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

Your parents made you go to an art academy? That's odd, it's usually the other way around. Even though my art is my purpose and everything to me, it's just considered to be time wastiing by the family. I'd kill to get training and a job as an artist/designer, but I have to do the sensible, independence-earning thing.

Me too.

McGentrix--

I knew we had to have something in common!

I wanted to join the army-- but they said i had to cut my hair. screw them.

I can’t believe this thread is nine years old. I always wanted to be a lawyer and I am as well as my partner. I’m an estate planning, wills and probate attorney, my partner is a divorce attorney. How convenient.

Ah, an oldie!

And how great that you became what you wanted to be. May I ask, in your avatar, are you on the right or the left?

I'm on the right in the blue shirt, getting smooched on the cheek

I'm glad you revived the thread - it's been a fun re-read.

I wanted to be a journalist......but Freud won. Psychoanalysts make good artists, I think. I know several.

I was a little boy, contemplating my life of isolation and loneliness. I told myself, "I'm going to be famous - a writer." I also dreamed in those days of astonishing my classmates by flying like Superman throughout the school. I became instead of a successful author a skilled laborer, with a tenth grade education. I do write, but have not achieved fame and fortune.

You're doing just fine, edgar. You possess good personality traits that I admire; hard working, honest, and a good family.

Thanks, CI. I also spent a period wanting to be a paleoanthropologist.

Aww, you're cute guys!

I think, I tentatively understand you, Lola. But to get it correctly, could you please repeat or say in a different way what you wanted to express?