Thread: What did you want to be when you grew up...

I wanted to be a professional baseball player. I used to pitch all the time with my dad. However I never played or even tried out for a team until I was 13. I had a mean ass slider and a fastball no one could hit in my league. My curve was pretty nice but I had control issues with it. Not bad but not a mainstay game pitch. I threw high 80's by the time I was 15 and was basically untouchable in my league. Then I quit... Lead in HR's but you already knew that... Even before I had ever swung a bat I would pretend in my living room. I was the best player ever...lol I kept my stats and everything! Kids... I'd run the bases(pillows) steal bases, make diving catches etc... Won the triple crown every year! Those were good times.

I also thought of being a lawyer or doctor like 80% of everyone else did.

Today these things obviously aren't to be but I'm trying to make the most of what remains. Now I'm working on running a sucessful business and getting paid to play softball. God help me...

I wantid to be a diskjocky like my faveorite morning guy, The Mayor, Dave Pratt. I was a diskjocky back in highschool and I was the station manager and I was like famous back then.

Now, I work at my school's library and working on a culinary arts degree. I'm the 2nd generation of chefs in my family.

I wanted to be a drug dealer.

Joking aside, I wanted to be a Navy Seal. *sigh*

I wanted to be rich. I am still working on that.

I wanted to be a hockey player or a cop. Around graduation of high school I realized that I would be neither. Hockey was not happening because of my failure to pursue it by going to college and I opted against a career in law enforcement due to my tendency to fly off the handle with my bad temper.

What do I do now? I sit at a desk working on a computer all day designing wiring harnesses for helicopters. Fun stuff...

I have somewhat of an unstable story!

1979:birth
wanted to be:
1985: Micheal Jackson(dont ask!!)
1987: a boy(dont ask!lol)
1989: a singer
1990: in the military...(Watched a 2 hour video about basic training twice a day!)
1992: an actress
1995: An Amway success story(actually made about 60k/year for a few years doing that while going to school!! But thats canadian funds, so thats about $2 US)
1996: a grown up, so I left the family nest!
1997: a mother
2001: a stand up comedian (still working on that!)
2002: skinny!

Today: well, I own a successfull translation business, I do have kids, I can still sing, Im working to become a PT and broaden my knowledge of training and nutrition and I get fitter by the day! I think I did alright!

I wanted to be Kojak, then The Hulk, then Colt Seevers aka. The Fall Guy, then I wanted to be a Lion in the Jungle with Tarzan, then a Jedi like Yoda, then I wanted to be a Kung-Fu Monk like David Carradine just wandering around teaching mean poeple hard lessons. That was ages 3 to 8. From 9 to 15 I wanted to be anything from a ninja to a football player to Tony Hawk to a Rock guitarist. From 15 to 18 I just wanted to be away from my home town doing anything.

From the moment I was capable of wanting to be something, I have wanted to be a soldier. As time progressed, I wanted to be a better soldier, then the best soldier I could be so I could do more for others in the Army. I think I am there now, achieving all that. I have only two more positions in the military that I could go higher, at the same rank, but two positions higher. Not sure if I will get both, but one more is likely. My lifelong dream is mostly complete.

RN to doctor to orthapedic surgeon.....in the process of trying to become a lawyer, with hopes of specializing in tax and also being a CPA...

Originally Posted by crazy_enough

1995: An Amway success story(actually made about 60k/year for a few years doing that while going to school!! But thats canadian funds, so thats about $2 US)

Happy:

almost happy.

What I wanted to be...

mother/lawyer/model

what I am...

a plonker!

I'm still working on what I am, I'll let you know if and when I ever get there.

A father to my son. Retired by mid life. Married to one woman till we get matching head stones with "Married for 60 years" carved in them. 2 outta 3 aint bad ... I'm not married anymore.

Never had a dream job ... other than make a good living. I just used my head and worked hard at what ever was in front of me. It worked.

As a kid i wanted to be a Terminator, or basically anything Arnold was.

Then as a teen I wanted to be a pro soccer player. I was (still am) pretty damn good, but i don't think i could make the US Nat'l team

So now i just settle for being a bodybuilder /rockstar

A male pornstar.

Of course sometimes i've wanted to be a pro bodybuilder, but I don't want to be a juice freak.

I want to be like Albob.

In a few years I'll be a chemical analyst, and will be known as Dr. gococks

I'm changing mine to bodybuilder and pimp...

Originally Posted by BritChick

What I wanted to be...
what I am...

I'm still working on what I am, I'll let you know if and when I ever get there.

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(Also pretty much sums it up for me)





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