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mntn13
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28 Jul 2011, 11:05 am

I wanted to be an architect and design houses and fortresses. That idea seemed great, and I'm really good at drawing, but then my dad brought me to an architect's office to talk to them. They told me in no uncertain terms that a woman could never be an architect and not to try. my dad gave me a sympathetic pat on the back and we left. :twisted:



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15 Aug 2011, 6:48 pm

astronaut. (still want to, actually....)



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15 Aug 2011, 6:50 pm

Farmer, train driver, artist



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15 Aug 2011, 8:00 pm

Originally I wanted to move to Montana and build furniture for a living. I have no idea what gave me the idea, but I was certain that's what I wanted. Then I visited the state. Granted, I only was in the eastern part of the state, but yeah. No desire to go back.



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15 Aug 2011, 8:07 pm

When I was very young I wanted to be a nurse. Around the time I was 9, I wanted to be an artist and now have always wanted to :)



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16 Aug 2011, 8:54 pm

I wanted to be an artist because I was good at drawing. I also wanted to be Doc Brown from Back to the Future, but I lacked the drive and brain-power to really get into science (I had an aptitude for math but hated it). Ended up a graphic designer and media tech.



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17 Aug 2011, 4:52 am

I wanted to be the next James Bond when i was really young...


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17 Aug 2011, 5:50 am

Dentist... originally it was Doctor because of the stereotypical "I wanna help people" deal, but when I told my uncle what i wanted to be when I grew up he said that I should be a dentist because they still help people but they make more money and get to pick their own hours... so I changed. I think I was 5 or 6 at the time.


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19 Aug 2011, 1:10 am

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.



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22 Aug 2011, 12:49 am

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.


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24 Aug 2011, 6:12 am

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! :)



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26 Oct 2011, 1:28 am

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



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26 Oct 2011, 12:52 pm

An astronaut, or an expert on dinosaurs.



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30 Oct 2011, 2:14 pm

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)


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30 Oct 2011, 6:19 pm

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. :lol: 8O


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31 Oct 2011, 5:37 pm

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...


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