What did you want to be as a kid? Did you get that job?

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Hi.

I've searched "What want be as kid" and nothing came up. If something has, I apologize. Thanks!

As a high schooler, I'm divided between a historian and a career in sports management. I hope I have a successful career, whatever it may be.

What about you?
 
I'm still a student. I still have the opportunity to draw for a living, but it's not really want I'm studying. I can however alter it slightly and get a job making CAD renderings... that's when I finish school and have time to learn CAD at my own pace.
 
Soldier or Race driver

not very well

I work in reprographics/graphic design

If I could do it again though I would be a military historian.
Who knows, I may still get to be one.
 
I'm still a child, or teen I guess. But here are a few jobs I'd like: Pro motocross racer, pro race car driver, drummer in a rock band, bassist in a rock band (don't know how to play bass yet), architect, engineer, or a career in a science of some sort.

I'd have to say a career in music or racing would be my favorite but are least likely. :(
 
Lucas
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a grown up. Now I want to be a kid again.
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Even though I'm still only in highschool, I really want to become either a video game designer, which is the more likely option and the one I'm more set on, or a voice actor, to help overcome my discomfort talking and because I'm sort of inspired by one.
 
A race car driver, or an auto mechanic. I doubt I'll become a race car driver but it's pretty likely that I'll be able to become an auto mechanic. Which I enjoy doing so I'm not complaining.
 
An interesting thread idea 👍

I spent the first 16 years of life wanting to be an artist at Disney. Er, or at least, the chunk of that part of my life I was able to consciously decide that. Disney started abandoning the classic style in favour of only focusing on computer-aided work, and pairing that with both an awful high school art teacher and an introduction to web design and HTML through enrichment courses, I started getting more interested in graphic work. Though less about art and animation, and more about web (and print) design, and typography.

I'm a freelance designer now (working with a local university was one of my most recent jobs), and just started back at school for... Advertising & Graphic Design. Gotta make it official :D
 
I cant really remember what I wanted to do as a child, nothing in particular that stuck anyway.

I left school with 0 qualifications to my name and little ambition.
I landed myself a job in the building trade as a labourer for the pure fact that my best friend was leaving that company and I was his replacment.

A few years later a met a stone mason who wanted to take me under his wing so I gladly accepted the offer. I worked for him for 5 years doing restoration work on historic buildings. Long story short on that work ran dry and I was made redundant.

I spent 3 months sat around doing nothing before giving myself a kick up the asre. I always had an interest in welding and engineering so did some research and found a college that specialised in this area.

Whilst attending college they found me work experience and got me in at an engineering firm in the areospace industry, making fuel, oil and water lines for the Rolls Royce Trent engines that go into things like the boieng 747, the Air bus A380, Navy Destroyer aircraft carriers etc. even have tooling for the Vulcan bomber and there's only 1 of those left in service.
So next time you see a passenger airline leaving vapour trails in the sky theres a small chance I may have welded parts that are on that aircraft.

If somone had of asked me 15 years ago if this is what I see myself doing, I dont think I would have imagined doing anything I've done.
 
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Indiana Jones. It ultimately lead me to getting my degree in anthropology concentrating in archaeology, and while I don't work in the field I still go out and help with excavations as a hobby. I did work at a place for about three years though where my archaeology background was utilized quite a bit.
 
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I'm still a student. I still have the opportunity to draw for a living, but it's not really want I'm studying. I can however alter it slightly and get a job making CAD renderings... that's when I finish school and have time to learn CAD at my own pace.
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That is what I like to do too. I'm in high school right now so I have a bit of time until I seriously consider what I would like to do for a living. Right now I would really like to be an artist, as like a bit of my classmates back in junior high always describe my future career to be.
 
I'm currently in Grade 11, and my first choice for a career would be a race car driver. My second choice would be a elementary school teacher, and third would be a professional photographer.
 
I wanted to be a commercial pilot. Then I thought about how much it sucks being on a long flight, then I learned that it was my duty to protect the people on board - so I decided no. :lol: I'm not that responsible, hell no!
 
1241Penguin
My second choice would be a elementary school teacher, and third would be a professional photographer.
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Just don't take pictures of the kids. You can get in big trouble for that. :scared:
 
TB
Just don't take pictures of the kids. You can get in big trouble for that. :scared:
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Oh don't worry. Pictures of cars and trees would infinitely be better on my wall than little kids.

/killjoy

I think I'd do a pretty good job, considering most, if not all of my photography experience comes from GT5, which is the most real thing ever.
 
To be honest, I have no idea. Though my mum said she went through Uni having no idea what job she wanted to do, so I think I'm ok for now. :lol:
 
A professional race car driver (NASCAR, to be specific) or a football player. More recently, I have ditched my want to be a football player and am focusing on becoming a professional race car driver.

It will take a long time, and if it means that I will be a 50 year old rookie, so be it.
 
I wanted to follow in my Uncles footsteps and become a fighter pilot (My Uncle :)). But I didn't do as hoped in school.. So now I'm trying to become a Major League Baseballer :D but as a realistic option, I'd love to join the army, or be an underwater welder ^.^
 
Quite fitting for this forum I always wanted to become a racing driver.

It didn't happen.
 
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mattythedog
To be honest, I have no idea. Though my mum said she went through Uni having no idea what job she wanted to do, so I think I'm ok for now. :lol:
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Amen, I don't have a clue :lol:

I'm just finishing my GCSE's and am getting A* in basically every subject so I know I have the capability to earn a decent amount of money, I just need to think of a few things in the next couple of years that fit that happy medium between salary/job satisfaction.
 
I first wanted to be a soldier.

Then a scientist - I do some science experiments sometimes so I guess that was covered.

I wanted to be an artist - I do art sometimes so that's covered, too.

Wanted to be an adventurer - jumped from a plane, climbed a glacier, etc, and moved around the world pretty much covering that also.

When I entered puberty my goals got more realistic. Wanted to be a soldier still but was still too young.

Decided to be a mechanic, self-studied for a few years before going to college to study professionally - realised I didn't want to do oil changes for the rest of my career.

Design was a strong point of mine, thought I'd go in for automotive concept design - spent a few more years studying engineering only to get shot down by some major companies for having a twisted mind which was evident in my designs.

Now I've done more jobs than I care to remember but still want to be a soldier. Unfortunately my mental illness rules me out of any military career. :grumpy:
 
I'm still a teen, and ever since I was about 4 or 5 I've wanted to be a mechanic. I went through a few phases of wanting to be something different here and there, even wanting to be an ice cream man once. But in the end I always went back to wanting to be a mechanic. I went through a large phase of wanting to be a mechanic in the army, but my eyesight and lung capacity will probably fail me upon selection.

Once I get into college I'll be studying motor vehicle engineering, so hopefully if all goes well I should be a qualified mechanic by the time I'm 19. Then I can go on to take the MOT course, not sure if I'll do that yet.

I also want to be a rally and/or rallycross driver. I was thinking of entering the WRC Academy when I was old enough, but the starting budget is £100k, so... no thanks. Unless I can somehow scrape up £100k to enter. If I can't become a driver, then I would love to be a mechanic for the Ford World Rally Team. Or any rally team, apart from Citroen.
 
Katiegan
I'm still a teen, and ever since I was about 4 or 5 I've wanted to be a mechanic. I went through a few phases of wanting to be something different here and there, even wanting to be an ice cream man once. But in the end I always went back to wanting to be a mechanic. I went through a large phase of wanting to be a mechanic in the army, but my eyesight and lung capacity will probably fail me upon selection.

Once I get into college I'll be studying motor vehicle engineering, so hopefully if all goes well I should be a qualified mechanic by the time I'm 19. Then I can go on to take the MOT course, not sure if I'll do that yet.

I also want to be a rally and/or rallycross driver. I was thinking of entering the WRC Academy when I was old enough, but the starting budget is £100k, so... no thanks. Unless I can somehow scrape up £100k to enter. If I can't become a driver, then I would love to be a mechanic for the Ford World Rally Team. Or any rally team, apart from Citroen.
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Motorsport has always been a sector I've been interested in; due to the fact I'm strong when it comes to physics and maths I was considering going to Uni with the ambition of going on to work for an open wheel racing team as an aerodynamicist or something to do with data collection, generally working as part of the race team etc. Whether I worked at the track or the factory, it would be an awesome job.

It's a tall order but aren't most dream jobs?
 
Thanks to watching the golden years of the BTCC growing up, I always wanted to be a touring car driver.

So far, watching the BTCC at Oulton is the closest I've come to achieving that dream.
 
TomMcD
Motorsport has always been a sector I've been interested in; due to the fact I'm strong when it comes to physics and maths I was considering going to Uni with the ambition of going on to work for an open wheel racing team as an aerodynamicist or something to do with data collection, generally working as part of the race team etc. Whether I worked at the track or the factory, it would be an awesome job.

It's a tall order but aren't most dream jobs?
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My current ambitions are pretty much the same. I do worry sometimes that the job (aerodynamics) will be redundant in the future though. Far more likely that I won't get the grades though at A level.

Still, I think I'l get into engineering at some degree, just a question of at which level.
 
Simple Matt
I wanted to follow in my Uncles footsteps and become a fighter pilot (My Uncle :)). But I didn't do as hoped in school.. So now I'm trying to become a Major League Baseballer :D but as a realistic option, I'd love to join the army, or be an underwater welder ^.^
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My buddy is looking to be an underwater welder.
 

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