What did you want to be?

[LaBoob]

When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a lounge singer OR a professional whistler. My mother feared for my future.

[cougarjake13]

architect

started to go to college for it but it became too much of a pain in the ass

[Tall_James]

In second grade I did a project on how I wanted to own a candy store.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Astronaut. Bigtime. Challenger kinda changed that.

[Friday]

Singer.... and then Astronaut. I even went to Space Camp twice.
But then I realized I was not a big fan of math .... and so I went back to Singer.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Cruise Salesman


uggh, I wanted to play than coach football like my dad did, but failing classes and eating way too much Chinese food as a teen put an end to that

[FUNKMAN]

oceanographer - loved the abyss and the strange looking life that lived down there

instead I just go to the beach to catch some rays

[hunnerbun]

"Scientist" pretty broad I know, but I loved science in school, right from elementary right through to HS. I even went to university, took 1st year of BSc., but I discovered that i hated university.
Ended up getting my geeky biology/chemistry fix in hairdressing school of all places, 20+ years later I am still working but I have the good fortune to be able to be self employed which probably wouldn't have happened if I was a scientist.

[SatCam]

be on the radio and/or make movies

[BlackSpider]

Serial Rapist.

Looks like I'm the only one here that stuck with their childhood dreams...:devil2:

[Caseyelan]

Corey Feldmans Wife.

[One Dead Fred]

In high school, I wanted to do experimental psychology. A scholarship to art school screwed that up.

[Crippler]

Wanted to follow my father into his medical pracrtice. Oh well.

[KatPw]

I wanted to be a Nurse, leaning towards working with pulmonary patients.

[led37zep]

Aside from the obvious football/baseball player I wanted to be a chef or the wacky weatherman.

[RhinoinMN]

Lawyer. Good thing it didn't pan out. .net has enough as it is.

[A.J.]

John Lennon.

[ahhdurr]

Musician ... artist or the like.

Though I find it interesting and there are worse ways of making a living - certainly not this.

[Contra]

Stand up comedian.
In third grade I did stand up for the talent show. The bit was Micheal Jackson teaching me how to dance like him. Funny at the time, creepy in retrospect.

[lleeder]

When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a lounge singer OR a professional whistler. My mother feared for my future.

I would have loved your appearance on O&A.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Soldier. Watched too much TV I guess.

[LaBoob]

I would have loved your appearance on O&A.

I remember hearing that years back and thinking, holy shit, there is really such a thing as a professional whistler? I am an AWESOME whistler though, on par with that fruit Steve the Whistler.

[midwestjeff]

Grade school- veternarian.

High school- pot farmer, writer.

College- folk singer, songwriter.

I've thought about this a lot lately and wondered why I have never been really career minded.
With so many things to do as a profession, why doesn't one of them strike me as "my" thing.
All I know is that I really expected to be better than I am, but I don't associate careers and income with success so it's an odd thing to reflect on.

What is "better"?
Am I a failure?
If so, on what grounds?
Who says I should be "better"?
Who would be disappointed and would I value their opinion enough to improve my position?
What was my dream and what did I really want from it anyway?

And so on, for 12 hours a night, all the while driving a forklift and singing every song I know.

I also wanted to be long-winded and wordy and too open and serious in light-hearted threads on messageboards about radio shows. So I think I achieved that one.

[Marc with a c]

corey feldmans wife

[drjoek]

I got braces in middle school.
The orthodontist was kinda cool.he had MAD Magazine in the waiting room.I thought it looked like a pretty cool way to make a living.35 years later here I still am.It doesn't always seem like the greatest gig in the world but overall no big complaints. There are a few days when Iwish I was a deepsea fishing charter captain

[Jughead]

Bob Seger....

[bigredd]

When I was a lil fella I wanted to be a "worker". I had some lil leather...worker type gloves and I'd go out in my grandma's yard and move rocks and shit around. If you asked what I was doing I'd say "I'm a worker"!

Now, I sell building materials. Hmmm

[JerseyRich]

I wanted to be a Baseball Player or an Artist.

[Drunky McBetidont]

first i wanted to be an alcoholic. i think i am closing in on that goal
then iwanted to be an actor in movies/tv. i lived in southern cali for a few years and never went to an open audition. iam a loser. :( but i still have my booze :):drunk:

[sailor]

mesmerizing

[Bob Impact]

Esentially what I am now, although as a child my answer was "BUSINESSMAN!" that refined to "Programmer" after I discovered BASIC as a child, "Designer" when I realized that programmers had shitty jobs, and "Project Manager" when I got the shot.

[Furtherman]

oceanographer - loved the abyss and the strange looking life that lived down there

Me too. I had dozens and dozens of books about the deep.

I also wanted to be an archeologist... I was constantly digging in the woods hoping I'd find something. Found a lot of old bottles, but no lost civilizations.

An astronomer too. My grandfather gave me a book about the stars that I must have had memorized by the time I was six.

[ANC]

First I wanted to be a mechanic like my dad, then a scientist, then an architect...

[JerseyRich]

First I wanted to be a mechanic like my dad, then a scientist, then an architect...

Is that you Art? Art Vandelay?

[ANC]

Is that you Art? Art Vandelay?

:lol:

[Thebazile78]

When I was 5 or 6, I saw a made-for-TV biography of Nadia Comanieci and decided that, just from seeing the opening scene where the little girls in the Karolyi gymnastics program got to jump into a pit filled with soft foam blocks, I wanted to be a gymnast.

Then my (well-meaning but clueless) mother signed me up for gymnastics at a serious school. I found that I was too tall, and not skilled enough to do that.

Then I wanted to be a paleontologist, like my then-hero Robert Bakker. That lasted until my mother off-handedly mentioned that you wouldn't make any money that way ... and my grade-school experience of being poor among privileged kids fought the idea of being poor when I grew up.

Because I was interested in the sciences (and I still am) I thought about becoming a doctor. Taking honors biology as a freshman in high school kind of changed that idea ... if the way sciences were being taught meant I had to do a lot of rote-memorization, I was NOT going to be able to do that well. So, I changed my mind.

Sometimes I would tell my mom's family that I wanted to be a parapsychologist, seeing as how I had a keen interest in ghosts and haunted houses as a kid.

I majored in English in college, but learned HTML from friends majoring in computer science and computer engineering. I worked in the library as a freshman and then for the central information "clearinghouse" for the next 3 years, with lots of different responsibilities - inbound general info/undergraduate admissions call center, e-mail Q&A, pre-recorded low-frequency radio info bulletins (like the ones for traffic info on the Turnpike - "tune to 1610AM when flashing"), historic walking tours and off-campus housing listing/information services. After I graduated, they added a TV station to the responsibilities of the department. (I didn't apply for the job, despite being encouraged to do so. I didn't think my experience was enough to warrant an application and my self-esteem was so low at that point that I didn't hear the "you should apply" as a "you know what? this position is pretty much tailor-made to your qualifications.")

Today, I am a dissatisfied employee of a legal publishing firm where 90% of my job is offshored to India and the Philippines. I've been here for 7 years. (Honestly.)

A recent bit of information and lack of concern for how I will be able to continue to afford to get to work has become a kick in the pants to get a new job. Closer to home.

[jennysmurf]

A princess ballerina school bus driver. I couldn't find a correspondence course on that, so I got my degree in business management and accounting.

[Fez4PrezN2008]

Wanted to be an Aeronautical Engineer aka Jet Jock...
Passed ground school... no problem
AF ROTC ... nooooo problem
Calculus?... PROBLEM !
















stupid math, I hate you

[CousinDave]

bill collector

I went to law school instead

[drusilla]

michelle pfeiffer

[Slumbag]

I wanted to be black. You should have seen how sad I was when I found out I was gonna stay this color.



But, at least I have rhythm.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa61/slumbag/jerk.jpg

[britneypablo]

a female....but alas i dont have the money for such a surgery

[biggestmexi]

Chef

[skinnyhips]

i wanted to be a firetruck...or a cowboy. then when i came to my senses i thought an FBI agent would be a great gig. then i found out you had to go to college. BOOOOOO

[LaBoob]

i wanted to be a firetruck...

That is pretty ambitious!

[Thebazile78]

Wanted to be an Aeronautical Engineer aka Jet Jock...
Passed ground school... no problem
AF ROTC ... nooooo problem
Calculus?... PROBLEM !

Calculus isn't that bad as long as your basics in algebra and trigonometry are solid. If not, you're pretty much fucked.

I was thinking about taking a Calc refresher course, just to work out the kinks in my brain.

[JerseyRich]

That is pretty ambitious!

He didn't have the hose...



Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh!

[DarkHippie]

I wanted to be a writer or artist. Still do.

[TheGameHHH]

I wanted to be the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees, so i guess Derek Sanderson Jeter and my lack of skills to play anything higher then D3 college baseball put an end to that. Ideally I would love a job where all I had to do was talk sports all day, but not like an ESPN anchor. More like a fantasy writer or podcaster.