When You Were A Child

[Cachoo]

What did you want to be when you grew up? A friend wanted to be a tiger. I read Nancy Drew books and watched Scooby-Doo and decided I should solve mysteries as an adult.

What did the little version of you want to do (or be?)

 

[made_in_canada]

I wanted to be Elizabeth Manley. But with a triple axel

 

[quartz]

I wanted to be a non-conformist.

 

[MacMadame]

A teacher and a writer

 

[maatTheViking]

I wanted to make spaceships or satellites.

 

[Peaches LaTour]

I wanted to be a Radio City Music Hall Rockette.

I consumed Nancy Drew books, too, when I was a kid. ☺

 

[ChelleC]

I can remember wanting to be a teacher.

Count me as another who consumed the Nancy Drew books. I think I was in third or fourth grade when I read them. I never liked the Hardy Boys books though.

 

[attyfan]

I also read Nancy Drews.

I wanted to be President of the U.S. My dad told me what subjects to emphasize so I could get into law school; my sister made me promise not to run in a year ending in 0 (this was 1964, about six months after JFK had been killed ... when it was well publicized that every president elected in a year ending in 0 from 1840 on had died in office); and my mom told me people wouldn't vote for me because we're Jewish. In 1964, it never occurred to anyone in my family that a woman would have problems getting elected!

 

[AxelAnnie]

I wanted to marry Prince Charles - until I saw his ears! Mostly I wanted to be a mom.......should have stuck with Charles.

 

[kalamalka]

I read Nancy Drew too (and almost everything else I could find in print), but I wanted to grow up to write mysteries, not solve them. Tried to write one in Grade 5 and got most of a notebook full.

 

[once_upon]

I read the Cherry Ames, RN books going up. Guess that's where I first thought I'd be a nurse (and was).
I read the Bobsey twins mysteries not Nancy Drew - knew I couldnt solve mysteries.

 

[skateboy]

The little version of me wanted to be an architect and design beautiful buildings and structures. I had this idea of helping to beautify cities and towns with my creations.

But it wasn't to be... my talent was in music and that became my profession (along with 15 years of competing as a roller skater, which was a huge passion!).

 

[ballettmaus]

I briefly wanted to be a writer (for a year or so) and then I wanted to be an animator for Disney (as in one of the people who draw the characters) for the longest time. I think until I was 16 or 17.

 

[quartz]

I’m actually still waiting to grow up. And when I do, I plan on being amazing. That’s all.

 

[paskatefan]

As a kid, I wanted to become a concert pianist (I loved taking piano lessons). I still play the piano, but I'll never be THAT good @ it! I became an ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher.

 

[flyingsit]

I wanted to be a Senator and a Supreme Court justice.

 

[gkelly]

Novelist.

I'm still trying, but I'm not very good at finishing things.

 

[PrincessLeppard]

What @gkelly said.

When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a teacher (it just took a while to realize that's what I wanted to do as an adult, too). Then I wanted to be a rock star, then a journalist, and then a spy. I even took Russian, but the Cold War ended, so...

And now I'm a teacher. So. Make of that what you will.

 

[Jay42]

I wanted to be a non-conformist.

Me too, also a photographer.

 

[judiz]

I’ve wanted to be a teacher since second grade. I always pictured myself teaching elementary school but instead I am teaching Pre K.

 

[myhoneyhoney]

I wanted to be a gift wrapper, Disney artist/animator, and an astronaut.

 

[MacMadame]

Oh, there was a short period of time when I wanted to be an astronaut too!

 

[merrywidow]

I wanted to be an Army nurse, just like Cherry Ames was in one of her books. In my teens I wanted to join the Roller Derby!

 

[Kruss]

I wanted to be an actress. Then I discovered I had stage fright.

 

[quartz]

I wanted to be an actress. Then I discovered I had stage fright.

I’m very shy, solitary, and introverted, so of course I have ended up in customer service jobs. In order to do these jobs, I have become an actress by necessity.

 

[Vash01]

Doctor/Surgeon

 

[Rob]

Ballet dancer

 

[shan]

I wanted to be a nurse because my mom was one, but that changed because blood/fluids gross me out! I also wanted to be an astronaut, but was not great at math. I always enjoyed working with kids, so I became a teacher! I still love it 20 some odd years later.

 

[moebius]

I wanted to work at K-mart as a cashier or a waitress, LOL! I guess I had low ambitions. I think I liked handling money, that's why I chose those professions. I did ended up working as a cashier at K-mart as my first job, LOL!

 

[cygnus]

A Paleontologist, then an archaeologist. I still think either would be really cool.