When You Were Young

[zylaphone]

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

[wolf63]

A Police Dog Handler

[woofgang]

I can't remember ever thinking about it

[tiggerblue10]

An astronaut.

[piggynose]

I had no aspirations.
I know my mom wanted me or my brother to be a priest.

[pastafreak]

A princess or a ballerina...I drew both all the time. All my princesses had mile high crowns.

[Unsureme]

A Man.

[Spicerack]

♪ and on your own ♪

Cowboy mostly.

[barry1010]

I wanted to be a proper grown up, one that always knew what to do and was smart at all times. I still can't keep my shirts tucked in

[ludwigvan]

Happy, luckily I think I’ve achieved that, helped I think by decades of meditation and a determination to have no regrets.

[Peter Pedant]

sintist but not a rocket sintist

I cdnt spell scientist - and my best fren' whose dad was ex RAF and an engineer - wanted to be an engineer. But the solicitors son didnt seem to want to be a lwyer

[Peter Pedant]

- oh earlier - - wood maker = makes things out of wood

[bhg481]

My daughter always wanted to be able to eat buttered toast like her mum without getting covered in butter when she grew up. She's in her 50s now and still hasn't managed it; she takes after me.

[Prudie]

A train driver or a teacher. I became the latter.

[Togo]

Ugly. So that I had less attention and compliments. Alas.

[Georgiesmum]

A nurse or to work in the vets.

[Peter Pedant]

// I wanted to be a proper grown up,//
yeah i was up for that
I still remember going eek when a master said we wd look back on schooldays as the happiest days of our life

at least half the class thought 0 bloody hell

[Zacs-Master]

A bin man. Honest!

[gulliver1]

22.08 You fulfilled your wish then Togo.

[fender62]

a soldier then as a teen a rockstar.

[Buenchico]

Most of the time I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. I became one and stuck at it for more years than most do.

However every time I went to the local station with my parents, whether for travel or for a bit of train spotting, I wanted to work there (especially when I first saw their staff using hand-held radios, which not even the police had at that time). I eventually ended up running that station for a few years.

I also quite fancied becoming a journalist. I now hold a qualification in journalism and I've done a bit of freelancing.

I also liked the idea of being a radio presenter. I later did a bit of relief work for a BBC local radio station.

The only job I remember being interested in as a kid, that I never got to do, was working as an air traffic controller. I'm sure that many thousands of airline passengers should be relieved that I didn't ;-)