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What did you want to grow up to be?

Posted by JonnyDunMind • 5/30/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I wanted to be a paranormal investigator, taking photos of UFO's and running around discovering the loch ness monster and ghosts. I actually have a drawing I did as a kid for class, while everyone else was drawing soldiers and firemen (it was an army town).

What about you?

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5/30/09

SweetViolet

Nurse, UN translator, lexicographer, etymologist, mother, teacher, author, artist, flamenco dancer...and a whole host of other things I can't remember right now

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5/30/09

geekchick

Chinese, paleontologist, cognitive neuroscientist, classical musician (I actually did the last one, almost did the one before it, still love paleontology, but have changed my mind about Chinese).

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1. 5/30/09
  
  JonnyDunMind
  
  haha, looks like everyone else thought this through a lot more than me. I chose my degree a year before I finished school xD
5/30/09

trailofpen

I wanted to be a video game programmer when I was a kid. I always thought it would be cool, until I actually looked into the work.

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5/30/09

siralmo

haha its changed so much over the years ... the funniest part of all of it is that i can still be all of those things

i have time on my side

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5/30/09

dayflyer

FOr a while I wanted to be a comptometer operator. What's a comptometer? I didn't know either but I wanted to operate one. Then I found out it was an early type of computer and went off the idea.

For a while I wanted to be a market researcher.

Eventually I got into career counselling so I could help other people decide what they wanted to do. It seemed to fit somehow.

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5/30/09

KPinski77

The President... no lie, I had my heart set on it. Then somewhere in my teenage years, I decided I'd just like to work in politics in some form... and then after spending four years getting BA in Political Science and interning on a few campaigns, I decided it just wasn't for me at all. And now I work in... Financial Services. Doesn't make sense, I know, but I'm pretty happy. I do still have big dreams about going out and changing the world, though.

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  siralmo
  
  well ur missin out ... i'm at uni and changin the world ^^
5/30/09

ChampDog

Anything as long as I can make myself useful.

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5/31/09

NYCGirl

Librarian, bookstore manager (just because I thought that meant I'd be able to sit and read all day :)), casting director...

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5/31/09

rfburnhertz

Cowboy, police, mobster, G.I. Joe...
pretty much anybody with a gun I think.

I guess it depends upon the age of when one is imagining their future.
Eventually I wanted to be an author, a poet, a politician.

Now, I have all of the above beat, husband and father.

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5/31/09

Selvia

I dont want to grow anymore

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5/31/09

jyotishman

I Always Wanted To Be A Captain Of A Ship. Now, I Am! I Am A Proud Captain Of My Drunken Boat!

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5/31/09

IntoTheAzureSea

Superman.

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5/31/09

jafabrit

I can't really remember other than I wanted to be happy.

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5/31/09

nothingprofound

A free spirit. A happy person in love with life.

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