When I grow up, I want to be...

pikachucheeks

When you were small, what did you want to be when (and if!) you grew up?

I remember a friend of my sister's insisting she wanted to be a witch

I always knew what I wanted to do ; from the age of eight onwards, I knew I wanted to work in the media. Developed from wanting to be a journalist / author to wanting to work in Advertising / PR.
So far, so good

Jesus Wept

Firetruck.

Linguo

pikachucheeks wrote: »

When you were small, what did you want to be when (and if!) you grew up?

I remember a friend of my sister's insisting she wanted to be a witch

I always knew what I wanted to do ; from the age of eight onwards, I knew I wanted to work in the media. Developed from wanting to be a journalist / author to wanting to work in Advertising / PR.
So far, so good

I always wanted something to do with english and writing too and have managed to work my way in so far, also wanted to be an archaeologist for years after seeing jurassic park, would still be fun!!!

giddybootz

A zookeeper, an FBI agent, then back to a zookeeper.

Then all through school everyone kept going on about how good I was at English and kinda convinced me that I should do Journalism. Have an hons degree in it but so what??? Has yet to get me anywhere. Think I have fallen out of love with it.

Wish I had followed the childhood dream of working with animals.
Now I would love to do the animal thing or do costume design/make-up but I feel I am stuck (maybe I should go to the Feeling Blue thread)

Faith

A doctor. I nearly went into grad med too, but changed my mind at the last minute now so now I want to be a Clinical Psychologist. Much fewer hours!

I'd still love to work in a zoo and look after the animals though.

shellyboo

I can't for the life of me remember what I wanted to be when I was little... my earliest memory of having a career ambition is when I was in secondary school and I wanted to be an English teacher.

Went to uni to study English, and gave it up after a year! I hated it. Studied German and Linguistics instead... and ended up a journalist!

Weirdly, I was going to put journalism as an option on my CAO, but decided against it. Really glad I didn't now, since I don't think I'd be in the same place career-wise if I had done an actual degree in it, as opposed to just getting the experience while I was studying.

Linguo

Faith wrote: »

I'd still love to work in a zoo and look after the animals though.

Me too, be and OH plan to open an animal sanctuary one day though!Nice to have the dream!

shivvyban

I want/still want to be an actress/director/writer/something to do with history...

Anything to do with English, history or the stage. I did 2 years of journalism and while people say I should have finished it, it was a waste of time for me. I didn't enjoy and realised I couldn't face another two years of the people in the course or the course itself!

Someday though... I will snap the cord of the phone thats holding me at reception and do something I want to... *sigh* (maybe I should move to the feeling blue thread....)

pikachucheeks

Wow, seems like there's a lot of creative people in this thread

I also wanted to be a fashion designer when I was small! I used to make my own magazines, sketching designs on models and writing about trends!

I think it's funny, how my childhood dreams are so in sync with my ambitions now!

At the moment, I'm about to go into third year of a media degree. I like it, but I can't wait to be out of it so I can specialise!
This isn't helped by my current job which is seeming a lot better than college!

smileysurfer

I want to be a famous rock star!! no really, music is my life so heres hoping

Will

When I was younger I wanted to be a lawyer, but found out that it probably wasn't the best option for me as I'm quite the pushover and don't have a flare for English and debating.

I then went on to think about psychology, but figured I wouldn't get the points cos I was/am lazy in school.

By the time 6th year rolled around I had computer science, nursing and business through Irish as my selections. Within that time I discovered body piercing and from about 17 - 23 I wanted to do that up until a few weeks ago. College was always a fall back but made a bad decision as I hate computers and well there's feck all jobs.

Now I don't know what I wanna do, I've been working part time as a care assistant all this time, and some other jobs like DJ'ing etc. Really am lost.

I'm thinking of going down the weird avenue of lapidary (carving nice stones etc) or wood turning, not sure yet. What I am sure of is that I wanna do something artistic, studying computer science really messed me up. So rigid, no space for creativity apart from web design and graphic design, which I've done and do in my spare time for the laugh and to keep me sane.

So yeah, still a mess but have a slight glimmer of an idea somewhere in between thinking about file choosers and variables in java... :pac:

I always end up doing unique stuff, not by choice, just sort of fall into it all. So time will tell

RxQueen

always wanted to work in a travel agents, my friend and I used go into town , collect the brochures form the local travel agents and play shop..
Started working in that said travel agents at 16.. now six years on still doing the job i always wanted to do! Just dont remind me of this before ten o clock every morning!

starflake

I always wanted to be a care bear when i was younger so i could have a wee heart on my tummy

Das Kitty

I wanted to be a nurse. I had the lil costume too. I think it was actually a midwife that I wanted to be to be honest as I remember helping my friends give birth to cushions in the shed!

From the age of about 10 -17 I wanted to be a vet, I even worked in a Vet's. Then I had to make the decision if I really really wanted to work that hard to first get the grades, then do 4 years of tough tough courses and my lazy self decided against it and put down IT.

I really should have put down Science, I have such a love of it I could have done really well and actually enjoyed my studies. Oh well!

pikachucheeks

starflake wrote: »

I always wanted to be a care bear when i was younger so i could have a wee heart on my tummy

That's sooo cute Reading that made me really happy! Aww!

Piste

Shepherdess (I had my parents proise they'd mind my sheep when I went on holidays)
Chef
Shopkeeper
Doctor
Teacher
Lawyer
The Taoiseach
Actress
Singer
Ambassador to somewhere cool
Translator/Interpreter
Medical Researcher
Doctor
Medical Researcher
Doctor
Medical Researcher
Doctor
Medical Researcher



(as you can see, I'm betwen two minds at the moment....guess I'll know in 2 weeks when results come out!)

I always wanted to be a solictor. (Matlock's fault)
Until I became a teenager and realised that I'd make a terrible one.
I'm far too honest and disorganised.
I couldn't resist the urge to sell out/bate my scumbag clients.

I still have no idea what I would like to be.

Handsome Bob

pikachucheeks wrote: »

When you were small, what did you want to be when (and if!) you grew up?

I remember a friend of my sister's insisting she wanted to be a witch

I always knew what I wanted to do ; from the age of eight onwards, I knew I wanted to work in the media. Developed from wanting to be a journalist / author to wanting to work in Advertising / PR.
So far, so good

Batman.

IvyTheTerrible

giddybootz wrote: »

A zookeeper, an FBI agent, then back to a zookeeper.

Then all through school everyone kept going on about how good I was at English and kinda convinced me that I should do Journalism. Have an hons degree in it but so what??? Has yet to get me anywhere. Think I have fallen out of love with it.

Wish I had followed the childhood dream of working with animals.
Now I would love to do the animal thing or do costume design/make-up but I feel I am stuck (maybe I should go to the Feeling Blue thread)

You know you could still follow your dream (sorry to sound so clichéd!). It's much easier to go back and study and there is good support for mature students.

IvyTheTerrible

I wanted to be a writer first (I used to write little stories all the time) but I ended up doing Science (which I love, but which has killed my ability to write, damn you third person passive!).

I would love to run a bookshop.

giddybootz

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

You know you could still follow your dream (sorry to sound so clichéd!). It's much easier to go back and study and there is good support for mature students.

I guess I just don't know where to go to get advice on returning to college. I wish there were career guidance councillors after you leave school!!

Funny...I did the writing thing and wish I had pursued Science!! Wanna swap??

IvyTheTerrible

giddybootz wrote: »

I guess I just don't know where to go to get advice on returning to college. I wish there were career guidance councillors after you leave school!!

Funny...I did the writing thing and wish I had pursued Science!! Wanna swap??

I think there is a mature student forum on here, that might help!

Oh yes please lets swap!

Seriously though, I do love science, but I do wish I could write a novel in my spare time!

starflake

Aw good I loved them when I was a kid! It was a throw up between being a care-bear and a ''my little pony'' LOL

pikachucheeks

starflake wrote: »

Aw good I loved them when I was a kid! It was a throw up between being a care-bear and a ''my little pony'' LOL

I did an animation project in college using My Little Pony
That pony was my life and soul for the last two months of college!

I'd like to work in animation too, actually! I love drawing cartoons ... anime type stuff, which is rather dorky but hey!

I'd also love to be a fashion buyer.

So many choices!

Ginny

A scientist, seemingly I was a very serious child.

Xiney

Ballerina
Poet
Doctor
Pediatrician (I know this is still a doctor, but at the age of 11 I specialized)
Geneticist
Biology Teacher


I still want to be a biology teacher. It just hasn't happened yet.

Nervous Wreck

Originally, I wanted to be Batman. When that fell through, I felt that being a Power Ranger was much more glamorous and so chose that as my career path. However, when they changed the format of the show, that dream soured too. For years as a kid, I wanted to be an actor. But I can't act. I've had a lot of pipe-dreams, ranging from musician to author but I don't think I'd ever realistically make any money in either trade, so......

Faith wrote: »

now I want to be a Clinical Psychologist.

Samezies.

*Lees*

I used to say I wanted to work in a sweet shop so I could eat all the sweets!!
I also wanted to be a vet for a few years but my dad convinced me that it wouldn't just be all cute and fuzzy animals, that sometimes I would have to stick my hand up a cows arse! :eek: So I went off that idea!!

Handsome Bob

To add to my previous post;

Batman
Spider-Man
Superman
Lawyer
Columnist

:pac:

Faith

*Lees* wrote: »

I used to say I wanted to work in a sweet shop so I could eat all the sweets!!
I also wanted to be a vet for a few years but my dad convinced me that it wouldn't just be all cute and fuzzy animals, that sometimes I would have to stick my hand up a cows arse! :eek: So I went off that idea!!

That's exactly what my Dad told me to put me off too!

Das Kitty

*Lees* wrote: »

I also wanted to be a vet for a few years but my dad convinced me that it wouldn't just be all cute and fuzzy animals, that sometimes I would have to stick my hand up a cows arse! :eek: So I went off that idea!!

Mostly farm work in this country.

When I worked at the vets I had to do lots of unsavoury jobs
- dehorning cattle
- taking cow stool and blood samples (both get you shat on)
- Treating horrible infections of large animals (the stink!)
- Assisting in spaying cats and dogs and rabbits (rabbits have bizarre insides)
- Putting puppies to sleep that were just dumped on the doorstep
- Comforting people whose pets have just died or need to be put down

None of this put me off, it was the thought of having no social life for 5 years!

minidazzler

I have only ever wanted to be in the Army, and if I can't do that, then I refuse to grow up, I am travelling if I can't get in and I will never stop travelling.

I'm don't want to be defined by a career, I just want to live life.

Oh The Humanity

I feel sad when I read this question because as a child I never thought about it, the future was a non concept to me....I had no plans or dreams....

Was anyone else like this?

Clare Bear

I always wanted to work with animals and I do and love it so happy days!

SeekUp

My Dad wanted me to be a track star; that was vetoed by my mother.

Then he wanted me to be an environmental lawyer.

For a while, I wanted to be a dancer -- until I realized how difficult and unstable it was. I've also wanted to be a writer/author, if I could ever lock it up and sit down to write something decent.

Now when I grow up, I think I just want to be happy.

Otis Driftwood

I wanted to be a Vet or a Doctor.

clicli

I wanted to be a JCB driver until I was about ten, the first present I asked for was a JCB. I drove my poor mother demented anytime we were out because if we passed one I would talk about it for hours!

I then wanted to be a gardener, a writer, a singer, I think at one stage I wanted to be in Greenpeace and save whales!

I'm now going back as a mature student to study archaeology, something I have been obsessed with for years, and will one day be Indiana Jones V2!:D

metaoblivia

Police Officer
Teacher
Actor

Now, I want to be a pirate.

spinandscribble

circus performer
fashion designer
dancer
artist
dancer
psychologist
dancer
artist
dancer
psychologist
dancer (decided long term not secure enough)
artist
psychologist
artist
psychologist
art therapist now i can help help through my favorite medium of self expression.

twentysomething

I was a weird child and at various stages of my young life seriously considered and looked into becoming all of the following:

Librarian
The President
PE Teacher
The Army
Barrister
Oprah
Journalist
TV Producer
Radio Producer
Radio Presenter (i have the face!)

Now i work in an office...hmm something went horribly wrong somewhere:o:(

Lia_lia

I never wanted to be anything. People used to think I was weird for that!

rannerap

even as a child i didnt know what i wanted to be:( still dont,as long as its artistic in some way id be happy,im studying media and radio production so now my ambition is all about being involved in the music business in various different forms

Oh The Humanity

^^I'm glad I wasn't the only one so!

rannerap

i think its a trait in my house tbh:P not one person but my sister had a set career in mind,and she went off to join the army,my mam still doesnt know what she really wants to do !

itsallaboutheL

Oh The Humanity wrote: »

I feel sad when I read this question because as a child I never thought about it, the future was a non concept to me....I had no plans or dreams....

Was anyone else like this?

It's better than comming to a realisation that no matter what you do, you can never be what you wanted to be......*



and no it's not a woman!!:P

PinkTulips

a vet.

it was my dream from age 8 until 16 when my LC chemistry teacher took me aside and very gently told me that he could see i was working my arse off and was still only getting D's and i needed to consider carefully whether i wanted to pin all my hopes on getting a C in the LC when that was highly unlikely to happen.

so i switched from chemistry to social and scientific in the second term of my leaving cert year and gave up on all my dreams.... i'm 25 now and still not over the diappointment but am about to start a degree in environmental science

a writer
then at 13 I discovered the joys of astrophys and decided that's what i wanted to do

blondie7

i went to an all girls convent school and got the idea i wanted to be a nun, then i wanted to be a teacher. still dont know what i want to be :-(

chocgirl

I wanted to be a hairdresser when I was really small, my mum talked me out of that pretty quickly. I also wanted to be a vet for ages but couldn't stand the muck on the farms and I'm afraid of cows so that was a non runner.
Oh wanted to be a ballerina for a while as well and then a gymnast. The only constant was that I didn't want a desk job! I went with physio in the end.

Novella

I wanted to be a dancer in Riverdance!!!!

Now I pretty much have no idea in the world. Can still see myself with Michael Flatley though!

Khannie

I wanted to be a computer geek of the highest order and I am one.

I also considered dentistry because it seemed like a handy job that earned loads of cash. I also considered vet and / or doctor.

When I hit 45 and have a mid-life-crisis I intend studying for a physics degree and plying the ESA for a job. They don't have too many openings in Ireland unfortunately.