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

All through my childhood, I had a fascination with aviation and I always wanted to be a commerical airline pilot. Life had a different plan for me though and I ended up being a career military member instead and it is something that I have never regretted.

I was going to be either an archaeologist, a minister, or a Native American.

Instead, I’ve worked in Customer Service, retail, and data entry.

I should have gone with one of the original plans.

National Geographic photographer and Veterinarian, those were my best ideas anyway.

I wanted to be an accountant for as long as I can remember. I’m not joking. Then I took a year of accounting in college and realized it was the most horrible thing ever. But getting a degree in accounting required a year of economics. Then I fell in love with economics and switched my major. Now I work with computers and what I did in college doesn’t really matter.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a paleontologist, digging up dinosaur bones. Then I got discouraged by the idea that I would probably never find anything.

For a while I wanted to be an artist, any kind of artist. My parents thought I was going to end up an entomologist because I liked bugs.

Now I’m in college and have no idea what I’m going to be.

A dinosaur.

I wanted to be the first female president. I also wanted to be a veterinarian, an astronaut, and a marine biologist.

Paleontologist, Anthropologist, Marine Biologist, Astronomer.

There’s a clear trend. At 22 years old, I’m still totally convinced about three of those.

I really wanted to be involved in the Space program, like with NASA or one of the contractors. Alas, I suck at analytical math. (sigh) There goes that one.

amazingly it’s what iIm going to school for now. which is a vet tech.

I was going to model to pay my way through law school, once I earned my law degree I was going to spend some time as a commercial airline pilot. In my spare time I was going to pen “Ray Davies – The Rolling Stone Interview.” I was also pretty sure I’d earn an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay when I adapted my Great American Novel entitled Felicity (I had the title wwaayyy before the tv show) for the big screen.

I wanted to be a professional skateboarder pretty much since I started skating as a kid. I was never good enough to win a game of S.K.A.T.E. Its like the basketball game HORSE but you match tricks with the other skaters. So I do what seems like a lot of older skaters do. Construction.

Answers (that I can think of) that I’ve given when asked what I want to be when I ‘grow up,’ in no particular order: elephant trainer, safari guide, rail road engineer, funeral director, film critic, independently wealthy, author, editor, high school English teacher, college lit professor, sociology professor, psychology professor, psychologist, gender therapist.

Communist-fighting pharmacist.
Don’t ask.

@Nimis. Since I’m stubborn and usually prone to disregard what I’m told and what I read, why did you choose Communist-fighting pharmacist? :o)

Park Ranger.

First I wanted to be a cowboy. Then I grew up and realized that I wanted to be a pirate!

Sarah Palin

A politicion or an economist is what ive wanted to be since i was about 8, before that i wanted to be a ninja. But sadly im not coridinated or asian enough for ninja academy.

A cartoonist.

A paleontologist.

I wanted to be like Richard branson and of course, president to make this work a better place :)

I wanted to be a teacher.

An archaeologist!

or Wonder Woman!

Apart from my wild west, pilot and fireman scenarios.I’d liked to be a priest, A large house, only work on Sunday, smoke big cigars and hang out with your friends drinking the finest liquor. I was willing to put on that ridiculous dress for work. And to top it off you couldn’t get married, well girls gave you cooties so it was a bonus.

Then I learned that girls didn’t always gave you cooties, the dress was really ridiculous and there was more to it than read from the bible.

I wanted to be a nurse. I still had that dream, even in high school. I took all the appropriate classes, and joined the “Future Health Careers” club. But, after fainting at the sight of blood a few times, I realized that this wasn’t going to be a career choice for me. I tried to overcome it, but wound up sitting in the foyer a lot with my head between my knees. One time I fainted and also stopped breathing. That was scary. I still faint at the sight of blood, so I am pretty sure I would have never gotten over it.

A Disney Animator.

I got accepted into the internship program but it was in LA and not Canada. I also woke up to the “business” side of it.

Paleontologist, wanted more than anything to find the next great american dinosaur.

I wanted to write and illustrate children’s books. I thought there was hardly anything better in the world than books, and the idea of authorship had sunk in appealingly by the age of six. Later I said I wanted to be a teacher. I ended up working in publications. Now, a very long time later, I am back to writing in earnest.

@ jeruba – GOOD for you!!! and welcome to fluther. I have not given up on that same dream myself.

sing and become a impersontor