I've always wanted to be....?

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AmberJslimsAWAY
AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,468 Member
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as a kid, teen, whatever, I'm sure 95 percent of us did not want to be what we are now.

What did you want to be? (beyond ballerinas and firefighters)

I always wanted to be a dentist. Then it turned into being a forensic dentist... I have a weird obsession with teeth.
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  • AwesomelyAmber
    AwesomelyAmber Posts: 1,617 Member
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    I wanted to be a vet... then one day I realized that it was a WHOLE lot more than cuddling cute little puppies and kittens.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,829 Member
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    A broadway star. Not kidding, that was basically my life goal until I was about 19 and realized cute girls that can sing and dance are a dime a dozen. Kinda glad I changed my major at this point, most of my friends (I do actually have a couple friends who are working actors) are still bartenders and waitresses going on auditions.
  • beccas27
    beccas27 Posts: 200 Member
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    A teacher
  • p0pr0cksnc0ke
    p0pr0cksnc0ke Posts: 1,283 Member
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    A geologist. :glasses:
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    LifeOnMars_ Posts: 755 Member
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    Social Worker.
  • shammxo
    shammxo Posts: 1,432 Member
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    A teacher! There's a picture of me on "career day" in 4th grade dressed as a teacher.

    I'm a little under 3 years away from becoming one :)
  • torygirl79
    torygirl79 Posts: 307 Member
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    When I was a kid I wanted to work with dolphins. When I was a teenager I wanted to work in theatre.

    Trained and did the whole working in theatre thing until I was 25 (stage manager). Enjoyed it less and less as every year went by, mostly because of the awful job security, bad pay and lousy hours. Ended up retraining as a political agent which isn't a job I think anyone grows up aspiring to, but means I'm on first name terms with a lot of the leading decision makers in the UK and allows me to make my job sound much more impressive at dinner parties :-p
  • scs143
    scs143 Posts: 2,190 Member
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    I wanted to be Rockette- until I figured out that you have to be thin and be able to kick really high. Neither are my strong attributes. So now I am a lawyer.
  • RamTX22
    RamTX22 Posts: 165 Member
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    When i was a kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot, I guess I was watching to many movies like "Top Gun " and " Iron Eagle "
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
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    I always wanted to be a lawyer or a journalist but then I rebelled at 16 and messed up my education and life took over. Maybe one day I'll do something about it :frown:
  • Tuffjourney
    Tuffjourney Posts: 971
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    Journalist :frown:
  • mommyhof3
    mommyhof3 Posts: 551 Member
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    A lawyer. Got married and had kids instead of finishing university
  • VenomousDuck
    VenomousDuck Posts: 206
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    I wanted to be a chef.

    somehow I became an internet backbone engineer

    when that industry crashed and burned, I went to culinary school
  • jenniet04
    jenniet04 Posts: 1,054 Member
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    A pediatrician - I love kids, but too much school. I'm an accountant.
  • tehdux0r
    tehdux0r Posts: 41 Member
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    When I was 5, I loved the idea of being an astronaut, but I wanted to be a mission specialist. I wanted to be a guy that was in charge of doing something very specific and technical, pushing all kinds of buttons and everything.

    Now, I'm a systems engineer for a government contractor, which is so much closer than I was when I graduated college. Who knows? Maybe if I can get healthy and get in the right doors, I may still get that childhood fantasy. ^_^
  • pennyrtyler
    pennyrtyler Posts: 79 Member
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    I wanted to be a Hollywood make-up artist. Glamour girls to zombies!!!
  • Christine1110
    Christine1110 Posts: 1,786 Member
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    Thin.....
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
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    An Oncologist. I got my degree in Microbiology but never followed up with med school because got a job out of college and the salary after being a poor college student was too tempting!
  • mnishi
    mnishi Posts: 422 Member
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    A writer. Poetry, fiction, fact, whatever. I just wanted to write.
  • jessdylan2010
    jessdylan2010 Posts: 5 Member
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    A clown lol then a comedian then a veternarian then a therapist, i turned out to be a full time mom. :)

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