When you were young, what did you want to be when u grow up?

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I wanted to be a paleontologist, ever since first grade. Total focus; I could think of doing nothing else. I imagined myself in the Gobi Desert, trekking around and finding things. I had a comprehensive vision, clear as day. Then over time, I was discouraged by family members and others, who said that, "by the time you get around to it, all the dinosaur bones will be dug up..."

I gave up on that and focused on nothing for about 15 years. Seriously had no idea what I wanted to do. Didn't care, etc. As an adult, I thought that I could combine varied interests and become a teacher. That didn't work out too well.

After all this time, I realize what was there all along that I felt but never understood. My absolute and all-encompassing love of Nature, and the botanical world specifically. Now that I've gone to college for something I didn't want to do and set myself on numerous wrong paths, I am playing catch-up to be where I fundamentally need to be. I am the best possible human when I am around plants.

This is an interesting. Well, I suppose when I was young I'd chosen to possibly become a toymaker or even someone whom paints well, yet such was never the case but, that still happened to be something there was dreams of though.Please forgive me for the shortness of my answer as, I'm not that great at writing at very lengthy posts as well, I'd not wish to get in the way of others whom could reply in a more effective manner..

When I was 13, or was it 14, my uncle bought bought me and my brothers a CoCo Christmas. He was an EE and had hacked into it 32K RAM, bigger than the factory configurations available at the time, himself. My brothers spent the Christmas break playing the games. I spent it programming. I was hooked. It was never really spoken about, it wasn't for money, and I lived [literally] 8 miles from the middle of nowhere so I was doing this in isolation (across the country from my uncle, so I didn't have the electrical background you had), but it was always obvious to me from that point on what I was going to do. A hobby that paid the bills. Sweet.

Hehe, I know on the whole he just tolerates living with us. Eariler this year he filled out a questionnaire, of sorts, at school. His favourite family member? Muskeg, the cat. Not the friendly cat either, the one that keeps mostly to herself and definitely steers clear of all the kids.

Actually about a week ago we did have a discussion about his adulthood. He had this idea that once you finished growing up that your age started going backwards to 0. I told him that age always goes forward because time does. That some very smart people have tried to figure out how to make it go backwards but they hadn't succeeded. That for him to become age 0 again he'd have to make it the year 2002 again, and he'd become very famous if he figured out how to do that. He decided that was exactly what he was going to do, make it the year 2002 again. Probably not for the fame though, probably because he just likes the idea?

So I guess that translates to something in he physics field? Or religion. Or maybe typesetter in a printing shop.

I never was in the illusion stage. All the gifts I wanted, outside of SOME toys prior to about 8yo, were things that had a practical use.

What I wanted to be... changed a lot.
Some of the ones I remember:
Police-(wo)man [er, I used to think of them all as policemen, even when they weren't male...]
Vet (oh that shattered pretty quickly.... once I realized how squeemish I am.)
Fire(wo)man (again, I didn't get the whole gender thing too well back then.)
A ghost
Dead (yeah... depression since age 7, ain't that a blast? )
A vampire
A Shrink (Ended when I realized that I am not a people-person, period.)
A murderer (ended when I realized that people don't like that, and that police are very good at what they do. Also, now that I sort of have these annoying things like morals and a consience...)
A traveler (never anything more specific... I have no idea where I was going with that.)
Ect.



Funny thing was, I could never answer that question at school...

When I was eight I wanted to be a priest. Now I want to be in the film industry. Same thing, really.

I think what you want to be relates to your dominant Myers Briggs function (N in my case). What I wanted to be when I grew up changed as I started working on the different functions: N -> priest; T -> scientist (in teens); F -> clinical psychologist (in twenties); S -> useful (or even just employed - in late twenties/early thirties); back to N -> film industry (mid-thirties on).

I wanted to be an ice cream man, when I was little, than I wanted to get married and be a wife, at the age of 7.

I wanted to be a footballer.

when i was in junior high the other kids said taht i should be a nun because no one would ever wanna f**k me


aint kids nice

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Pinnochio!!


then I wanted to be a librarian...

I wanted to be a mathematician; then a genetic engineer. Then I found music, and I've been enamored ever since.


M.

And that is the reason i stand apart, from the autistic spectum, oh how i wish it was the answer. Now the primary reason for me, i wish it wasn't, but it most likely is. You people should be grateful for what you have, no matter how strange or different you are, in the end, i would choose any of you over the damn neurotypicals. they can burn in hell for all i care.

I was 10 years old when WW2 ended. I wanted to be a bomb aimer on a B-17 or a B-29.

When I was older I wanted to be a mercenary soldier.

I ended up doing applied mathematics and software, because I was not physically fit for military duty (asthma). Damn!

ruveyn

I've never known what I wanted to be. Still don't.

I wanted to be a lawyer, to fight for the rights of those that had been violated. Then I wanted to be an artist(commercial art designer). Right now, I really don't know what i want to be when I grow up, and I am 34.