What did you want to be when you were growing up?

MilesMorales1

When you were growing up, what job did you want to be? Dream job sort of thing.

I wanted to be a steam train driver like in thomas the tank engine. Then my dad said that wasn't a realistic career and I could join the army and be a soldier like him. Then that didn't happen, and since I grew up I've no idea what I'd like to do for a long term career.

How about you?

Stigura

Farmer. Because, I've absolutely Always been obsessed with trapping things. Thus, even my little preschool mind had it worked out that I should be a farmer. Then, I'd own lots of land and would be able to trap on it F**kin Easy!

Quite funny, really. I'm now a retired, rural pest controller. Living in an old family farm house. Amidst nothing But farms. For as far as the eye can see, in any direction. And I have full permission to set traps on more land than I'm now fit enough to even walk to.

Oh, and my farmer friends slog their guts out, working dawn till dusk and beyond. I just mooch about, looking for tracks 'n sh!t.

F**king cracked it, didn't I?!

Miss Demeanour

A tree.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist when I was in primary school. At the same age a girl I went to school with also wanted to be one and last I heard she had been out in Greece for years working as one. Pretty impressive to be able to make a living out of a passion.

harry Bailey esq

I wanted to be in the A-Team

Your Face

jamesbere

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

A tree.

You can always branch out into something else

MilesMorales1

jamesbere wrote: »

You can always branch out into something else

Ugh.

Thelomen Toblackai

Astronaut until I discovered computers then a computer programmer. The thought of being able to spend all day on a computer just amazed me at the time.

So not sure if I'm living the dream or wasting my life.

Widdershins

A firewoman (as in the fire brigade, not some sort of comic superhero) or a spy. I still do!

scwazrh

I wanted to be a Garda but was lured onto building sites with the promise of more money .Still would love to join the gardai but too old and fat now plus god only knows how they live on their wages .Definitely the most underpaid public jobs - when county council office jobs pay more money than someone who is risking their own safety for others , you have to wonder why anyone would do it ..

Jesus Wept

a firetruck

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

A nurse. Funny that because if I see any blood I'm out like a light. I once saw a man with a bag of transfusion blood hanging on a drip in the oncology ward, next thing I know I'm staring up at two concerned nurses faces looking down on me. Definitely wasn't an option for me

Atlantic Dawn

JCB/excavator driver, and if I am honest I would still bloody love to be if there was a good weeks wages in it.

Persephone kindness

I'm a fairy. I wanted to try and be human..i'm tryin :P

freshpopcorn

Garda!

Persephone kindness

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Garda!

All my cousins wanted to be firemen :P

gormdubhgorm

A penguin (They got to swim a lot - until I realised they ate fish - I did not like fish)

A Tennis Player - (Boris Becker won Wimbledon)

A Boxer - (Barry Mcguigan won the world title)

A carpenter - (I thought if it was good enough for that Jesus fella it might be a good idea - but then I thought how come he did not know how to get rid of the nails? )

Bobby1981

I just wanted not to be poor, to be different. I just wanted peace at home and for no one to pick on me at school as life wasnt a bed of roses at home.

It was so foookin painful and life long lasting standing out!

Nowadays school uniforms are neutral colours so its not so obvious but in my school, we had this distinctive school uniform that had such bright colours when new. We were poor so I had to go to the school once term had started and get a used uniform that had faded many times in the wash....EVERYONE knew when I started that school that I had got my uniform from the 'office'....

On top of that, I turned up late because of chit at home on my first day at 'upper'school and I had no pencil case or school bag or anything. My face still burns at the shame I felt and I get upset over it. I suffered social anxiety for so many years.

I also never spoke much but wrote like a demon. I became very emotional and I am still that way now. I feel things deeply. I still write and read and listen to music like a demon and gravitate towards those who are helpless and on the fringes of society.

Persephone kindness

Buffy the Vampire slayer...don't laugh.

Dufflecoat Fanny

A dufflecoat fanny

21 posts and no "footballer" or "rock star" yet?

Bobby1981

Deleted User wrote: »

21 posts and no "footballer" or "rock star" yet?

Not a 'Rock Star' but I often fantasized about being a Country Star seeing as I was drowned in that music when young both Country and Irish.

I still love it now and play it often although I have no desire to be a Country Star anymore:P

Persephone kindness

Oh I wanted to be an Opera singer at one point:) I kinda tiny but i still have fierce pipes!

Persephone kindness

Bobby1981 wrote: »

Not a 'Rock Star' but I often fantasized about being a Country Star seeing as I was drowned in that music when young both Country and Irish.

I still love it now and play it often although I have no desire to be a Country Star anymore:P

Do you still sing ??

Persephone kindness

I wanted to be Maria Callas Or Elizabeth Schwarzkopf.

Persephone kindness

Or kate bush.

Outlaw Pete

A Stunt Man.....

After watching The Fall Guy I would go at back garden in the pitch dark and jump over stuff, doing shoulder rolls as I landed and then pulling out my gun (wasn't real - but it did have some caps). I swore some day I too would have a cool pick up truck and a hot blonde like Jody riding shotgun.







Think when it came to my stunt man career, I peaked in that back garden... still a smidgen of hope I'll drive a pick up truck someday though... but Heather Thomas, even at 59, is still out of my league... holy schmoley!

Bobby1981

Persephone kindness wrote: »

Do you still sing ??

I do but I can't sing for chit now :P

Persephone kindness

Bobby1981 wrote: »

I do but I can't sing for chit now :P

Everyone can. You just have to learn and practice But you don't have to sing to enjoy music of course

lawred2

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

When you were growing up, what job did you want to be? Dream job sort of thing.

I wanted to be a steam train driver like in thomas the tank engine. Then my dad said that wasn't a realistic career and I could join the army and be a soldier like him. Then that didn't happen, and since I grew up I've no idea what I'd like to do for a long term career.

How about you?

Pilot

freshpopcorn

Persephone kindness wrote: »

All my cousins wanted to be firemen :P

What did they end up doing?

I ended up being a bag of fresh popcorn!

Persephone kindness

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What did they end up doing?

I ended up being a bag of fresh popcorn!

Diff things. One is an accountant, one is a soldier, one is a retail manager, one studying to be a paramedic . One a legal secretary

That's one side the other side banking, IT, medical receptionist ( she wanted to be an Irish dancer had like 150 trophies!)

SmartinMartin

Buried up to me bollix in Bibi Baskin.

Surreptitious

A chef and a writer and I achieved both. I never had ideas beyond my station maybe

AnGaelach

Various things; a soldier, a politician, a spy, a businessman, a lawyer. Whatever I can get my hands on I suppose.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Surreptitious wrote: »

A chef and a writer and I achieved both. I never had ideas beyond my station maybe

Well done, there was another lady around these parts for a while who posted about being both a chef and a writer too. Must be a common career choice for people!

ger vallely

A hippy! Honestly, I thought after seeing the movie Hair that that was the life for me. Failing that I wanted to be a writer.

smurfjed

Living close to Dublin airport I was always fascinated by planes and dreamt of being a pilot......

Now I'm called Captain Smurfjed

Noveight

I remember we had a Spanish couple call to the door looking for a place to pitch their tent for a few nights back when I was 7 or 8. They stayed out in the field behind the house, lovely people!

For a few months after that I told my mother I wanted to be a tourist when I grew up :pac:

MadamRazz

An archer or a supervillian. Or even better, a librarian.

Tom Mann Centuria

Had no idea, still have no idea.

mackeire

A postman.

And now I'm a postman!

MilesMorales1

mackeire wrote: »

A postman.

And now I'm a postman!

Thats quite a stamp of achivement.

corner of hells

A soldier.

haveabanana

An army man

MRnotlob606

An Archaeologist!

So many things. When I was very small I wanted to marry a prince and become a princess. I remember talking with my little friends in the yard of my primary school about my princess dream Next up it was an archaeologist. I wasad about dinosaurs. During my teens it was a writer, a band manager, a vet, a social worker, a psychologist, moving very much in to helping others.

minktrapper

Quite funny, really. I'm now a retired, rural pest controller. Living in an old family farm house. Amidst nothing But farms. For as far as the eye can see, in any direction. And I have full permission to set traps on more land than I'm now fit enough to even walk to.

Oh, and my farmer friends slog their guts out, working dawn till dusk and beyond. I just mooch about, looking for tracks 'n sh!t.

F**king cracked it, didn't I?! [/QUOTE]

Where did you get a job as a rural pest controller.

Or maybe you were a guard in rural Ireland.

Bambi985

Had my head in the clouds for most of my childhood. Wanted to be a professional tennis player, then a writer, then a singer, then back to a writer again - at which point I decided to study Journalism and ended up working in broadcast instead.

At 31 I still don't know what I want to be. Thinking a lawyer is next on the list.

Bambi985

Bambi985 wrote: »

Had my head in the clouds for most of my childhood. Wanted to be a professional tennis player, then a writer, then a singer, then back to a writer again - at which point I decided to study Journalism and ended up working in broadcast instead.

At 31 I still don't know what I want to be. Thinking a lawyer is next on the list.

Oh I forgot to mention journalist and lawyer!