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What did you want to be when you grew up?

 
  

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Ella mentry
23:44 / 22.04.04
me I wanted to be a hairdresser, all my days I wished I could do that, then I went to college and studied graphic design for 3 years...duh!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:56 / 22.04.04
Astronaut. Definitely an astronaut. (Only cos my mum told me I'd never be able to be a dinosaur.)
 
 
marwood
23:57 / 22.04.04
I wanted to be an archaeologist.

I'm currently finishing up a Religion and Society course, and have no idea what i want to be. Although preferably it would earn me lots and lots of money for minimum effort.
 
 
w1rebaby
00:04 / 23.04.04
I never knew what I wanted to be. I used to say an architect because that seemed to placate people, but I never understood why all these grown-ups were asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I don't fucking know, okay?
 
 
grant
00:06 / 23.04.04
1. Librarian.

2. Renegade priest.

3. Paranormal researcher.

4. English professor.

I've sort of succeeded in 2 & 3, and have acted like 1 & 4 in a professional capacity for short stints.
 
 
Trijhaos
01:57 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be a fighter pilot just like Tom Cruise in Top Gun .

Of course, that particular dream was crushed when I had to start wearing glasses.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:02 / 23.04.04
I've gone through so many phases of what I wanted to be's.

I've wanted to be:
a detective ( I actually started a detective agency im my elementary school...made enough cash for the agency trip to McDonalds!)
a spy I spent many days making invisible inks and disguise kits.
an artist still working on it but its not as romantic as the old movies would have you believe
 
 
PatrickMM
02:08 / 23.04.04
A movie maker, that's always been my dream, since I was five or so, and it still is.
 
 
ephemerat
02:32 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be a helicopter pilot.

But I'm not.

Still, a somewhat more impressive career plan than my little sister's childhood dream to work in a chip shop. Of course, she's now a nurse working in intensive care, so go figure...
 
 
Char Aina
03:22 / 23.04.04
i used to want to be an airline pilot.

like, lame or what?
i've had call centre jobs with more control.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:31 / 23.04.04
Its not lame.... I took a class in highschool on aviation. (we built a kit-aircraft). I to want to become a pilot, but first I want to create a realife versionof the Cobra Trouble Bubble.
 
 
sine
03:36 / 23.04.04
Well, there were a few phases through my youth:

Particle Physicist
Monk
Self-Employed Inventor
Novelist

I figure novelist should carry me to about 30...

Wait...when do I have grow up? Do I have to?
 
 
Baz Auckland
03:38 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be a paleontologist or archaeologist when I was younger.... after that I just wanted to be a traveller...

...now if only I could stop forgetting that's all I want to do and get out there!
 
 
foot long subbacultcha
07:31 / 23.04.04
This is the standard question I ask people on - - their thirtieth birthdays. I'm still trying to figure out what I wanna be before I grow up. I'm sure that when I hit thirty I'll ask people the same question on their fortieth birthdays.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
07:32 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be an RSPCA officer, cos I really liked animals. Of course it didn't really occur to me that all I'd see would be the most pitiable and abused creatures. But y'know, a nice idea.
 
 
Sax
07:38 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be an astronaut, like Stoatie and others, but knew my mum and dad wouldn't go for that so told them I wanted to be an air force pilot, figuring I could get into astronauting later.

Failing that, a comic book artist, although I couldn't draw.

From about 14 I decided I wanted to be a journalist. Wish I could go back in time, beat myself up, and force myself to learn plumbing or gas fitting.
 
 
Squirmelia
08:03 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be:

1. A part-time sailor and a part-time decorator who only scrapes off wallpaper from walls. (I went through a rather long phase of wearing a captain's hat).
2. Magician. (Only for a short time).
3. Detective. (For a long time).
4. Computer programmer. (Well, it seemed glamorous when I was 8).

Probably some other things I can't remember too. Oh, where was that thread where we said what we would look like if we had become what we wanted to be when we grew up?
 
 
Ex
09:07 / 23.04.04
How young is young? (And how soon is now?)

- Librarian
- Novelist
- Nun

I still have high hopes for most of it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:09 / 23.04.04
I actually had hopes of becoming an adult at some point.

Ah, thwarted ambition.
 
 
William Sack
09:19 / 23.04.04
First ambition was to be a foundry worker like my grandfather, but later I wanted to be "an animalologist."
 
 
Jub
09:35 / 23.04.04
Astronaut - has to be. Where did it all go wrong Stoatie? Sax? I remember watching the film "space camp" and getting really excited. "That'll be me one day" I thought.

Sine - I used to want to become a monk too at some point and find the whole idea very disturbing now! What on earth made you think of that, because I really can't remember, except thinking it'd be nice and quiet. How very bizarre - I'd forgotten all about it. A monk. Weird.
 
 
Axolotl
09:51 / 23.04.04
I really really wanted to be an astronaut. I spent hours researching the space program and constructing elaborate models of the ships I would fly and the moonbases where I'd live. Unfortunately my childhood dreams were crushed when I realised I wasn't russian or american and that therefore I would never get into space. My hopes were cruelly raised when Helen Sharman made it, but by then I was old enought to realise that perhaps astronaut wasn't the most practical of career choices.
Since then I have drifted along without any real plan. I did fancy being an archaeologist, and in fact that is what I studied at university. However archeaology is a horrible industry to work in since it was all privatised in the 80's. Accordngly I have given up on ambition, and now merely try to get by doing as little as possible
 
 
Spaniel
10:26 / 23.04.04
You lot are rubbish.

I wanted to be

a: A member of G-Force.

b: A superhero. According to ME, my Grandfather was going to build a machine that would change us (Runce and I) into superheroes. Trustworthy friends were also invited.

c: A Transformer. Again, utilising my grandfather's steelworking skills (he worked at a steel-mill for forty years) we would be transformed *chic-coh-coh-chic* into mighty robots in disguise.

Brilliant.
 
 
Christoph_Chicken
10:56 / 23.04.04
I always wanted to be the person who had the ability to pause the flow of time, just by placing my two index fingers together...and hearing the ttthhhhhwwwaaaaaaapm!! noise that accompanied the process. The world would stand still, and yet I could move around. I'd then be free to:

a. Perform incredible magic tricks / pranks on nasty individuals. (That'd show David Blane a thing or two)

b. Fly planes, drive cars, eat in nice restaurants, look up girls skirts etc.

c. Have enough free time to actually do everything that I wanted to do (eg. get enough sleep in-between drinking binges and work)


I used to actually sit on the edge of my bed, connecting my fingers, trying really hard to stop time.

I still do....
 
 
Mike Modular
10:59 / 23.04.04
Yes, an astronaut. Or rather, more accurately at the time, a Space Man. Until I found out that they have to wear a big nappy thing with a tube to take all their 'waste' away (as seen by schoolfriends in Moonraker). That didn't really appeal for some reason, and so my interest waned and I've just stayed on Earth and not really had any exciting adventures.
 
 
trixr4kids
11:16 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be an astronaut....but ended up a space cadet
 
 
Cheap. Easy. Cruel.
11:45 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be a fireman. Then I decided I wanted to be the guy who makes everything work. Now I am an engineer. Next, I want to be a building general contractor.

What? I'm already grown up? The hell you say!
 
 
Grey Area
11:52 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be a tank pilot. Then, as I grew up, I realised that I didn't really want to be in the army. Not that this could stop me being a tank driver, but it's pretty hard to find tanks at your local car dealership you know?

...could always just get a Hummer (I'm talking about the car!)
 
 
ibis the being
12:45 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be
an author,
an artist,
a pianist,
a singer,
a teacher,
a mother,
and a dancer,
all at once.
And I was very casually confident that I would. I think that must point to some good qualities in my parents.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:58 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be an actor than I wanted to be a librarian now I want to be a millionaire and never have to work again and sit in arts cinemas and eat ice cream and read books and give money to galleries. Who wants to make me a millionaire?
 
 
The Falcon
13:58 / 23.04.04
I wanted to be an astronaut, until I later realised just how terrified of the vacuum of outer space I actually am.
 
 
Jub
14:40 / 23.04.04
[threadrot]
I always wanted to be the person who had the ability to pause the flow of time, just by placing my two index fingers together...and hearing the ttthhhhhwwwaaaaaaapm!! noise that accompanied the process. The world would stand still, and yet I could move around.

Hey - did you ever see that US show with a little girl who could do that very thing! I think it was her little fingers though - and she could do it as her dad was an alien or something. She got in trouble if she used it to cheat or do anything bad though, but it all turned out nicely if she was helping someone. Aw.
 
 
Squirmelia
14:44 / 23.04.04
Out of this world?
 
 
_Boboss
14:50 / 23.04.04
no i'm sure they've never seen out of this world.

policeman, but only in america. bobbies always struck me as baddies, with sticks, basically farmers with marmalade sandwiches stead a tractors, whereas all a cop has to do is shoot poor people all day and eat donuts. i wanted to hit that shit into fan moment when you've got the shotgun out of the 'trunk', your partner's there bleeding (and entrusted you with his 'piece', the better to protect us both) and five coke-crazed gangbangers think tattoos and machine guns make them hard. what a lesson those guys'd be in for.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:40 / 23.04.04
I would have been the best Air Hostess in the world too. *sigh*
 
  

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