What did you want to be as a kid?
 

I had a conversation with my lad this morning about his hopes and aspirations for when he becomes an adult...He wants to be a palaeontologist (Ross from friends!)
He always has done from when he could pronounce it!...We discussed what he needs to study at Uni etc etc...He knows what he wants to be and I believe he will do it!
My daughter though...wants to be an artist or a dancer (ballerina)...(Mmmm!?)
I always knew I would be a teacher from about the age of 7...I had a vision...a goal and knew where I was going.

I was just wondering
Were your ideas at a young age goals and aspirations or just fanciful pie in the sky ?
What did you want to be??? Are you close to where you thought you would be?

I wanted to be a truck or train driver. Didnt have very high insperations I suppose :D
Got intrested in electronics last few years of school and continued with that then ended up in IT. So didnt really end up with the childhood dream.

Although when I see the odd truck on the road these days I always wish I'd done my HGV just for the experience.

[Edited on 16-4-2005 by tricky]

Astronaut.

Managed to spend most of my life with my head in the clouds, so nearly made it.

wanted to be a bricklayer- use to spend hours with lego- after several years pursueing a few different avenues and careers here i am still a bricklayer--now with my own hard landscape company am qualified adult education teacher(i teach bricklaying as well)

Don't remember having any career paths mapped out when I was really young, but at 12 I wanted to be a fighter pilot!

It was all going to plan too... at 17, going through aircrew selection for the raf, 5 years of progression were thrown in the bin when I got meself ran over. Now I just fly a damn computer all day :mad:

Now I want to be world superbike champion!

Easy I wanted to be a sailor in the navy. My old man woudn't let me join as a boy seaman aged 15 years. Can't think for the life of me why:D

didn't know what i wanted to do so went to work for my uncle in the plastering trade 30 years later still at it. by the way whats a palaeontologist never watch friends

fancied by the girls at school :rolleye:

It's not a "digger" type person. It's the person who is versed in the science of fossils... "a fossilist".
They tend to work in the museums building the bone structures and studying new types of fossils...
He has to understand rock formations and stuff as well as biology and Pre-history...
Too clever for me!Gawd knows where he gets it from!
He's already taking booster lessons at the local comp for shakespearean Literacy. (He's sodding ten for gawdsake)

ditto... until i was about 14 or so and it dawned on me that I would actually like lots of money i wanted to be a long distance lorry driver!

Once I realised this it was sports physiology and psychology that had my interest.

Initially, a tractor driver..guess I made that one happen then! :lol:

Later on, a pilot is all I wanted to be. Havn't made it that far, but I do fly a lot and I get to sit in the flight deck with a headset on, so it's not so far off! :)

I wanted to be a professional sportsman.

Missed that one :(

i wanted to be a chef but after finding all the hours were very long didnt pursue any longer
..
now a shopkeeper for hein gericke and have been in retailing for 18 years

I wanted to Play the Piano in the *****house :D

a copper, traffic or dogs...could explain some of my 'tendencies' towards leadership


another question, who got to be what they wanted and what is/was it like? Are you still doing it?

Older Then
and now
Younger ???:eureka:

I wanted to be Barry Sheene! :D

when i was a kid i wanted to be an adult

the real goal in life is happieness and its not about money,what youve got or what you havent.
it's a state of mind.

Always wanted to be in RAF and fly .... something to do with my grandad being in the RAF in WW2.

Fell in to sales and marketing mid 20's .... well no ones to be in sales do they ..... and still at it 10 years later.

At least it pay's enough to have a Ducati :sing:

Well, as I said above I wanted to be a professional sportsman but I ended up being a professional nerd.

Still, my chosen sport at the time was basketball and the closest I got was being paid to play A grade (not much, it was something like $15AUD for a loss and $30 for a win - but I was 15 so that was a lot of money!) . Got a lot of good memories from playing basketball.

A lingerie fitter!:smug:

I wanted to be a policeman- finally managed it after all this time!

I wanted to be a truck driver (did class 1 & drove horses around the continents for a few years)

Wanted to be a vet, but the truck bit edged ahead, but got vet nurse quals & still help out in equine major surgery occasionally.

also....... wanted to be prime minister, but not much chance with my diplomacy skills so far:lol:

also wanted to win the grand national - so did national hunt as amateur (part funded by truck driving in my 20's) - and managed to at least ride the Mildmay course at Liverpool, coming a respectable 3rd in a novice chase



And now? - to earn shed loads of dough in the next few months, to enable me to have the time & money to ride my bike across Europe & onwards, Michael Palin style:cool:

C:roll::roll:
ps: I didnt want to be a 'waffler, I just turned into one:lol::lol:

This was a good question...So many of you actually are pretty close to what you wanted to do as a kid! Glynn is VERY right though...
You've got to be happy doing it...and its not about money.:saint:
I love my job...I always knew I would.:roll:

Fighter pilot until I was about 10 or so then Elvis died and they put all his films on tv that xmas and from then on I wanted to be a rockstar!

I'm still trying to work out what I'm going to be when I grow up, :) Until then I'll keep playing with mountain bikes , I'm sure I'll work it out eventually :)

I never knew what I wanted to be, just 'something to do with maths'. I drifted into computer programming and that's where I am now (Application Developer). So I'm kind of doing what I wanted!

Trouble is, I wish I'd done engineering. I'd love to be a data logger for a race team...

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot. Not in the airforce or a commercial airline. I actually wanted to fly C130 aid shipments in and out of remote places in Africa. (Think the movie Air America with Mel Gibson, but humanitarian aid rather than guns :-) )

So, at 18 I actually went and got my private pilot's licence. Have logged about 110 hours or so.

However, then I went and travelled a while (a year in South Africa), discovered that beer ate up most of my money, couldn't afford to fly anymore. Then got into bikes and that's where all my money went.

Did an arts degree at Uni, thought I wanted to be a journalist. Ended up as an IT business analyst/product manager.

A cycle racer - Tour De France etc. It never happened though.

Never did know what I wanted to do as a kid. When I was about seven I remember saying to my best friend that I wanted to be very rich, and have a huge house with lots of naked ladies walking about in it.

I was always interested in technical stuff, but not practical enough to follow an engineering trade, or clever enough at Maths to be a chartered engineer or anything like that. In fact I was always told that I was too arty for technical stuf and too technical to be arty - work that one out.

I did start playing double bass at 14 and electric bass after that (I was always a bassist, never a frustrated guitar player), and got to be pretty damn good in my late teens, early twenties. I followed the 'rock and roll' dream and got right to the verge of a recording contract when the band split due to some people in it getting cold feet about signing. I guess my dreams of that big house with lots of naked ladies went up in the same puff of smoke as my rock star aspirations. Still play now, but nowhere near as well as I did then.

Ended up like a lot of people drifting into IT and been there ever since.

Thinking back, if I had my time again, I would really love to have been studious enough to be an architect. I'm fascinated with buildings and I think it would have been a good choice for someone caught between technical and artistic interests