Besides the obvious of course. Though I wanted (still do) to be a girl I still had ideas of being a firefighter, athlete, or politician. Deep down I wanted to be Vanna White, Miss America, or a Cheerleader too.
Just like my Mom. A wife and a Mother. I know, not a lofty goal. But that is what I wanted. Then as I got older I wanted to be a packaging engineer for GM.
Now I just want to be a wife.
Janet
I did not want to grow up. I'll be 55 this year, on May 5th by the way, and I've pretty much accomplished everything I've set out to do. Now, another 55 more, maybe, I might hit adolescence.
I wanted to be a puppy, a butterfly, a leaf. I played with the fairies that lived under the back step who never talked down to me or hurt me. That whole growing up thing is totally overrated, and fortunately so far I've been able to avoid it for the most part.
I wanted to be a lawyer. lol don't ask why. All I know is that it paid well and money was something that my family didn't have a whole lot of! Aside from the gender issue I love independence so anything that involved traveling and exotic locales became my next big dream. Anything to get away from the dysfunction in my home and lack of any good looking guys. I mean the locals just weren't doing it for me! lol.
Yeah not a whole lot of big dreams but let me tell you! These days dreams are the thing keeping me motivated and relentless ;)
I wanted to be a doctor or a biker, lol.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Miss America. I never missed the pageant when it came on TV and pestered my mother to make me look like the contestants. When I was little, she would make me up, when my dad wasn't home. I think she really wanted me to be her little girl, probably one of the reasons she's not pitching a fit about the whole gender thing.
As I got older, I realized, sadly, I would never be Miss America, but I had other dreams to fall back on. I still want to be a successful writer (a dream I picked up when I was about 13, or so).
Regards,
~A
Still young. Well. . . let's see.
Biologist of some sort
Comic book artist (lineart)
Graphic design?
Yep, still not too sure.
Doctor (Who :D), geneticist, games programmer/designer, researcher, inventor.
Work on AI, regenerative medicine and human enhancement through biology and/or mechanics.
Hands down, I wanted to be on the radio. A DJ, preferably one of those with a license to act a fool.
I still think it'd be a lot of fun but I know now those folks have to put up with a ton of BS too.
doe to being ts and having a dysfunctional family i didn't want anything...curious state to be in...life was just a constant pain that each dawn was a misery that lasted right until i closed my eyes to sleep.
but I know now those folks have to put up with a ton of BS too.
Who doesn't? GW Bush/B Obama were/are the most powerful people in the US and they seem to get more BS then the rest of us combined. Even doing nothing at home is not BS free, you still have you're own BS to live with. At which point, a boss and a staff (both full of BS) starts to look pretty good.
I've thought about this a lot. When I was little I wanted to be a vetrenarian. I'm not a particularly ambitious person, to be quite honest I just kinda do what sounds good at the time...for better or worse.
One positive thing about our situation is that most of us have been able to do things and have character building experiences we never would have had otherwise. I wanted to be a US Marine pretty much for as long as I could remember, and now I am. I remember the intense pride and sense of belonging I experienced the first time I put on the uniform. I wanted to run a business so I got myself in a position to do so and before long I was running a business.
I've been to places and seen and done things that are really just amazing. I've trekked through south america, sailed to the corners of the globe, taken and spared lives, handled hundreds of thousands of dollars, interviewed and hired and fired people, and so much more. I'll never amount to much socially because I don't stick with anything long term, I get restless. When I finish my degree I'll prolly go run a restaurant again or something, or maybe just learn to scuba dive.
If I had been born xx, I prolly never would have done any of these things. Looking at the other women in my family, I might have got an associates degree then sidled up to some man and had kids. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I just don't think it would have been the life for me. I fancy myself an adventurer, more of an Emilia Earhart than a June Cleaver. I consider myself a better person for the experiences I've had, even if they were boyish.
I would like to learn to scuba dive. Now that I get to thinking about it, I would really like that.
Well I constantly used to play at being a radio presenter - not a DJ but a talkshow host. I also had a strange fixation with being an electronics engineer, and then that mutated into becoming a film editor.
In real life once post SRS I became first a software engineer working on a sub-contract for NASA, then a BBC Videotape editor and archive preservation specialist, finally I am now a writer.
So I guess I've achieved just about all my childhood dreams on that score. :)
I wanted to be an astronaut, a firefighter and a nurse. All at different times of my youth. I actually gave great thought to being a nurse before high school graduation. What stopped me was that I felt people would see me as being too feminine (they might figure out my little secret). Always worried about what others would think of me at that age. ???
Dawn
I wanted to be a comedian, then a drummer, then. . .nothing.
Sometime around 7 or 8, I ceased giving thought to my future. Other kids in school confused me with their continued certainty. She's going to ride and train horses professionally, and she's going to be a vet, and he's going to be an artist or rock musician. They all seemed "on a track" while I sat on a rock, chin on hand, bewildered that not only could I not imagine or settle upon a future for myself but "everyone else" seemed to do so so easily.
I wanted to be like my mom, and I turned out pretty much that way. She got me into math, climbing, baking, piano, guitar, skiing, programming, etc. So .. there you have it. I'm actually the girliest girl on the face of the planet, and nobody knows it, because my gender roles are all bent out of shape.
From very early a zoologist, even took a degree in it.
Reading, My Family and Other Animals by Gerry Durrell at the age of eight didn't help. Still one of the funniest books around.
Cindy
Quote from: JessicaLynn on January 13, 2010, 10:05:58 PM
Besides the obvious of course. Though I wanted (still do) to be a girl I still had ideas of being a firefighter, athlete, or politician. Deep down I wanted to be Vanna White, Miss America, or a Cheerleader too.
I didn't have one! my only thoughts as a kid were to get away from the bullies at school.
I wanted to be Miss America and a mommy and I still do!
Quote from: MissAshley on January 15, 2010, 12:08:49 AM
They all seemed "on a track" while I sat on a rock, chin on hand, bewildered that not only could I not imagine or settle upon a future for myself but "everyone else" seemed to do so so easily.
That sums my experience up...it was as if I wasn't privy to a lot of the normal everyday things all the other kids did and knew naturally...
Binman oddly.
(Garbageman for the 'Merkins)
when i was really young, i wanted to be a bird.
that changed into teaching, and now i'm nearly done with my nursing degree.
I wanted to be "normal" and not to have cerebral palsy anymore.
I wanted to be a firefighter and a Emt. I have achieved both. I also do private home health, I have started hrt and electrolysis. On my way to my final objective. Oh yeah! Let's not forget the 4 years in the Army Infantry my dad said I did not have the intestinal fortitude to do; Plus Desert Storm. Oh well. I am successfully on my way. Hugs girls. ;)
astronaut. then i watched apollo 13 and realized that its dangerous and i changed my mind :P
dunno what else. maybe archeologist? still kinda sounds cool today (though not as exciting as some movies might make you think).
i never was very sure on what i want.
oh yes, eventually game designer sounded nice and kind of realistic. I basically stuck with that "game developing" idea and went into computer science, because its just what fit who i seemed to be.
oooh now i remember watching an ad on tv, when i was young, for audtions (?) to be a model and i really wanted to do that! my god, when i think there aren't any more repressed memories to unlock, i find more.
I remember having this discussion with my brother when very young growing up, he wanted to be an astronaut so I used to say I wanted to be a pilot, but it was all a lie, deep down I wanted to be a catwalk model and wear pretty dresses, I could never admit that.
I never got to be a model, but I got to wear pretty dresses, I finally got to be a pretty girl, I guess thats how I ended up being a totally girly girl, to make up for the first 16years of my life, instead of being a happy little girl I was a very unhappy ''guy'' who was bullied all the time for being ''sissy odd and strange'' I grew up and now Im just like my Mother, an attractive woman.
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nuclear physicist at 7, but settled for architect/graphics designer/photographer (more freedom to express my artistic side)
::) Evie
Wonder Woman, or maybe Dyna Girl.
I wanted to be a preacher or a Navy Chaplain (I liked the ocean). Then I became agnostic at the religious high school I attended (a great experience actually) - so I became a therapist.
Re: What did you want to be when you were young?
Female! but at such a young age I wasn't thinking about any kind of career!
I wanted to be a princess! Just kidding. I wanted to be an astronaut and a drummer. I failed at drumming and I am not good at science so I'm thinking astronaut is not a good choice for me. I chose the exciting field of FINANCE and SALES instead, woo hoo!!! It reminds me of those commercials where kids are saying things like "when I grow up, I want to work in middle management." :) Meghan
I wanted to be one of the June Taylor dancers. (I'm showing my age here. ::)) They were on early TV and would whirl around the stage in formation, the men in tuxes and neat outfits and the women always gorgeous. It was group dancing like you see in the old musicals.
I also wanted to be a window dresser – the person who creates window displays and dresses the dolls mannequins.
And for some reason I always envied drag queens – the performers. I think I admired their nerve and quick wit, since I didn't have either. :P
But I would have been happy to be a wife and mother if I had a nice husband and he made adequate money and we lived happily ever after and all that. :)
- Kate
Aside from the obvious, when I was very very young I wanted to be a "Toy Fixer." (obviously before I understood what a career was, but after seeing holiday movies including Santa's elves one too many times ;) )
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After that, I'm pretty similar to MissAshley. Around 7 or 8 I stopped looking ahead. I tried to...but there just wasn't anything there for me to look for. Trying to find a connection somewhere, but feeling hopelessly cut off from others in any meaningful way. Without that connection...no matter how hard I worked...the accomplishments, awards, degrees, careers...they all failed to impart the same meaning...the same feelings of success and accomplishment...to me than they did to my peers.
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Truth be told, what I wanted most was to be a mom, and to have a family.
I have always wanted to work in aviation. Although I would have preferred to be a pilot or an astronaut I did become a mechanic. Still am to this day. Of course there were the other wants like gymnast, ballerina, doctor, ice skater.......the list goes on. Although quite a few of my dreams were dashed to the rocks because "you're a boy, and my son won't do that" I did achieve my goal of working in aviation. And now I'm finally on the way to becoming my other dream. That of being a woman. :)
When I was 7 I wanted to be an entomologist.
Yeah... I was a massive geek even as a child.
astronaut, or marine biologist. I could be left alone with no one to care what gender I was in one of those suits and I love science, biology best of all.
Astronaut (what kid doesn't want to be an astronaut when they grow up? lol.)
Nurse or doctor
Game/Media designer (This is the field that I am currently pursuing)
Fashion designer
Professional author (I might one day do this on the side of the media design, as writing is a passion of mine, but not something I could see myself doing full time.)
Cook (I pursued this, and then realized that standing in a hot kitchen for 8 hours straight and being rushed (sometimes to the point where I would injure myself), yelled at and told to "man up" was not for me and so I changed careers)
I wanted to be a hockey goalie.
Early on, I so wanted to be a June Taylor dancer (K8 and I could have met and danced around the stage for hours.) I couldn't watch them on the Jackie Gleason show without dancing around the living room. Later on, looking for a slightly more male occupation (WHY???) I thought being a radio announcer would be the thing. You know, walk up the mic and say, "This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. It's 8 PM, time for an hour of dance music from the roof of the Hotel Astor in New York." Or as one announcer said one night, "Greetings from the ass of the Hotel Roof in New York!" That's probably the announcer I'd be remembered as. I even went to the fly-by-night school of broadcasting, but by then, announcers spun records between commercials. How boring!
SusanKG
I wanted to be a paleosomething, like Dr. Sattler from Jurassic Park. Now that I'm in university, I'm working towards a degree in evolutionary biology with a ton of really awesome paleo classes, so I'm well on my way!
I also wanted to be an author, and I still do that in my free time. I doubt I'll ever be able to make a living off of it though.
Obviously I wanted to be a girl, and still do, well a woman now since I am a bit older.
But besides that I always wanted to be a pilot. The only way I could achieve that due to financial issues was via the air force, but since my eye sight is shot that was never going to happen. I was also interested in electronics and ended up becoming an Avionics Engineer, which is pretty much what I still do.
Oh and since I am one of those strange sports loving people, i wanted to represent my country, any sport would do. When i was really little it was cricket, later it became netball.
Quote from: Laura Hope on January 14, 2010, 12:42:35 AM
Hands down, I wanted to be on the radio. A DJ, preferably one of those with a license to act a fool.
Me too, Laura.
I was hooked on radio as a kid (1940s) and had some hands-on experience when I was in high school. But I didn't go into it full-time till I was forty. I was on the air but soon found that I preferred writing and producing commercials. It was a fourteen-year arc of fun and creative challenge, but then I got bored and moved on.
Funny thing is I wanted to be just like my Dad. I looked up to him more than anyone in the world. He was a Engineer at IBM, he worked for IBM on the Saturn V rockets that went to the moon, his picture is on a microfiche on the moon as I type. He could fix anything in the world with his two bare hands and the right tools. I think he was an athlete in High School. He went to the University of Oklahoma. He had 5 kids and put them all through college when his own parents didn't graduate from college themselves.
Well I pretty accomplished a lot of things he did. I set out to do all those things. Things changed a bit in college when I failed my first engineering class so I switch to Landscape Architecture. I think that is when I started to fly my own destiny. Some of us don't realize we wanted to be something different all along, our role models were good, they just don't always suit what is best for us sometimes and we will chase others dreams before finding our own.
I am now a Licensed Architect in 2 states, father of two wonderful kids and I will put them through college someday, I am a healthy happy person, and that is most important. That is what I really wanted all along, and I was not truly happy those first 39 years, no matter how good my life was.
This is my life now and it is what I want to be, forget the past and what I thought I wanted to be.
Jessica
A traveling wizard, astronaut, and a jack/jane-of-all-trades.
At least I got the last one! ;D
The president/prime minister of a powerful country...
I still want to become. See how it goes.
I wanted to be a superhero. Still do.
I wanted to be a magician's assistant!
No kidding! They were all so pretty and they wore lovely costumes.
As a child I wanted to be levitated by a magician and lowered in to a box with my head and feet showing, then sawn in half. The ladies who I saw that were sawn in half, were always smiling at the audience during the performance and they seemed to enjoy the magical experience.
It wasn't until much later that I discovered how the trick works. But I still wanted to be a woman and gets lots of attention on stage and wear those sexy costumes.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer
I was a tap dancer - but I kept falling into the sink ;D ::)
First I wanted to be a cartoonist, later I wanted to be a professional trumpet player... Probably more on the jazz side. But that was back before I became stupid and depressed and ruined my chances of becoming a music performance major... but that's okay, I'd never make enough money anyway. XD
Always liked plants growing up... never really thought about "that dream job" for some reason... Planning on going to uni for a botany degree, unsure what I'll use it for tho :laugh:
All i ever dreamed about was being a pilot, commercial or military it didn't matter. 2nd choice was a police officer or dea/atf dealing with drugs, had this uncle growing up we were terrified of because he was high all the time. He would have been my 1st arrest!!!!
The DEA does not go after people who are high, they go after traffickers, who as a rule almost always do NOT do the drugs they traffic in.
Quote from: MyKa on March 19, 2010, 11:05:20 AM
All i ever dreamed about was being a pilot, commercial or military it didn't matter. 2nd choice was a police officer or dea/atf dealing with drugs, had this uncle growing up we were terrified of because he was high all the time. He would have been my 1st arrest!!!!
Oh well, i still would have had his ass arrested :)
When I was young I was into Hello Kitty and had a Pink Barbie Bicycle. First I wanted to be a computer. Then a magician. I always fantasized that I was a cyborg and was sexually aroused when I thought about myself being dissected and sawed in half. Then I wanted to be a tiger. Then a dragon. Then a tiger. Then I wanted to be a fighter-pilot. Then I wanted to be a cute girly boy. I was sexually aroused when I imagined myself being a plastic sentient girl toy and guys litterally eating my entire body while I was still alive, in the middle of the supermarket. Then I wanted to be a Bionicle. Then I wanted to be a Badass. Now I want to be a boy that looks like a girl but also the queen of darkness that is not actually a Queen but a Guy with an evil snake voice with awesome Badass Satanic Armor but looks like a girl Although he does not have boobs.
Throughout my life I've always wanted to be a musiscian, artist, and film and game designer. Some times I wanted to jam the radio waves to broadcast parodies of radio announcers and Dj's. Or have my own fake news program. I wouldn't mind being a rogue soldier of fortune. I could take potshots at poachers and earn money by killing the people who make Darfur such a bad place.
I wanted to be what I am working on being now a teacher, I of course wanted to be other things I wanted to be a firefighter did that, I wanted to race cars did that, and I wanted to work in politics I even did that but I am thirty and back in school to do what I wanted to do as a child. I come from a long line of teachers on both sides of my family so I really do not know why it has taken me so long to finally just do it.
I wanted to be a rock star/poet. My reality job was to be a very good wiatress in an upscale place where I would make lots of money, have an apartment, a roomate and a cat! I was a very good waitress but, not in the right place so I never made the money to have the kind of place I liked. My degree is in Human Services and I own a bookstore - not at all what I expected my life to be!
Quote from: Starscrash on February 28, 2010, 10:31:46 PM
I wanted to be a paleosomething, like Dr. Sattler from Jurassic Park. Now that I'm in university, I'm working towards a degree in evolutionary biology with a ton of really awesome paleo classes, so I'm well on my way!
I also wanted to be an author, and I still do that in my free time. I doubt I'll ever be able to make a living off of it though.
Ahh!! Me too!!! I loved to read, and read Jurassic Park when I was in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades!! I wanted to be a paleontologist.
But, alas, I was better at numbers, thus, I'm a bean counter.
I wanted to be a Marine Biologist but I was cohersed into the military by my parents apparently to make a man of me.....that was never going to work.... after leaving that macho environment I became a Medical Engineer. But since transitioning I have left that all behind for my artwork and since finding my soulmate I am now waiting to become her wife in the very near future ;)
I wanted to be a bus driver! Also I wanted to be a Girl Guide like my friend and playmate next door. The Girl Guides said NO, BECAUSE YOU'RE A BOY! I did get to have a go at driving a bus though, when I was older.
I wanted to be an Astronaut, still do, but that is unlikely to happen. My dad still encourages me to pursue it although, sometimes I don't think he realizes I'm 20 not 7 :laugh: