What job would you have now if it was the one you picked as a kid???

[LynneSin]

Remember when we were just lil tater tots. Those big folks would ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up.

So if you had the career that you told everyone when you were like 5 or 6 years old - what would you be doing today?

Me - I'd be an Astronaut!!

[Bertha Venation]

1. professional baseball player or sky diver

[Throckmorton]

102. Chef, in my own German resturant

This engineering stuff is the pits.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Playing 2nd Base for the Cardinals.

[calico1]

3. Veterinarian.

[ihaveaquestion]

9. Another Vet.

But I'd have a side job as a pop singer!

[Philostopher]

29. Make that three veterinarians.

I do volunteer with animals at a shelter, and have a house full -- I just wasn't on track, by the time I graduated high school, to get into that long an education.

I also wanted to be a writer, preferably a novelist. I do write, but I was never good enough at that to do anything with it. So I did at least make an attempt.

[RebelOne]

40. Make that four

[Elginoid]

42. even in second grade, I knew that I couldn't ever be a vet-

there was one girl in our class that said she wanted to be a vet, and i asked her- what about when you have to put them to sleep?
of course she answered that she would be such a good vet, that she would NEVER have to do that...and she was also going to have a big farm, and take in all the dogs and cats that nobody wanted from the city pound too...

[pagerbear]

44. Oh yes, vet!

I read James Herriott's books in the 7th grade, I think, and fell in love with them.

[NashVegas]

82. It's a Law

All little girls want to be veterinarians at some point

[sleepyhead]

91. I wanted to be a veterinarian too.

Then I became one. But what I really really wanted was to be a cabaret singer. Too bad I'm tone deaf.

[rogerashton]

4. Inguneer.

Or maybe botanist. Seriously.

Or cowboy ... and that was not all that crazy as I grew up on a cow farm.

[orthogonal]

5. Pimp

I was precocious.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Rock star

Just like Kiss.

[Commendatori]

7. NHL left winger, playing for the Islanders. (n/t)

[sniffa]

8. super hero

[eyesroll]

10. I would have been a singer, an actress, a lifeguard or a cook

Hm...I can't sing worth a damn (I mean, I can't even be redeemed with heavy production); I'm utterly inexperienced in acting; I'm a clumsy, but functional, swimmer (but I probably could pass the lifeguard test, with a refresher class).

Cook (well, chef) I probably could do, with training, but I wouldn't want to, at least not full time.

[Misunderestimator]

11. I did have the job I picked as a kid for about 15 years...

then switched careers in my 30s. Um... Opera singer. And to be an even more incredible geek, my second career is in IT.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

12. Garbage Collector

It always through people in my upwardly mobile middle class neighborhood for a loop.
I loved getting a reaction from all of the old yenta-like ladies who used to ask me this in the elevator... They would look over to my mom, who with a straight face used to say "Whatever she wants to do, I'm sure she'll be great at." We'd laugh SO hard when they got off the elevator at the lobby...

[Lavender Brown]

26. At my kindergarten "graduation" ceremony

we all had to get up in front of the auditorium and say what we wanted to be. I told my parents I was going to say I wanted to be a nurse, but when it was my turn, I decided I wanted to be a school bus driver. Everyone cracked up and parents were

I thought it would be a cool job, I don't know why it was such a big deal. I work in publishing now.

[VelmaD]

13. a US Senator and...

a gymnast and an astronaut and a cowgirl and a pro basketball player

[LWolf]

14. A writer.

I always wanted to write books.

[XNASA]

15. Record Producer

I suppose that being a Rock Star or something is more lucrative...but a Record Producer's work is more rewarding ultimately.

I mean, you can only be a Rock Star for so long before you burn out, or jump.

I've always been better at editing and arranging anyway. Record Producer would be perfect.

[phillybri]

16. 3rd Baseman for the Phillies...

I've fallen a bit short...

[Cybergata]

17. I wanted to be a teacher since I was 4 or 5....

and I have been one for the past 30 years.

[pagerbear]

18. Teacher, psychologist, minister

....some of the things I still think about for a career change. Interesting.

[LeighAnn]

19. I'd be in Congress

That was my dream at age 10. At age 5 I wanted to be either a cheerleader or a nun, and I hoped to marry a monkey (I wouldn't remember that except my old uncles can't help but bring it up at every holiday gathering).

:0P

[Elginoid]

20. Dictator-for-life.

I was an ambitious child.

[flamingyouth]

21. Editor of a large daily newspaper

I was already planning it when I was in second grade. Before that, I wanted to be a doctor, but I was foiled by multiplication.

[johnnie]

22. I remember saying I wanted to be a trash collector

I also wanted to be in music. I asked for a guitar, trumpet, bass (like Peter Tork) and drums while I was a child.

[truthspeaker]

23. stunt man

I wish I'd gone for it. I LOVE driving fast.

[Bonhomme Richard]

24. An Oceanographer/Marine Biologist...........

When I was a kid I was huge Cousteau fan. Grew up on the ocean, taught myself how to scuba dive, and had a big fascination with sharks.
What I didn't have was educational discipline and the confidence that I could do well with the sciences.
Basically I was a dreamer who was lazy, liked to party, and didn't have the right priorities.
Having said that, my oldest son got his degree in Ocean Engineering. Do you think I influenced him? LOL

[Fenris]

25. A Jesuit

I had the robe and everything.

[flamingyouth]

39. Did you play Mass as a kid?

I had a friend who did that and ended up as a priest. I grew up agnostic so I was always fascinated by watching him perform his "Mass" in the backyard.

[Fenris]

45. LOL.

No. My family is in no way religious. I think I just liked the image and the ritual. I could not have cared less about god, but I dug the robes.

[Rick Myers]

27. Astronaut

or Rocket Scientist

[XNASA]

30. When I worked down in Houston....

at the Johnson Space Center.....occasionally I'd run into people wearing t-shirts that read:

"Why yes. As a matter of fact, I AM a Rocket Scientist."

[CO Liberal]

28. Radio Disc Jockey

The closest I got was spinning records in bars and for weddings and private parties.

[TX-RAT]

31. I wanted to be a Policeman

I retired from the Sheriffs Dept.

[LynneSin]

32. Good to know Abbott will be in safe hands with his godfather

[TX-RAT]

34. Send him down here.

I'll spoil the hell out of him. He'll come back with an accent, and a funny swagger to his walk, and an incredible urge to tip cows.

[LynneSin]

35. You're just his godfather, should anything happen to me

You'll be the one responsible for Abbott's well-being!



Now I need to find a godfather for Evita!

[MrsMatt]

66. Don't you mean "godtom"?

I'm godbitch to a wonderful German Shepherd named Kaiser.

[Ready4Change]

33. Captain Nemo

Commanding an airborn version of the Nautilus, operating out of a secret base built into a little known island in the Bahamas.

[Richardo]

36. Astronaut for me, too!

[TrogL]

37. Mad Scientist

technically, I am

[bo44]

38. It took me 23 years after high school but I did it. I am a teacher.

Discouraged and fucked with mightily by my bigoted, oppressive father. Overcame his greedy facsist ass and fulfilled my goal as a child of becoming a teacher. Cheney you dad you were no help.

[mede8er]

41. Rock Star........

started playing at an early age because of the Beatles........these days my favorite quote is:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." ........

[Hell Hath No Fury]

43. Girl Detective....

I was a Nancy Drew devotee when I was growing up, and I thought her job was the coolest.

[curse10]

46. Bag lady

I was a stupid kid

[sbj405]

47. Am I the only kid that wanted to be a coroner/forensic scientist?

Maybe it was a little later than 5 or 6 y/o, but I even did a school report on it. Got to interview the county coroner (didn't get to see anything though).

[Darth_Kitten]

48. Actress.......

I still want to be one..... I love theatre and make believe. Plus I like being the centre of attention. (in my own shy, humble little way)

[mia]

49. an artist

[Guy Fawkes]

50. politician...

I guess I've always loved politics...

[sus]

51. oh god.

i was in a beauty pageant when i was five and when they asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up i said, "a cowgirl."

I am *so* not a cowgirl. if anything, i'm a "muck out the stalls girl."

[Reverend_Smitty]

52. Pitcher for the NY Mets

yep I was a tom-boy...wost thing about it was I *really* did throw like a girl. Cruel, cruel irony

[LynneSin]

95. I wanted to be a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds

I so Johnny Bench. I was even a catcher on my softball team and wore #5

[murphymom]

53. A ballerina

and it wouldn't have been pretty. Does anybody remember a Vicar of Dibley episode with Dawn French in a tutu? (Or maybe it was a three-three). You get the idea.

[disgruntled_goat]

54. chemist

I remember having a career day in elementary school, and choosing to be a chemist of some sort, largely because they got to stand around at work instead of busting ass digging ditches in the Texas summer. I mean, the thought of mixing chemicals was way cool, but as a boy in Houston TX in the mid 70s, all i wanted from my future job was that it be climate-controlled.
Faintly ironically, i now have neither job nor career nor prospects. but i do have air conditioning.

[BrotherBuzz]

55. Cowboy

I still may become one if I ever grow up.

[bif]

56. Submariner

n/t

[Nikia]

57. Architect

I liked building things with blocks, legos, and tinker toys. I liked buildings. I remember reading the book "This is the House that Biff Built" and telling my mom that I wanted to be an architect.

[wickerwoman]

94. Me too.

I used to sit around drawing floor plans of castles for hours.

I also used to line my toys up and try to teach them, and I ended up a teacher. So in one respect I really am what I wanted to be when I was 5.

[Forkboy]

58. NHL goalie or an astronaut

[Deb]

59. A Mother

but mostly because it was something my brothers couldn't do.

[jus_the_facts]

60. I'd be a Go-Go Dancer on Laugh-IN......

....LMAO...I swear it!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. Nurse, until I realized

that you had to get good grades in biology and chemistry to qualify. That was the end of that.

[rbnyc]

62. Philosopher.

I thought that I'd write books about ethics, morality and the meaning of life, and that they'd be taught in all the schools, bringing about Utopia. That was when I was about 5 or 6. Later I wanted to be a paleontologist, then a fiction writer, a film director, and a musician.

[traco]

63. Long Haul Truck Driver

[BigMcLargehuge]

64. same one I have now

Writer

[NoPasaran]

65. Engineer

The Railroad kind

[MrsMatt]

67. Teacher or actress

whilst in grade school,

writer in junior/senior high school,

marine biologist or teacher in college.

I'm none of the above.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

68. Ex-president or rodeo clown. n/t

[WoodrowFan]

69. Palentoligist

Paleanotoligist. um, plaeotoplogist, um, Dinosaur guy.

[Khephra]

90. Me too

back-up was Archaeologist.

[Book Lover]

70. Doctor

Instead, I became an artist. How'd that happen?!

[tigereye]

71. wanted to be a nun

Catholic girl. That did not happen and I am glad.

[Book Lover]

72. I flirted with the nun thing, too

Then I realized that I was singularly unsuited to a lifetime of obeying. Poverty, chastity, those things I could do, but obey? Go to hell, I say.

[tigereye]

74. lots of nuns and priests in my family

well in the previous generations

[Book Lover]

76. None in my family

Both my mother and father's sides have long held strong anti-clerical positions. I don't think they would have been happy had I chosen to enter an order.

[tigereye]

77. although midlife and parenthood for me

at times bring a desire for some quiet and contemplation. My husband sometimes talks about wanting to go on a "monk-type" retreat and a number of my male friends spent time in Zen monasteries when they were young.

[Book Lover]

81. I never knew a contemplative

My grade school was staffed with Charities and Augustinians, and my high school was run by the Sisters of St Joseph: for a while I seriously thought nuns had to go to South America and work with the poor, then come back to the states and give lecture tours. I guess I thought contemplatives went out with Vatican II...

[tigereye]

93. no I think there are still some out there

every now and then you hear about Carmelites, or new agers who have decided to go to a monastery or farm. Also there are all those neo-traditionalist CAth. movements.

[Red State Rebel]

73. A Lady

When I was little, I was a kinda forced to be a big tomboy. My two older sisters worked inside our house helping Mom clean, etc. and my two brothers and I were shushed outside to play in the woods all day. I grew up climbing trees and running wild with my brothers but I always wanted to be the dressed up prissy type. I loved dresses with full skirts where I could twirl around and around and dance.

I remember in first grade being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up and I wanted to be a Lady - I guess I was thinking the June Cleaver type.

[Burma Jones]

75. Disk Jockey

Well, I did it at my College Station, WVKC, the voice of Knox College

[Kat45]

78. An actress.

Then when I got a few years older, a teacher.

[Guy Fawkes]

79. (on second thought) a kitty

I would go around on my hands and knees meowing... I'm so ashamed... but I've been around cats my whole life, I wanted to be one.

[Steve Beatty]

80. Nothing Really

Never really wanted to work per se, myself.

I just wanted to play all the time. And none of the things I liked to play with could ever really be thought of as a profession.

Race car driver, maybe....but that's about it.

[trixie]

84. Spy or....

A spy, or to be exact - Harriet the Spy



OR

The wife of a rich dead guy.

[agates]

83. A farmer

[ikojo]

85. I'd be a lawyer

Defending the powerless against the powerful.

[Parrcrow]

86. Prime Minister of Canada and centre field for the Expos

both. together. at the same time.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

87. Zoologists

My career counselor told me that the pay was horrible and that I would have to pick up large snakes and worms.

That did me in.

[rustydog]

88. Smoke Jumper, no doubt about it!

[Beaverhausen]

89. A Princess

[MrScorpio]

92. Comic book artist

[Catfight]

96. gas station attendant, I loved those coin holders they used to have.

[Shananigans]

97. I always wanted to be a Dr...

don't know why...now I can't stand blood... yech

[bookfreak]

98. Lawyer

That's what I wanted to be when I was a teenager...I can't remember what I wanted to be back when I was younger.

I had visions of being a lawyer up through my first year of college. Then I realized I just wasn't cut out for it. I went for my BS in Psychology and took a Human Services job with noble intentions of saving people. Not something you want to do if you want to make a living...

[izzie]

99. Artist

It is what I did

[northzax]

100. jedi knight

can't say I wasn't ambitious!

oh, hold it, I wasn't. Once I grew out of that, I thought being an extreme skier wouldn't suck.

[MissMillie]

101. I don't think I gave career much thought back then.

but I know when I was 10 I wanted to be an interior decorator.

[Jim__]

103. Ditch digger

When we were kids they were always digging up our street. We'd get to know the workers - we were probably a giant pain in the ass - but...

Anyway, whoever was digging in the street, they'd have beer with their lunch - usually quart bottles. Thay had a nickle deposit on them. We's always pester 'til they gave us the bottles so we could get the deposit.

Sure looked like fun , easy work...