What did you want to be when you grew up?

Mr_Healthy_Habits
Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
edited December 19 in Chit-Chat
What wild plans for life did you have for the future as a kid...
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  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    I really wanted to be a Mad Scientist...

    I had the kit and everything!
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    when i was real young i wanted to have my own island with dinosaurs (jurassic park obvi).
    then i wanted to be a writer.
  • Pour_Decisions
    Pour_Decisions Posts: 1,053 Member
    When I was a kid I wanted to be a grown up. Now, not so much.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    A cartoonist when I was pretty young, I had a cartoon designed and everything. Then a veterinarian for a long time until I realized in college it was the most underappreciated, highly educated profession you could have. I didn't have enough personal drive and desire to save all the animals needed to outweigh the cost of education vs salary and all the crap animal owners I would have to deal with for the rest of my life. I totally respect the people who stuck with it and try to be super appreciative towards my veterinarians and techs!
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    I also wanted to be a ninja assassin 🤷🏽‍♂️
  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    I wanted to be a space pirate. Turns out, there's not much demand for that line of work so I ended up going into aerospace engineering instead.
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,371 Member
    I wanted to be a veterinarian but quickly realized I was much too squeamish to do anything medical. Then I wanted to be a writer, but a novelist not a journalist because journalists have to start out writing about whatever they're assigned to do, and being a novelist isn't exactly a steady income unless you're very, very lucky.

    I did an aptitude test in high school that said I should write science textbooks. That sounded really boring to my teenage self so I went with the second recommendation.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    LittleLionHeart1 wrote: »
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    my coworker has this on his desk
  • SabAteNine
    SabAteNine Posts: 1,867 Member
    An astronaut dentist belly dancer. I was not one to compromise on what was achievable simultaneously.

    I don't wanna be a dentist anymore...
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    SabAteNine wrote: »
    An astronaut dentist belly dancer. I was not one to compromise on what was achievable simultaneously.

    I don't wanna be a dentist anymore...

    so, pics of you at work?
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    I changed my mind several times as a kid. I wanted to be a doctor, an engineer, a teacher, a marine biologist, a psychologist, a professional saxophone player, a physical therapist, an exercise physiologist. At one point I said I was going to major in business but didn't have any actual plan for what to do with that.
    I am not any of those things now. I am married to an engineer though and his job is definitely not as fun and interesting as kid me thought it would be so that one probably wasn't a good fit for me anyway.
  • SabAteNine
    SabAteNine Posts: 1,867 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    SabAteNine wrote: »
    An astronaut dentist belly dancer. I was not one to compromise on what was achievable simultaneously.

    I don't wanna be a dentist anymore...

    so, pics of you at work?

    It's just wishful thinking at the moment, I'm hoping my actual current work will provide enough for a deluxe cryonics package so that when the time comes I can just put myself on hold until the Space Cadet Academy becomes a thing.
    Fingers crossed they'll have a belly dancing optional!
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    LittleLionHeart1 wrote: »
    i04ic34eoiwq.jpg

    That's bad *kitten* awesome
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    An avian vet

    An ornithologist

    Now, I do human medicine.
  • whatalazyidiot
    whatalazyidiot Posts: 343 Member
    A model and a lawyer. Like simultaneously. I was a weird child. Then a writer, which I did end up becoming, but different than what I thought.
  • Taz6o5
    Taz6o5 Posts: 3,441 Member
    I'm been thinking a lot about wanting to get into the fields of being a " Emergency medical technician "
    (EMT), paramedic and ambulance driver .



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  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    An astronaut. And I regret not pursuing it.
  • AmyC2288
    AmyC2288 Posts: 386 Member
    I was pretty sure I'd be a famous singer. Only... I never wanted to sing in front of people. Wonder why that didn't work out for me? :smirk:
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    edited December 2018
    A fashion designer/actress/TV news reporter/jockey/detective

    I ended up with a career in magazine publishing. And now I am a SAHM who occasionally takes on a freelance writing or editing project.
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    Tenebrous_D wrote: »
    I wanted to be a Meteorologist. I was the nerd that wrote letters to the TV meteorologists, asking what kind of classes they took, blah blah. A couple invited me in studio, and at one, I got to do the 6pm weather, from the research for the forecasting, all the way to the TV part.

    I often wish that I would've stayed that route. Being correct less than half the time is not nearly as accepted in the nuclear industry.

    You would have been an awesome TV personality
  • Chael2dot0
    Chael2dot0 Posts: 1,189 Member
    Mr_Healthy_Habits wrote: »
    What did you want to be when you grew up?

    I wanted to be a pilot as a kid and used to study avaition in elementary school. To the point my parents had me subscribed to some aviation magazines. Always thought I would be a helicopter pilot. Bt I also always played music coming from a family of musicians, so in 7th grade I took up guitar and played in bands through high school. After HS I went to California and looked at Berkley and GIT, but nothing felt right. I had also been doing eletroncis and braodcast work since I was 16 so I did that as well as finished degree work in exercise science, working towards being a physical therapist. Ended up as a personal trainer, working live events and doing my own TV show, and also working at the college I am at for the last 25 years.

    Crazy...

  • admaarie
    admaarie Posts: 4,297 Member
    I thought I could be a model or news reporter hahaha
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  • BrettWithPKU
    BrettWithPKU Posts: 575 Member
    Meteorologist. I even went to a university with a good met program and studied . . . electrical engineering.
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