When I grow up I want to be a .....

[Bouncy Castle]

I'll have a word!

Did you manage to save any for Sjoerd?

[Conforumist]

Wifey wants that job where you travel to all the best spas in world and partake of all their services; then review them. What a nightmare!!

[Natalya]

Wonderful topic!
Very interesting!
Let me tell about myself...
When I was 4-5 years old I wanted to be a princess. In a long big pink/gold dress and certainly with a little gold crown on a head! And my fiancé would be surely… Chingachguk-Big Serpent (from books Fenimor Cooper about north-American Indians)!
Then I have been watched film about cosmos… soon after that I read first sci-fi book about cosmos adventure… And I decide to be a cosmonaut! Definitely!
When I was 10 years old I watched film “D’Artanyan and three musketeer”. And soon after that I read such Alexander Duma book! Of course, I must be a musketeer! (By the way, my daughter repeated this my choice when she was 9-10 years old! Although she hadn't information about her mother's choice!):)
Some times later I got rid of these child’s things and wanted to be just a teacher in primary school (perhaps, because for my mother is a teacher in music school ). And chemist in the submarine ( from one else book: "The mystery of two oceans" - about science-research adventures in deeps oceans )!
And so on, and so on, and so on…
And when I was 14, our class went to excursion in the Computer Center at the Polytechnic Institute. I saw Big Computer with many little different-colors lamps which are blinked. Big Computer told ‘’ZH-ZH-ZH’ and ‘Knock-knock’ and I fell in love HIM in the first sight! (It was about 30 years ago )
Now I am IT-specialist so far. But very want to work with animals or with little children. But now it’s impossible (only at home, after worktime! ) by different reasons (the first of all: I have no enough power for it! …).
By the way, I wrote poem one year ago: “Who I want to be…?”. In each stanza I described different professions. And each description start with “I don’t want to be …” (f.ex: “I don’t want to be a business-woman, with cold mind, at the High Position, far from own family;” etc – of course, this is translate from Russian). And last line is: “I want to be a human!”.
Thus, When I was 40 I understood – who I want to be

[Conforumist]

^^^^Hmm, and here I thought you wanted to be a "smiley" inventor!

Nice story,

[Antiq]

Famous artist. I got the artist bit ok, but not awesome enough to be famous...... unless I put 4 bricks on a pillow and call it art. Can't sink to that.

[Bouncy Castle]

Just put three bricks on a cushion, then!!




When I was younger, I wanted to be a hairdresser.

By the time I left school, I had no idea what I wanted to be, so the secretarial course I'd just done became my career - Secretary/Admin Assistant.

I recently realised that the job I really want is Rob's!!

[michelanCello]

I'll have a word!

Did you manage to save any for Sjoerd?

No But he brought some with him, so that's all right, I guess

[BatrickPatrick]

Famous artist. I got the artist bit ok, but not awesome enough to be famous...... unless I put 4 bricks on a pillow and call it art. Can't sink to that.

Just put three bricks on a cushion, then!!

No, put them on a plinth

[BobtheDrog]

wanted to be footballer, cricketer, author, teacher, professor and now I want to be an orangutan that runs a library

[jgharston]

Wha! Don' wanna grow up!

[meerkat]

Good for you, jg!

[Tonyblack]

Wha! Don' wanna grow up!

Welcome back!

[Natalya]

^^^^Hmm, and here I thought you wanted to be a "smiley" inventor!

Nice story,

Thanks
""smiley" inventor"? Invertor of smileys or... maybe inventor which smile constant ... or... Sorry, really don't understand...

[Del]

Famous artist. I got the artist bit ok, but not awesome enough to be famous...... unless I put 4 bricks on a pillow and call it art. Can't sink to that.

Just put three bricks on a cushion, then!!

No, put them on a plinth

Take a photograph of three bricks and put them on a plinth.

[Big Aggie]

I wanted to be a Cowboy Girl, (that's what I called it), then a policewoman because they wore leather gloves, which I think were important for grabbing crooks but also looked nice. That went on for a few years then working in a newsagents seemed to be the thing to do, I could read all the comics and have crisps If I wanted. (Early '60s, only two flavours of crisps, plain but included a portion of salt tied up in blue paper so you could add as much as you liked,I always added too much. And Cheese and onion flavour) I also wanted to be a hairdresser for a while, then an actress. I had a great imagination