What did you want to be?

I was thinking the other day about all my ambitionn from when I was youngerer. They went a bit like this:
When I was 3 I wanted to go into the navy
When i was 5 I really, really wanted to be a nurse
Up until I was 10 I wanted to be a poet and a librarian
Then I was really, really stuck on the idea of being a journalist, and everyone thought that was what I wanted to be.
After I saw how badly the media treated people, I went right off the idea.
At 15 for a while I wanted to be a special needs teacher.
Now I have finally decided to go into environmental conservation or something equally geographical. I'm keeping my options open!

What did YOU want to be?

 

I was going to be a translator but it just got boring
I always wanted to travel around the world helping people somehow, helping the far less fortunate and helping others to communicate. So far this mission has failed, although i have a lot of future ahead to make it happen
About a year ago i got my first job as a nursery nurse and i really, really thought that was something i would make a proper career out of, as it really suited me. Im pretty great with younger kids. Didnt last though, and now im thinking i was looking in the wrong direction, even though it was a rewarding job

For now it looks like im a housewife...something i NEVER imagined even once and, to be honest, i completely detest. I feel inadequate im not helping out financially (although this is because of illness, ill be working again ASAP) I guess in my arrogance i always assumed id be the financial provider in any serious relationship. But then shit happened and my opportunities taken and all that stuff

Never wanted to be anything when really young though, i never thought about it

 

Footballer, rock and roll star, crazy old herbalist

 

when i was 3 i wanted to be a concert pianist.

when i got a wee bit older (about 5-6ish) i thought about becoming a nurse.

then went back to wanting to be a concert pianist.


i even took spent a year in college as a piano performance major - this is how far that dream actually went - i'd done a few competitions and everything; but well, then i developed severe anxiety and panic and left school, had a nervous breakdown, and didn't touch a piano again for about 4-5 years.

at this point, i don't even own one. and i'm not really sure what i want to do with my life anymore. and i'm a housewife as well, but domestic goddess i am not; so i'm not a very good one.

 

when I was 8 I said I wanted to be retired like grandad

 

I wanted to be a lighthouse keeper. Sadly my ambitions have been frustrated as lighthouses tend to be unmanned nowadays.

 

I can't remember having a dream other than wanting to be a rock star! I did have a phase of wanting to be a long distance lorry driver, an act in Cirque du Soleil, a farmer, a zoo keeper and an archeologist and a vicar. Actually I still want to be them! Oh yeah I always wanted to be Princess Jasmine (I had the biggest crush on Aladdin!!)

Now though I am thinking of law or another degree to see if thats makes me happy!

 

i wanted to be a mermaid , a baking show host, talk show host, child psycologist, artist, photographer, hair stylist, right now im gonna start going to school to be a kindergarten teacher.


im pretty sure there was more things i wanted to be

 

Well apparently the first thing i ever wanted to be was a 'mummy'

ummm also wanted to be a famous rock star, yoga teacher, teacher, physiotherapist, spirtual guy like them dudes at the Temple, errr what else? i wanted to be an actress in Bollywood, Hollywood, Singer, Director (and im making a movie!!),i think i wanted to be a nurse etc and now i have decided to be a counsellor (sp?) for people with eating disorders.

Being a musicion would be nice though.

 

I wanted to be an RAF pilot. I've probably still got the forms and job details somewhere.

Would probably have trained as an AWACS pilot if I'd gone in, though my original dream was to fly a Tornado or Jaguar. I still wonder "what if" sometimes. It'd be like the polar opposite of my current life :tongue:

 

I've wanted to be a photographer pretty much all my life. I really wanted to be a philosophy professor too.

 

Never really knew what I wanted to be until now. I want to be a successful journalist and lecturer.

 

i wanted to work on an oil rig.

 

I wanted to be a journalist, but now I am in med school.

 

candlestick maker

 

When I was a kid, I longed to be a musician. Playing the drums, but then moving swiftly into synths and computer Midi music production. I still want to do it but everyone keeps putting me off by saying, "It is cuthroat". This is true of course. "It is not realistic".


I believe I have potential to revolutionise British music. I am not good at anything else. Apart from having fictional fetishes with mice, rats and psychedelic chick from the Mika's Lollypop video.

Ambitions were stronger when I was young. As I entered adulthood, my turbulent teenaged life forced me to bury a much dreamed talent. I buried it into the ground. My hopes and dreams, my plans, my ideas and inspirations. My colourful. fluid-like creations all buried. Not even a tombstone. One of the greatest travesties in my life. I just want a chance to resurrect my gift.

 

Film editor

 

I had a few dream jobs when I was younger:

choreographer
theme park rides tester
architect
archaeologist


It's kind of weird that I'm now studying Archaeology.

 

Long distance driver.

Kwai Chang Caine, and wander the earth.

Tinker or Tailor.

 

i wanted to travel around the world and then settle down and become a teacher.