What did you want to be when you grew up

daveg · 06-02-2003 12:51PM #1

As the title says what did you dream you would work as when you grew up.

I myself always wanted to be a fighter pilot. My parents took me to an airshow in the UK when I was 4 and since then I was hooked. Even went so far as to attend RAF interviews in Belfast a few years back but it wasn't meant to be......

The Reaper · 06-02-2003 12:53PM

i wanted to be a formula1 driver! i havent a clue why???

Big Chief · 06-02-2003 12:57PM

a pilot (just a normal one not fighter).

Even took subjects in school that were mandatory to become one (physics, maths etc)

then i dont know what happened, i realised about 16 when i was standing at a fair height that i indeed had vertigo :rolleyes:

(dunno how that happened, but i was never afraid of heights when i was a kid, and i done some crazy stuff at big heights back then)

depends when your talking about though as a "kid", up there ^^ is high school wise.

Where as in primary school i just wanted to play for Celtic

catspring · 06-02-2003 01:14PM

when i was about 6 i wanted to be either a nun or a supermodel. i'm neither, which is good......

SoundWave · 06-02-2003 01:21PM

i wanted to help sick animals... chew grass for gummy horses or somthing rewarding like that.

Carbiens · 06-02-2003 02:32PM

an apache pilot since i was about 8, and i still do!:p

:eek:

Originally posted by catspring
when i was about 6 i wanted to be either a nun or a supermodel. i'm neither, which is good......

omg-will you marry me?

Wook · 06-02-2003 02:34PM

owner of several game arcade's

the Guru · 06-02-2003 02:36PM

I wanted to be a doctor when I was Really Young the I got a bit older and I said to my self I want to be a fireman they attract the ladies .......... now I just dont want to grow up. The old Grey hairs are showing

Manach · 06-02-2003 02:40PM

Follow a family tradition and be a soldier.
Alas, turned out not to be, despite a stint in the FCA. Still, probally for the best as I might might had a problem with actually having to point a rifle at someone.

woosaysdan · 06-02-2003 02:42PM

Originally posted by daveg
As the title says what did you dream you would work as when you grew up.

I myself always wanted to be a fighter pilot. My parents took me to an airshow in the UK when I was 4 and since then I was hooked. Even went so far as to attend RAF interviews in Belfast a few years back but it wasn't meant to be......

so did i but it wasnt any airshow it was topgun!!!

Victor · 06-02-2003 03:07PM

A draughtsman or an engineer (and I became a quantity surveyor).

Dazzer · 06-02-2003 03:10PM

Ever since my uncle took me to see the Concorde take off from Dublin airport I wanted to be a pilot. This evetually grew into being a fighter pilot, and now while I'm still growing up at the age of 21 I want to go into space

KdjaCL · 06-02-2003 03:14PM

Make video games.

Which i do
I work in a cd plant we actually make cd roms with games on them

kdjac

daveg · 06-02-2003 03:16PM

I work in a cd plant we actually make cd roms with games on them

LMFAO

Bard · 06-02-2003 03:18PM

I wanted to be a crime fighting super hero.

... but failing that, I wanted to work in radio or television - presenting, producing, editing, whatever - I didn't care... When I was 7 or 8 years old I thought the BBC were the most professional company in the world and I aspired to work for them some day. RTÉ would have done, at a push, but the BBC - yeah! that was "it"!

That dream is still somewhat alive in me, although I'd rather radio to television for some reason.

...

A friend of mine and me once ran what we thought of as a pirate radio station at the time (we were kids

). Basically, we hooked up some souped up walkie talkies (they were all the rage back then in the estate I lived in in Limerick

) to our stereo equipment and "broadcasted" every day to all our friends. Nobody could switch on their cheap walkie talkies (and all the kids had them!) without hearing us, with our irreverant brand of humour and alternative music.

These days, I do a bit of DJ'ing here and there, but that's about as close as I've gotten to those early aspirations, working full time, as I am, in a company that sells Danish windows.

Along the way, I've gone into various industries, working in a few bars, running an Internet café, counting (LOTS of) money in a security company, building web sites in an e-commerce company, doing administration work for a college, and doing entertainment work (quiz nights, discos, etc.) for meself... to name but a few...

The job I have now is a real career job, with great prospects, money-wise, - but it's just a day job - it's just an earner, - it's not something that particularly excites me or pushes my buttons. Still- I'm happy with it, and I'm making the best of it. The other things I do on the side keep me creative - ... keep me sane

yellum · 06-02-2003 03:37PM

Parents wanted me to be a doctor but weren't pushy. I kinda thought being a doctor would be cool. I like to help people and would have had a good bedside matter. However applying myself and studying was a no go for me. Couldn't be arsed was my attitude. Still is to a lesser degree

and where has it gotten me ? More money that my doctor friends and less working hours. My own fault...

After working in a hospital fulltime during summers and weekends while in college I wouldn't want to be one. The whole system sucls. They treat you like **** as a student and intern and the system also turns you into a jumped up little bollox. I've seen many friends I know take on a "I'm superior to you" attitude once they put on the white coat

I'm 25 now and work in IT , I'd like to go into webdev a bit more and save money for things later in life. I think when I'm 35 I might go off to America and get a commercial pilots licence. I know a guy that did this at the same age. Works for Ryanair now. Be nice to be able to fly a jumbo.

While we want to be something when we're kids, we can still dream of careers as an adult and theres nothing stopping us from changing career and going for what we want. If you fall on your ass it doesn't matter. Of course you'd probably need to be free of any commitments before you do this.

po0k · 06-02-2003 03:43PM

Apache pilot aswell.

The oul lad brought home these two fold-out posters from the Firepower magazine, one of the AH-64A and one of the Trident class nuclear subs, both had the cut-aways with the lable boxes full of information.

I've known how counter measures, Hellfires, radar and nuclear subs work since I was about 6/7.

When i was ~4 I wanted to be a farmer with a fleet of big fnuck-off tractors with every concievable appendage, utility and trailer.

Ph33r my Massey....

Beruthiel · 06-02-2003 04:39PM

I wanted to live with the native american indians and become a brave
I was a very innocent child......

Sposs · 06-02-2003 04:56PM

A helicopter pilot like airwolf

leeroybrown · 06-02-2003 04:56PM

I actually have no abiding memories of wanting to become anything in particular.

Maybe that explains why I'm an unemployed college graduate

oeNeo · 06-02-2003 05:41PM

Traindriver, pilot, fireman.. the whole she-bang really!

Caesar_Bojangle · 06-02-2003 07:18PM

Wanted and still do to have total control over the world, totalitarian style. I'd be ten times worse than stalin and bush combined. I'm still young so its actually possible, i'd show no sign of remorse for my actions as to be brutally honest i couldn't give two fuks about anyone elses plights. I'm solemnly serious.

Zanza · 06-02-2003 09:47PM

Umm, well, I dont remember what I wanted to be when I grow older, you see, I was sometimes obsessed with being a doctor or a football player "The guard" [not the USA football of course

] and sometimes, someone who works in a bank or a pool player, a good one!!

Umm, yeah, even though I am an 18 years old girl, I have more attraction to boys stuff ^^; .. what can I say? I lived my life with my cousin who is younger than me by 1.5 years, and he was a guy of course

Lately I am attracted in playing pool [if that what you call it, you know, the one that looks like snooker ^^;]

Dont be at yourself · 06-02-2003 09:59PM

An adult!

I really wanted to be in a band, or a filum star. Although I wanted some really nerdcore jobs like comic book artist and games programmer too

Funky · 06-02-2003 11:19PM

games designer and still do

Mossy Monk · 07-02-2003 01:03AM

when i was really small i wanted to be the government. a sort of dictatorship if you will. i didn't know the government was more than 1 person

then i wanted to be god. the reason being that my mother told me if i didn't behave god would see me. puzzled i asked how and she said god sees everything. i liked that idea

then it was a fireman for no reason

now, i dont have a clue

Moriarty · 07-02-2003 01:37AM

Always wanted to be a fighter pilot, for as long as i remember. I think its still my number one ambition.. but one ill never fulfill. The optic nerve to my right eye was damaged when i was young so i dont have anything close to the vision requirements that are necessary

Taking that into account, im currently aiming to be a computer/electronic engineer.

[CALIBUR] · 07-02-2003 02:07AM

when I was 8 i whated to be a games programmer and 11 years later I still do

Karl Hungus · 07-02-2003 03:54AM

I wanted to be an actor/director type..

Still do, tbh.
Mainly director though.

Washout · 07-02-2003 09:52AM

strangely enough i wanted to be an architect...I used to love drawing and such and then in secondary school loved tech drawing....Alas i was pulled by the power of the emerging world of computer technology

Dr. Dre · 07-02-2003 11:30AM

Disturbingly topical, I wanted to be an astronaut

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