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

Growing up and what you want to be are two separate issues. I don't think I really ever grew up, completely anyway. As far as what I wanted to be, I didn't know until I was 19. I enlisted in the Air Force and received an aptitude test, and results said I was destined for electronics in the Air Force. I had 8 months of training and found I liked it. When I got discharged, I went to a 2 year college for electronics, and made a career out of it as a technician. One of my professors in school recommended I go on to be an engineer since I was doing well, but I was broke so off to work I went.
 
horseless carriage said:
As a small boy, I wanted to be a priest. That was probably to impress the teachers at my catholic school. Today I have learned about the shenanigans of The Vatican. Did you know that catholic clergy could, for the first eleven hundred years, get married?

My friends and I enjoyed watching the steam trains but I never hankered about driving one. I did learn to dance though, when quite young and tried to make it as a professional, some hope.

A fortunate turn of circumstance led me into management and onto the greasy pole. It was a lucky break.
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Yes I did. And monks did as well. It was probably a better system. :giggle:
 
A millionaire but now I want to be an early retiree instead when I grow up.
I grew up in a rural area and the majority of people there worked in farms. I thought I would be working in a farm all my life. Highest class avail was 9th and most people finished 4th or 5th grade so accounting, teaching, nursing, engineering, etc. degrees didn't exist. When my parents asked me, I said I want to be a pilot. Their response was "if you can be a pilot then dogs can talk" because it would be impossible for a destitute person with little or no education.
 
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was in grade school in the '60s. In the '70s, when I was in high school, I thought eventually I'd become a mechanical engineer since the only thing I was good at was math. I worked as a mechanic during my 20s and finally got my Bachelor's degree in the '90s at the ripe old age of 38, but in computer science -- not mechanical engineering, which was a good move.
 
cookiei said:
When my parents asked me, I said I want to be a pilot. Their response was "if you can be a pilot then dogs can talk" because it would be impossible for a destitute person with little or no education.
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Reminds me of something from Jack Handey;

"Mom always told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up, 'within reason.'
When I asked her what she meant by 'within reason,' she said 'You ask a lot of questions for a garbage man.' "
 
Wanted to be a professional Ocean Diver working shipwrecks and salvage since I first saw the ocean.
If that didn't work out, I wanted to be an Astronaut like my heroes 'The Mercury 7'.
Did a fair amount of recreational diving when I lived in Hawaii, but never took the next step.
Got to hang out and around some great Pilots in the Air Force, so that was a help not getting my wish.
 
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