What did you want to be as a kid

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I think it was between a policewoman (which I decided against because I knew too many people who people describe as 'dodgy characters' growing up on my estate), a nurse - so I could help sock people to get better, or a solider - so I could protect our country.

Failed the army medical when I was about 16/17 because of my mental health history that had been going on all my life.

Never became a nurse because I've never been able to learn key subjects like maths to qualify. Was really good at it up to a certain age then couldn't understand any of it once the algebra stuff came in and division. The two symbols was enough to confuse me! I still don't get it to this day!

I became a support worker in the end and worked with other adults who had mental health or ld's.
Loved the job, ended up running my own independent service that was a massive success.
I'm not working now - gave up a year ago. I have fibromyalgia now as well as the difficulties with my mental health. Just always been diagnosed with anxiety and depression but I need to know why now x

^^^at least you found a niche in life.

In my teens, I wanted to be a CIA intelligence analyst.

Happy and loved.

I sorta kinda got there, eventually .

I certainly didn't want to be a kid.....my main goal was to get to age 18.

I didn't know, I only know I wished then that I was not a kid.

I would have loved to skip the teen years.

When I was a kid about 7 or 8 I wanted to be a policeman when I grew up but a few years later I wanted to be a scientist a research chemist.

I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot...

Dead. Clearly I'm still failing at that goal.

I wanted to be a writer, but eventually decided it didn't sound like a very happy job.

A marine biologist. Got into study this at high school level but then I moved abroad and went down a different track. Always think back with sadness that I didn't get to go down that route as later on in life I became a diver and I love the ocean. However, I had to move out of home to survive! So it was a non-option in many ways.

I wanted to be a pop singer or a comedian but they were very minor wants. I think the ideas came from my interests. i never really had a clue what I wanted to be. I was too focused on my current problems & current interests to really think about the future.

I wanted to write the scripts for Grover on Sesame Street (e.g., be Jon Stone).