What was the first job that you decided that you wanted as a little kid?

[annabananna]

I wanted to be either a princess or a stripper. Princess because what girl doesn’t and stripper because I just knew they danced around and got money thrown at them.

[ohshee]

Hey there still goes good you could be the princess stripper

I really didn't know what I wanted to be as a kid i mowed lawns babysitted income side jobs I can do that's how I bought my first dirt bike and then when I was 16 and a half I lied that I was 17 and a half and I worked at the Peppermill as a dishwasher because I wanted a car when I turn 17 probably had three or four cars before I was 17 but I just bought them with fixing and sell them so I could buy another better car and another better car and another better car you just keep working my way up it was until I was like 27 or 28 that I 2 wanted 2 be a stripper
Lol that was because one day after work a friend of mine called me told me to meet him up at this casino bar his girlfriend in about five other girls were going there so friend of mine that I work with we went there and this whole place was just packed with girls in about half an hour later the cocktail waitress said okay guys you all have to leave not unless you want to enter the contest but all guys have to leave right now and I said what's the contest it's a strip contest and here I am dirtier than dirty just got done pouring something like forty yards of concrete have Levi's on work boots Long John's because it was cold and I said hell yes I'll strip if I can stay she said great sign up from the rest of the night forward you get free beer so the guy he called me the guy that came with me and myself we entered into the contest I got second place and the bartender got first place every girl in their thoughts at the it was rigged because they all said I should have got first place oh well

[MrOracle]

When I was 5, my parents took us to San Francisco for the day, and we rode BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (i. e., commuter train). It was only 3 or 4 years old at the time so it was still new and nice.

Anyway, I was fascinated by it, and how it went underground in the cities and under the Bay, but came out in other area and were on elevated tracks. To a 5 year old, it was neat, so I decided that I would like to be a BART driver.

Having to actually commute on BART in my 20s and 30s - and with all of the problems you would expect in a far-left-leaning area (homeless/drug addicts being allowed to sleep overnight on training, even doing drugs or relieving themselves in the train, thugs attacking riders in train stations, etc.), I have no desire to even go for a ride on BART anymore.

[annabananna]

Yea, San Francisco is another world. I loved visiting there but at the same time I saw things that week that I don’t care to ever see again lol

[MrOracle]

The difference between 20 years ago (it wasn't great then) and now is really depressing. It's gotten really awful in a lot of ways. For example, there were so many homeless drug addicts pooping in the streets that they've had to hire a poop patrol to clean the streets - and they struggle to keep up.

[whereismyjohnny]

When I was in kindergarten I used to say I’ll be a clown when I grow up because we had a big clown show where the clown sang and gave us CDs with some songs which I guess I was obsessed with 🤣

Some other occupations I dreamed of becoming while being a kid were police officer, kindergarten teacher and lawyer 😆

[connie9888]

Haha that’s awesome 😂 I remember going to the planetarium and wanting to be an astronaut so bad because I thought the planets were so cool 😂

[Sour-rose]

Honestly, I had nothing until I was like 15? I wanted to be a game designer.

*sigh*

[HighlyVolatile]

I was one of those weird kids who had no answer. I remember being in primary school when teachers would ask that question with students eagerly answering things like, "Fireman! Doctor! Veterinarian! Astronaut! [Whatever one of my parents does]!"

I seemed to be the most confused kid because I was the oddball out saying, "I don't know." I remember one teacher in particular who seemed disappointed and taken aback by my answer and tried to encourage me to come up with something and I was like, "I don't know! I don't know, I don't know! Dunno! [shrug]" Then she said something like, "Umm... okay, moving on."

But I was like 7-years old! How am I supposed to know what I want to do for the rest of my life then? I needed more time and experience and knowledge about these jobs to pick one! :-D

[HighlyVolatile]

I did have a phase in my teens when I was entertaining the idea of becoming a field biologist. It was my favorite course and I loved to handle dangerous animals like snakes and scorpions and giant spiders even larger than tarantulas and I dreamed of trying to wrestle an alligator. I wanted to become a field biologist like the Crocodile Hunter studying wild animals. That wasn't until I was around 14 years old though, not a little kid, and I still ended up going a very different route. It was just a little phase I had.

[Andres77]

Anything where I could have a gun.
So I thought police or military.
But I was a little thief. My mom said "they'll never let you be a police officer if you keep stealing things".
So I decided to go into the military.
That was my 6 yr old logic.
Thankfully I matured a lot and my motives changed but I had a good run in the military.
And... I stopped stealing stuff too.

[skytatoe]

President / Dictator, cause if you're gotta be filthy rich why not straight up aim for the stars lol
And then diplomat, cause cool passport, paid for house, maids, car, travel, salary and seemingly not that much work lol

Even as a 10 year old I just wanted to retire early and have fun.

[bowenw]

Firefighter, cop, or DJ. Did your dreams come true? Mine didn't.

[annabananna]

Mine didn’t either

[AndrésC64]

Home Depot

[annabananna]

😂 🤣

[HighlyVolatile]

That made my day! Awesome!

[MTC29]

I wanted to be a pilot, but not just any pilot, I wanted to be a naval aviator flying fighters launched from the decks of US aircraft carriers.

I didn't reach my goal, but me friend Scott did.

[dorksided1]

Race car driver, but instead drive in demo derbies as a hobby

[UniquelyBasic]

I wanted to be in a rock band with my friends or play in the nfl

[ShadezMcgee]

I wanted to be either a weather man or a cop when I was a kid.

[VinnyMac]

I wanted to be an author. I wanted to make stories like in so many of the books.

[artstatues]

Oh I wanted to be lots of things
Swimmer, bus inspector, vet

[slatyb]

Trash collector. As far as I knew, they only worked one day a week.

[JustinTheGreat]

I wanted to be an engineer, more specifically a rollercoaster engineer
i still want to be one tbh lol

[dustybiker]

I wasn’t to be a trash collector. The truck looked like fun.

[dustybiker]

*wanted

[lrina]

astronaut lmao, i'm not even sure why. i really don't want to become an astronaut now though.

[jamesgoldman]

I wanted to be a binman but the car crash put paid to that but I'm still in waste management just in the metal recovery industry

[Northernlights25]

Police officer according to my mother. She said I told her before bed once when little I wanted to catch bad guys and protect the weak, though I do not recall it myself.

[Nagatoro]

I wanted to be a hairdresser, but later realized that if I can't even fix my own hair, how could I possibly fix other people's hair? Lmao.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to do construction as a little kid.

and guess what?

i grew up and now do exactly that, construction

[ODC2112]

As a child I wanted to be a technical physicist. Then I found out in high school that it wasn't exactly what I thought it was.