What did you want to be when you grew up?

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  • crampus1
    crampus1 Posts: 519 Member
    Better than I am
  • tbduarte1
    tbduarte1 Posts: 83 Member
    I wanted to be a professional athlete until I realized I was not good enough. Then I realized a teacher influenced me so much in school and so I wanted to teach High School history and coach football. Here I am today living the dream.
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    edited December 2018
    When I was very small I wanted to be a nurse.
    As I got older, an astronaut,
    then an archeologist and finally
    a wife and mother (not that unusual for my generation, lol).

    Of those mentioned I only managed the wife and mother.
  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    As a kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian and dog breeder and run an enormous stable and have a farm and a bunch of kids, while being a preschool teacher at the same time, too. Apparently, 7 year old me thought adults had a lot of free time to fill.
    I ended up with the bunch of kids (4 of them) and did some preschool teaching when I was younger, but skipped the rest of that and went into nursing instead.
  • NvrGivUpM8
    NvrGivUpM8 Posts: 78 Member
    I wanted to join the army.....so I did it! Then I grew up and realised there is better things to do lol

    But you gotta live those dreams and have no regrets in this life!
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    edited December 2018
    I wanted to be a mathematician or physicist...

    I failed 7th grade Math, I don't want to blame the teacher, who has actually earned a number of awards for teaching but it was totally bogus...

    About 90% of your grade was based on these stupid art projects, that she primarily used as a means to pass students who didn't understand the material... At 12-13 I was annoyed and rather hated arts and crafts projects... Never took these assignments seriously and she failed me lol...

    In 8th grade, we had a substitute all year long cause.... Hayward 🤷🏽‍♂️, lol... The kids were terrible to him and he refused at the end of the year to recommend anyone for anything higher than basic math.. He even told me that if there was one student that he would have recommended for algebra, it would have been me but sorry J...

    Fast forward to senior year, I had caught up and earned my recommendation for AP Cal, but... Sorry Jesse no English teacher has ever liked what you had to say because you just see the world differently, and where a bit jaded at that time... So, basic college English was all I could get, which meant due to the prerequisite system... I couldn't take any math course beyond basic college Math...

    I basically threw my hands up at that point and said *kitten* this *kitten* and went into home loans and real estate... I was able to sell because I was good with numbers but that only takes you so far in sales...

    Now I'm a Wastewater Grade 3 Operator, which is supervisory level... I enjoy it because I get to use my smarts in a variety of ways and I know I ended up right where I was supposed to be... And the money isn't bad either...
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  • Deadman_Diggingup
    Deadman_Diggingup Posts: 3,082 Member
    DemSwells wrote: »
    The 7 Million Dollar Man.
    Magnum PI's moustache.

    Moustache :D Gawdamn
  • Deadman_Diggingup
    Deadman_Diggingup Posts: 3,082 Member
    I don't remember, but certainly more than this.
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
    I wanted to be a cop first. Then i wanted to be famous sing or acting sadly i ended up working with farm animals
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    When I was a little girl I wanted to be an Egyptian Princess Archaeologist

    As a 16 year old I had a plan to be an entrepreneur, business owner, had a decent business and a fun one in mind too
    Always wanted to be an actor, as a kid and young adult...'till I got the auditions
  • 2Racks
    2Racks Posts: 3,677 Member
    Hockey Player 🏒🥅
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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I was extremely focused on being a grown-up lady with her own apartment and her name in the phone book. Therefore, I reached that goal at age 20 due to setting such a low bar :D

    I never really had one job I hoped to do. For a long while, I thought I might like being an Art teacher but after doing similar "work" in my volunteer work I know I would not. I taught some college classes in the past and hated that too.

    Kids don't normally dream of working in accounting.
  • Liana_Ish
    Liana_Ish Posts: 671 Member
    A vet
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    DemSwells wrote: »
    The 7 Million Dollar Man.
    Magnum PI's moustache.

    I literally came here to post:

    Steve Austin. A man barely alive.
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was little but then I got my period and was afraid of tampons so that went out the window, lol.
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    TheRoadDog wrote: »
    I wanted to be a Marine. Thought I would make a career out of it. I didn't. Did my 4 years and moved on.

    Later, I wanted to be a Chef. Never happened, but when we retire next year I am enrolling in Culinary School. I may never be a Professional Chef in a restaurant, but my family and friends will reap the benefits.

    I have a friend who got a settlement from an accident and went to the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan. He still ended up a fireman like everyone else in his family who was not a criminal. But damned if everyone doesn’t fight to be on duty when it’s his turn to cook!
  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
    Chinese
  • Chael2dot0
    Chael2dot0 Posts: 1,189 Member
    Certainly not 50
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    Honestly..I wanted to be my sister.
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    A teacher and an attorney. Now I'm an attorney who's the default trainer for newbies in the office, so I guess I got both :smile:
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  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Early on a nurse, then speech pathologist then archeologist and for a brief time a forensic scientist.
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    Tenebrous_D wrote: »
    Middle management

    It's overrated.
  • JeepHair77
    JeepHair77 Posts: 1,291 Member
    For years, I told anyone who asked that I was going to be the first woman in the MLB.

    But I'm not really that athletically talented.
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