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Ah, giddy youth.

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julius has no imagination

17:32 / 18.01.07

Only one I can remember is wanting to be an inventor for some years. You know - tinker away in a shed, coming up with revolutionary gadgets, like Edison or something. I can't remember specifically wanting to be a scientist as such, but I did pick relativity as the subject of a research assignment in school when I was about 11, so I guess in a sense I did pretty well on that front - I'm now about six months away from a physics degree...

Leigh Monster loses its cool

19:17 / 18.01.07

i no longer want to be bernadette peters. i now just want to have her uterus transplanted into me.

stoatie can have my old one.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

20:29 / 18.01.07

The first I can think of is Space Marine (ALIENS was in the theater when I was 6 or 7 and my mother was pretty lax about ratings)

Later it was Egyptologist until I was convinced everything worth finding had been found (fucking liars in private schools) and then a chiropractor (I liked giving back rubs, this never became a career but was a pretty lucrative hobby for a while).

Never once as a kid did I want to be that guy behind the counter at a store, but that is what I was for years.

stabbystabby

00:15 / 19.01.07

i wanted to be a baker - i'm a coeliac.

then i wanted to be a priest (catholic) - now i'm an atheist.

at one point i wanted to be in the air force and then realised i might have to, you know, bomb people.

Triplets

02:47 / 22.01.07

Crikey, what a violent lot.

Not as violent as Doc Terror and his cyborg companion Hacker, Crystal!

I remember being called out on my Centurion fetish in primary school when Mr. Preston asked me why all my story characters were called Ace, Jake or Max.

Because they are the manliest names. FOR A MAN.

astrojax69

04:10 / 22.01.07

i wanted to be jesus.

then i got kicked out of sunday school for not being able to believe whales would eat poeple and they'd survive. really!

then i didn't want to be jesus anymore.

now i don't know what i want to be. maybe i should reignite the jesus thing. i can come a second time...

stabbystabby

11:34 / 22.01.07

can i be a disciple?

or maybe a henchman? jesus should have henchmen. (henchpersons?)

el d.

13:00 / 22.01.07

well, how about founding a society for the second coming of Jesus? Everyone claiming to be Jesus´second coming should join. I guess that would make quite a lot of Jesusses, there... hehe...

I count myself to the paleontologist/archeologist camp. I still know the names of the earth´s ages.. ( praecambrium, cambrium, ordovizium, silur, devon, carbon, perm, trias, jura, kreide, tertiär, quartiär ) in german, obviously.

Then I wanted to found a religion. Serously. That´s even more fun than being a Mafia don.

Now I´m a radical atheist, onairpromotion cutter and a student of translation into german, spanish and english.
But actually, the religion thingy should cut loose any time now...

...if I could just get those shrubs to burn at will...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:05 / 22.01.07

I used to want to be a doctor at first, then I decided I wanted to become a lawyer. Not so's I could practice law so much as so I could make a lot of money and then buy a farm. When I was a kid I used to read Smallholder and Goatkeeper, and spend ages working out how many acres I'd need and where to put the goats.

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