Now that you're all grown up....what did you want to be when you were "all grown up"

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when i was little i wanted to grow up and be a bird...i really wanted to fly

― Kristin J., Friday, 11 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm afraid I still don't think I'm all growed up. Not in the sense of having found my career yet, anyway.

I didn't want to be anything, as far as I can remember.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

How old are you, N.?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to be a cartoonist for a while. I never draw anymore, except for phone doodling.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

31, Adam.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

my brother wanted to be a gumball

― jibberjabber, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to work with animals. Now I just don't want to work. Ho hum.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

So is your brother a gumball?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

No...he's a stock broker on wallstreet...something funny to tell all of his friends though

― jibberjabber, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've grown up?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to work in movies.

Mission accomplished.

Sort of.

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to be a rock star. Now I've grown up, I realise that was silly. But it took a very long time to grow up. Mainly, it took not being a rock star any more.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I wanted to be an actor!!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

To be honest, I've never really got to grips with the whole idea of career goals. People seem to get so humourless about them. When someone says "I want to work in the media" or "I want to run my own business by the time I'm 30" part of me always thinks "What for?"

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

In my mind work is a means to an end, ie ensuring one is not destitute and has a place to live and so forth. Happily library work is very agreeable to me on that front, so that means 'creative' stuff -- which is hard work too, of course! -- can be thought of differently and engaged in differently, as less of a daily pressure or grind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I always only
wanted to be a writer.
Ah perhaps someday.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Even writing, supposedly a noble ambition, is kind of ego-wankery when you think about it.

Apart from as a means to an end, I guess the only career goals I really have respect for are those that involve making the world a better place in some way. Even if some arsehole will inevitably chip in to say that's really an ego trip too, or that do-gooders are making the world worse.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty keen on breeding. Maybe hardwood floors, also.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I assume I always wanted to be a writer. But it was probably only true from age 12 on. Before that, I alternated between actor and artist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but N old bean,
'want to write' is wankery,
being too cool ain't?

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That's right, I wanted to be cool.

...

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, me too. Does it pay well?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that you're all grown up...."

Uuhhhh.
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― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know. Not this.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

More honest answer... probably "left alone".

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not grown up. I still live like a student. But when I was small I wanted to be an actress, from the age of about 13 I wanted to be a journalist.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Does it pay well?

The beer is free.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

...and I've been left, alone, but not necessarily in the way that I wanted. :-(

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I am still happy my parents were nice enough not to tell me that I couldn't be some of the things I wanted to be.

e.g. When I was maybe 6 years old I wanted to be a firetruck.

Once I got my options down to things that were humanly possible I was pretty keen on being an actor, writer or rock star. Basically I wanted to be cool. I'm convinced that I can still achieve this. Especially since my definition of "cool" is becoming more and more accommodating with age.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there's a place for a famous Mushrush.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, Kate.

Best wishes.

― penelope_111, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to a writer or a rock star... or maybe own a restaurant.

I still can't make up my mind.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon, all three at once! Alice Cooper did it (sorta).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The first thing I wanted to be was: a train driver. Unsurprisingly, I am not one.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure at some point I probably wanted to be a train. Just think caitlin, in an alternate universe grown-up you could be driving grown-up me.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

train driver?? conductor maybe?

― todd s, Friday, 11 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, definitely driver.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was very small i wanted to be dishwasher, of the mechanical variety.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to be an architect.

I am just an architect of my own laziness.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

jel vandelay

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

architect

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

kindergarten teacher then hairdresser.Aiming high! At least they were human occupations. I havent tried to become either of these but people always ask me to cut their hair, it really irritates me. I had to announce to my friends that I had quit giving home haircuts. NO MORE I cry. Now when drunk at parties they inveigle me to come out of retirement. I am an artiste I say! I dont DO "do"s

― jeska, Monday, 14 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm capable of remembering what I wanted to be when I was really little. I'm too busy wishing Jel's full name was really Jel Vandelay.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK MY TYPO FUCK ASS. I'm incapable.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony miccio

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to be an artist, I'm sort of on my way I guess.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm assuming you mean this guy, Eisbar.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i've done everything i wanted.
now what?

― Psychotic Episode (Psychotic Episode), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanted to be either a concert pianist or a lawyer. started the law degree at 26. so that means i'm not grown up yet.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

gg allin

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 14 June 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

― Psychotic Episode (Psychotic Episode), Monday, 14 June 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to be an actor. Instead, I'm a poseur. They're not quite the same thing.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

At various points I wanted to be a lawyer, an English professor or a writer. Instead, I'm a bum.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Grown up, ha!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a little girl, I had a fantasy of being a fully-grown woman with hair tightly pulled into some sort of french twist or bun, in a tailored business suit, driving a Buick or a Cadillac, living in a chic high-rise apartment, and working as some major business executive type person. That's why I originally parlayed my interest in math into economics when I first went into college; I felt that was the business major that interested me the most. But then when I found I was more interested in futzing about with the computers on campus than I was in inquiring about the school's MBA program, I started thinking differently.

I feel I must've missed out on something by not fantasizing about being something or someone fantastical. I mean, I never for one moment even dreamt of becoming a princess or a wise old owl, for example, nor did I ever feel that was actually possible.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 14 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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