What did you want to be as a kid

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Lighthouse keeper.

Gosh, I'd never even heard of a married keeper, but then I'd also never heard about all the drop-in visitors when ships wrecked anyway. I hadn't really done my research, since my parents were not going to let it happen, if possible.

Then, at 38, I had an interesting thing happen. My friend was helping me with some work, and took a break outside. There, he saw a boy about ten years old, who was taking a break from his mother visiting the family upstairs. Since the boy had energy, and friend had not, he asked the kid to run down to the corner store and get him a cold drink, and something for himself with the change. Off he went, but his mother soon appeared, and got the update. She paled, and said that the boy lived on a lighthouse, and had never gone to a store on his own before. Fortunately, lil' Crocodile Dundee aced it.

^^^what happened to the money the friend's money he gave the kid to go to the store with? i think i misread it

Not until college did I know any scientists or engineers. Socially or significantly


But I sure as f**k did not want to be what I ended up as



Cashier

Food server

Data entry clerk

I wanted to be an architect. I loved the orderliness of it, the ways of arranging space. Since it was the 60's and I was a girl, this was pretty unusual. To my parent's credit, they were both completely supportive and never told me that it was a weird or unlikely ambition.

I became a horticulturist and a landscape designer.

i wish i could have been normal and with a career.

A. A dog
B. A baker
C. Math Teacher
D A pastor
E. Counselor.

A normal kid.

I wanted to be a chef, but its not to be. the noise in cooking school and the restaurant environment was way too much for me. I always wanted to be an electric typewriter for halloween - that was not to be either.

Fashion designer
Teacher
Librarian
Homemaker
Writer and editor

Veterinarian.

I wanted to be an actress - my mom was always buying women's magazines with all those articles about famous celebrities in - I wanted to get fame, too. I wanted to be well known all over the world.

That reminds me - my mother was always more interested in her reading than in myself as a boy, and the first time I appeared in a magazine, I felt like I'd finally done what she preferred.

Dead.

Needless to say, I have yet to achieve it.