What did you want to be as a child?

[Rascal~ 657]

I couldn't find a thread like this, so...
When I was real little, I really wanted to be Indiana Jones when I was older. I would jump from a ledge in my backyard onto a swing set I used to have, and I would pretend that I would be jumping over a bottomless pit or a huge chasm, and then sometimes I would pretend that a huge boulder was coming after me as I jumped, so when I made it to safety I would look back and see the imaginary boulder fall into the imaginary chasm below. 
It was heaps of fun, and I do miss those days. 

But what about you? Did you guys wanna be an astronaught? Or a Doctor? Or a Hermit? 

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

Yeah, well may not be the most impressive but excavator operator was the first thing. Then an astronaut, allergist and a shapeshifter. Very different now though, but I'm interested in how things work that is probably why I was and still am interested in excavators, humans, cars, computers and more.

Edited June 4, 2014 by Fluttershyfan94

[Horsy 193]

I wanted to be a puma or a tiger when I was younger. As for a job I wanted to be a captain of ship. What a fool I was to want that...

[MarcelineA 126]

being a psychologist

 

I decided to give up on that dream since I thought it was going to only screw things up and give me more stress (I mean the job) plus I didn't have faith on the education system and I thought there was just no way

 

well guess what I'm taking this semester after switching my majors 3 times ._. psychology lol I guess my child version was right after all

[Obsidian Sky 14,004]

I always wanted to be an palaeontologist or archaeologist!

 

Uncovering the secrets of the past, filling the blank pages of the book of knowledge... There is still so much we don't know yet, or things that the collective memory of the human race just forgot. We can learn so much from the history.

 

If we know where we came from, we understand better where we will go in the future.

 

Edit: Im not saying that Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones influenced me there... But they kinda influenced me there...

Edited June 4, 2014 by Obsidian Sky

[StoneBrony 11]

Paleontology, almost anything in the natural sciences.  Working in a museum was definitely a dream.  Then I hit high school and found the humanities, social sciences and theater.  Then it was maybe linguistics, which led to anthropology, having a crazy awesome archaeology professor made me lean towards that.  Then full-time meat cutting made me decent money (buying a house means I'm not doing too bad I guess).  I would have most likely ended up not using a degree, as there isn't much money in what I like. 

 

I don't consider myself to be as much of an adult to call myself "grown up", being called "Mr" feels weird even at 31.  So there's still time to decide I guess.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

A MLB player I've been a HUGE baseball fan for as long as I can remember, and the thought of having thousands of fans watching you play the game I love and making a living off of that sounded like a dream

[Guest]

A princess : (

 

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[Mantza 29]

I think I wanted to be a vet or police.

[Guest90210 3,568]

I always wanted to be an NFL football player, specifically a quarterback

Edited June 4, 2014 by Rivendare

[ReverseFaller 2,484]

A princess, of course.

 

 

I actually didn't really know what I wanted to be as a kid. 

[Yozer247 1,006]

When I was a kid I wanted to be an "army man".

 

I blame action man for this dream.

[Envy 6,192]

Originally I wanted to be a cartoonist/draw comics.. For some reason, I thought I had a sense of humor, and that my ability to draw could be sufficient. Obviously, neither of those are true.

 

When I was a preteen, I was introduced to music, and wanted to become a jazz trumpeter. lol. Then later in my teens I wanted to play the bassoon in a professional orchestra.

[AppleLover 146]

I used to want to be many things. I wanted to be in the army, a policeman, a king, and a wolf. I still want to be in the military, but now I want to be a veterinarian as well. 

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

I wanted to be a veterinarian. And a Super saiyan/Pokémon trainer.

 

 Mostly the second one.

[Lagom 204]

Artist/painter, singer or actress. Pretty normal ones, but gosh those things have changed a lot over time until this date where I don't know what I want to do. 

[Dattebayo 2,850]

I wanted to draw stuff for people, for money.

Literally any job that lets you do that.

 

It's almost seems silly now, and is definitely impossible.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,303]

A ninja turtle lol.  Ummm...  Possibly a doctor or vet?  Something boring like that. xD  The original post about Indiana Jones was far more interesting.

I wanted to draw stuff for people, for money.
Literally any job that lets you do that.

It's almost seems silly now, and is definitely impossible.

From what I've seen of your art, I imagine that people would be willing to compensate you on a commission basis.  Freelance artist!

[DubWolf 17,363]

It's safe to say that when we were little, a lot of us wanted to be something we always saw; a firefighter, a police officer, a baker or teacher. Eventually we became more aware of the many different careers that exist, so we grew interested in those.

 

For me, it was a pilot (then I was scared if heights), then a meteorologist, then an astronomer, then a... well I wouldn't be little at this point . I decided on becoming an airline pilot eventually.

[Celtore 2,770]

A pokemon master. I recently achieved this goal!

 

As a career, I wanted to be a paleontologist or train engineer. I loved dinosaurs and had numerous books on them. The same goes for trains, my grandpa had these binders full of train models and statistics on them. We put binding protectors on 5 binders worth of pages. I still have more to add possibly later. I just need to find where the boxes are.

[Feather Grass 312]

First A Video Game Tester

Then Animator

Then A Video Game Designer

 

Now I am a Programming Animator... 

Edited June 4, 2014 by Feather Grass

[AppleDerpy20 59]

I wanted to be a game tester, but then a friend of mine waltzed in and claimed to have the idea first (he wants to work for Nintendo.), which lead to an argument and not talking to each other for a week or so, then in 2009, my grandfather had passed away (Oct. 9, 2009, 5:30 AM. It was really depressing for me. ), so during December that year, at night, at my dad's friend's house, I spotted her guitar and picked up and played it, and I hadn't turned back since.

[crazitaco 596]

When I was really little, I wanted to be a paleontologist because I was fascinated by fossils and dinosaurs. As I got a little older, I wanted to be a veterinarian because I loved animals, but changed my mind because sick/dying animals break my heart too much. As a teen, I wanted to be a marine biologist because I find ocean life fascinating. Now I'm majoring in art, because I want to do something I know I can be good at. Not sure if I want to be an animator, tattoo artist, or art teacher.

[Side Bird 566]

Always wanted to be an astronomer. Then it was a firefighter and then a teacher Lol.

[Clopinkie 86]

When I was young, I always wanted to be a professional athlete of some sort, with my two biggest aspirations being an NHL goaltender (which went nowhere because I suck at skating), or a professional golfer. I always figured that if those two didn't work, I'd like to become a teacher, but by the time I hit high school that didn't interest me anymore, either.