What did you want to be as a kid?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a Stegosaurus. And I still kinda do.

An artist or a veterinarian ;0

I used to think about different jobs, but I knew pretty early that the thing I wanted to be most was a mom. That’s all. I would feel completely fulfilled if I could just be a stay-at-home mom with a couple of good kids and a wonderful husband.

Nothing. For as long as I can remember I haven’t had a clue what I want to be when I “grow up”. To this day that’s still true, and I’m 22 years old. It’s not fun.

I wanted to be a Veterinarian. I took all the pre-med classes but then life changed so that I couldn’t finish it.

A wealthy philanthropist that traveled to underdeveloped countries, using my extreme wealth to help poor people. I still want to do that lol.

@Blackberry sounds like a good, interesting life. Now we all just have to find that money.

I wanted to be a vet. Still do, but I’m just not up for that much school.

Teacher, vet or a bus driver (haha..).

I coulda bin a contender! XD Okay yeah, I wanted to be a Professional Footballer…that’s soccer to you Yankee bandeedos! Missed my calling, never mind :¬)

@ucme You coulda been somebody…

I wanted to be a fighter pilot.

@mama_cakes Go on, laugh it up! A boyhood dream cruelly mocked on a social network site! What a world what a world! XD

@ucme Oh, no. I was just getting my Brando on. :)

feel bad, but, I only read the Brando part of your post.

ucme, at least you didn’t want to be a bus driver.

Ballerina, teacher, and accountant.

@mama_cakes I know that silly! Now remove those cotton balls from your mouth this instant young lady! Spoils your good looks don’t you know? XD
@Adirondackwannabe Wouldn’t mind being Sandra Bullock for a day! She can drive my bus anytime she damn well pleases :¬)

Older.

Now that I’m older, ask me what I want to be again…

@CyanoticWasp What do you want to be?

@CyanoticWasp GA.

I wanted to be more than 1000000 things but anyway…. I wanted to sell ice cream.

@WillWorkForChocolate… younger. Once in a while, I am, too.

@CyanoticWasp Good for you! It’s fun sometimes, isn’t it?

I really wanted to be a hair stylist. I had a little stylist bench and everything.

I also played with dollhouses. Comfortable with my sexuality? Hell yeah, I am

I wanted to be an entomologist. I was fascinated by insects when I was little, especially butterflies. I read books on them, drew them, could rattle off names to no end, made experiments with caterpillars to turn them into butterflies, had one of those plastic ant farms, caught them…but eventually I discovered video games and it all went downhill from there.

Spiderman

@Symbeline, there was a time I wanted to be an entomologist too. It was after I wanted to be a geologist, and before I wanted to be a CIA agent.

So did you have any favourite insects? And what insects did you like the best? I totally love the Mourning Cloak. Even when I wasn’t Goth I was a Goth. XD I mean for a diurnal butterfly anyways…also, the Green Swallowtail, although I’ve never seen a real live one.

@Symbeline, mantids… Any kind of mantid.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard You know it’s a badass insect when a branch of Kung Fu is fashioned after it. :D

I have always wanted to work with children on some level, and I’m a teacher now!
I did go through a stage of wanting to become a car mechanic, I would still love to learn about cars.. perhaps night school at some point!

I would love to have had the decisiveness and drive along these lines that my daughter has had.

When she started kindergarten, she wanted to be an elephant trainer.

A year or two after that, she wanted to be a playground designer (not “builder”, she was very specific—cute as hell from an eight-year-old, “No, Daddy, not builder; I want to design them.”)

In junior high school, she wanted to open a gourmet restaurant (not just “a restaurant”) with two of her friends, and manage the entire back end herself.

In high school she wanted to be an airline pilot (and joined Air Force Jr. ROTC in her junior year in support of that objective—she planned to join the USAF)

Later in high school and for awhile in college she wanted to be a doctor, and then a bit after that she changed to wanting to be “a pathologist”, so she wouldn’t have to deal with live patients. She started pre-med courses and eventually did graduate from the U of Wisconsin with a BS in Biology, but put the med school stuff on hold, at least for now.

I’ve probably missed a few other career choices that she had mapped out.

And… in the past year she has gone back to an earlier plan of being a restauranteur by designing, contracting / building and now managing her own food cart near the U of W Madison campus. In her first year of operation she got the highest evaluation of all operating food carts in Madison, too.

I can hardly wait to see what she does next. (And I’m no less proud of my son, who has enlisted in the USAF and given me a grandson. He just never seemed to plan so imaginatively.)

I really wanted to be an airline pilot. Fate had other plans. I’m still very satisfied how things turned out though.

I wanted to be a kid forever. I knew what would happen when I grew up.

I wanted to be a teacher; I used to “play school” all the time. Now, as a college student, I’m still considering being a teacher or professor, especially in linguistics or Latin.

A scientist at first. I used to mix all kinds of substances that I’d find around the house in these little test tubes someone had gotten me as a gift. It became wasteful and potentially dangerous and my mother had to put the test tubes in a high cupboard.

Later I wanted to be an architect and a designer of some kind. This must have been in fifth grade. I had a bunch of graph-paper notebooks and I’d sketch these designs, usually improvements on our own house.

Then I read The Pigman in middle school and decided to be a novelist. I don’t know why it was The Pigman and not something better.

At first I wanted to be a lawyer, then I wanted to be the first female President. After I got over that, I wanted to be a dolphin and whale trainer at Sea World. When I gave up my change to go to college for that for my boyfriend at the time, I wasn’t sure what to do next. We broke up before graduation and I joined the Army. I ended up getting married and having a child. When my ex-husband walked out, I decided to go to nursing school and become a nurse (which is where I’m at now).

Well, up until high school I wanted to be an astronaut, then from about age 15 until my latter 20’s I wanted to be a millionaire rock star. In my early 30’s I settled for being a software engineer. Now my aspirations run towards being a comfortable retiree who dabbles in multiple arcane arts and hobbies.

I wanted to be a Ballerina

A bad ass.

Cookie monster.

I wanted to be a lot of things. I wanted to be a doctor, a veterinarian, a business woman, a teacher…and the list goes on.

An astronomer.

A fireman when I was really little (I used to watch the show “Emergency” a lot).

By third grade, I wanted to be an artist. I’m a graphic designer now – pretty close I guess.

Can you imagine a world where we all wound up being what we wanted to be? Based on the answers here I’d guess you wouldn’t be able to find an unhealthy kitten with a team of investigators.

A teacher

I wanted to be a disc jockey. Just sit around, playing records.
My friend Larry wanted to work for the phone company. He had a collection of lots of phone antiques.
We used to go to radio stations and talk to the dj’s while they were working. Seemed a lot more work than it sounded.
I got my radio license, which somehow got me a job at the phone company.
Larry worked as an electrician at a radio station, doing tower work, and eventually became Chief Engineer at several Bay Area radio stations.

I wanted to be a stewardess, but then a debilitating fear of heights, planes and falling and flying took me off that course at age 7.

Of course it changed month to month but I spent most of my childhood dreaming of being a writer and/or a juggler. I now make about 40% of my income writing and the rest juggling. I should have dreamed of being rich instead…

A giant.

A doctor, oddly enough. :-)

I could have been a doctor. Oh yeah, couldn’t wait though. I guess I didn’t have any patients :¬)

@ucme Ba-Dump-Bump! :-)

@Dr_Dredd Yeah, these are the jokes folks!