When did you know what you wanted...

[valis23]

to be when you grew up? Or do you yet? I still don't at 43. It doesn't bother me in the least. I just find it fascinating to see something like this
http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/2220004.html

Not only did he want to be an actor, but his ultimate dream role was to play Dr. Who. And 19 years later, he is. Isn't that just a bit amazing? Seems to me that sort of thing is as rare as Bill Clinton. Aside from the occasional skirt, he was focused on the White House like a laser beam, ever since he was a kid.

I am so unlike that, it's like we're different species.

 

[G-Lexington]

I think around age twelve, I decided what I wanted to be, more than anything else, was happy.

Everything since then has been nudging me in that direction.

Lex

 

[Jeimuzu]

I still don't exactly know.

I wanted to be a game designer and possibly rival Shigeru Miyamoto from the moment i played my 3rd video game(oder - Contra, Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Super Contra). I was about 6 when i figured that out, believe it or not.

That dream is still with me(i'm sitting here designing a video game as we speak), but i have alot of other interests i could see me doing career-wise, as that one wanes.

If you ever take it up as a university degree, come to my uni! It's one of the best - one of the coders worked on Red Alert, in fact.

/plug

When I was younger, I decided I wanted to be wealthy. I must say, I'm not making a very good job of it.

 

[herenthere]

It was always "assumed" that I would follow in my fathers foot steps and become a doctor.
I knew at about 17 that was not going to happen.... I went to nursing school and love it!!!
My dad still has some problem with it...but I would change nothing..
He still doesn't get it..... it's us nurses that make the doctors look good!!!

LOL

 

[Croynan]

sometimes i wonder if i really ever did. even though i had a successful teaching career from what i have been told. i never seemed to believe it, despite what my students and administrators said.​

eM.​

 

[2243]

I can't remember how young I was when I started to draw. I have always noticeably liked colors and all of my memories as a baby are very colorful. I do remember I was 8 the first time I drew something I really liked. So, there is no doubt in my mind at all, that I have always wanted to be an artist before anything else.

 

[Alpha1851]

I was about 9 or 10 when I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. I saw a trial on television and wanted to be the person fighting it out in the courtroom.

Valis, were you absent on career day?

herenthere--nursing is a very admirable profession! They do the majority of the grunt work and make the patients feel safe and cared for!

 

[Circe Infuria]

to be when you grew up? Or do you yet?

At 31 I still have no sense of direction. The only things I know I want are to get married and have kids. But I know that I want more than that. What "that" is, I have no idea, and it makes me very unhappy to be clueless.

At this point, I feel like I'm just existing day to day with no grand plan in mind.

 

[Pushover]

I inherited all of the artistic traits from my mother, only to a greater degree. Drawing, sculpting, sketching, performing music, composing music, and recently a taste for writing; all I got from her.

I knew I'd be doing something with the arts, but I never figured out what it was. I think I need a creative outlet to put down my ideas. My goal right now is searching for that outlet. Once I know what it is, I'll know what I was meant to do.

 

[Kadratis]

I've always wanted to do something in the psychiatric field. Since I'm crazy myself, I might be able to lend a hand to the other's in need.

...but then again, nobody's normal. Heh.

 

[LarsVenice]

When I was 5 years old and living on a farm in rural central Texas, farmers would ask me that question, and I would say, "I want to be a hairdresser." You might be able to imagine the shock they registered from that answer, but their wives would say, "Well, we always need more of those."

At the same age, I was making doll clothes, and I really wanted to be a dress designer, which I did when I was 23 years old in San Francisco.

When I was in high school I took drafting because I thought I wanted to become an architect, but I really did not like drafting, even though I was very good at it, as it bored me. So when I went to college, I started out majoring in physics because I was good in science and math. After my Freshmen year doing that at Rice, I realized that I did not want to make that a career, and so I switched to German/English literature because I loved literature and had written quite a bit of poetry in Jr. High and High School, some of which had already been published. At that time I thought I wanted to be a writer, but after I got my degree in German/English (and after 8 months in Austin working at the UT library), I escaped to San Francisco and decided to do what I loved best - designing and making clothes. I was very successful at that, but hated the industry (the NY snobs the most), and so I went back to school to study interior design, even though my passion was furniture design. Luckily I ended up with a career in furniture design, and I've been very happy with that ever since, but I still like to write.

 

[ronboy]

I always wanted to be a teacher. From when I was a little kid and played school with my younger cousins (it was an effective way to keep them busy and quiet when you are the oldest cousin).

I toyed with the idea of a journalism career in college. I was a double major (Jorunalism and Education). Once I started doing my classroom field experiences though, I knew I was hooked.

 

[Ryuukie]

I wanted to be someone who changed the world for the better. Looking back, all I can ask myself is what the fuck happened?