What did you want to be as a kid

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I went through a couple phases as a kid: paleontologist, pyrotechnics special effects artist, and fighter pilot.

When I was a kid I wanted to escape to the forrest and live there earning my dayly living as a lumberjack. Not because I like cutting trees but what else could you do in a forrest? The reason for this was that my father complained about taxes and it took him a long time to fill in the forms. I was terrified by the idea that someone forces you to do that s**t, leave me alone was my natural reaction.
Due to a lack of forrests here in Holland i later decided to sneak into a ship and go to south america and live with the indians in the rainforrest. i figured out that Tax and Customs Administration would not find me there and the indians would welcome me.

Later on i decided to become a fighter pilot and kill the russians. i was terrified of them (this was in the 80s). I remeber asking my father, are the russians really gonna throw a bomb? He replied, (probably correct): well, not right now but if they do it'l be here. this town makes an exelent target. On a boattrip from germany to sweden i could see both west- and eastgerman coasts. Fun and leisure versus barbed wire and watchtowers. A mig flew right over us, like saying, watch out. That was 1988.

I'm a psychologist now, a social psychologist. I gues I wanted to understand people, social situations. However, a good car mechanic isn't necisarilly a good driver alhough I do do blend in with the NT's. I think I've exhausted myself past decade. It's like walking with a Crutch because of a bruised ankle. You can keep up with the other folks, even outrun them but in the end you've put too much burden on the shoulder so to speak.

Right now I'm living partly on welfare becouse other people pay their taxes instead of hiding in the forrest and the russians, you know what happened in 1989.

I wanted to be a "red fire truck"

Nothing, I didn't have any dream job as a kid but I did want my life in a certain way

at 5, i wanted to be a ballet dancer. by 7, i wanted to be a missionary doctor. learned about both from books.

What did I want to be as a kid? Older.

What do I want to be as an adult? Younger.

I never gave it much thought.

Well first it was to be a train driver as I was obsessed with trains at the time, then it was to be a ghostbuster when I became obsessed with that.

Come middle school I decided I wanted to be an archeologist but was told I wasn't bright enough to do that.

Then I wanted to be a raceing driver, was told that was pointless because I'd never make it to F1... as if it was the only series out there. *facepalm*

I don't think my family ever supported what I wanted to be

When I was 15, I wanted to be a truck driver, so I could talk on the CB and get girls.

That was really my only pressing ambition when I was growing up.

I never had dreams.

Wanted to be a pilot but i were already too tall to fly Fighter jets before i was 18 so i gave that up and focused on computers.

Now, with 20 years of experience from working as a PC/Mac tech, a DB designer, a system tech, networking, several programming languages, teaching and security - i work as a multi area IT specialist, so it kinda worked out. I've played LOTS of flight simulators over the year though - and i've thought about getting a pilots license the last few years.

I wanted to be a writer (which I still want to be) or a teacher. Now I know I don't have the people skills to be a teacher.

From the age of five I wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.

Later on, as a teenager I gained an interest in psychology and wanted to be a psychologist/psychotherapist.

I never became either, for several reasons. I'm still interested in human brain and mind.

I always said when I was a little kid "I want to be a Mountain Man!"

Now I'm starting to find more ways to become exactly that

6-9 ballet dancer and classical pianist. 8-11 dental technician. 12-16 folk singer. 16-18 fashion designer (went to a design school).

Anybody ever see "Ben Casey?" It was a TV show about a neurosurgeon.

My main ambition was to get out of my mother's house--through any means possible.