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I wanted to be a snooty college professor. In Mathematics.
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Pro tennis player... and then an opera singer... not as good as one needs to be for either, and a skiing accident hurt my back at age 16 along with a genetic spinal problem, so.... I ended up a shrink and professor.
Frankly, being a gardener would have been best... would have been much happier working outside and being able to see my efforts right off, but again, probably physical issues would have blown that... Hooray for raised gaeren beds!!! |
I wanted to please my family so I thought setting myself on the fastrack to become a Science teacher:glasses: and with an interest in Phys Ed Admin would be good...and then everything went sideways. ..thank gawd.
So then I thought being a smoke jumper :grindevil:would be a totally awesome and a really studly thing to do....never happened...thank gawd. So then I figured a Forest Ranger would be cool, kinda hippyish, and a real granola thing to do (am I dating myself?) . I could sit in a fire lookout:ohm:, watch the smokejumpers and write really bad poetry:writer: ...never happened...yep, thank gawd ! Everything works out as its supposed to. I've been in my field for 26 years and couldnt imagine doing anything else ! :police: |
I always wanted to be a Veterinarian or Doctor. I became a nurse and realized that I loved being a nurse. Ironically, I am not in nursing and instead do IT. I still would like to be a Vet.
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It helped to relieve the stress levels. I thought I would like to be recognized by lots of people. I love horses though I have never owned one. I wanted to have a huge horse ranch. I would like to be a writer if I can just dictate my words. |
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i wanted to be a stripper *honestly* or a truck driver! |
Where to start, where to start, as a young child, I wanted to be a singer playing drums in a rock and roll band. Then I decided I wanted to be a gym teacher because it was the only class I really liked to show up for. Then at 17 I decided I was grown up enough and left my mom's house for marriage, my way out.....mistake. So, in reality, I never really knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. Not knowing or not having direction is not a good thing when entering adulthood. I suppose if I had more adult support as a kid, it may have been different.
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when I was in 7th grade I read the book The Happy Hooker and decided I wanted to be a prostitute. My mother, however, explained to me, the very cloistered farm girl, that that wasnt exactly a noble profession for a catholic girl...
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Yikes, it just dawned on me what a weird image of my being an operatic Diva is!! OMG!! The costumes, pushed-up cleavage, make-up.... Isshhhh..Would have been much better to aspire to this in another century when female opera singers did trouser roles ...
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I wanted to be God or the leader of an alien space force when I grew up |
From the time I was able to be aware until I was around 10 I wanted to be a large animal vet alah James Harriott.
From my tender nerdy 4th grade self until I was in my freshman year of college I wanted to be a genetic engineer. Where I grew up there were fields with metal signs on them that had a last name and a number, they were fields named by the engineer of the crop. I wanted to name a species of corn or soybean or hay. I was especially desirous of creating a type of hay with enhanced nutritional value but reduced propensity to cause founder in horses. For awhile (8-23) I thought I would end up training horses and or coaching riders as that was always my side job to make money. I did it long enough for somebody else to realize that there was no money in it, so now I am in education bwahahahahahahahaha |
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According to my mother I used to tell people I was going to be a flowerchild when I grew up.
As I got older I wanted to be a vet. |
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I remember very young deciding that when I grew up, I was going to buy a farm and have all the stray cats and dogs come live with me.
Next, I wanted to be a stewardess. I had a Barbie with a stewardess outfit and accessories and it really was all about the little bag she carried and the hat she wore that sealed the deal. Then.... I was going to be a hand model. (I would practice all my hand "poses" for hours in the mirror) But then, when I saw the movie Grease, I was going to be Sandy. (Really just the Sandy at the carnival...those hot pants, heels and hair....wow) Only after I came to terms with the fact I can't sing and don't look like Olivia Newton John, I started thinking more along the lines of psychologist, lawyer, editor, FBI profiler... |
I'm quoted in the sixth grade as saying "A singer or a secretary." Heh. Oddly enough, today, I do both.
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As a kid, I wanted to be an attorney or in the military (Coast Guard preferably). At one point in my life, I ended up working for a law firm that facilitated Coast Guard regulations and decided I was glad I didn't actually become a lawyer. (Let's not discuss ethics, m'kay?)
There are times I wish I went into the USCG though - I'd be retired by now :) |
I wanted to be a classical pianist:grandpiano:, but after already having years of piano in my life I wasn't having much fun. So I decided I should be a painter:artist:because oils always made me a happy girl. As a Professional Makeup Artist I stuck with the plan, just chose a different canvas.
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I wanted to be a pilot and an astronaut and held on to those until my sophmore year of college when I decided that aerospace engineering really wasn't for me.
I got duped into taking a journalism weed-out course because I was sure I could then take a photography class next (hah!). The rest is history. |
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