What did you want to be when you grew up?
 

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I never imagined for a minute I would live to grow up, what with hellfire and brimstone and the pesky communist nuclear threat....detente...all that.

I do however, in keeping with my theme of not being alive at 46, remember really wanting to be a vampire.

Taller.

Ok, ok....an archeologist.

Cool!

All at once?

How funny is that!!
Hack and I both post at 6pm and both say Archeologist!!

Why not? Just call me a major multi-tasker! LOL

I though archaeology stuff was cool too, I just never thought the world would last that long...that and, I do not like camping.

I wanted to read 24/7.

A pilot :flying:

I decided in the 7th grade I was going to take Chinese and live and work in China. I took Chinese in the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, and remember very little of what I learned. I wish I had studied Spanish...at least I could have used Spanish.

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:alieninjar:I wanted to be a astronaught:alieninjar:

when my daughter was very young, I took her to college. She was probably 4 or 5 years old. One of my friends in an english class bent down and asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Little Liz scrunched up her face at her, like she had just asked her some dumb question ...and then blurted out "why, I want to be ME, that what I want to be when I grow up"...lol

talk about a solid sense of identity and self worth...:huhlaugh:

I wanted to be Mr. Spock... except.. well.. a girl Mr. Spock...

I wanted to be a police officer

As a child, I'd had a premonition that I would die a violent death by stabbing or with some sort of sharp blade. I had this fear until a couple of years ago. Who knows, maybe it was accurate and I did something that altered the route of things to come? *shrug*

So, like you, I really didn't expect to make it very far in life. However, in middle school I wanted to be a social worker so bad I could taste it. I did a ton of research and made lists of pros and cons and I was doing well with my planning until the adults in my life at that time interferred. Eventually, I listened to them and dropped it.

I've always regretted it.

My bestie from middle and high school wanted to be an archeologist. She even conned me into taking an intro type course for it. It was rather interesting, but I don't do well with bugs. :blink:

When I was about 6 or 7 all I could dream of was being a flight attendant on Eastern Airlines (shows my age). I had the little carry on bag and collected everything I could to do with that profession.

Oddly, I also used to line up all my stuffed animals and try and have group therapy. Mom and Dad thought it a bit strange. However, at about age 10 we traveled to S. Florida and had to travel through the grounds of the state mental hospital (no interstates - shows my age) and I looked out the car windows and stated, "I'm going to work there one day." My folks never forgot that and yes, I worked there all through graduate school as a social worker. Sometimes we just simply know what we want to do with our lives.

No regrets although I still envy the flight attendants everytime I fly.

I wanted to be a Federal Prosecutor... :)

I wanted to please my family so I thought setting myself on the fastrack to become a Science teacher:glasses: and with an interest in Phys Ed Admin would be good...and then everything went sideways. ..thank gawd.

So then I thought being a smoke jumper :grindevil:would be a totally awesome and a really studly thing to do....never happened...thank gawd.


So then I figured a Forest Ranger would be cool, kinda hippyish, and a real granola thing to do (am I dating myself?) . I could sit in a fire lookout:ohm:, watch the smokejumpers and write really bad poetry:writer:
...never happened...yep, thank gawd !

Everything works out as its supposed to. I've been in my field for 26 years and couldnt imagine doing anything else ! :police:

:bandkiss:

Rock star

:aslpeacelove:

I wanted to be an actress or comedian. I think because of my dysfunctional childhood I was very good at becoming someone else. I was quite good at entertaining my parents.
It helped to relieve the stress levels. I thought I would like to be recognized by lots of people. I love horses though I have never owned one. I wanted to have a huge horse ranch. I would like to be a writer if I can just dictate my words.

i wanted to be a stripper *honestly* or a truck driver!

From the time I was able to be aware until I was around 10 I wanted to be a large animal vet alah James Harriott.
From my tender nerdy 4th grade self until I was in my freshman year of college I wanted to be a genetic engineer. Where I grew up there were fields with metal signs on them that had a last name and a number, they were fields named by the engineer of the crop. I wanted to name a species of corn or soybean or hay. I was especially desirous of creating a type of hay with enhanced nutritional value but reduced propensity to cause founder in horses.

For awhile (8-23) I thought I would end up training horses and or coaching riders as that was always my side job to make money. I did it long enough for somebody else to realize that there was no money in it, so now I am in education bwahahahahahahahaha

According to my mother I used to tell people I was going to be a flowerchild when I grew up.

As I got older I wanted to be a vet.

KEWL.. a flowerchild! Those were the days!! ROTFL!!!

:smelling-flower:

I remember very young deciding that when I grew up, I was going to buy a farm and have all the stray cats and dogs come live with me.

Next, I wanted to be a stewardess. I had a Barbie with a stewardess outfit and accessories and it really was all about the little bag she carried and the hat she wore that sealed the deal. Then....

I was going to be a hand model. (I would practice all my hand "poses" for hours in the mirror)

But then, when I saw the movie Grease, I was going to be Sandy. (Really just the Sandy at the carnival...those hot pants, heels and hair....wow)

Only after I came to terms with the fact I can't sing and don't look like Olivia Newton John, I started thinking more along the lines of psychologist, lawyer, editor, FBI profiler...

As a kid, I wanted to be an attorney or in the military (Coast Guard preferably). At one point in my life, I ended up working for a law firm that facilitated Coast Guard regulations and decided I was glad I didn't actually become a lawyer. (Let's not discuss ethics, m'kay?)

There are times I wish I went into the USCG though - I'd be retired by now :)

I wanted to be a classical pianist:grandpiano:, but after already having years of piano in my life I wasn't having much fun. So I decided I should be a painter:artist:because oils always made me a happy girl. As a Professional Makeup Artist I stuck with the plan, just chose a different canvas.

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