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What did you want to be when you grew up!

Iwillbemeagain
Iwillbemeagain Posts: 163
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
Sooo thought this would be fun! What did you want to be when you grew up? and What are you doing now? I wanted to be a paramedic to help sick and injured people.. Now Im a medical staffing specialist... in a way I still help people as I provide staff that can do so!
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  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    When I was a kid there was a time I wanted to be a paleontologist. Loved anything dinosaur related and read up on alot of it. Then it was Astronomy and was fascinated by that too. But I ended up graduating with a degree in Computer Science and am now doing mostly development.
  • Indy_Mario
    Indy_Mario Posts: 532 Member
    According to my mom, I wanted to be a clown when I grew up.
    Ever since I can remember though, I've wanted to be a doctor.
    Now, I am in school to be a computer doctor, they complain a lot less!
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    i wanted to be a librarian (according to my mom). i'm one now and i hate it. not sure what i want to do now.
  • bry_all01
    bry_all01 Posts: 3,100 Member
    when I was little I wanted to grow up to marry Ernie from Bert and Ernie.... what a little dreamer I was, lol.
  • rsdgirl
    rsdgirl Posts: 241 Member
    i wanted to be a pro athlete (swimming or fighting or boxing) now i am "disabled" with a nerve disease and many other medical issues so i keep a happy home for the husband :)
  • Texas501
    Texas501 Posts: 274
    I wanted to be a mechanic and work on cars. I am a psychiatrist.
  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
    a model or a marine biologist lol
  • I wanted to be a veterinarian, but now I'm going to school to become a physical therapist!
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Wanted to be: An archaeologist, you know, like Indiana Jones. Or a "scientist" - the kind with a lab full of bubbling beakers and tubes.

    Am now: computer programmer
  • wendyannie1976
    wendyannie1976 Posts: 205 Member
    I wanted to be a vet but instead dropped out and became an accountant and now the head of finance and hr so I get to enjoy animals in my off work time but did pretty well for a drop out hehehe
  • jessilyn76
    jessilyn76 Posts: 532 Member
    I wanted to be a truck driver, just like my dad!! Now I am a branch manager for a community bank!
  • alise_lmx
    alise_lmx Posts: 292 Member
    I remember writing in my little diary when I was about 6 that I wanted to be an artist, author, or a clown (lol!!). I'm going to school for accounting so I guess I changed my path somewhere along the way :)
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    It changed all the time. I don't know if I ever really knew. But I always loved filling out forms and doing paperwork, (I was a weird kid, OK?), and that is certainly part of what I do now.

    I remember my dad bringing home some routine paperwork and paying me a couple of dollars to do it for him. :laugh:
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I wanted to be an archaeologist. I still kinda do, but it's unlikely I'll ever be able to.
  • Texas501
    Texas501 Posts: 274
    It changed all the time. I don't know if I ever really knew. But I always loved filling out forms and doing paperwork, (I was a weird kid, OK?), and that is certainly part of what I do now.

    I remember my dad bringing home some routine paperwork and paying me a couple of dollars to do it for him. :laugh:

    Did you have your parents audited by the IRS?....lol, just kidding....
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    At various times, in no particular order:

    Writer
    Dancer
    Actress
    Lawyer
    Astronaut
    Archaeologist

    I am a writer, though not in the way I want to be eventually. I would like to be a novelist, but I work for the state right now. I was a journalist for a while.
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    I wanted to ba a singer/ actress.

    Today, my day job is college professor [geography & environmental planning] but I'm active in my local community theater as performer and stage hand!
  • SLambertAlaska
    SLambertAlaska Posts: 197 Member
    I wanted to be an airline stewardess, but a friend assured me I was too fat and they wouldn't take me. Was a stay-at-home mom while my kids were little and now I'm a teacher.
  • I wanted to be a Nurse. I love helping people
  • I wanted to be a Vet Tech. Now I am a Stay at home mom and wife and I love it!!!!
  • I was convinced that I was going to run the pizza place down the street. Then I wanted to run a museum, didn't matter where, just had to have dinosaurs. So disappointed to have strayed from my dreams!
  • I wanted to be a social worker or a counselor. Now I'm a cashier & a youth pastor (when my work schedule allows lol)
  • LisaWeir74
    LisaWeir74 Posts: 88 Member
    I always wanted to be an architect but the math classes were too hard!! So I am a high school English teacher and one day I will design my own house.
  • AZTrailRunner
    AZTrailRunner Posts: 1,199 Member
    I wanted to be a Veterinarian. Did the Air Force thing, the Police Officer thing, the Engineering thing, and am now doing the Dog Training thing. :smile:
  • DBiddle69
    DBiddle69 Posts: 682 Member
    My mom always said from the youngest age I always wanted to be a daddy and a truck driver. I have been a daddy for almost 27 years and a Training Representative for just as long...being retired military there was plenty of traveling so you could say I got both!
  • AdAstra47
    AdAstra47 Posts: 823 Member
    An astronaut and/or pilot, or a marine biologist, or possibly a doctor. But I had so much trouble with calculus in college that I had to get out of the science & medicine tracks. Sigh.

    Now I am an analyst for a telecom company. I memorize contracts & tariff information & FCC regs, and then audit the bills to make sure everyone's doing things right. Not very glamorous, but I figure at least I'm keeping people honest.
  • ratherbeskiing
    ratherbeskiing Posts: 847 Member
    Wanted to be: Geologist
    Currently: a behavioral/psych tec at a psychiatric hospital with kids with developmental disabilities.
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    when I was little I wanted to grow up to marry Ernie from Bert and Ernie.... what a little dreamer I was, lol.

    Ernie was a little in love with Bert, if probably wouldn't have worked out. I'm so sorry, Bry.

    I wanted to start a women's shelter in Haiti that placed orphaned children in a living situation with women who had no children. I had this awesome plan about teaching them trades, and how to farm so they'd be able to leave the compound and go back to their villages (with a small business loan) and set up farms, businesses, and they'd be able to teach the other women in their communities and it would continue. I mean, I started this whole plan when I was 8. Now I'm 23 and working as a receptionist for an IT company....FML.
  • twinsanity
    twinsanity Posts: 1,757 Member
    I've wanted to be a small engine mechanic since I was 6 years old. Which is exactly what I grew up to do, and I love it!! It's my passion! I haven't been doing it, though, since I got hurt back in June - I'm on desk duty now. I don't hate it, but I sure don't love it, either. I miss turning wrenches!
  • alicollins74
    alicollins74 Posts: 335 Member
    I wanted to be an Opthamologist because I love eyes...Then I realized I would have to be in school for a long time...I am now an election specialist for my county election office..
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