What Job Did You Want To Do When You Were A Teenager?

[Smowball]

When I was doing my exams at school I decided I really wanted to be a policewoman, but then WPC Yvonne Fletcher was killed and it scared me so I didnt pursue that idea. Dont think I ever did really have a job that I loved.

Did you end up pursuing your dream or did you end up doing a job that you would have never thought you would?

[FredPuli43]

Coronation programme seller. Will Her Majesty never leave? I'm past retirement age now. A slight improvement on my father's ambition, expressed when he was 16: secretary to a dustman.

[Arksided]

'Chief taster for walkers crisps' I saw it on an advert and thought yep... that'll do for me.

Seriously, Animatronix/movie special effects. I got no way near it except when I was doing Engineering/Machine operator.

[Hopkirk]

I never knew what I wanted to do when I was a kid.

I still don't.

[Slapshot]

Fighter Pilot....always a fighter pilot like my grandfather was.

Couldn't fly for medical reasons unfortunately so got in to weather as a way of working in Aviation. Probably done more doing this job than I'd ever have done as a Fighter Pilot

[grasscarp]

Eve, that is a coincidence. I did French and Latin at school. Then met my husband and learnt his language - Italian. Now for reasons connected with work have been taking Russian lessons for 4 years.
What a wealth of interesting people we have on here.

[China Doll]

I wanted to be a check out girl at sainsburys and sit on the tills, I thought they were really glamorous when I was little :c)

[zebo]

Air Traffic Controller, can't think why, then Computer Programmer, pre Microsoft etc.
How many of us drifted aimlessly into teaching? My hand's up!

[DaisyNonna]

Wanted to be a barrister. Then realised the law is not necessarily about justice.

[nungate]

First of all I wanted to follow in my Dad's footsteps and become a carpenter, but it wasn't allowed back then, for a long time I wanted to teach, but I joined a bank and became a telephonist/receptionist