What did you want to be growing up?

[XS]

I'm sure most of us had dreams of being something or doing a certain profession when we were growing up. What was it? Are you doing it?

I wanted to be a dentist for the longest time. Then I wanted to build race cars, almost from the age of 10 until I graduated Highschool. I finally had to concede that being a successful race car builder the likes of Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren or Carroll Shelby is fairly unlikely these days and instead went to college and graduated with a business degree.

 

[Michael88]

An Astronaut, I've always been totally fascinated by space, stars, planets. And yeah, nothing has changed, I'd still love to be an astronaut, despite the technical and physical dangers.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I want to design cars. So naturally, I'm studying automotive engineering at uni next year. It's been what I've wanted to do for a while, but at one point I wanted to pursue meteorology.

 

[Azure Flare]

I've always wanted to be a pro race driver.

Then again, I spent most of my childhood playing GT.

 

[edawg456]

Wanted to play baseball for the New York Yankees.

 

[XS]

Wanted to play baseball for the New York Yankees.

Wow, I forgot, I wanted to play in the MLB too, for a long, long time.

 

[AOS-]

An animator (both 2D and 3D), culinary chef, car designer, illustrator/digital painter.

Still want to be an animator. Currently studying design, but feel like I won't last long in this field due to my nature of isolation. Still want to be a part of an animating team.

 

[Aquarelle]

A mechanic and a driver funnily enough.

Live your dreams!

 

[Slash]

I never had one.

In fact I was totally clueless up until about a year ago when I finally crunched and made my decision. Haven't looked back since.

 

[Cano]

Dig dinosaurs out of the the earth.

Even so, I ended up doing a job I love.

 

[Submerged]

I never had one.

In fact I was totally clueless up until about a year ago when I finally crunched and made my decision. Haven't looked back since.

Could you set out what made you decide and go for your decision and stick with it?

As I'm still floundering around a little bit at the present.

When I was growing up, I did wonder about becoming a professional swimmer (as I did it so much) but after some years I sort of fell out with the sport itself as it wasn't really something I enjoyed while being at the sharp end of the sport!

Before that, it was a racing driver (as was watching loads of F1 races) then decided to consider commentary. However my voice is *not* clear at all so that just went down the pan. Good dreams though.

Now, my dream job is just something that I enjoy and take pride in which also brings in enough cash for me to be content with my life. I am not talking about multi-millions, just a reasonable salary with reasonable cost of living.

Although I also have an alternative line of thinking of just devoting myself to something that would have big rewards.

 

[1241Penguin]

Race car driver, though that's really unlikely, since race tracks are so scarce here.

 

[disinfected]

Fire fighter, pilot, police officer, race car driver...yeah, guess I was the typical male child.

 

[W3H5]

Soldier/ engineer. Follow in the family tradition. I went in for the REME (Royal electrical and mechanical engineers) but due to my illness was refused entry despite passing the physical and mental aptitude tests.

It was mechanics which lead me down the REME road and once I knew the military was out of the question I focused on getting a job in a garage. I spent a little while doing some graft with cars and bikes, not a great deal of time though, and just realised it wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my career.

These days I still don't know what I want to do. I'm a career educator but see no reason why somebody with the ability to learn quickly and has a broad range of skills can't change careers every decade, which is what I intend to do.

While I've spent the last (almost) 7 years teaching professionally I've been getting clued up on other stuff and won't make any firm decision on what to do next, I'll just wait until an opportunity rears its head.

 

[Omnis]

A Power Ranger, then a super saiyan.

I never really thought much about wanting to be a real job-haver/doer. I was too busy imagining greater, more fantastic things for myself.

 

[mattythedog]

I guess technically I still am growing up, so I want to work somehow connected to the space industry or astrology.

 

[lbsf1]

Astronaut and a pilot. Pretty normal male stuff.

 

[oopssorryy]

A Power Ranger, then a super saiyan.

I am pretty much in this boat. I have many hobbies, but none I would truly want for a job. I was told to never make a job out of something you love; as you'll eventually look at it as a job and not something you love. So when I was of age I just started looking for things that didn't make me want to go nuclear at the end of everyday. I now work at a casino and just plan to climb the ladder as far as it'll take me.

 

[Monatsende]

I always wanted to become a nice person. Failed.

 

[Shaun]

Older.
Now I want to be younger.

Cheers Shaun.

 

[Dean]

A racedriver and/or an astronaut, is all I can think off right away. Average Joe here 👍.

 

[Liquid]

Super sayian.
Pokemon master.
Formula One driver.
Snooker player.
Touring car driver.
Train driver.
Footballer for Wrexham FC.
Taller.

So far, I've achieved one of those things.

 

[Eks]

To work at Intel or AMD.

Instead, I'm currently a grocery bagger at Food Lion. It's something.

 

[W3H5]

So far, I've achieved one of those things.

This one?

Pokemon master.

 

[Cano]

I'm going for Super Saiyan.

 

[GT5Redsucker23]

I wanna be a race driver or a pilot.

 

[Dean]

Super sayian.
Pokemon master.
Formula One driver.
Snooker player.
Touring car driver.
Train driver.
Footballer for Wrexham FC.
Taller.

So far, I've achieved one of those things.

This one?
(Pokémon master)

I'm going for Super Saiyan.

I'm on getting taller . Easily accomplished - I guess.

 

[Rage Racer]

I wanted to be a racer until the age of 14. But then I faced the truth - it's pretty hard to make a racing career in my country.
Now I'm going to be a scientist - I'm a student of a chemical technology university.

 

[David]

As a kid:
Race driver
Jedi (Not so much as dream, since I'm pretty sure in our own heads we all WERE real Jedi growing up)
Police Officer - like my old man.

In high school I was planning to study Aerospace Engineering in college but AP Physics discouraged me even though I passed.

In reality I'm a software developer who hates every soul-sucking moment of sitting in an office all day.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Well I'm still growing up, but when I was younger, I wanted to be a pilot. I started flying a Cessna 172R when I turned 11, and I got really good at it by my 12.5th birthday. I could take off, fly, talk to the air traffic controllers, and land, all without the help of the flight instructor. I loved flying, but I had to stop right before my 13th birthday when I started getting depression and bad grades. I got about 15 hours of flight time in. I'd love to get back into it, but I don't know that it will ever happen.


As for the future, I'd like to do something with buying and selling cars. I wouldn't want to work at a dealership, (unless I started out there or something) but I would buy and sell the cars myself. I know a few people that do that, and they have been very successful.