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
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.

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