who did you want to be when you were younger?

Question

who did you want to be when you were younger

Answer 1

a princess

Answer 2

First, I wanted own a bookstore, but I knew I didn't have the money. My next ambition was to be a librarian; after all, somebody else would have to pay for the books. Then I started school and found out that librarians had to work instead of just being able to read all day. After that, I wanted to be a tax lawyer. Sounds like an odd ambition for an eight-year-old, especially since all my relatives were factory-workers. I remember my rationale was that people in the lower socioeconomic strata didn't want to pay any more taxes than the rich. I was a little advanced for my age.

I am now in investment services, supervising asset transfers from one financial institution to another. I guess you could say I herd money.

When my younger brother was a sophomore in high school (age 16), the guidance counselor asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Tongue-in-cheek, he told her he wanted to be a fireman. Never even realizing that she was being patronizing by the way she asked the question, she gave him some information and sent him on his way. When he was called back into her office at the end of the school year, she asked him the same question again, the same way, adding do you still want to be a fireman? He told her no, he'd rather be a policeman.

I wonder how many young adults she treated like kindergartners that year, and how many people she really helped?

Answer 3

well, first i wanted to be a princess (i was 3), then when i was 4 i wanted to be a nurse, 5 i wanted to be a teacher or police woman, 6 i wanted to become a lawyer i followed that until i was 12 (turning13) the age i am now, and i want to become a historian who specialises in the British monarch from the 16th century to the death of queen Victoria in 1901. I've had high expectations... when i was 4, while other kids were playing tag or looking at pictures in books, i was reading 300 page books in a maximum of 2 days. I'm not lying either. I've always been a nerd.

Answer 4

A detective (just like Sherlock Holmes), a scientist or doctor, a writer, but never a mother.

LOL - now I'm a laboratory manager who is taking creative writing classes and had a child about 5 years ago. Whouda thunk?

BTW, I'm not going to remain in research - I'm thinking about becoming a librarian (science doesn't pay well, I hate to say).

Answer 5

We all go through phases of wanting to be what our admired persons are--the capable, the ones who are older and freer,
the ones getting to do what we can't.

That's why young boys begin admiring cowboys and ball players, graduate to detectives and Tarzan, and perhaps
go on wanting to emulate to emulate more intellectual models.

My first hero was ball player Tommy Henrich, whom they called Old Reliable. then I picked up Tarzan and a western hero of "Silver" by Thomas C. Hinkle called Charlie Barr, who owned a great white horse.

I went on to great actors, playwrights, creators and statesmen; my favorites were Keith Andes, Ingrid Thulin,
Edmond Hamilton, Michelangelo, Tom Lovell the painter, Spock from Star Trek TV and the neo-Grecians and Romans inhabiting Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pal ul Don, the Land of the Lost. I settled on Eliot Ness, Ayn Rand, and the great ancient world statesmen and generals, plus a few others such as Miklos Rozsa and King Vidor --and I've never had to changed my mind about any of them.

Answer 6

First I wanted to be Bugs Bunny I was really little and then figured out he was a cartoon not a person after that lots of random things a journalist, an astronaut, a psychologist and I am none of those

Answer 7

I never really knew what I wanted to do ,and still don't.I'd better hurry up as I'm a great nana now.Soon be too late!I was however under the impression that we took it in turns to be the Queen but it looks like I got that wrong.

Answer 8

I wanted to be a world famous Ballerina!
I visualised myself on a grand stage performing
'Swan Lake'. Then everyone throwing flowers
onto the stage to me.
Sadly, I had to stop dancing because of a foot
operation. And knew I would never live my dream.
Aaaaarr.

Answer 9

A computer operator as back in the 70's it was such a cool new thing. By the time I left school it was the last thing I wanted to do too boring.

Answer 10

This is messed up but I went around telling people I wanted to be a trash man. My theory is that people through away a lot of good stuff that I could take home with me.

Answer 11

I always wanted to be me.

I wanted to be a singer and entertainer, I'm very good at those type things. Daddy forbid it, as he did not want that kind of life for me...

Oh, well, I am me, and I'll sing and entertain anyone in the area...