Foo - What you wanted to be when you grew up?

Are any foosters currently or in the past working in the proffession they answered "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The first one you ever thought of? And do you enjoy it?

For example the first job I can think I ever wanted to be was a truck driver. I currently am a truck driver, through a strange series of events, but I do like it.

President...? Not gonna happen... although I am moving to DC. :D

Few kids have any clue as to what is available, so I don't see it as a bad thing that I never worked at any job I dreamed about as a kid. I wanted to be a garbage man because you get to drive a cool truck. Thankfully, my parents weren't the sort of chowderheads who nurtured every idiotic idea that popped into my impressionable mind.

I also thought being an astronaut or firefighter would be exciting. Having met people in those professions, I'd much rather do what I do now.

honestly I didnt expect to live to make it 24. the fact I made 25 with a unknown disease isn't surprising.

but my life has still reeked of awesome.
but I miss being a motorcycle mechanic in a speed shop. and I enjoyed working in a vintage bike shop.

I just applied for an intelligence officer with the navy. I hope I get it.

An internet forum troll.

Not even close.

Nope.

Um...well, I'm not grown up yet, so it's a little soon to be asking me what I wanted to be.

Yes, when I was a kid I dreamed of being a warehouse manager!

Seriously though, I wanted to be a fireman, then later an engineer. Toward the end of high school I didn't know what I wanted to do, and over a decade later I still don't know, which is why I only went to college for two years. I'd go back if I could think of something to go back for!

Actually, I'm 26, and still not sure what I want to be when I grow up. Its easy to dream when you're a kid, because everything is idealized and all perfect. Jobs I thought were great back then might still carry some intrigue but more than likely not something I would want to do now. Heck, even being a pro-football player still seems cool, but that takes such a toll on your body, that I'd almost rather not do it.

But I'm currently happy in my field. I just took a new job which specializes in something I do only part of the time now but love. Plus much more money.

I'm still trying to figure it out.

Being Asian, you don't actually ever decide what you want to be. Your parents pick for you for "family honor". So ever since I was 4, I was groomed to be a doctor. Well, I rebelled at some point and told her I wanted to be a sanitation-engineer. I ended up being neither.

My Dad worked for a helicopter service and there were Vietnam movies aplenty so I wanted to be a helicopter pilot. Several helicopter rides and chartered boat trips into my childhood I realized my susceptibility to motion sickness and that dream died.

I also idolized Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris and wanted to be a martial artist but several street beatings later I realized I didn't possess the necessary reflexes and mental fortitude to accomplish that craft.

I wanted to be a sportsperson or an adventure and much later on, in HS, an architect.. not even close..

National Geographic photographer.
Got close, but not quite.

Is 41 too old to try a career as Batman?

Is 41 too old to try a career as Batman?

I think interviews begin Oct 31st

I wanted to be a scientist since I was a kid and got to see my dad work at his lab. I became a research scientist straight out of college, went into manufacturing as a production specialist, now I'm in manufacturing engineering for biotech.

Livin' the dream.

I wanted to be a teacher. I started going that way for a while, then realized that I just cannot handle the sound of dozens of people all talking at once. I wandered around for a while, figuring things out, then got the bright idea that I should be an EMT.

I tried it, liked it, got pregnant, couldn't lift, and moved in to the dispatch center. Surprisingly, I absolutely love it.

I think I finally figured it out: I want to (continue to) be a dispatcher when I grow up.

I made a vow to buck the trend and always be a kid, grown-ups are overrated...

Seriously though, I wanted to be a fireman, then later an engineer.

There are actually young kids who want to be engineers?

My father was a cartoonist and I inherited his drawing ability so I started college as an art major intending to do biomedical art (this is before illustrations were computer generated). I plugged along just fine until I found out I had to take anatomy classes that involved cadavers. I somehow ended up with engineering.

Wanted to build buildings and be an architect. I'm almost there... 9/9 on the ARE and have the CSE scheduled for Feb '09.

Way back when, this little Baron once wanted to be a police officer.

This dream faded quickly one day when my father said to me "It's bad enough you have access to power tools... I'd hate to see what you'd do with a gun and authority".

I still can't see why he was so upset, he was planning on rebuilding the garage anyway.

I may get older, but I refuse to grow up!

First wanted to be a scientist/inventor. Then a fighter jet pilot. I ended up working in IT. I did flew a cesna 150 once...

There are actually young kids who want to be engineers?

My father was a cartoonist and I inherited his drawing ability so I started college as an art major intending to do biomedical art (this is before illustrations were computer generated). I plugged along just fine until I found out I had to take anatomy classes that involved cadavers. I somehow ended up with engineering.

Oh yes... specially when the current ones keep designing crappy things that don't work. You sure wanna grow up and be the one designing the stuff.

I wanted to be a father when I grew up. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm still hopeful that someday I'll live out my childhood dream. Secondly, I hoped to be a doctor or <gasp> a scientist. Decided not to go to med school and to pursue scientific research instead. So far, that's working out okay. But my main goal of having a little kid or two (or three!) to play with hasn't come true.

I wanted to be a scientist. I ended up working as a chemist in a hospital lab. With time the job involved less and less science. Just ended up baby sitting machines that did the chemistry.

I wanted to be a firefighter. Well, I'm on my way! Working as an EMT currently and will be attending paramedic school in 6 months.

Finishing up my Fire protection degree and will be applying for academy soon. Hopefully I can get in!

There are actually young kids who want to be engineers?

My father was a cartoonist and I inherited his drawing ability so I started college as an art major intending to do biomedical art (this is before illustrations were computer generated). I plugged along just fine until I found out I had to take anatomy classes that involved cadavers. I somehow ended up with engineering.


Weird, I have drawn all my life as well, and I've always enjoyed designing things when I draw. This was why I wanted to be an engineer, but when I dicovered I basically could not comprehend anything beyond basic math I gave up on it. I still draw and design all the time (mostly bicycles) and I was even a drafter for a couple of years.

Being Asian, you don't actually ever decide what you want to be. Your parents pick for you for "family honor". So ever since I was 4, I was groomed to be a doctor. Well, I rebelled at some point and told her I wanted to be a sanitation-engineer. I ended up being neither.

Ha! I was supposed to be a lawyer, Myers-Briggs said Lawyer/Poet. Still was playing with the idea until relatively recently.

I wanted to be a Paelentologist and or Paleobotanist, neither one came to be, but my third choice (Firfighter) came true! SWEET! :love:

Believe it or not, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a desktop support technician. Back in those days (between 1993 to 1995), being a computer technician was actually sort of valuable. Today, it's pretty much a disposable job.

However, I did that as my first co-op, and I enjoyed that job the most. Afterwards, I tried my hand at software development and (currently) at business analysis, and neither of them were as stimulating. The environment in the former wasn't what I was looking for, and the kind of work I'm doing now isn't technical enough (all of the 'fun' stuff is "in the background").

I really like dealing with people on a daily basis and helping them out with all sorts of issues, even if it was menial or repetitive. I liked teaching what I knew (and know well), and enjoyed seeing (some) of them happier and content, even if it's just for a moment. Working as a desktop technician (at least for the brief time I did) also taught me a lot about the finance industry, as it was probably the easiest way to network and make friends in the business. I'm not sure if I would want to pursue it as a long-term job, though doing software engineering for a while sounds interesting.

Being Asian, you don't actually ever decide what you want to be. Your parents pick for you for "family honor". So ever since I was 4, I was groomed to be a doctor. Well, I rebelled at some point and told her I wanted to be a sanitation-engineer. I ended up being neither.

I went through the same kind of pressure, though I'm Dominican...

My father was a doctor and my mother worked in hospitals doing social work. A lot of my Dad's family went on to practice medicine, so that was expected of me. When I was in high school, I did want to study up to my Ph.D and do research in genetics, so going that route seemed aligned with my goals...at least until I realized that I hated chemistry, studying to practice medicine is HELLA commitment, and that I enjoyed working with computers and software quite a lot.

The reaction wasn't quite pleasant when I told everyone I changed my study to Computer Engineering...

Astronaut.

The market kinda dried up.

My first occupational love was an archeologist. Back then, a paleontologist to be precise. This was a few years BEFORE Indiana Jones too.

It was a dream that slowly changed and eventually slipped away.

My mom wanted me to be a lawyer or a teacher, but I didn't want to do either. I wanted to be a writer but I had to put that on the backburner because reality is a cruel taskmaster. I worked nearly 20 years in retail and despised nearly every moment of it, but the rent doesn't pay itself. I quit in February and now am trying to figure myself out.

Writer. I wanna be a writer when I grow up!

And this will be the first Christmas season since high school I will not be working retail! Yahoo! I may actually enjoy Christmas for once!!

Anthropologist - because I had a big crush on my Sociology/Human Anthropology instructor.
Stock Broker - because of the movie "Wall Street"... until I interned at Merrill Lynch and did cold calling, yuck!

My first occupational love was an archeologist. Back then, a paleontologist to be precise. This was a few years BEFORE Indiana Jones too.

It was a dream that slowly changed and eventually slipped away.

My friend made that dream come true. Wears the hat, has the notebook in the back pocket, finishing up his dissertation. Dude even looks like Indy.

considering i was going to be an actress.... no, im not doing that.

I wanted to be a fighter pilot since I was 6 years old and actually managed to achieve that goal. I'm not sure how the balance between hard work and luck made it possible but I'll take it. Subsequently, I have left the small jet military business and moved into the large jet commercial business. Still fun, not near as exciting.

Porn Star, but I am, sadly, not qualified.

3rd generation engineer. It was sort of instilled in me to be one.

My five year plan, however, is to be laying on the couch collecting disability for some work related injury.

I wanted to be a scientist. I ended up working as a chemist in a hospital lab. With time the job involved less and less science. Just ended up baby sitting machines that did the chemistry.

Back off man, I'm a scientist. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_EwIdABpI)

Captaining a ship of the line, a la Horatio Hornblower is no longer a viable employment option.

Buffet sums it up nicely here, but from an adversarial viewpoint.

YouTube - Jimmy Buffett--Mohegan Sun 8/30 "A Pirate Looks at 40"

Where's the "never really had a dream job as a kid" option?

I am not too far from what I wanted to be as a kid, same field anyway even if day-to-day specifics have varied. Other than astronaut, I mean. I've done some of the stuff that I thought I'd want to do and didn't find it enough of a requirement for it to be a dealbreaker when staying in the field didn't keep me in that particular activity (scuba diving).

musician

I wanted to be the following when I was little girl:

A fire-woman
An astronaut
An astronomer
An Astro-physicist
An Aero/astro engineer
A civil engineer

I tried pursuing that last one but it didn't really work out. Heh.

Captaining a ship of the line, a la Horatio Hornblower is no longer a viable employment option.

Buffet sums it up nicely here, but from an adversarial viewpoint.



Unless you're the captain of a cruise ship.

My grandfather was a captain of a cruise ship, that was his last captaining gig.

I wanted to be a father when I grew up. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm still hopeful that someday I'll live out my childhood dream. Secondly, I hoped to be a doctor or <gasp> a scientist. Decided not to go to med school and to pursue scientific research instead. So far, that's working out okay. But my main goal of having a little kid or two (or three!) to play with hasn't come true.

Clone yourself a few times.