What did you want to be when you grew up?

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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:
  • 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.
  • amorfati601070
    amorfati601070 Posts: 2,890 Member
    edited December 2018
    Spider-Man...

    A Jet fighter pilot was the main one. Dad in the Airforce.

    Got more interested in health and caring roles later because of Mum. I will be a Paramedic/RN in about two years.
  • LovelySavannah
    LovelySavannah Posts: 145 Member
    Well of course I wanted to be a princess when I grew up 😂 then a teacher, then a veternarian, then wanted to be in the military then I got disqualified, so now trying to figure out what to go to school for.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    edited December 2018
    I was going to be a clown. I was also going to have rocket powered roller skates.
    An actress seemed pretty cool for awhile.
    Then an artist or accountant seemed the way to go.
    A landscaper or florist was briefly interesting.
    I'm not sure I grew up. I don't know what I want to be.
  • ailsalw
    ailsalw Posts: 1,265 Member
    🤨 I wanted to be the person that cut the grass in grave yards
  • LovelySavannah
    LovelySavannah Posts: 145 Member
    CookingWithCumin wrote: »
    LovelySavannah wrote: »
    Well of course I wanted to be a princess when I grew up 😂 then a teacher, then a veternarian, then wanted to be in the military then I got disqualified, so now trying to figure out what to go to school for.

    That’s lovely, how come you didn’t want to be a safari guide?

    Never thought of that lol
  • LiftingSpirits
    LiftingSpirits Posts: 2,207 Member
    Actress, then backup dancer because I was too shy to be the lead singer, then a teacher. I never really pursued any of those once I was old enough to actually have a career
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    edited December 2018
    I wanted to be a Blockbuster Video manager who gives all the customers a brief synopsis of the movies they're checking out with a slight hint of pretension.

    "Ahhh... Freddie Prinze Jr. at his best. A fine selection indeed!"

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