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Tue 24 Feb, 2004 04:16 pm
Kids' ambitions are great, aren't they? If we all did what we said we would, there would be a lot more firefighters and veterinarians. Anyone with a smidgen of talent would sing, dance or be an artist of some sort. Anyone with a dollop of ability would play professional sports. There would be more ballerinas than bricklayers, and more astronauts than accountants. A lot more people would study dinosaurs, and a lot more would run for President (or any comparable office).
So, fess up! Before age 10 or so, what did you want to be? And do you now do anything even remotely near to what you said you would?
I always wanted to play guitar and be a lead singer in a band. Well, I learned how to play guitar, I went to college for music for awhile, I'm working on a demo cd with a friend and i am the lead singer, i write my own songs, but thats as far as it goes. I still want that, but let's be practical.
As a kid, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I'm an art director/ graphic designer. It's related.
Sure as hell didn't want to be a metrologist...
Wanted to be Captain Kirk!
Wanted to be on subs........... (and not the sandwich
)
I wanted to be a toll collector, because I figured they got to keep all the money.
Then last week when I was talking with my mom, she told me that's not how it works.
I wanted to be a Slappy Doo Hoo, then I grew up
You may be onto something, Slappy. I bet we could set up our own booth somewhere on the Mass Pike (westa woosta) and make your childhood dreams come true. It'd take the authorities months -- maybe years -- to catch on.
I wanted to be an archaeologist, which is what I became. Although at the time I thougt you got to keep all the good stuff. You don't.
I became a geologist at age 9. My uncle Stash was a geologist and a professor and he lived in Albuquerque and I lived withh him for a year when my dad was restationed . I learned to think in 4 dimensions and it was all downhill from there.
I wanted to be a long-distance truck driver or inter-city bus driver. One of my best friends - her brother was a trucker. He smoked a cigar, and I thought he was verra verra cool.
Now I work for a trucking insurer. I've been on the highway in a big rig. I don't want to be a long-distance trucker anymore. I still think cigars are great.
I wanted to be a forest ranger--a male occupation in the '60.
I wanted to be a teacher and a children's book writer and/ or illustrator. I've been various types of teachers, and still am in a few ways, and have published illustrations, but haven't written/ illustrated a book yet. ("Yet" does apply... would still like to.)
Even at age 10 I realized that piracy was not going to be a good career choice. So I decided to be a jet pilot. It took one takeoff and one landing as a passenger on a regular airliner to put an end to that ambition.
Now I work on stuff that flies on (under, actually)jet planes. My piracy is limited to mp3s.
I wanted to be a welfare queen. One out of two ain't bad...
I wanted to be a singer in a rock band...never happened.
Hey colorbook, maybe we can meet up and start a band!
First I wanted to be a baseball player....But the whole little league system ruined it for me.
Then I wanted to be a basketball player, which if I started playing more often could happen still.
Finally I wanted to be a rocker, which I am.
I wanted to become an architect.
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