What did you want to be when you grew up?

OK, so I'm having a slight career crisis right now & I've been trying to figure out if what I'm doing is something I want to continue doing, or if there is something else more suited to me (right now I'm leaning heavily to a change), so I want to know what every one wanted to be when they grew up & what you are now. (basicly I'm grasping at straws to figure out what might intrest me & I figure the more careers I hear about the more likely I am to come across one I like.)
So I'll start

When I was a kid I wanted to be a vetrinarian, or an astronought.
Now I'm a Standards Engineer Technician.

well i guess im not totally grown up yet but when i was younger i waanted to be a hairdresser or a ballarina, now i want to be a vet assistant.

I wanted to be a surgeon, but I couldn't get a grip on the math.
I have a degree in landscaping, but there isn't much money in it in the south when financial times are bad. Currently I am a clerk at my local newspaper and will probably head hard and fast into the secretarial world if I can find a decent job in the clerical field.
I know one thing, I sure wish I had gone into computing out of high school, but my maths were too dicey for that too and when I was in high school, all computing was DOS - not my best friend in the world, let me assure you.

When I was young I wanted to be an FBI agent or Broadway star. Now I'm a sexual assault/domestic violence victim advocate for the Army. Big leap.

well you see i am young and ive only got another year before i choose.
Ive wanted to be a secretary, or something to do with telephones.

Ive tried babysitting and restaurants they arent my things, but i want to be a mum.
I'm not really sure.... I wanted to be a hairdresser, i still want to do a course.
I know how to do nails but i want to do a course.
The point is i lose energy far too quickly and concentration so how will i ever do anything? lol

Complete honesty here... I just wanted to be married and be a mom to a boy and a girl...

Met that goal and somehow managed to start my own business... well, actually two of them (8 years of digital medical transcription and just now getting back into photography to see where that could take me)... lol!

Hey, groovy! I've been interested in getting into medical transcription myself. It seems a good field to be in and I like to type, if that's involved. What do you need to do to get certified or whatever it is that the job requires? Frankly, I don't have a clue.

Growing up I wanted to be an economist like my dad who worked on models to help the mentally challaged mainstream into the economy but couldn't grasp the some of the more advanced courses like macro and micro economics. So I became an accountant where double entry accounting catches any mathmatical error I make. I also wanted to be a chef as I love cooking due to my italian mother but I ended up marring a personal chef and help him with his catering jobs. So I guess I have two jobs.

Tricia

I wanted to be an archeologist (and I still can't spell it) or a lawyer. Then when I got older but still young I wanted to be a phychologist.

Now I am an admin and through that work am a soon to be insurance agent (not the selling kind, the servicing kind). I would like to be involved in marketing research and imc development, that is my current dream, but where I live my b.s. in marketing really just is that--B.S.

Retired.

Hey that's a good question !
I wanted to be a vet. So what am i now ? A builder :-(

I did volunteer work for some many months , with the "Blue Cross" they go to areas of the city in a truck fitted out as a surgery and fix up any animals that come in. It's for people that can't really afford to go to a vet , it's a free service, and a great one too.

I could not be a vet after that , he had to "put to sleep" animals that really had nothing wrong with them , just for one reason or another , the owner could not look after them , i could not do that .

Most nights i went home really sad thinking about the animal that i saw being " put to sleep" , and no i could not bring them all home , much as i would like to, it was not a practical thing to do. At this stage id have more animals than id know what to do with ....

So if you want to be a vet , you better be ready to "put healthy animals to sleep" , it's part of the job. Not a nice one :-(


@unicorn , move to Ireland , there is BIG money in landscaping here right now , grab it :-)

@Rang_27, good luck :-)

Unicorn,

I don't have much info on getting "certified" to be an MT. I got with a woman who trained me for 10 weeks, 2 nights per week - she had her own half million dollar MT business for 30 years. So I sorta got into this through a "back door". It is highly recommended to take a good extensive course through a local college or through a reputable MT school like The Andrews School (you can find info for this at mtdesk.com).

The pay is excellent. I have yet to find something else I could do at home, no weekends, part-time (25 hours per week, M-F only) and I make $50,000/year. Not all MTs make that much and some people make even more... I've known MTs full time in the six-figure income but it is few and far between (you should see the on-line arguments as most MTs think the pay sucks but they aren't trying hard enough in my opinion), but it takes lots of practice, being on your own (not working for anyone else who takes part of your pay), and cutting all corners (like utilizing short cut programs - I use the heck out of ShortHand - and doing all clinic notes for the same set of doctors over and over and over again).

I highly recommend it but I always make sure people know - yes, you need to put money into it to get anything out of it, and you need to be highly detail oriented and determined to really make something of it.

Okay, I'm getting long-winded... must shutup now. I'm sorta just bored of it right now and want to expand my horizons!

the professor........with just Mary Ann and Ginger, none of the others

A train engineer. I'd still do it in a MINUTE if I had the chance.

I've always wanted to be an astronaut and/or a neurosurgeon. Sadly I'm terrible at math, physics and chemistry so neither of those was/is a possibility for me.

Originally Posted by J. Otte

Complete honesty here... I just wanted to be married and be a mom to a boy and a girl...

Met that goal and somehow managed to start my own business... well, actually two of them (8 years of digital medical transcription and just now getting back into photography to see where that could take me)... lol!

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Wow.
You really do some AWESOME work! I put you on my favorites to check it out in depth later on..I love your portraits!

Originally Posted by katspixiedust

Growing up I wanted to be a ballerina/Mrs America/vet all rolled into one.

Currently I'm a university student majoring in psychology, planning on heading to grad school for Mental Health Counseling.

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I'm going to send my client's abusers to you when you're done!!!

Sadly, I've always wanted to be one of the psycho old women with a 100 cats. I have a old school project from age 8 to prove this.

women .......... check
psycho .......... from time to time
old ................ working on it, slowly
100 cats ........ 1 down, 99 to go