Have you become what you wanted to be as a Child?

[downtown]

You and a singing John Ashcroft can go on tour!

let the mighty eagle soooooaaaaaaarrr!

 

[WillJ]

Ah yes, let the eagle soar.

I'm not an adult yet, but here's what I have wanted to be over the years, from earliest to right now:

Astronaut
Chemist
Geologist
Architect
Economist

I think I've finally settled on the last one, although I'm not sure whether I wanna go the government route, the academic route, or the business route.... The first would probably be the most interesting if I could make it big; there's nothing quite like having the power to send your country into a recession whenever you're feeling grumpy.

 

[skadistic]

I always wanted to be a racecar driver and I am on the weekends. Granted I'm not a high paid driver, okay I realy lose money,but every sat. I live my dream job as a racer.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

Still in the process of achieving it, wait and see.

 

[Maniacal]

Some kind of god, or extremely rish, poweraful and maybe super abilities. That's also part of my paln to take over the world. Other than that I have no goals. :sniff:

 

[azzaman333]

I've wanted to be a professional cricket player. If not possible, I'd want to be either a teacher or something to do with computer games.

 

[Quentin]

First I wanted to be some sort of scientist. Then I wanted to be a paleontologist. Now I'm near neither and not really interesting in being either as an occupation.

 

[general_kill]

Imagined myself at 17 to be lightly trading stocks, in the best high school in ny, with a cute girlfriend, and a nice job.

I'm 17 trading lightly in stock (although losing money ), in the 2nd best high school (not smart enough for the best ), with no girl I am currently seeing (last one turned out to be kinda freaky, I think shes more sexually active with other girls than me), and I have a crappy non paid (aside from the occasion lunch) internship.

Not where I really want to be, but the imperfections keeps me focused on my goals.

 

[The Yankee]

There is a best and second best high school in New York now?

How many people here have kept a long-running dream and turned it into reality?

 

[bhsup]

I wanted to be a professional marbles champion.

 

[Abaddon]

I wanted to be a Zoologist when I was younger. Now I work in IT.

hmmm, wonder if i'll miss the rails too.. im trying though

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[A'AbarachAmadan]

No; planned on being an astronaut after a time as a fighter pilot. Vision dropping around the time I was 13 killed that. After that I figured I do some kind of scientific work, maybe still go into NASA. Never once thought I'd join the Army, yet here I still am. Funny that!

 

[Hornblower]

I always wanted to be a Pirate. My dreams were shattered when my second grade teacher informed me that it wasn't a valid profession. I still harbour a secret desire to rule the waves seeking booty and dispatching my enemies with cold steel though.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I used to want to become an astronomer.

 

[Darkness]

I always hang out with the bad boys but good girls.

The other way around is much more fun...

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Well, i'm still in school, so i'm really a kid.

But I either want to do something in science or food production.

 

[storealex]

I wanted to become a soldier. And that's what I'll be in 9 days. Of course I would like to skip the whole private thingy, and move directly up to General...

 

[liquid fire]

I used to want to become an astronomer.

You can always give it a go on an amateur basis--Stardust@home et al. allow for arm-chair astronomy...

For me, I ended up where I wanted to (well, wanted to be a trial lawyer, not a corporate lawyer, but in the same ballpark anyway), but have realized that the journey is a lot more important than the destination. So to any perpetual student out there, I salute you.

 

[Lotus49]

I always wanted to be the Captain of an aircraft carrier when I was a kid. As it turned out, I just so happened to wind up working in an air control tower in the military, technically speaking in the 'Department of the Navy'. Close enough, I say.

I also wanted to be a pilot. As for that, well, I'm still young. I'll make a good living via other means, and then fly for pleasure in my private life, when it becomes economically practical. Should I happen to make it big, financially, then I'll buy my own personal F-16 and THEN, yes, then, I'll have done everything I wanted as kid.

 

[silver 2039]

I want to become a politician. It will happen soon enough.