Who were you going to be?

[mjs9153]

No, no school choir for me, beyond the regular elementary type music. Junior high and high school, I was a band geek. No time to take both band and choir with all the other classes, and come to think of it, I don't think we even had a choir my first couple years of high school.

I was an expert at singing my heart out with the radio, though. Still one of my favorite de-stressors, just turn it up and belt along, but pretty sure no one would ever pay to hear me sing.

I would!!

 

[cat in a bag]

I would!!

Aww.

 

[Spideyman]

You would have been a great teacher spidey,do you mind posting what you did? No pressures on anyone to put down what they do..

Went to college for teaching, side tracked to medical technology. Worked that field for many years. Married, children, widowed, back to teaching-- Early Childhood Development ( teacher and assistant director of a center). Retired and now keeper of the "Free Bed and Breakfast for Critters".

 

[not_nadine]

No pressures on anyone to put down what they do..

Well, the nun thing didn't work out. I did have a comic strip going for years - where are those silly drawings? Mostly involved a bird (forget his name) and the star of my strips - A girl that went off to charm school. She had glasses suitcase.. duckling. Always the same with different adventures. ?? She always came back in a red dress and high heels.
And cleavage. I knew how to draw a Y in the top of the dress.

Guess that's when my nun expectations went out the window.

Still drawing for a living, not half as fun. Least I draw, I figure.

 

[mjs9153]

Went to college for teaching, side tracked to medical technology. Worked that field for many years. Married, children, widowed, back to teaching-- Early Childhood Development ( teacher and assistant director of a center). Retired and now keeper of the "Free Bed and Breakfast for Critters".

 

[mjs9153]

Well, the nun thing didn't work out. I did have a comic strip going for years - where are those silly drawings? Mostly involved a bird (forget his name) and the star of my strips - A girl that went off to charm school. She had glasses suitcase.. duckling. Always the same with different adventures. ?? She always came back in a red dress and high heels.
And cleavage. I knew how to draw a Y in the top of the dress.

Guess that's when my nun expectations went out the window.

Still drawing for a living, not half as fun. Least I draw, I figure.

same for you as Muskrat,nottie,would like to see examples!

 

[Dana Jean]

Watch Saturday Night Live: The People's Court Online | Hulu

That took me to some Beaver show.

 

[mjs9153]

That took me to some Beaver show.

ah,it is Hulu,so it shows a half minute commercial first,it was Jon Lovitz as the devil,pretty funny stuff..

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I was going to be a vet until my puppy was hit by a car and died in my arms.

Then I was going to be the American cultural attache at the German embassy in Bonn, U.N. Ambassador and ultimately Sec'y of State.

I got sidetracked by writing and Hollyweird.

Oh, and love, too.

 

[Blake]

I wanted to be a paleontologist. In the fourth grade, I listed all the dinosaurs I'd learned of by memory, and it was a long list. About the same time, I sent a fan letter to Roy Chapman Andrews (the first guy to find dinosaur eggs) after reading one of his books, although now that I look at his bio info, he was probably dead when that happened. That would explain the lack of a response.

After that wasn't going to happen, I wanted to be a forest or park ranger and commune with nature. That didn't happen either.

I knew that the job title of astronaut was probably not achievable, but I at least thought the space program was advancing far enough and fast enough to have passenger space flights to a space station or moon or something. I'm actually rather bitter that we put the brakes on that endeavor.

You were in the Coast Guard, weren't you?

 

[Blake]

I was ten in 1975. Let me see. I love Rugby League, so it could have been a League player like Arthur Beetson. I also loved soccer back then. So it could have been someone like Malcolm MacDonald or Kevin Keegan.( I had a number of favorite, mostly English, soccer players.) I love cricket as well. I remember going to see some of the West Indies team doing an exhibition at some set-up nets in Hyde Park in Sydney around Jan 1976. TV shows as well. I have to think about this and come up with one choice.

I also wanted to be a Merchant Seaman like my father, but my mother put an end to that saying that all of them end up alcoholics. I'd say a soccer player. I was in Sweden in 1974, and listened to Ralf Edstrom score two goals against West Germany, so I'd say a soccer player.

 

[Arcadevere]

when i was 10 years old, i want to be a Detective because i love crime movies and stories and i was able to solve some little puzzles, and codes

when i reach 14, my dream shifted to be an Architect because of my passion to drawing, and some designing buildings

but my dream actually is i want to be a Historian, i want to learn a lot about past and discover the answers the mysteries of the past, and also to explore the world for some mysteries that some might able to left unsolved. i just felt complete when i learn a lot about history

 

[Grandpa]

You were in the Coast Guard, weren't you?

Same Department. I was in the Marines. I wasn't in the standard mode. Or as the DI said to me (in an uncomplimentary way), "All the knowledge in the world and no common sense."

 

[Blake]

Same Department. I was in the Marines. I wasn't in the standard mode. Or as the DI said to me (in an uncomplimentary way), "All the knowledge in the world and no common sense."

If a Marine was insubordinate, would they make that Marine scrub the toilet with a toothbrush. A relative of mine refused to go to Vietnam, so he got locked up in the brig, and was made to scrub the toilet with a toothbrush.

 

[Grandpa]

If a Marine was insubordinate, would they make that Marine scrub the toilet with a toothbrush. A relative of mine refused to go to Vietnam, so he got locked up in the brig, and was made to scrub the toilet with a toothbrush.

That is one of the milder consequences.

 

[Mr Nobody]

At 10 I wanted to be either a soldier or a copper. The soldier thing was due to coming from an army family - my dad, three of my uncles and an aunt were either serving or had served, with both grandfathers having also spent time in uniform as well as 3-4 great-uncles (regulars, not just national service) - but even at that age it came a narrow second to wanting to be a policeman, preferably a detective.
I made it about halfway to being a soldier, signing up with the reserves, but while I applied to become a cop (at 19) I ultimately dropped out of the process due to certain things having happened to certain people that made me question what was the point (crimes going unreported, anti-police sentiments expressed, etc).

Later, at around 13-14, I found that I had an aptitude for 'technical' drawing - I couldn't draw artistically to save my life, or so I thought, but when it came to buildings, vehicles and the like I (apparently) shone - so that led to me considering a career as an architect. In the end, though, the school I went to dropped the exam-level course they'd run and did a deal with the local college. My dad refused to fork out the bus fare, so I ended up doing metalwork and woodwork instead...which it's fair to say I was utterly useless at.
At 15, due to my lifelong interest in history (the older the better), I decided I wanted to be an archaeologist. Again, though, up popped the old man to scupper my plans for staying on post-16 to do the 'A' level exams that would get me to university, so having no talent for or interest in engineering type work and having little interest in computers besides playing games, I finished up doing office admin, eventually sliding sideways into an accounts admin/purchase ledger role.

The thing was, the one thing that I'd done consistently throughout my childhood was write - at 10, I was three-times published; OK, it was only in school magazines, but I still had to have the work selected and it was there in print, so I'm claiming it - so you might think that that would have provided a bit of a pointer as to where my true talents(?) lay(?), but..nope, not so much. It didn't help that plenty of 'helpful' family members would say things like 'But you have to be really good to earn money as a writer' or variations of 'Folk like us don't become...'.

 

[no bounce no play]

I wanted to be a dress designer... didn't happen

 

[Owenk]

I won a competition to cut the ribbon to open a local road when I was around 9 years old. This resulted in me being interviewed on local radio and being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. It still makes me blush when I remember my unhesitating anwer that " I want to be Pope......"

Looking back over my late adolescence and early adulthood my actions, lifestyle and pre-occupation with the opposite sex meant this ambition was never likely to be fulfilled.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

...your "decent"??????....

 

[Alexandra M]

When I was 10 I wanted to be Cher......

Me too ...