What did you want to be when you grew up?

An Air Force Pilot.

 

Marine biologist. Then I really stunk at science in high school.

Just as well, 'cause my roommate in college was a Marine Biology PhD candidate at U of Hawaii... he spent like 3 years studying the reproduction patterns of sea snails .

 

Race car driver something to do with racing.

 

Astronaut,quiete an ambition really not that many openings in Scotland.

 

Garbage man: I was fascinated with big trucks and hydraulics. The garbage man would come every week and I thought it was the coolest thing when I was a kid. Seeing all that machinery at work.

Air Force: Living on a military base when I was a kid, I was exposed to a lot of military stuff. I loved F-4 Phantoms and used to build scale models of planes when I was a kid. Got to ride on a C-141 and C-5A when I was kid and took a "MAC" flight to the Philippines. Then my dream got ruined when I found out I had to wear glasses. My mother always warned me not to sit too close to the TV. Damned Scooby Doo was too captivating!!!!

 

Superman- i was obsessed with him i wore these superman pajamas wherever i went it was funny.

Train Conducter- come on who didnt want to ring the whistle train

Air Force Pilot- I was on planes alot when i was younger so i was always fascintated by them and one time a flight attendant let me see in the cockpit and from there on i wanted to be one.

Now i want to be wither an investment banker or atleast something that deals with wall street.

 

I want to be a race car driver...but I think Im a bit too late for that. I havent been racing karts since I was 2 days old

 

USAF Fighter Jock like my dad was for 37 years.

Brad

 

Rock star

I dunno, is there a chance that a dream scientist could be worshiped like a rock star???

 

Add another airforce pilot to the list. Is this common among most everyone or just Fchat members? Seems that a lot here wanted to be that.

A friend and I just studied planes all the time - he wanted to design them and I wanted to fly them.

 

Paleontologist. I wanted to find dinosaurs!

DL

 

I wanted to be an Air Force Pilot, and then an astronaut.

Then I found out I had lousy eyes, and that dream died.

I still don't know what I want to be.....and I'm only 30 years from retirement!

 

I wanted to be a scientist.

What's funny is that, after finishing up my degree, my first job was at a pharmaceutical company with the title of "Scientist", in the safety evaluation department.

I still have my old business cards.

Dom

 

Professional racer. I did it for 4 seasons. I stunk

 

Baseball player - Even if I never made it past the minor leagues, I just wanted to play ball every day.

Director/Producer/DP - Did some PA jobs in college and despite being on the bottom of the food chain on the sets, still loved it. Might still make it someday. Of course, I like everyone else have a few scripts I'm working on.

Do we really hafta decide what we wanna do by the time we're 30? Nah!

 

I am still waiting to grow up!

 

A Marine.

 

I actually wanted to be a policeman like my father was for 30 years. I actually was 2 classes away from completing my education on it and even working for the same dept as my father. All of this was quickly rethought one day while 2 of our officers were shot and killed in cold blood. I saw the effects it had on the families and couldn't see myself putting anyone through what I saw. Although working with computers doesn't give me the same feeling I think it is better off for my family.

 

No real astronauts when I was a kid, that came later....

I wanted to be a Navy Pilot . I did that during Vietnam era.
The rest of my life has been exciting(skydiving,scuba,200 mph car runs etc) but there is Nothing quite like a night carrier landing with pitching seas for pure excitement something one NEVER forgets!

 

I wanted to sell high end cars.

 

Define grow up...

 

Investment Banker


-DC

 

When i was a little kid, i wanted to be in the mafia... then i wanted to be a ninja... Then some kind of assassin... Then i wanted to be some really elite cat burglar... Then i wanted to be an actor... Then a rapper... always wanted to be a racecar driver... i remember the first time i got some little Hot Wheels Grand Prix car, i looked at the package and sounded it out:
"Grand... Pricks...?"
From the other room, i heard my father:
"Grand Pree...! It's pronounced Grand Preeeee!"
Racecar driver/writer have pretty much remained while all the others have sort of taken a back seat... i'll never be good enough to be either, but i'm not exactly disappointed with my current position, if you know what i mean, so i'm not looking to go anywhere, anyway...

 

Same as now