What did you want to be when you grew up? [Archive]

big-chip

15-10-2007, 10:49 AM

When you were realy young what was it that you wanted to be when you grew old?

I wanted to be a builder. As it turnes out when i left school i did work on a building site for a while and i hated it, but i lived the dream. I didnt actualy want to be builder when i left school.

Smartie

15-10-2007, 10:50 AM

You sneaky bugger!

Hehe.

I wanted to be a fireman....... :P

Seriously though, a pharmacist. I've no idea why.

allfalldown

15-10-2007, 10:51 AM

Paleontologist (I may have spelled that wrong). Because I really liked dinosaurs when I was younger.

BekyLou

15-10-2007, 11:03 AM

An archaeologist, because I was obsessed with Egyptian mythology and always wanted to go to Egypt. I'm still like that now...but I like what I do and can just go holiday there instead now :D

Sebas

15-10-2007, 11:08 AM

Inventor. I'm now studying Industrial Design, so with a bit of luck, I'll live that dream yet. :p

Feawen

15-10-2007, 11:38 AM

An actor (because of Home Alone) AND a palaeontologist, as I loved dinosaurs. What am I now? A musician.

I did perform all over the place in plays as a young teenager though. Still kinda want to, but music is performing as well.

Scratcher

15-10-2007, 11:56 AM

Oil rig worker... boy am I glad I missed the boat on that one :D

Now I'm an aircraft maintenance engineer, working on good solid ground, no sea for miles

argh

15-10-2007, 12:24 PM

Well...in elementry I liked my teachers and wanted to be one, but then after I moved I wanted to be dead (I was depressed) so I kinda didn't have a lot of planning.

Admirererrerr

15-10-2007, 12:27 PM

Everything but a fireman, but in these days I've learn to know better.

Littleshore

15-10-2007, 12:37 PM

Pirate

Now: http://digital-lifestyles.info/copy_images/software-piracy-lg1.jpg

l4rd

15-10-2007, 12:48 PM

When I was very young I wanted to be a Digger Driver

After that I wanted to be a scientist

Now I'm a computer programmer - oh well

woody_tng

15-10-2007, 12:54 PM

I wanted to be an electrical engineer.

I have ended up testing CCD devices for the european space agency's Gaia satalite. :D

albie_123

15-10-2007, 01:00 PM

I always wanted to be a dictator

Still do

terrorbite

15-10-2007, 01:07 PM

A vet

Wish I'd still gone down that route... even though its hard work.

Mercury126

15-10-2007, 02:18 PM

Psychologist, I'm still interested but theres a lot of other careers out there that appeal to me.

JebblehMooo

15-10-2007, 02:26 PM

Primary School Teacher, also because I Loved primary school, either that or a cartoonist because I was always doodling and making cartoons of stick men

Disgruntledgoat

15-10-2007, 02:31 PM

Steven Spielberg

Thomp

15-10-2007, 03:06 PM

Train driver, then footballer, then lead singer in a band, and now a doctor :)

Niamhel

15-10-2007, 03:37 PM

An archaeologist, because I was obsessed with Egyptian mythology and always wanted to go to Egypt. I'm still like that now...but I like what I do and can just go holiday there instead now :D

im exactaly the same!! but i also liked irish history.

shroomhead

15-10-2007, 03:37 PM

I wanted to be a musician.

I'm now sometimes hired as a bar pianist.

Mister Qwerty

15-10-2007, 03:44 PM

A weatherman. Seriously. Now I'm considering a career in gentics.

BlueIncaPilot

15-10-2007, 03:46 PM

Work in a cake shop. Which I do.

Erskien_Parkour

15-10-2007, 03:51 PM

Policeman

specifically a dog handler, ive always really liked the alsations :]

Turkey Sandwich

15-10-2007, 09:54 PM

I've always wanted to be a writer. And now I'm well on the way, since I'm doing English and such at uni.

Who knows what kind of writing I'll end up doing though. Maybe many types.

Gabber-Baby

15-10-2007, 09:56 PM

I wanted to be a vet (like most little girls want to be), but then i went on to wanna be an Author, then an Illustrator, at some point i wanted to be an Astrologist....then a Graphic Designer...and now a Legal Secretary...and then probably onto a Legal Executive or something :D

Bit of a drastic change of mind.

rachel ^_^

15-10-2007, 10:01 PM

i would quite like to be a musician... i'd love to play violin in those biiig orchestras!

Darkscull

16-10-2007, 09:00 AM

i'm surprised at you all, how can a thread like this get to two pages without:

I wanted to be... a Lumberjack!

anyway, i used to enjoy drawing quite a bit, so i said i wanted to be a cartoonist, then (in year 7 for some reason) everyone's parents started getting really worried that no one had decided what they wanted to do, so me and my friends just said we wanted to be lawyers (didn't know the difference between solicitors and barristers at that point). truth is, i never did have anything i particularly wanted to be.

i'm now halfway to becoming a physicist, and i still don't know exactly what i'm going to do when i've finished...

Gabber-Baby

16-10-2007, 09:03 AM

i'm now halfway to becoming a physicist, and i still don't know exactly what i'm going to do when i've finished...

A physicist?? :eek: Wow...i dont even think i know what that envolves but it sounds extremely posh and difficult....kinda like a brain surgeon.

I feel so boring now. Working in law is so dull...i might just scrap the whole idea and run away with the circus or become a....nuclear scientist.

Bappel

16-10-2007, 09:07 AM

I wanted to become a politician. I was going to become better then the prime minister during that time and make life better for my family. Not that I'm interested in politics nowadays. I just know that I am very left wing but have no knowledge to back it up if I was to engage in a political debate.

Feglk

16-10-2007, 04:02 PM

Im still in school, but at the moment i want to be a snowboarding person/rock god/film maker/actor

So i will combinbe the 4 and be a snowboarding rock actor who makes films

If all that fails then i guess i will be a superhero like batman, but with powers. Although batman has no super powers, he has always been my fave :)
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happy-go-lucky

16-10-2007, 04:13 PM

When you were realy young what was it that you wanted to be when you grew old?

We were discussing that in school today. Are you my teacher?

Tweekish

16-10-2007, 04:24 PM

I wanted to be an archaeologist. I also said I would never ever be a teacher :(

gembird

16-10-2007, 05:00 PM

I wanted to be a vet the whole time I was at school, right up until I got offered a place at vet school, and it was shit. Seriously, I went for the interview and they spoke to me like I was some kind of freak for being from state school. And then they looked all disgusted when I said I played electric guitar.

So anyway, luckily I had a back-up plan and ended up at Reading doing Animal Science, which is like veterinary for people who aren't inbred Hooray Henrys. Hopefully I'm either going to end up working in the racing industry or in animal nutrition- sounds boring but I'm a geek, and the only person on my course who can do maths, so I think it'll be good.

Actually, ever since I can remember I've wanted to be a pirate (secretly of course, until very recently) and for the past couple of years I've had an urge to be in a glam-rock band.

Jesus, even my fantasy jobs are shit...

Rook

17-10-2007, 12:26 PM

I always wanted to be an inventor, but then I realised I had two major problems:
1) I don't have any original ideas. Literally, none. All my ideas are conglomerations of everything I've ever seen or heard, or takes on other peoples ideas. I know they say it's only 1% inspiration, but you still need that much to get going, and I just don't get it.
2) Whenever one of my slightly stolen ideas was any good, someone else would beat me to it because I didn't have access to the resources necessary to make said thing.

In all honesty, I still want to be an inventor even now, it's just that I'll never be able to make it work as a full time job, as I don't have enough practical ideas.

Aladdin Sane

17-10-2007, 12:45 PM

I never really particularly wanted to be anything when I was younger. I still don't really know what to do with my life, either.

My secret dream, however, is to form a band and spearhead some form of progressive/art rock revival.

GorillaBearBear

17-10-2007, 05:53 PM

I also said I would never ever be a teacher :(

Funny that. When I was in secondary school I'd always said how much I'd hate teachign etc. etc. and now that is what I am hoping to achieve in the next 5 years.

There are loads of things I wanted to be when I was younger though, it changed so often. Formula 1 driver (hah, I haven't even learnt to drive!), Bus Driver, Train Driver, Policeman (oh dear jesus no), Priest (wtf?), Chopping down trees man (I was a bastard child, clearly), Fireman, Doctor, Journalist (more recently in secondary school, until I decided it was too much work for too little gain), Computer Games designer. That's all the major fads I can think of tho.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I wanted to be a builder for a while, but then the builders at our house poured cement on my school shoes and then I cried and decided I didn't want to be a builder, but a few weeks after that we had a carpenter/joiner in, and I decided I would like to be a carpenter. Funnily enough I am working as a building labourer at the moment and it's a bit rubbish. Long hours, have to get up too early and because I'm the dogs body I end up digging all the sodding time. Has it's perks, and I've always quite liked manual labour in a funny sort of way, but wouldn't do it for more than a year. I still wouldn't mind being a carpenter though, and I suppose if I really wanted to pursue it I probably could, now.

Feawen

17-10-2007, 06:59 PM

Hopefully I'm either going to end up working in the racing industry or in animal nutrition.

That sounds interesting, not geeky! Guy from my year is in England now doing animal science/zoology? He loves tigers and it was so cool to see him get pictures of himself with tigers and stuff. Instant achieval of dreams and things! Doubtless it'd be nicer to work with animals than with people!

[edit] Didn't mean to have so many exclamations, I don't usually talk like that.

Boyinabox

17-10-2007, 08:06 PM

I always wanted to be an astronaut or an astronomer. :p

I could still be on that road, I recently got my name published on a poster at a conference on the James Webb Space Telescope! :D

Ferg

17-10-2007, 08:36 PM

I always wanted to be a paleintologist beacuse I thought these were uberly cool.
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fbc56de19e.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

(I still kind of do :D)

But now I'm doing law because i figure that's one way I can help people and make the world a slightly better place. Also I always wondered if paleintology would hold my interest. Sure it'd be awesome to find dinosaurs and all that jazz, but you'd spend a lot of time in the desert. And its warm there, really warm :(

Oh! I deviated a little and wanted to be an archeologist for a while, but that was mainly because of Indiana Jones and Daniel Jackson from stargate :D
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.9604ab8a5d.jpg (http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?9604ab8a5d.jpg)

This is because they have mysteriously fantasmical adventures!

natty dread

17-10-2007, 08:39 PM

i wanna be a caterpillar!

jif-charge

17-10-2007, 08:46 PM

To win the Turner prize.

thecaterpillar

17-10-2007, 08:55 PM

i wanna be a caterpillar!

lol.

Anyway when I grow up I want to be an adult.

Evil-Muffin

18-10-2007, 12:43 AM

hmmm.... perhaps an author.... perhaps an artist.... I know I'm good at sculpting and poetry.... and writing essays... so perhaps I could be a good journalist? but I heard that's not a very good job....

hmmmm

perhaps an expert in the paranormal.. OOOHHHH.... I want to be like mulder and sculley!!!! XD

or or or or or like the ghost hunters!!!
OOOOHHH

these are too... fantasic though......

D:

Midget

18-10-2007, 01:07 AM

always wanted to be in the police or the army but now it looks like i'm just gonna be another computering person

i guess police is always still an option if uni goes tits up or the work placement is shit

Evil-Muffin

18-10-2007, 01:11 AM

oh yeaaa.. I forgot to list that one.. I have a huge interest in HTML so I also want to be a website designer! :D

nataya_ivanna

18-10-2007, 03:26 AM

i know when i gets old i wanted to be retired. :) i still do.

katt

18-10-2007, 04:32 AM

I don't think i ever thought about it when i was little that seriously. perhaps being a writer is what i wanted most when i was very young.

For awhile i wanted to be a vet and I even picked my bachelors program with that in mind (pre-vet/med biologyish thing). but i decided veterinary school is not what i want.

now i want to be in graphic design. or art in general. maybe i still want to write a book someday

iamthewalrus

18-10-2007, 09:46 AM

I spent a lot of time in hospital when I was lil' and I always wanted to be a nurse. As I got older, I really wanted to be a writer like Douglas Adams (Who is a god).

So I grew up, went to uni, did a criminal law degree...And now I'm joining the R.A.F.!!! Yay! Forumites defending the Country!

Bail

18-10-2007, 10:59 AM

During lil school, I wanted to be a Science Teacher, then during secondary school I realised how crap teaching must be so decided to work in Telly.

Where am I now, on a TV Production degree doing a few bits of work for local production companies and work at the BBC. Yay.