What did you want to be?
 

What did you want to be when you grew up in elementary school? And has life turned out the way you expected?

Firefighter and forest ranger. My life has turned out mainly the way i expected, lost interest in those jobs as I got older.

Pediatrician since the age of 5, then OB/GYN as I was in high school.

Although I would love to go into medicine, something just tells me it is not what I am meant to do. I am majoring in International Relations, minoring in Latin American Studies. Not sure where that'll take me, but it seems I am going in the right direction.

I wanted to be a fire truck.



Not a fire fighter. A fire truck.

LOL! That's cute. Definitely better than my sister. She wanted to work at McDonald's so that she could "play with the cash register." Yep, I made it to college and she didn't. Haha.


edited to add: I have to add this to the quotes thread! LOL

I am ROTFL @ you...you would never believe that I told my mother this when I was in preschool!!! I used to want to be a fire truck...then by elementary school I had bigger and better aspirations. I no longer wanted to be an inanimate object...I wanted to be...........................................a Unicorn!!! :p

I used to want to be a lawyer, an astronaut, the president of the USA and a very important fashion designer.

lol@AGDPrincess's fire truck comment. This completely reminded me of my little brother. When he was young and was asked "What do you want do be when you grow up?" He always exclaimed "I want to be a fish!"

I still joke around w/ him about it. hehehe ;)

I'm happy to say that when I was little I wanted to double major in Music and Psychology...and I am now a music therapy major, which is a perfect blend of the two! Guess I'm lucky living my lifelong dreams...:)

Professional wrestler. The Masked Bandit, the Masked Phantom, and the Masked Advenger. My face is too prety to get scarred by a belt.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a TV weather person and then a veterinarian. Once I got into junior high, all I wanted to be was a writer. My two goals: To work for The Houston Post and to work for CNN. I've done them both. Now what?

To answer your second question James, I have another question: Does life ever turn out the way we expect it to? I am beginning to think not. Even having achieved those two aforementioned goals, it isn't/wasn't what I expected it to be -- or how I imagined it. Not that that is a bad thing, but somewhat surprising.

I was the nerdiest little kid, but all through elementary and middle school, I wanted to be a paleontologist or an archaeologist. Yeah, yeah, I know.

And continuing with the fire truck thing, my little brother told my mom he wanted to be a skunk so people wouldn't bother him or take his toys.

I had to write a paper about what I wanted to be when I grew up in like 5th grade. I said I wanted to be a secratery. Who the hell says that?

I'm still in school, but I am not going to be a secretary. ( no offence to anyone that is, but my mom paid way too much money for school for me to work beside her).

a teacher, a vet, a zoologist, a postman, an actor, a dentist...

Im in school to be a teacher, although in HS I wanted to be a Biology teacher, how did I end up an elementary ed major?

I wanted to be the Zamboni Driver for the Boston Bruins. I just thought it would be so cool to drive that thing!

I wanted to be a teacher and said it for years. Fortunately, I realized I did not have the patience to become a teacher in enough time to change academic gears!

My youngest son wanted to drive the fire truck when he grew up. Not necessarily be a firefighter (or be a fire truck :D) but drive the fire truck!

Christin