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Well... What did you want to be when you were little.

Well... What did you want to be when you were little.I wanted to stay little... (still do, actually)

lawyer, teacher, pilot, translator amongst many many other things, weird thing is i always said that no matter what i would never ever want to be a nurse, now i'm applying to do nursing

Did u ever see the movie "A Far Off Place"? I wanted to be the person with AK-47 that killed all the poachers! Still do kinda :sniper:

I wanted to stay little... (still do, actually)

hold on.... are you....... MICHAEL JACKSON? :eek:

As a kid I went through phases where I wanted to be a soldier, police man, mafia gangster, chemist, author, and surgeon.

I still 14. I have some seeingly very boring professions that I would like to persue.

But I did want to be an architect. then I realised how much I hate maths.

a doctor. then i realised i'd have to work will ill people...
plus i'm too stoopid to be a medic :(

Astronomer, aircraft pilot, ichthyologist, historian, or computer guy.

...ended up as a computer guy w/ a Master's in History... and I still may become a historian yet. :)

A hobo

i wanted to be a fighter pilot. too bad im colourblind, long sighted and short sighted. currently i want to be a history teacher (which ive applied for at uni) or a freelance mountain leader/instructor (i will have to change my course if i want to do this).

I wanted to be a sniper with some latin american guerillas. No, seriously. I even started sharp-shooting as a hobby until someone told me that I could never be a successful sniper with glasses, or even contact lenses. :(

Then I just figured I'd be a revolutionary, period.

Instead, I just think about sex a lot and plan on going into Aboriginal Law in the next couple of years...

LAPD officer. Don't laugh. It was true! ;)

hold on.... are you....... MICHAEL JACKSON? :eek: Um...no. I only enjoy cuddling and sharing my bed with mature female shapes...:D

I wanted to be an astronaut at first but I hooked on to being a teacher since late elementary.

Spiderman, Fighter Pilot, fireman, police officer...

Now I figure I should just take over the world and be done with it.

Astronaut. Then my parents convinced me that I'm not much of a technical person, so I studied library science. Now I work as technical support for an IT firm... :rolleyes:

I wanted to be a vet until I was about 15 and then my parents were told I wasnt smart enough for it but I should try medicine. I've had three offers for medical school but I have the feeling I havent done well enough in my exams. O well i find out on the 18th.

I wanted to be Rupert Murdoch. Or a journalist. Now just Rupert.

Astronaut. Then my parents convinced me that I'm not much of a technical person, so I studied library science. Now I work as technical support for an IT firm... :rolleyes:
I wanted to be a hobo but somehow I ended up in the IT field as well :p

I can honestly say that I am doing exactly what I dreamed of since the age of nine. I wouldn't change anything.

Um...no. I only enjoy cuddling and sharing my bed with mature female shapes...:D

lol...

I can honestly say that I am doing exactly what I dreamed of since the age of nine. I wouldn't change anything.

whats that...

I wanted to be Rupert Murdoch. Or a journalist. Now just Rupert.

I love that bear...

I wanted to be either a soap opera star, or a harvester of the sea.

One came true.

At some points in time I wanted to be an inventor, an adventurer, an astronaut, a doctor, a lawyer, a soldier, and an executive. I am currently 16 years old.

But for about 3/4 of a year now, I have known that I want to be a politician. I am going to do ROTC (probably Air Force) for 4 years after college, then I'm going to make money by doing freelance business, and finally (when I'm around 30), I am going to run for political office, and work my way up to the top as fast as I can.

hmm i'm 20 and i just realised i still don't know what i want to be when i grow up :headbang:


so many things i could do, but so few i really want to or have any predisposition or talent towards :(

When I was in Elementary School, I wanted to be an astronaut (since my Uncle works at NASA, and bought me a nice telescope I loved).

From about 12 on I wanted to be an artist.

Now I've compromised and run a small web design/Flash animation company. I guess I made it as a commercial artist (what I went to school for).

Pirate! I even wanted to lose a leg so I could have a peg leg. I had the plastic sword, fake beard, tricorn hat etc. I was really committed to being a pirate. Then over time, the dream started to go...
However now I'm hoping to start a career as a well paid rich person.

i wanted to be a fighter pilot. too bad im colourblind, long sighted and short sighted. currently i want to be a history teacher (which ive applied for at uni) or a freelance mountain leader/instructor (i will have to change my course if i want to do this).
I too wanted to fly fighter planes but I too am colorblind. I think I could have faked the funk, cause it's not too bad-but then I became a pacifist. Hard to be a consciencious(sp) objector in a fighter plane...

I didn't really realise this until I went to answer the question but I trundled through my dads broken dreams as a kid. After colorblindness ended my ambition early I wanted to be an aeronautical scientist (the distinction was important-not engineer, scientist. As I grew up of course I realized that the distinction was also made up...what I was really talking about was being an engineer). That was largely because I was going through my dads old text books on aeronautical engineering. He actually wanted to design cars and felt that aerodynamics was the future of car design. He was right and would have been on the forefront but he did real estate instead and got an ulcer.

I wanted to be a race car driver, but started at the same time and place as someone who really did make it so it was clear that I didn't have what he had. Very clear. (without him I could have fooled myself)

I wanted to be a musician and was for a while and I'm going to get back into it. It's just that in two years of writing plays I had already recieved more awards than in my life as a musician, so that seemed like a pretty clear signal.

Everything but the playwrighting is something my dad wanted to do but didn't for one reason or another. (His dad, my grandfather, was a professional racer and we both tried to live up to him. He died too early to realize I wasn't going to make it, so maybe his last thoughts where that I could and he could be cool with that.)

Sorry for the long unfunny post, that revelation just hit, so...

Well... What did you want to be when you were little.
President of the USA.

in elementary school: lawyer, college professor, chemist, artist, writer, astronomer, librarian

in middle school: writer, meteorologist, musician, psychologist

in high school: writer, musician, DJ, newsreporter, psychologist, sociologist

in college (freshman, sophmore): writer, sociologist, college professor... i was a DJ for a while

Now, it's my senior year. I'm getting a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Communication (and maybe International Studies as well, I'm trying my best). The graduate programs I am looking at are mainly in Sociology, Social Policy, and International Relations. I want to get away from academia for a while and do research for the UN or government. I figure I need to stop yelling at the news every night and actually get out there and do something about our world today.

Well... What did you want to be when you were little.
A Cop, preferably Motorcycle or K9. Trained most of my youth. Could pass the FBI pistol course with a 96% by age 17... with no glasses on. Then reality struck when I went to Uni the first time and was told by Police Recruiting that (because of my eyes) the only way I'd get into LE was to be voted Sheriff of Podunk.

So I went Active duty military (I was Combat Arms in the Natl. Guard )... untill they kicked me out (eyes again) rather than let me reclassify to a Regular Army REMF Intel/TRADOC job.

So I went back to Uni... to study Psycholinguistics (common degree field of PR/Marketing/Political Philosophy) But I'm not well enough connected for the Political Jobs and too old/white/male for the entry-level corporate/firm PR jobs. :headbang:

I'm thinking of going into Bank Robbery. :(

I wanted to go into politics when I grew up. The photos and videotapes of certain...activities pretty much put an end to that. :p

I didn't really give a fuck just as long as I was filthy stinkin rich. But now im 18 with a wife and our son living in a small trailer, and I know that this is gonna sound corny but it's much better than the whole rich guy thing.

i wanted to be a mermaid. who knows... it could have a chance of happening yet.....

I wanted to go into politics when I grew up. The photos and videotapes of certain...activities pretty much put an end to that. :pI would have thought that they would have encouraged you... :D

Pilot. That is what I work as now. :)

I would have thought that they would have encouraged you... :D

Personally, I wouldn't want a president who didn't have a stupid adolescence.

Of course, I'm 32 and mine hasn't ended yet. :)

Personally, I wouldn't want a president who didn't have a stupid adolescence.

Of course, I'm 32 and mine hasn't ended yet. :)You give me hope! I'm feeling younger again! Maybe I'll be adolescent again before I turn 32!

A chef, or as I put it at the time, a cooker :D

I didn't really give a fuck just as long as I was filthy stinkin rich. But now im 18 with a wife and our son living in a small trailer, and I know that this is gonna sound corny but it's much better than the whole rich guy thing.

Are you by any chance from Texas

I was very practical as I child. Now, I'm not. Hopefully I'll be able to go into IT without taking the GCSE or A-Level...

I didn't really give a fuck just as long as I was filthy stinkin rich. But now im 18 with a wife and our son living in a small trailer, and I know that this is gonna sound corny but it's much better than the whole rich guy thing.
Sometimes "less" really is more. :)

Aren't the little people great! :D

Personally, I wouldn't want a president who didn't have a stupid adolescence.

Of course, I'm 32 and mine hasn't ended yet. :)
Hell! I'm 62 and I'm in my [ counts ] third or fourth adolescence! I'm lovin' it! :D

You give me hope! I'm feeling younger again! Maybe I'll be adolescent again before I turn 32!

I recently mooned a cop.
He was a family friend, but he was a cop. And I mooned him. :D

Up until 6th grade, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then, I watched in horror as the Challenger exploded. To this day, I cannot watch a shuttle launch.

Hmm. Well, I am still growing up, but I am no longer little, and for the past 15 years anytime anyone asked that I usually had about 5 answers. Two that have come up consistently were writer and scientist. I know I want to be a Bikram yoga instructor now... I would still love to be a writer, but I think I am not motivated or inspired enough to scrape even a livable amount of money from it. Science still sounds like it could be very interesting, since in the right field you continue learning every time you go to work. Teacher and actor are the other two things I remember liking recently - I'd need more experience acting, but the English class I intend to take next year focuses on acting/drama for a term. Teacher I came up with because I then I could always return to school and explain things I've learned... but I'm starting to think I might lack the patience to deal with students not interested in the class.

I wanted to be a helicopter pilot, I still do, even though I am in school right now for organizational pychology.

I think at one point I wanted to become a teacher to, but then I realized I dont like kids and that put an end to that one.

When I was very small I wanted to be a birthday cake.

Everything.

I'd be a professional baseball player, who was also an astronaut during the off season and worked as a scientist on weekends. Maybe during my spare time I'd write the great American novel, turn it into a movie and star in it.

Unfortunately, I realized that is completely impossible.

I wanted to race Porsches at Le Mans. Or play cricket for Australia. Or play footy for Collingwood.

As a kid? Well i wanted to be in the military, and today i still do. Only in a broader perspective-101st Airborne(Screamin' Eagles)Hooah-and to all the men and women in uniform, I love u and support you-and soon will join you!

Military life. Especially the 101st Airbourne. If only i can grow the balls to jump out of aircraft...

garbage man, bomb expert, assassin, army, mortician, undertaker, security guard (which i'm qualified for now)

A contract killer.

and my current obsession is a Marine Sniper, and has been since I was 12. My other obsession was a veterinarian, but after volunteering at a clinic since then(currently 18) I have decided I would hate the human interaction and would much rather either work as a vet at a zoo, or work entirely with wildlife. But considering I'm going to college this year, and entering ROTC for the Marines. So I still can go either path.

When I was really little I wanted to be a fireman or an astronaut. At about 10 I wanted to make story lines for video games. Then at 13 I wanted to be a writer.

Military life. Especially the 101st Airbourne. If only i can grow the balls to jump out of aircraft...
the 101st is no longer an airborne unit, I got this directly from someone who is in the army. It is now an air assault unit.

i wanted to be a fighter pilot. too bad im colourblind, long sighted and short sighted. currently i want to be a history teacher (which ive applied for at uni) or a freelance mountain leader/instructor (i will have to change my course if i want to do this).

weirdly enough, that's exactly what happened to me! well, almost - not colorblind, and no mountains involved...but darn close!

A fireman. This my childhood dream has become all the more emotional to me in the past few years

I'm only 12 and I have absolutly no clue what I want to do with my life, but when I was 6, when everyone else wanted to be a police officer or a fireman, I wanted to be a palientologist. :mp5:

Well... What did you want to be when you were little.

i wanted to be a pilot or a heavy equipment operator..oh well...now i am just a drunk

i wanted to be a pilot or a heavy equipment operator..oh well...now i am just a drunk

A drunk eh? You would make it as a pilot. ;)

A drunk eh? You would make it as a pilot. ;)

wanna fly with me...i bet i would be good,i drive better drunk..lol

HAHAHA! Sure, save the cold ones for after the flight though. I am sure the FAA would not like us opening the door of the plane and beer cans fall out. :D

Still only 12, but when i was really little i wanted to be an astronaut, and now i want to be... something in football, maybe a coach, physio or manager, or perhaps a fighter pilot for the RAF :mp5:

I only ever wanted to be two things:

A Vetarinarian, or a Rock star.

Music and dogs being my two favorite things in the world you see...

Well..I learned to play music..

But didnt want to go to school for an additional ten years for the Vet degree.

As a youngling I wanted to become lots of things - but a semi-invalided man who has to work two jobs to make ends meet isn't one of them. My ambitions were astronaut, pilot, military general, scientist, cop & fireman in that order.

I wanted to be a robot and fight decepticons.

Then I wanted to be a GI-Joe and fight snakeheads.

When I got to about 12, I wanted to be a doctor and help people in Africa.

Which I thought I would until I hit the age of 15, and realised I wasn't that academic, so I'm going into business, and make my money for myself! Hah!

Up til the age of 8 I wanted to be a vet.
Then a psychologist til I was 12
Then I went between a history teacher or a forensic scientist.
Now I'm studying politics.........so