What did you want to be as a kid

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Wonder Woman. My mom tried to get me to want to be more gender role appropriate and be Superman or Batman but I didn't like their TV shows and told her so. I was pretty young but she was well used to my bizarre ideas and just rolled her eyes. I was pretty lucky actually. When I'd report to her later that the other kids at school thought I was weird she'd say "you are weird!" but in her who cares what they think voice.

First I wanted to be an anthropomorphized playing card,
Then I wanted to be be a mayor.
Then I wanted to be a Sci-fi writer.
Then I wanted to be a graphic artist.
Then I wanted to be an engineer.
Then I wanted to be a recreational painter (with any side job that pays the bills).
Maybe someday I'll make up my mind.

I wanted to be a performer (actress, singer, gymnast, all of the above). Or a writer/librarian/something to do with books.
After loads of vocation false starts, I am now training as a Conservator (specialising in bookbinding and book conservation/repair) and work in an Archive and Local Studies Library. No-one ever suggested this job to me in careers advice when I was younger. I am bitter about this as it could have saved me so many problems and depressions to just have gone to do this at the start. But never mind, you are never too old to learn and train!

I wanted to be an archeologist because of the Indiana Jones movies it maid it seem exiting it can actually be quite borring as sometimes you won't even be able to dig because of political disputes fighting or other factors

An astronaut, or an expert on dinosaurs.

Just that: a kid... had no desire to grow up, just wanted school to end which it did, finally. Beyond said, childhood imagination mine landed upon -

a) a monster in the movies (i.e., an actor - think great thespians such as Jason from Friday the 13th, Michael Myers or any the old guard to include Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc.)

b) a race car driver (instead, I merely bought a fast car & drive it that way; same thing in essence?)

c) a radio disc jockey (did that, and now all my formerly favorite songs are no longer favorites since I had to listen to them - every - hour after day after week after year)


EM Cioran: "By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."

First I wanted to be a vet. From before I can remember until I was about 13, that was what I was going to do and I never considered anything else.

Then I was going to be a nurse. From 13 to nursing school, that was what I was going to do and I never considered anything else.

I hated nursing school. Tried teacher's school. Liked it, but got de facto kicked out for being opinionated.

Went back to nursing school. Still hated it.

Found myself pregnant. Quit school. Had a kid. Realized that, all my life, what I'd really wanted to be was a MOTHER.

Went back to school. Got a degree in English. Eh.

Hubby finished engineering school. Had more kids.

I think when they go to school, I might give trade school a try. I've wanted to build things since I was little, but people always told me someone as "smart" as me had to go to college.

Screw them. We'll be like a bad joke-- the contractor and the engineer. The Aspie contractor and the NT engineer. The fights will be epic.

I think I didn't want to grow up either, at least not so soon. When I was asked what I wanted to be at around the age of eleven I drew a picture of a locomotive. Obviously, I wanted to be a train driver. Needless to say I was told they had higher expectations from me...

I always wanted to be a vet; but I always had so much trouble in math and was brainwashed into thinking I couldn't do it. Wonderful way to modivate a kid, huh? My grades were already poor because I had a crappy teacher and if I couldn't be a vet, I didn't really want to be anything else. I was just trying to get through the day anyway. I think I was about sixteen or seventeen when I woke up and realised my life was my own and I could be a vet if I wanted too. I still plan to be one. I just can't picture being happy with being anything else.

I wanted to be an astronaut, a paleontologist, and a singer through elementary school.

I love space and everything about it. I was discouraged from being an astronaut because I’m almost 6 feet tall and you had to be really short to fit in the space capsules.

I still love paleontology (study of dinosaurs), but it just didn’t fit in with my life. I have dinosaurs in my Christmas village.

After an almost 30 year hiatus from singing, I have taken it back up and am singing in public in several venues. We are making a Christmas album, and are doing a lot of charity work. I love it, but it is not a career.

I am an administrative assistant for a construction company. It suits me. I am in the office most of the day by myself and I know what work needs to be done.

I love to write, but I hated it as a kid. Never thought I could do it. Once I got over the hurdle of not believing in myself, it is flowing out of me. I’ve written a novel, a children’s book, several short stories and a lot of songs and poems. I would love to make a career out of writing. I have the outline of about 15 novels in my head. Nothing published. Still have to cross that hurdle.

I wanted to write the great American novel a la Fitzgerald or be a screenwriter a la Dalton Trumbo. I did not have sufficient talent to do either and I am way cool with it!

I always liked the idea of being a bingo caller, I think it must be something to do with the numbers having names eg. 22=two little ducks and two fat ladies=88. I still do like the idea of it. May be one day, who knows.

As a kid up to about the age of 12 I wanted to be an Architect and or a Draftsman (well before the age of CAD)
From 12 to about 16 I wanted to build race cars and to go to school for Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Design
From 16 up to 18 all I knew is I wanted to make things so I learned Woodworking.

As it turned out I couldnt afford school so I decided to learn as much as I could on my own.
I ended up getting a job as a chef and then joined the army to learn to be an Aircraft Mechanic.
When I got out of the military I got a job as a carpenter/framer. I built some really nice homes and also appartments. Pretty much to prove I could do it. I got tired of not having work in the winter and my only days off were when it rained.

I ended up getting a job as an assembler of industrial machinery. then as a pipefitter/fabricator and then as a test technician.

Oddly enough I have worked on race cars on the side. just can't find a full time job doing it. that would be bliss
I'm also going to build a custom oak bar for a friends new house.

and yes I'm still a kid at heart,... just alot wiser and experienced.

When I was 5, I wanted to drive the big construction equipment.
In high school, I mostly wanted to be an Architect, then discovered a lot of architects out of work.
I briefly considered a career in physics my senior year, but I found the politics in scientific/academic circles to be unappealing.

Now, I want to make the next great city simulator game and put "sim city" & "Cities XL" to shame.

I wanted to be George out of Famous Five.

I think I wanted to be a marine like my dad. Still wouldn't mind it. I would love to move to the west coast some day.