What do you want to be when you grow up?

forestfruits

Ive been invited to a fancy dress party and told to come as what I wanted to be when I was 5...

I wanted to be an astronaut....

How about you......:D

babs78

Great idea as a theme for a fancy-dress party!

At 5 I think I wanted to be a nurse. Then went through various stages when I wanted to be a train-driver, astronaut, hairdresser, pop singer, journalist and lawyer.

Needless to say, at the age of 32, I have never been any of those things and its v unlikely I ever will be.

LenaClaire

When I was 5 I wanted to be a Doctor, a Princess and a Ballerina. I guess I was planning on multi-tasking

I just realized I am very stubborn once I decide something. I was studying Pre-med until i was 20 and Dance until I was 22.

Scarinae

I found a workbook that I filled in when I was 8. Apparently I wanted to be a magician

At various other stages in my childhood I wanted to be an artist, a vet, a writer, an explorer, an air hostess, a pilot, an archaeologist, a palaeontologist, an interior designer... I changed my mind a lot!

krudler

A dinosaur!

A vet, an air hostess, but mostly a mechanic!

Chinafoot

Scarily enough, there is only one thing I ever thought "oooh yeah I's love to do that" and that was Egyptology when I was about 12 and while I would have an interest in the subject, any career aspirations were brief. Up until that point I never wanted to "be" anything.

Goodness, thats really sad.... I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

WindSock

krudler wrote: »

A dinosaur!

I dig you.

I wanted to be a Palaeontologist :pac:

Pre-Jurassic Park too. I wanted it BEFORE it was cool [/hip]

aine-maire

I wanted to be a ballerina or a detective
(Not like a garda, a detective with a trench coat and a magnifying glass )

Dudess

An architect - it really did not make sense seeing as I was sh1t at maths, physics and drawing. :pac:

Twee.

Dudess wrote: »

An architect - it really did not make sense seeing as I was sh1t at maths, physics and drawing. :pac:

Dammit!! So close other wise!

I wanted to be a ballerina, and only quit ballet last year after 14 years. I realised when I was about 8 that I wasn't going to be the star of the Russian State Ballet...

I also wanted to be a baker or an air hostess.

poppyvalley

Well, now that I actually have grown up & fully ripened, it's not a ?of what I want to do when I grow up, but what I wish I would have done when I was 21
All I can say is love music, dont do drugs, always love & respect your parents.

Dudess

Twee. wrote: »

Dammit!! So close other wise!

I know. But it wouldn't have been fair on all the other less talented mere mortals had I opted for it, so I can take comfort in that. :pac:

Scarinae

WindSock wrote: »

I dig you.

I wanted to be a Palaeontologist :pac:

Pre-Jurassic Park too. I wanted it BEFORE it was cool [/hip]

squeakyduck

Rock star, fire woman, post woman was one of my favourties...the thought of opening post and presents all day appealed to me!

Nowadays I consider I'll be a millionare....one day.......

LegacyUser

I wanted to be a chef for years and years as a child, cos I loved helping with cooking. Toyed with thoughts of interior designer, English teacher, and being a marketing executive for Coca Cola during my teens. Now I'm training to be a biomedical scientist, and I may then branch further into biotechnology.
My personality/aptitude tests in career guidance were always a nightmare for my teacher, because [Aside from caring jobs like childcare/social studies/nursing--always got low in them],
- I would have near equal results/interests in each category of job types, like for science careers, and business careers, and creative careers etc..
No wonder I was always so confused!:pac:

At that stage I just wanted to be five forever.
I was a clever kid.

Xiney

When I was 5 I wanted to be wonder woman. My mother told me I needed a day job (I thought she meant super heroes work mostly at night 'cause that's when crime happens) so I said I'd be a ballerina during the day.


When I was 7 I came up with the much more realistic "poet" :rolleyes:

Asphyxia

I was mad about being a vet and still am a little! Other things I wanted to be was in a band and a nurse

lisaface

At 5, I wanted to be a tooth fairy (Yes, you may all laugh now!!) it soon changed when i became 6 and wanted to be a journalist, after that it went from Politician to Teacher.

I've accomplished two careers from above , so I'm not doing too bad!

Brilliant idea for a fancy dress

I wanted to be a writer. I had won a little ribbon award thing in that "writeabook" competition and maybe that got me hooked. Stuck with it until I was about 13 and discovered astrophysics
I do enjoy writing but I haven't done much of it for pleasure in a long time.



I think I missed out on this whole ballerina phase :eek:

Gauge

Vet and children's author/book illustrator. Fixing sick animals by day, coming home at night to my house full of rescued cats, dogs and rodents and drawing/writing/playing with animals all evening!

Sometimes I still daydream about that life...

Novella

I just always wanted to be a mammy when I was a kid.

Fiii

At 5, I genuinely thought I was going to be Spiderman when I grew up :cool:

Incognita

At 5, I wanted to be a teacher, because someone lied to me and told me they made lots of money.

Money was a big thing for me at 5, I wanted to buy lots of Wham bars and a sega megadrive. :P

confusticated

Gauge wrote: »

Vet and children's author/book illustrator. Fixing sick animals by day, coming home at night to my house full of rescued cats, dogs and rodents and drawing/writing/playing with animals all evening!

Sometimes I still daydream about that life...

:DThat's my little sister's life plan!

I can't remember what I wanted to be or if I ever had any idea...I was an unambitious five-year-old. Oh, no, I briefly wanted to be a farmer cos one of my friends lived on a farm and we used to play farm using siblings as livestock.

rainbow kirby

When I was younger, I wanted to either be a doctor or an Olympic athlete. I've ended up working in IT. :pac:

Lia_lia

Why do so many little girls want to be air hostesses? I spent my childhood constantly flying between France/England/Ireland and always thought "what a horrible job that would be"!

I never wanted to be anything. Never remember wanting to be anything. Kinda sad.

Scarinae

I didn't go on an aeroplane until I was 10, and I then thought it was the best thing ever! I was under the impression that a) Men were pilots, and women were air hostesses... When I discovered otherwise, I decided that being a pilot sounded better... and b) I thought that if you worked for an airline you'd get to travel all over the world for free, and I wanted to travel everywhere. I now realise that people who work for airlines usually do the same routes over and over, and spend most of their time in hotels rather than seeing the sights of the countries in question

ShagNastii

Like manys a young lad, I dreamt of being a pro wrestler. I have also throughout my halloween costume history been known to "hulk" up i.e dress as hulk hogan.

Gone West

I wanted to be a fireman for years when I was a kid

(Until I found out that they actually put OUT fires)

SheRa

An ice-cream man. I thought it was a really exciting job.

EverEvolving

When I was little I was so fascinated with books I wanted to be Gretel from Hansel and Gretel, and was full sure I would be able to break free from the evil witch. I wanted to live on a farm in Switzerland like Heidi, and I even wanted to be a babysitter from the Babysitters Club! I think I got too into the books I read!!

I’m grown up now and still don’t know what I want to be.

Cat Melodeon

When I was 5, I wanted to be a horse. By 6, I realised that wasn't going to happen without major surgery, so I switched to wanting to be a jockey. By 7 I was already too big to be a jockey, so I decided on vet, specialising in horses. By 8 I had read all there was to know about equine physiology (from the Childcraft & World Book encyclopedia) and thought that just fixing horses all day might get a bit boring, so I wanted to become a soldier/pilot/spy/first female footballer to score in the World cup/Olympic athlete/truck driver/animal trainer.

In my thirties now, still haven't really figured out what I want to be. Definitely not a ballerina, anyways.

XxMCRxBabyxX

I wanted to be a doctor for years and used to say I was going to cure cancer! That started to fade out in my mid teens especially after too many hospital visits and health issues for me and I discovered law around the same time through a course my dad was doing. Studying Law now and absolutely loving it! I always aimed high!

Ginny

Sadly enough as a child I wanted to be a pathologist, them I found out you had to be a doctor to do that, so I decided I wanted to do forensics.
Bear in mind this was way before CSI, the closest thing on TV to Gill Grissom was Jeremy Bratt as Sherlock Holmes.
I got a microscope for Christmas at 6 and a Chemistry set at 7....:D
I also toyed with the idea of a fashion designer but I blame Fashion Wheel for giving me ideas above my talents....:D

Goldenegg

When I was 5 my dream job changed every hour of the day! It went from wishing I was a shop keeper because I could eat penny sweets all day,to being a farmer,(have no farming back round whatsoever,I'm from Dublin and always hated the smell lol),to being a guard,a solicitor,a nun,(WTF) a teacher, a vet and an air hostess!

A long list....I achieved one of them!:)

Piste

I've wanted to be a ridiculous number of things over the years. When I was three I was so sure I wanted to be a shepherd. I even had my parents agree to look after the sheep for two weeks a year while I took my holidays. Then I wanted to open a restaurant with my best friend in primary school which served only vegetarian food (even though I wasn't even a vegetarian). I got really into diseases and medicine at one point around 2nd/3rd class when I would have been about 8/9 and read a load of books about infections and diseases so I decided I wanted to be a doctor. Then I toyed with the idea of being a lawyer, journalist and teacher. In secondary school I had to start properly thinking about careers in Transition Year, when I decided I'd like to join the circus (more specifically, Cirque du Soleil), but realising I have no tlents that would be of any use in a circus, I decided on the more realistic career path of being a translator, diplomat and finally work my way up to Ambassador. Once I took up chemistry for the Leaving Cert when I was 16 I realised I really liked it so decided I wanted to study Physics and Chemistry of Applied Materials and go invent weird chemically things. Then I started thinking about biochemistry, then medicinal chemistry, then decided the best combination of biology and chemistry would be medicine, where I could research my little heart out and fall back on my job as a doctor if the research didn't work out. So then I went and started medicine and realised I love the clinical stuff so now I want to be a doctor all over again (about 10 years later) and luckily I will be (fingers crossed I pass everything!).

No doubt my mind will change again at some point!

Clare Bear

I wanted to be Kylie Minogue! I still do

Also wanted to work with animals and I do now so I obviously never grew out of that. Still waiting for the Kylie thing to happen though...:(

candy-gal1

FAMOUS!

Princess Peach

It is cheesy to say that all I really want to be is happy?

Cause thats what I want to be!

Pythia

Artist or ballerina at an early age. Then vet when I was a little older. Not really sure after that but I wanted to be an actuary in secondary school and that's what I'm gonna be doing from Monday week, hurray!

Pythia

Pythia wrote: »

Artist or ballerina at an early age. Then vet when I was a little older. Not really sure after that but I wanted to be an actuary in secondary school and that's what I'm gonna be doing from Monday week, hurray!

Welcome to our world :eek:
Prepare to stare at exams forever and ever

Pythia

bluewolf wrote: »

Welcome to our world :eek:
Prepare to stare at exams forever and ever

I'm hoping my 30s will be exam free! I've had three years of examless fun so it'll be nice at least initially to start learning again! Hoping to do CT1 and CT2 in April, gonna be working in GI.

Pythia

Pythia wrote: »

I'm hoping my 30s will be exam free! I've had three years of examless fun so it'll be nice at least initially to start learning again! Hoping to do CT1 and CT2 in April, gonna be working in GI.

Coool.. Got any exemptions?
Word of advice that it took me about a year and half to learn: they're nothing like uni. You do need to know everything inside out and you can't just skim by There's no pass mark either so you have to aim for 100% every time, pretty much
Also the assignments are invaluable for exam-style feedback (rather than right/wrong answers). The block tutorials are also very very helpful

Giselle

I wasn't really clear on the nuts and bolts of earning a living from it, but I was pretty sure whatever I'd wind up doing would involve invisibility and a magic wand.:)

madrabui

I saw Wall Street and I wanted to be Gordon Gekko. I remember going to New York gasped in awe when I realised I was in Wall Street. The 80s have a lot of answer for.

I presume the costume would be red braces and white collared blue stripped shirt.

almostnever

I wanted to be many things, one of the oddest was a drug dealer because I'd heard they made a lot of money. :pac: I've really considered every career path that there is, and exhausted every option by the time I was ten or so. I'm studying Law at the moment and would absolutely love to become a barrister. When I was a kid, being a lawyer was another one I really wanted, although I think specifically I wanted to be a judge.

Pythia

bluewolf wrote: »

Coool.. Got any exemptions?
Word of advice that it took me about a year and half to learn: they're nothing like uni. You do need to know everything inside out and you can't just skim by There's no pass mark either so you have to aim for 100% every time, pretty much
Also the assignments are invaluable for exam-style feedback (rather than right/wrong answers). The block tutorials are also very very helpful

Thanks for the advice. Hopefully got CT 7 and 8 but we'll have to see, apply for them and hope they give them! Starting in a week so I imagine they're gonna sit me down and go through everything then. I'm up for the challenge anyway! Where are you at in the exams?

The Big Red Button

bluewolf wrote: »

There's no pass mark either so you have to aim for 100% every time, pretty much

:eek: How does that work?!

Pythia

Pythia wrote: »

Thanks for the advice. Hopefully got CT 7 and 8 but we'll have to see, apply for them and hope they give them! Starting in a week so I imagine they're gonna sit me down and go through everything then. I'm up for the challenge anyway! Where are you at in the exams?

I have 1, 2, just did the course for 9 and sat 3 and 4 in september. Getting there slowly but surely now that I'm taking them seriously

chatterpillar wrote: »

:eek: How does that work?!

They wont reveal the pass mark, they just set it at each session depending on the quality of the scripts. I think there is a general average for each subject that you might be able to get out of the tutors but officially you cant