A few things. A vet. A marine biologist. A voice actor. An animal rehabilitator. A comic artist.
I was too academically dumb to pursue any of the science-y stuff, so I gave up on that. Grew up and realised it’s probably a good thing I gave up on being a vet tho. I know a couple of people who have worked in the industry and are still working there, and the stories I hear were just super depressing… If I were in it, idk how I’d be able to handle being absolutely pissed at irresponsible people.
As for voice acting, I ended up developing social anxiety so that flew out the window.
Now I’m currently trying to get over my anxiety to post comics online.
Oh, I also thought it’d be nice to work in a dog daycare, but the reality was a nightmare. Those businesses just min-max profits, so much irresponsible shit going on, the dog screening process is a joke (so many dogs that should be rejected get accepted because $$$), and the bosses really don’t care about the dogs much. You don’t pay for your dog to have quality time, you pay for someone to ensure your dog is not dead. And even then, it isn’t a guarantee due to the horrible screening process! I know a few people whose dogs have died in dog daycares due to dog fights….
As a kid I wanted to be a spy, and also a detective. As an adult I worked in military intelligence (although I was not an actual spy). Later, I worked as a Special Investigator for the government, which is kind of a distant cousin to being a detective. I think 10 year old me would have been pretty happy with the way my aspirations turned out.
Edit: I’m considering getting my Private Investigator license in retirement. The 10 year old in me is SO excited at the idea.
A paleontologist but everybody discouraged me from doing that saying “you won’t make any money and you’ll just end up working in a museum.” So I didn’t become a paleontologist but I ended up in a museum and making no money anyway lol
I was in kindergarten and was in awe of the school bus driver. There are jobs where all you do all day is get to drive?! It seemed/sounded so fun! Now I’d hate my life if I had to drive all day long.
I never bothered wanting to be anything because i genuinely just couldn’t imagine a future as an adult.
I also thought “dream job” meant something you actually go to sleep and dream about. Then i was interested in welding/tattooing/biology/anesthesiology/anthropology
but in my hs girl just “never seemed to make the cut” since there were so many boys wanting to take it, my grandpa was making me help with moving 10+ft boards and in ended up dropping one on my wrist in a way that it has a problem and i dont thin’ my arts that great for tattooing, and my mom just straight up didnt take me to school some days and refused to take me to summer school so i didn’t graduate and lost a scholarship (wouldn’t been 2 free years of studying ANYTHING).
She even lost my birth certificate and refused to help me get an ID so i could get a job. Ik you can go back to school later in life or whatever but with how expensive it is i doubt I can, it dont understand scholarships and i read (forgot where) that if you get a get instead of diploma or take a gap years than you wont qualify for most scholarships.
Movie star, pop star or model. I ended up being a chiropractor who did community theater for 10 years before the pandemic hit. No regrets. I did promotional modeling when I was in college, but I didn’t pursue a career in the industry because it made my insecurities worse, plus I was too short and not a size 00.
I wanted to be a surgeon. My father was in an accident and almost lost half of his arm, but the surgeon managed to reconstruct it in 9 hours so well that after a year of rehabilitation, it worked perfectly. And it was a very serious accident. I was amazed by the surgeon’s work.
I wanted to be a Photographer. Specifically would LOVE to go travel to super cool, dark and scary abandoned places. Especially places with a lot of vandalism & graffiti lololol.
Orrrr something in the Medical Field.
The most basic but still helpful type of position. Like front and back office and I would be able to handle giving shots or drawing blood.
Idk why but I’ve always pictures myself being super good at drawing blood. lol. Never tried though 🙁
Cosmologist. My dad was a barber and I thought it would be fun to have a family business with him taking care of the men and me the women.
Yes, as an adult I know that men and women can go to either a barber or a cosmologist, they are not restricted by gender.
A zookeeper or marine biologist! I ended up studying ecology and biodiversity a few years later in life (and loved it!!) I have worked temporarily in the field but I work in hospitality now and hate it 🥲
I was asked this question as a child & as the story goes I said that I didn’t know, but I wanted to have as many different experiences as I could in one life time. The universe delivered.
I wanted to be an architect. My aunt, who lived abroad and was extremely cool in my eyes, was an architect, so it’s kinda obvious why. I only stopped pursuing that when I was in high school.
Wanted to be a Vet. Or Paediatrician/Dermatologist/Anaesthetist. Or Air Hostess. Eventually decided on Vet.
One of my teachers at secondary school told me it wasn’t a suitable career for me and I believed her 🤦🏾♀️😂 I know…dumb right? But it was a school my mum was desperate for me to go to because she thought it was good. I was young and thought adults were right about everything…🙃
I am not an astronaut but I build the rocket in order for the satellite and in the future, astronauts, to go to space. I get paid decently, unlike SpaceX employees.
A storm chaser then a criminal profiler. I’m going to school now for applied criminology (masters degree) just like John Douglas! He was one of the original FBI profilers and helped with the Silence of the Lambs (Jack Crawford is based on him).
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I wanted to be a vet! Going into medicine now (for humans, not a dr though)
just a glitch, probably
Zoologist.
The UN Ambassador for my home country.
Journalist.
I wanted to be a teacher and I became one but it wasn’t anything like I thought it would be unfortunately.
A garbage man
I KNEW I would be a nurse, only I didnt make it.
An astronaut. Saw space camp as a kid and was mesmerized!
A few things. A vet. A marine biologist. A voice actor. An animal rehabilitator. A comic artist.
I was too academically dumb to pursue any of the science-y stuff, so I gave up on that. Grew up and realised it’s probably a good thing I gave up on being a vet tho. I know a couple of people who have worked in the industry and are still working there, and the stories I hear were just super depressing… If I were in it, idk how I’d be able to handle being absolutely pissed at irresponsible people.
As for voice acting, I ended up developing social anxiety so that flew out the window.
Now I’m currently trying to get over my anxiety to post comics online.
Oh, I also thought it’d be nice to work in a dog daycare, but the reality was a nightmare. Those businesses just min-max profits, so much irresponsible shit going on, the dog screening process is a joke (so many dogs that should be rejected get accepted because $$$), and the bosses really don’t care about the dogs much. You don’t pay for your dog to have quality time, you pay for someone to ensure your dog is not dead. And even then, it isn’t a guarantee due to the horrible screening process! I know a few people whose dogs have died in dog daycares due to dog fights….
Nothing. I’ve never wanted to work
I really wanted to be a psychologist and help people feel better.
An actress or pop star.
A dentist. Because I enjoyed yanking my loose teeth out. And my friends’ teeth too.
Catwoman
Astronaut
An architect, but I was terrible at math
Librarian
A teacher, an astronomer and an architect.
Happy, safe, and loved.
Paediatric nurse.
Went to uni. Got to placement. Couldn’t do it.
As a kid I wanted to be a spy, and also a detective. As an adult I worked in military intelligence (although I was not an actual spy). Later, I worked as a Special Investigator for the government, which is kind of a distant cousin to being a detective. I think 10 year old me would have been pretty happy with the way my aspirations turned out.
Edit: I’m considering getting my Private Investigator license in retirement. The 10 year old in me is SO excited at the idea.
A paleontologist but everybody discouraged me from doing that saying “you won’t make any money and you’ll just end up working in a museum.” So I didn’t become a paleontologist but I ended up in a museum and making no money anyway lol
I always wanted to be a vet.
Ended up being a nurse.
A scientist!
I was in kindergarten and was in awe of the school bus driver. There are jobs where all you do all day is get to drive?! It seemed/sounded so fun! Now I’d hate my life if I had to drive all day long.
Grandmother Willow
Idk how far back we’re going here but I wanted to be the tooth fairy SO BAD
I never bothered wanting to be anything because i genuinely just couldn’t imagine a future as an adult.
I also thought “dream job” meant something you actually go to sleep and dream about. Then i was interested in welding/tattooing/biology/anesthesiology/anthropology
but in my hs girl just “never seemed to make the cut” since there were so many boys wanting to take it, my grandpa was making me help with moving 10+ft boards and in ended up dropping one on my wrist in a way that it has a problem and i dont thin’ my arts that great for tattooing, and my mom just straight up didnt take me to school some days and refused to take me to summer school so i didn’t graduate and lost a scholarship (wouldn’t been 2 free years of studying ANYTHING).
She even lost my birth certificate and refused to help me get an ID so i could get a job. Ik you can go back to school later in life or whatever but with how expensive it is i doubt I can, it dont understand scholarships and i read (forgot where) that if you get a get instead of diploma or take a gap years than you wont qualify for most scholarships.
Doctor because I love helping people.
I am now trying to be an accountant.
I wanted to play professional volleyball. I did, turns out there’s no money in it so doctor it is
An Olympic event rider, or a zookeeper.
I ended up working on horse farms for over a decade. So I guess I achieved a mix of both? 😂
Movie star, pop star or model. I ended up being a chiropractor who did community theater for 10 years before the pandemic hit. No regrets. I did promotional modeling when I was in college, but I didn’t pursue a career in the industry because it made my insecurities worse, plus I was too short and not a size 00.
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I wanted to be a surgeon. My father was in an accident and almost lost half of his arm, but the surgeon managed to reconstruct it in 9 hours so well that after a year of rehabilitation, it worked perfectly. And it was a very serious accident. I was amazed by the surgeon’s work.
A postman. lol
Dead
Writer
I wanted to be a happy person
It went: painter>vet>astronaut>scientist>anything that makes money
A fireman!
Yes I’m a woman but I never saw firewomen while I was growing up.
Happy.
I wanted to be a Photographer. Specifically would LOVE to go travel to super cool, dark and scary abandoned places. Especially places with a lot of vandalism & graffiti lololol.
Orrrr something in the Medical Field.
The most basic but still helpful type of position. Like front and back office and I would be able to handle giving shots or drawing blood.
Idk why but I’ve always pictures myself being super good at drawing blood. lol. Never tried though 🙁
But… both these dreams died A LONG LONG TIME AGO💔
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What I’m now. A doctor. It’s literally the only career choice I had since I was 5. It was like a calling.
A waitress, and I became one! Personally I love it
I wanted to be either an archaeologist or paleontologist 🙂 I still pick up rocks, old/cool things I find whenever I can!
Cosmologist. My dad was a barber and I thought it would be fun to have a family business with him taking care of the men and me the women.
Yes, as an adult I know that men and women can go to either a barber or a cosmologist, they are not restricted by gender.
A zookeeper or marine biologist! I ended up studying ecology and biodiversity a few years later in life (and loved it!!) I have worked temporarily in the field but I work in hospitality now and hate it 🥲
Violin player, cowboy, fighter pilot, archaeologist, jockey, horse trainer, dancer, actress, singer, molecular biologist, healthy…
This is what I wanted to be from age 2 1/2 – 25. Violin and archaeologist have though always been dream “jobs”.
Ballerina, Stripper, Lawyer. I became none of those. Lol
A waitress and also a Circle K cashier
I’ve known at a young age that I had no idea what I wanted to become or who I wanted to be
An ice skater, or owner of a pet hotel.
I did but it changed. I wanted to be a mommy, then a teacher, then a mortician, then a psychologist.
I was asked this question as a child & as the story goes I said that I didn’t know, but I wanted to have as many different experiences as I could in one life time. The universe delivered.
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Sculptor … Special Education Teacher … Make-up Artist/Movies … Daycare Center Owner
Happy. But that’s not going to happen. No chance of it at all.
I wanted to be an architect. My aunt, who lived abroad and was extremely cool in my eyes, was an architect, so it’s kinda obvious why. I only stopped pursuing that when I was in high school.
Wanted to be a Vet. Or Paediatrician/Dermatologist/Anaesthetist. Or Air Hostess. Eventually decided on Vet.
One of my teachers at secondary school told me it wasn’t a suitable career for me and I believed her 🤦🏾♀️😂 I know…dumb right? But it was a school my mum was desperate for me to go to because she thought it was good. I was young and thought adults were right about everything…🙃
I wanted to be an astronaut.
I am not an astronaut but I build the rocket in order for the satellite and in the future, astronauts, to go to space. I get paid decently, unlike SpaceX employees.
a mermaid and a stripper lol i did not have a good childhood 😭💀
A fashion designer
A storm chaser then a criminal profiler. I’m going to school now for applied criminology (masters degree) just like John Douglas! He was one of the original FBI profilers and helped with the Silence of the Lambs (Jack Crawford is based on him).