What did you want to be when you grew up & did you?

@hollydolly 'it was a one off , every year theres a Music day in UK , I had joined a family Choir run by the City Theatre , and we had to make our own music /song up it had to be out the ordinary , not just a pop song , there was musicans of all levels , from Children to 2 / 3 members of the BBC symphony Orchestra.. when after a few weeks we had put a piece together , we went over to Media City BBC Manchester studio and we and another Family choir from Manchester had our pieces Recorded ,.. It was played on Manchester and Nottingham Radio .

Im still on the mailing list , I got a offer of £5 tickets to go hear BBC Symphony Orchestra in Concert , which I'm well pleased about . Going with my Daughter when shes visiting .
 
hollydolly said:
I had no thoughts of what I might work as when I got older , just concentrated on being alive, never could see further than that .. I managed that !
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Funny how looking back I really didn't have any sort of "Stick with this, get proficient and you'll have a career". Nope, yawed from job to job, nothing longer than 6 years.

Glad I didn't end up like George Bailey, Or Bob Cratchet. Bunch of kids, barely able to feed everyone. Whew!!
 

I considered becoming a lawyer, but my folks didn't have the money for college, so I got married instead. After two careers in my adult life, my last career change was working for the New York State Police at HQ in our region. I did ten years and retired from there.
Kind of close to my initial plan. I think I would have been very happy serving justice at either end.
 
I wanted to be a spy when I was very young because during the cold war there were so many tv shows about spies and they made it look glamorous. Then I learned spies could be tortured so I dropped that idea in a hurry. ;) As a teenager, I wanted to be a rock singer and I did perform with a rock band but the music industry is so cut throat. I quit when my dearest friend, also in the band, committed suicide. I went to college instead and switched my focus from audial arts to visual and was much happier.
 
I wanted to travel and see the world. I got a job as a Field Engineer and did just that. Later on, I just traveled for the experiences. I have been to all 7 continents and traveled all 24 time zones.
I wanted to become a pilot, but life got in the way. I finally got my license at the age of 34, and celebrated my 84th birthday with a flight to Santa Barbara.
Life is good!
 
Nothing comes to mind. But did learn in my teens as an apprentice butcher that doing one thing over & over was not something I could tolerate. Thankfully even with only a high school education I was able to drift thru life working at a variety of job. That variety eventually led to a 1st. line management position. That basic 1st. line experience in management led to openings higher up. Each step up included a challenge so boredom was never part of that experience. What did become boring was once I reached the level that would as far as I could go I began to get restless. Thankfully pre planning for early retirement made it possible to take a retirement package to be able to retire well funded 27 years ago.

What I think is funny not once in retirement have I become bored.
 
The usual things we were steered toward in those days - teacher, nurse, secretary, bookkeeper, stewardess, librarian - weren't anything I was interested in. I wanted adventure. I had no idea what kind of adventure, but whatever it was, I wanted it!

So I went off to college to major in journalism. I'd be a war correspondent, I'd be an intrepid girl reporter like Lois Lane, I'd write The American Novel.

I did work for a major newspaper for six years.....selling advertising. It wasn't exciting, but it paid one heck of a lot more than a reporter's job did.

Other than that, I've worked at whatever it was that kept the wolf from the door. Some were fun and/or exciting; most weren't.
 
Never gave a thought to a career or specific type of work, I spent my time trying to figure out how to make money, legally and sometimes not.

Oddly enough at nineteen I found a job I was good at and built that into a forty year career.
 
First off, I wanted to be myself. Someone who made people laugh instead of being laughed at. Success, I make people laugh most days and that makes me happy.

Secondly, I'd fallen in love with a beautiful electric typewriter, aged 4. I realised my first dream of being a "Word Processor" after graduating as an Accounting Clerk but my first job interview was in a bank... The day I went as I arrived at the door, all hell broke loose. A robbery was in progress.

I ran at top speed, jumped on the bus, went to apply to become a civil servant. Got employment as a "Word Processing Operator" and never looked back until I retired early due to bad health.

Thirdly, I was told by teachers that I had the gift of the written word. Since I'd written most of my Father's from his storytelling side, I tried my own stories. Thankfully, I now consider that I've accomplished my last goal to be an independent author.
 
I just remembered... there was a time I wanted to become an architect... maybe from watching the Brady Bunch. The father was an architect, although they didn't focus on that very much in the series. I still like to watch videos about old houses and house renovation. I build furniture, so that's a hobby that's kind of related.
 
Laurie said:
No contest .I had an uncle who flew Spitfire's though not in the Battle.

I did 40 years and though I served on Spitfire base I never actually got onto them myself.
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Mosquito Squadron, the film with David McCallum, is my favourite about the Spitfires. My Father was rejected on health grounds during the WWII recruitment but two of my Uncles flew planes.

Second film I enjoy regarding WWII is The Battle of Britain.

I've had the pleasure to board one at a museum. My that was a cramped space LOL!
 
I can't remember anything I specifically wanted to do with my life. I just drifted from one thing to another, as I seem to get bored doing any one thing too long. I do remember working for a temporary employment agency for about a year that was kind of fun. I had a different job every couple weeks and learned all sorts of new stuff. At least I didn't get bored. Maybe that's what I really wanted to be when I grew up...a temp worker! (Probably not.)
 
Outside of the usual cowboy/fireman as a kid, I had two ideas. For some strange reason, I love buildings. And I can remember buildings that I haven't seen in 30 years. So, architect??? OR a radio DJ. I had one of those job evaluation tests, and it also came up with DJ. So, of course, I became an RN.
 
Roadwarrior said:
Myself, I always wanted to be a cowboy, as a toddler my guns went on before my diaper. Roy Rogers was my hero, my dad rode fence & broke horses for the Brownings (the gun people) in N Utah. I grew up to realize John Wayne was a terrible actor & couldn't single handedly win any war.

Answer: Nope, ended up doing IT.
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No, sadly. I wanted to be a nurse but ended up just doing boring office jobs.
Now retired, I am relieved as I don't care any more. Ambitions are long gone.
 
I always wanted to be a nurse …I .don’t know why, as I can’t stand the sight of blood …..
i became a private carer aged 34, and I now I care for my husband …so I nearly achieved nurse status
 

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