As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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I wanted to be an actress and a track star lol what about you?

BeMuse · Accepted Answer

As a kid, I just wanted to be a kid. You only get to be that for so long before life requires you to start taking on ever increasing levels of responsibility. I was the best artist in my school, so my art teachers often wanted me to become a Disney animator or comic book artist. I was really good at a number of sports, so many of my coaches wanted me to shoot for the Olympics. A child psychologist that tested my IQ when I was a kid, said my IQ was off the charts, even though I was struggling with reading (dyslexia), he said I would grow up to be an excellent engineer. I was good at math and science, so teachers often threw around recommendations like Architect, Engineer, Chemist, Biologist, etc. My electronics teacher and computer repair teacher for A+ certification tried to get me to be a Computer Scientist. I don't understand why some kids want to get a job when they're like 7. Stupidest idea in the world.

ProVox · Accepted Answer

The red Wiggle, bc he was the actual musician of the group. I couldn't afford a trip to Australia so I just settled on being musician; wearing flannel and stage diving. 🤘🏻

ShellyB · Accepted Answer

Princess, ballet dancer, professional tennis player, teacher, there were some others but those are the ones I remember the most. Obv. princess was when I was small.

My dad would try to get me interested in computer programming (nope) and accounting (nope although closer than computer programming I am not bad at it I just don't want to do it 40 hours a week). My mom wanted me to work in the medical field somehow (nope). I still want to be a teacher, kindergarden or elementary school but right now I work at the same big company as my father in a different group, I am a "project coordinator".

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

A mom to 4 children - 2 boys and 2 girls. And a wife too, but mostly a mom.
When I was about 6 years old, I had a few little kitty cats and I would wrap them in little flannel baby blankets. Then I would put them in my dolly stroller one at a time and stroll them around my neighborhood. They never tried to jump out or get away. I loved being their mom and nuturing them 😻

melanieeeB · Answer

As a 6 year old I wanted to be a princess haha so cliche. Later it was taxi driver, stylist, teacher, cheerleader and actress for the most part until into my teens.
In my late teens it was policewoman.
Now I'm an accountant haha

MrOracle · Answer

When I was 5, my parents took us to San Francisco for the day, and we took the commuter train (BART), which was only a couple of years old at that point. There are elevated sections and several tunnels, including one that runs under the bay and underground through the downtown of the city.

As a 5 year old, it seemed very modern and exciting, and I thought driving the train would be a great job.

20 years later, I started working in the city and had to take BART every day, and by then they were filthy and often had violent homeless people causing trouble. The shine is long gone from that Apple...

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I was deciding between a Paleontologist and Conga Artist. I ultimately chose the legendary Conga and began my journey in said career. It went on for some time in 3rd which is also when it started. I stopped all throughout Grade 4 and got back on it in Grade 5. After that I for some reason quit again all the way until the 3rd 3rd of 7th grade. Late October of 2020 is when it truly started. From then to now, production remains active. I plan and hope to releash the first book on 022424. I started making the front cover and really should do the rest but for some reason part of me thinks it’s more complex that it actually is. My cats need to smack my face and say “don’t you die on me you fat bastard!”

DaisyM23 · Answer

I really wanted to be a vet which is hilarious now because I hate animals. But back then, I really wanted a dog and being a vet seemed interesting enough, but then I had to help someone get rid of a dead bird in their garden and I was like nope.

Then I was quite good at swimming for a bit, so I entertained the idea of doing that professionally or being a doctor because my parents pushed the whole doctor thing.

I'm doing nothing even remotely similar now haha

Rockstarrrrr · Answer

My hobbies were football ( soccer ) and drawing... I enjoyed it and wanted to be a professional in either of them... my school coaches were really impressed and had high expectations for me... Hey, mom and dad.. Can I join a football academy? NO... An art workshop? NO... only in the summer? NO...

It's okay... It's not like I almost cry thinking about it or something... Nope, I don't.. You can't prove it lol

letuswaltzforthedead · Answer

When I was a little kid, veterinarian. When I was a preteen, probably a nurse or still a veterinarian.

Lliam · Answer

I became fascinated with dinosaurs at an early age, maybe 3 years old. So I wanted to be a paleontologist and hunt for dinosaur bones. When I niece was little, she wanted to be a strawberry picker.

Price511 · Answer

As a child, I wanted to be a doctor, a forensic scientist, or a mechanical engineer. I wanted to either help people or make things that help people.

Now as an adult, all I want to be is happy and stable 🥲

dovendyret · Answer

I wanted to become a librarian or a train driver. The library was my comfort place - my safe haven when things were rough at home and for some reason I was obsessed with riding trains we a kid - despite of there being no trains there.

Anonymous · Answer

I wanted to become a successful and rich gangster rapper.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

In middle school I wanted to be a lawyer and in high school, I wanted to be a marine biologist and in university, I wanted to be a researcher or writer.

Starbers99 · Answer

Police Officer after watching too many episodes of The Bill as a kid - then I found out you couldn't just go straight to CID and had to be a bobby on the beat first, forget that!

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I was very busy early to do research on combustibles and sandpit mining. So I kind of HAD a profession already.  Only by age 14 or so I had ideas to perhaps change career. Helicopters fascinated me.

Sour-rose · Answer

At the time as a kid, i had no idea. Then i played digimon rumble arena on ps2... so then I wanted to be a game designer because the game was absolute garbage.

dustybiker · Answer

When really small I wanted to drive the trash/rubbish trucks. I love that line in Stranger Things “Nobody wants drive a trash truck when they grow up.” (Or similar wording) cause I did! 😁

exitseven · Answer

I wanted to be an astronaut but it wasn, t just a kid's dream. I joined Air Force ROTC with the intention of becoming a pilot and eventually getting into the space program.

tfan1 · Answer

The United States Strategic Reconnaissance aircraft - The SR-71 Blackbird 🙂❤️  SR-71 Blackbird Pilot 👍❤️🙂

tzdc21 · Answer

According to my mom, apparently I wanted to be a clown, lol. I don't ever remember that, but I'm glad it didn't stick.

Red-Blaze · Answer

A mad inventer on a creative indever in the one place yet uncorupted https://youtu. be/g1Sq1Nr58hM But ya.. wanted to invent stuff

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

I always wanted to be head of something big.  I actually aspired to the POTUS.  I settled for the businesses I own.

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