When I grow up I want to be...

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:44 am

...James Bond, a Cowboy or or Policeman. That's what I said when I was a small child. None were particularly accessible or agreeable occupations in later life.
So what were your aspirations as a young'un?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:44 am

That's interesting. Is this a historical question?

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:46 am

Astronaut - yep.. how original. I came close tho - went to school to become a rocket scientist & now... I'm a Technical Writer.

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:57 am

I always wanted to be mangaka or adventure. I really wanted to be an adventure enspired by books "boukensha tachi, gamba to nakamatachi" (adventures, gamba and his friends). these books become an anime and I used to watch them always

(Also enspired by snufkin from moomin as well

you can find his cel in my gallary

)

Shampoo · Post by **Shampoo** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:46 am

When I grow up I wanna be flithy rich

...
wha? think im kiddin?? lol!

I've always wanted to be an artist.. one way or another.

Being a traditional animator has been my dream since I was 2 1/2 (yup I sketched before I could even talk or write coherently lol go fig

)

But alas! The way things are going in the industry
its nearly impossible.. *sigh*

Its ok thou! I had the pleasure of being trained and having 1 semester
of trad. animation to keep myself happy ^_^
So next best career move: Illustration. And thats where I'm at right now

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:57 am

I just wanted to fish. Me an my fishin pole. Yup, that's all I wanted.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:03 am

When I was a kid I wanted to be either a teacher or a nurse or a veterinarian. Or a meteorologist. Or a writer. Or an artist or musician.

I tried being a teacher. Loved student teaching, hated the real thing. Realized that although I loved biology and medical stuff I was too much of a softy to work with sick people or pets... Realized that I wasn't good enough at math to be a meteorologist or any kind of scientist, for that matter.

So... I worked in a medical library for awhile, and then in a library at an "education school" where I occasionally get to teach. And where there's a nursing program and a meteorology program.

Realized that although I was a pretty decent writer, the things I wrote about started happening to me (I kid you not. It was spooky) and that I wasn't good enough with plot design to make a living at it. Same with music and art. So I sang in a bunch of choral groups while studying to work in said library... wrote a bunch of dull library science stuff, and ended up cataloging more music than you could shake a stick at. And I still draw for my own pleasure.

When I grow up, I want to be a housewife who gets to sing around the house without having people groan, and who gets to draw and paint all she likes.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:10 am

When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronomer. I've been interested in astronomy since at least first or second grade.

Bevhippy · Post by **Bevhippy** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:25 am

I wanted to be Lord of all I surveyed.

thrance · Post by **thrance** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:44 am

somewhat like Bevhippy, I wanted basicaly be a god! I have no idea where that idea even came from, as Im not power hunger etc, It was more of a spiritual matter I guess?

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:04 pm

I'm not gonna grow up and you can't make me!!!!

Dang, I went through a lot of stages. I wanted to be a nun for a while (what little catholic girl doesn't?) then an astronaut, then Indiana Jones, then a mermaid, president (that didn't last long), vet, and marine biologist.

Strangely enough, "lawyer" was never in there anywhere....

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:10 pm

I wanted to be...

1. A pitcher for the Red Sox(fastest pitch in high school was 72mph, so that dream was a bust)

2. A writer(I still entertain that thought, and my poetry is improving)

3. A teacher(my mother has been an educator for 25 years now, so I wanted to take after her).

Oh well, one out of three ain't bad!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:11 pm

Only one?

yoshito · Post by **yoshito** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:18 pm

I just wanted to be an adult, no more school... Now that I'm here, I want to go back.

Oh I guess that and a boyfriend (When I want to grow up I want to be a boyfriend, not have a boyfriend... wait... why am I explaining this? I've been here too long...).

Only decided to become an Electrical Engineer in High School after seeing a guy being able to tell the resitance of a resistor by looking at it. I was amazed and thought that was the coolest thing in the world... till I started College and found out that the colored bands tell you that. >.> Boy did I feel conned. At least now I know what we do... Electricute people and blame it on the Civils. =D

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:49 pm

My mother tells the story of when I was seven. I had always been like any other kid with " I wanna be an........" Then I walked in and said that I was going to be an Architect. She said that I never mentioned anything else, even in passing, ever again. Seven is second grade, I am suprised that I even knew what an Architect was

That was forty one years ago and I am still an Architect

Still have not grown up either