03T03:58:33Z")

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I wanted to be a security guard on armoured cars, carrying bags of money. I didn’t realise they didn’t get to take the bags home.

Then I wanted to be an ambulance driver. I also didn’t realise they had to get out and help injured people as well.

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827/22 "2005-07-03T04:41:57Z")

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I wanted to be, more than anything, an archaeologist. Well, actually, I wanted to be a female Indiana Jones. I still do.

Although, secretly, I want to be a rock star.

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**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827/23 "2005-07-03T04:45:05Z")

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I never wanted to be anything, really. Still have no goals in life, although I still maintain that a drifter lifestyle would be cool.

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827/24 "2005-07-03T04:55:37Z")

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Lumberjack.

Fom Monty Pyton:

I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK  
I sleep all night and I work all day.

Chorus:  
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK  
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch  
I go to the lavatory.  
On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea

Mounties:  
He cut down trees, he eat his lunch  
He go to the lavatory.  
On Wednesdays he go shopping and has buttered scones for tea.

Chorus:  
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK  
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump  
I like to press wild flowers.  
I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars.  
**Glad that I grew out of that phase.**

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**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a/310827/25 "2005-07-03T07:13:31Z")

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Paleontologist. Could pronounce it at the age of five and everything. And at least two dozen species of dinosaur, probably more. I kinda grew out of that when I realized that while sciences were fun, there was a lot more math than I would like to make a career out of any one of them.

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