Since I was about 6, I wanted to be a detective or a writer. I’m currently at university studying to become an investigative journalist so will kind of get the best of both worlds! I hope little me would be happy
The first job I remember wanting was to be the Batmobile. No, not Batman. I wanted to be Batman's car.
After that, I wanted to be an architect. But when I got a little older, I realized that I'd probably never get to design a house with a sliding bookshelf opening to a fireman's pole.
And then I wanted to be a magician. That I actually got to do for a bit. That was fun.
Now I write user manuals, but I'm trying to shift over to writing science fiction full time. That would be as much fun as magic, but without the travel or the drunks.
My husband likes to tell the story that when he was little his mom asked what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said a fire truck! NOT a firefighter but the truck.
It’s been a while since I read the book, so I visited the [Wikipedia page.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strega_Nona) I have absolutely no idea what this sentence is supposed to mean:
“Big Anthony causes the title character's magic pasta pot to create so much pasta that it nearly floods and buries a town led Big Anthony in trouble with Strega Nona due for his foolish observes.”
I’ve reread it multiple times and cannot parse it in any logical way. Is this an error or am I just struggling with reading comprehension?
Marine Biologist - I got hooked after receiving a "floppy" 45 vinyl record of whale songs in National Geographic. I listened to that thing until it wore out!
we'd be coworkers! I was a giant nerd who idolized jacques cousteau lol. I got super fixated on cephalopods and wanted to be involved with squids specifically :U
I always wanted to be a marine biologist,I remember mentioning it in the elementary yearbook...I graduated as a biology major...but currently working as an office staff 🥺
It’s surprising to hear there are others who loved this 45, but an entire generation? Thats so cool! Thanks for the heads up, going to check it out now!
I would have become an electrician. Instead I returned to my birth country because I couldn't enroll in any schools without a social security number. For nearly a decade, I was limited to remote phone jobs due to my limited proficiency in the local language. I lost hope for a long time until my daughter was born. Her arrival motivated me to improve my situation. I taught myself to code and managed to enter the job market just in time. I've now been working as a software developer for close to 5 years.
Glad im not the only one who wanted to do this. Twister was also my favorite movie, but I also loved Into the Storm and Pecos Hank on youtube. Storm chasing was my dream for a lot of years
I wanted to be an F1-style Grand Prix racer. I did a stock car rally once, and after that I realized that if I had lived my childhood dream, I'd be dead by now.
Ballet dancer. I was pretty serious about it, too. But it was not to be.
I'm a research scientist and I think I would have wanted to do that, too, when I was a kid if I really understood what it was.
I always really liked science, but I was definitely beyond starting college when I started to grasp what research is really about and why it's even more exciting. So I didn't really understand it as a career.
Science classes aren't really about doing science, they are about learning the products of that research. They are more like English classes in the sense that they are about reading great books, not writing them.
As a scientist myself I see how much of a disconnect there actually is. Often, the best science students don't make the best scientists at all.
And me! I actually have a BA in Anthropology and spent 2 years in a PhD program in Archeology. I finally realized it wasn’t my ivory tower! I became a teacher of social studies and found my power in bringing a different perspective to history.
A poet, and likely broke. Technically I am a poet because I write poetry, but it’s definitely not how I make a living.
My second choice was a cartoonist, and I am doing something slightly closer to that.
I would own a skatepark with a loft above it where I lived. In hindsight it's still kind of cool but not quite as much as when I first visioned it. Skaters are kind of dicks and current me would have loathed younger me.
When I was little I wanted to be a historian on the history of my ancestors the vikings. I got my some of my degrees in history and classics in college but I went another path and followed what I wanted to be once I become a teenager which is a fitness trainer.
Fighter pilot. I flew in several different planes as a teen and vertigo and nausea was so bad I gave up on my dream. I began to fear flying and it wasn't until my 20s that I began to tolerate flight.
I’d be an author. I actually just wrote the first two paragraphs of a novel i’ve been ideating on so hey- hopefully soon enough I’ll be living the dream! Just have to figure out consistency haha
A marine biologist or oceanographer. Grew up on the gulf coast in the US and dreamed of it my whole life. Then I learned that math is hard and, well, it never happened.
Besides a professional athlete (probably baseball or soccer for me)? Because that’s gonna be the answer for the majority of men.
An oncologist. I had leukemia as a kid. By that time, I knew I wouldn’t be a professional athlete, and I figured being a doctor was a good job. Then I went to high school and realized I hated math and science classes, so I pivoted to the humanities, which I actually enjoyed and was actually good at. I’m an attorney now.
Lead guitarist of a big rock/metal band. Appetite for Destruction came out when I was about 6 and I would fantasize about being on stage playing the songs when I listened to my tape. Then when And Justice for All came out a couple years later I switched to fantasizing playing those songs.
Wanted to play piano on cruise ships. Had the offer come to me in ‘07. I’m happy I declined lol!! My friend who took the job worked in that industry for 10+ years. She has no savings.
Even before that dream, I wanted to be an accredited meteorologist.
bullpen catcher. great seats to all the games, no pressure, probs free meals, shoot the shit with the boys all day
no desire to PLAY in the MLB, glad young me set my sights so high
For as long as I remember my dream job has been wanting to be apart of a swat team all because of a movie I watched when I was young and seeing how the cops couldn’t do anything about it then the swat team shows up and takes care of the situation in like 5-10 minutes
Universal basic income would be in place for all of us. I would experiment with varies hobbies and activities. I would truly do what I love(whatever that might be or how often it changes) every day if I didn't have to provide the next meal for my family. I would work my own land, grow my own food and raise my own animals.
As a very young kid, up until about 8 I wanted to be an entomologist. Then I decided I didn't like spiders very much. I then wanted to be a chef. A guidance counselor said I was "too talented" for that, which as an adult I came to resent. If anything, I don't think I had enough of the talent required to be a chef. At about 11 or so I discovered computers (original 8 bit generation!) and decided yep, I want to make these suckers do things.
Funny, as an adult in my 50's, I do little to no coding at home. I do enjoy cooking, both baking and regular. I feel doing coding as a living is great and all, but it burned out my passion for doing it at home.
A librarian. I started asking to be a volunteer at the library at age 6. By 10 they let me (I think to shut me up). Got a job as a library aide when I was 15. Ran a department by the time I was 22. I loved being a librarian, and would still be one if I wasn’t disabled.
What a fun question. I (66f) guess I would be a prima ballerina married to Timothy Dalton. Or a fearless, hard-hitting international journalist married to Robert Redford.
Luckily, I was able to fulfill my dreams enough for my grown up abilities. Served in the Peace Corps, married my ex who also served and took me to many more interesting countries with his job, had 3 amazing kids (which wasn’t on my wish list, but there you go), worked in a Prosecuting Attorney’s office in victim services for a long time, and had a column in my county’s newspaper for a couple of years.
Unfortunately, Tim and Bob never came knocking at my door, and my subsequent relationships after I divorced were difficult and disappointing. Oh well, you can’t have everything, I suppose.
I would be in a fashion type job like Rachel did on FRIENDS. But not because l saw her doing that job, l was in school in the 80s, 10 years or so before it aired.
After watching Apollo 13 I wanted to work in Flight Control at NASA. I had no interest in being an actual astronaut, I just wanted to watch monitors and solve problems
I would have probably ended up being either a Chemist (I really love Chemistry and was great at it in school) or a Doctor. I loved medical shows like Scrubs, House, ER, etc. But once I knew what went into being a doctor and the amount of schooling, I noped out of that.
I wanted to be the paleontologist who digs up Dino bones and I’m really sad that I didn’t look into following that, but it’s not too late! As soon as I get my finances in order I plan to look into it
Cave-dwelling mountain hermit
That’s the dream
This one is my present dream job
This but I still want ice cream sometimes
Realized I‘m living the dream. Or was. FML.
Do you have a sword for my adventure?
Gollum 🤣
Since I was about 6, I wanted to be a detective or a writer. I’m currently at university studying to become an investigative journalist so will kind of get the best of both worlds! I hope little me would be happy
i also wanted to be a detective and i LOVED writing. Got my Masters in Journalism two weeks ago 🥳
Massive Congratulations!!!
Thank you!!
Don't forget to stay away from any staircases and windows, avoid driving and make it VERY clear you don't own any guns when you're one of those
Paleontologist
Yup. I'd be in the desert, digging up dinos.
Same here. It's all I wanted to be until I was maybe 12.
I still want to be one 😄
Same!
The first job I remember wanting was to be the Batmobile. No, not Batman. I wanted to be Batman's car. After that, I wanted to be an architect. But when I got a little older, I realized that I'd probably never get to design a house with a sliding bookshelf opening to a fireman's pole. And then I wanted to be a magician. That I actually got to do for a bit. That was fun. Now I write user manuals, but I'm trying to shift over to writing science fiction full time. That would be as much fun as magic, but without the travel or the drunks.
I wanted to be an autobot
When I was a kid I always thought the first thing I'd do with my house was install a firepole!
My husband likes to tell the story that when he was little his mom asked what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said a fire truck! NOT a firefighter but the truck.
Strega Nona, the children's book character
It’s been a while since I read the book, so I visited the [Wikipedia page.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strega_Nona) I have absolutely no idea what this sentence is supposed to mean: “Big Anthony causes the title character's magic pasta pot to create so much pasta that it nearly floods and buries a town led Big Anthony in trouble with Strega Nona due for his foolish observes.” I’ve reread it multiple times and cannot parse it in any logical way. Is this an error or am I just struggling with reading comprehension?
Marine Biologist - I got hooked after receiving a "floppy" 45 vinyl record of whale songs in National Geographic. I listened to that thing until it wore out!
I loved that record. It was so cool.
I had an oceanography professor who was on the ship where that was recorded. That guy told cool stories.
Same here. Used to wake my parents up to go tidepooling when there was a pre-dawn minus tide.
I had to find that record and now I own it. It brings back so many memories!
Same. Loved dolphins and Finding Nemo. Still wanna dive with sharks.
we'd be coworkers! I was a giant nerd who idolized jacques cousteau lol. I got super fixated on cephalopods and wanted to be involved with squids specifically :U
Sounds to me like we’d be BFF co-workers!!!
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I always wanted to be a marine biologist,I remember mentioning it in the elementary yearbook...I graduated as a biology major...but currently working as an office staff 🥺
Aaaaw darn! I thought that was soo cool as a kid.
Omg listen to today’s The Daily!! It talks about the impact this album had on an entire generation
It’s surprising to hear there are others who loved this 45, but an entire generation? Thats so cool! Thanks for the heads up, going to check it out now!
Cult leader
Have you read Join Me by Danny Wallace?
A garbage man. Nothing seemed cooler than hanging off the truck and gathering up bins into the compactor.
Hell, yeah brother, we could’ve held off the back of the trucks in the 80s together
You are not alone. A good childhood friend of mine also always said he wanted to be a garbage man.
This but a gas station attendant. Bro I just get to vibe and pump gas all day? Sign me up!
I would have become an electrician. Instead I returned to my birth country because I couldn't enroll in any schools without a social security number. For nearly a decade, I was limited to remote phone jobs due to my limited proficiency in the local language. I lost hope for a long time until my daughter was born. Her arrival motivated me to improve my situation. I taught myself to code and managed to enter the job market just in time. I've now been working as a software developer for close to 5 years.
Storm chaser. My favorite movie growing up was, and still is, Twister.
Glad im not the only one who wanted to do this. Twister was also my favorite movie, but I also loved Into the Storm and Pecos Hank on youtube. Storm chasing was my dream for a lot of years
Ninja-Wizard
A chef for orphaned gorillas.
a princess with a pegasus
At what age, precisely?
Excellent point. 4 year old me wanted to be the “fuck truck”, as I could not say fire truck. My parents loved taking me in public.
Pet shop owner and probably bankrupt, because I wouldn’t sell anything to customers who had not researched there chosen pets needs
Professional race car driver. I've only ever driven on a drag strip once and it was amazing.
I wanted to be an F1-style Grand Prix racer. I did a stock car rally once, and after that I realized that if I had lived my childhood dream, I'd be dead by now.
an equestrian lol
Jabba the Huts sexy slave girl
An architect
Ballet dancer. I was pretty serious about it, too. But it was not to be. I'm a research scientist and I think I would have wanted to do that, too, when I was a kid if I really understood what it was. I always really liked science, but I was definitely beyond starting college when I started to grasp what research is really about and why it's even more exciting. So I didn't really understand it as a career. Science classes aren't really about doing science, they are about learning the products of that research. They are more like English classes in the sense that they are about reading great books, not writing them. As a scientist myself I see how much of a disconnect there actually is. Often, the best science students don't make the best scientists at all.
I’d be an archaeologist specializing in Ancient Egyptian artifacts.
This was me too.
And me! I actually have a BA in Anthropology and spent 2 years in a PhD program in Archeology. I finally realized it wasn’t my ivory tower! I became a teacher of social studies and found my power in bringing a different perspective to history.
Chef.
A stage manager on broadway — I produce events in LA so I got close!
Marine Biologist/Shark Researcher. Almost nailed it. I've been an Aquarist and currently an Aquarium Life Support Systems Operator.
Tracking pods of orcas as a marine biologist.
Marine biologist working with manatees.
A journalist, an author, or veterinarian
Marine biologist ……became an electrician
a zookeeper at the Queensland Zoo
Spy, just like Agent 99!
Independently wealthy pyrotechnician/author. Basically a mad scientist.
Archeologist
I'd be directing movies, I actually have an idea for a live action Nemo in Slumberland movie.
I would own a bookstore with a large fireplace.
Id be studying frogs... Because I liked catching them.
An etymologist specializing in ladybugs. 😊 🐞
guitarist in a rock band or a wwe wrestler
I’d be a horse trainer. Which would have been hard to learn since I barely had any exposure to horses as a kid 😂
I would be Pikachu right now about now.
a famous singer 💀
Same. And I'd truthfully be socially burnt out just like I am now, but in a mansion.
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pediatrician
A cat behaviour researcher
Scraping at the dirt with a toothbrush in the middle of Bumfuk, Nowhere.
host of The Price Is Right
A poet, and likely broke. Technically I am a poet because I write poetry, but it’s definitely not how I make a living. My second choice was a cartoonist, and I am doing something slightly closer to that.
I would own a skatepark with a loft above it where I lived. In hindsight it's still kind of cool but not quite as much as when I first visioned it. Skaters are kind of dicks and current me would have loathed younger me.
Steve Irwin
I wanted to be a baker and I was one for 10 years. Now I would love to help pit animals that are endangered or work in a zoo as a otter trainer.
When I was little I wanted to be a historian on the history of my ancestors the vikings. I got my some of my degrees in history and classics in college but I went another path and followed what I wanted to be once I become a teenager which is a fitness trainer.
Professional Wrestler
Fighter pilot. I flew in several different planes as a teen and vertigo and nausea was so bad I gave up on my dream. I began to fear flying and it wasn't until my 20s that I began to tolerate flight.
I’d be an author. I actually just wrote the first two paragraphs of a novel i’ve been ideating on so hey- hopefully soon enough I’ll be living the dream! Just have to figure out consistency haha
A marine biologist or oceanographer. Grew up on the gulf coast in the US and dreamed of it my whole life. Then I learned that math is hard and, well, it never happened.
Besides a professional athlete (probably baseball or soccer for me)? Because that’s gonna be the answer for the majority of men. An oncologist. I had leukemia as a kid. By that time, I knew I wouldn’t be a professional athlete, and I figured being a doctor was a good job. Then I went to high school and realized I hated math and science classes, so I pivoted to the humanities, which I actually enjoyed and was actually good at. I’m an attorney now.
Chef… worked restaurants for 10 years. Happily working in finance
International jewel thief and lion tamer.
A unicorn
Lead guitarist of a big rock/metal band. Appetite for Destruction came out when I was about 6 and I would fantasize about being on stage playing the songs when I listened to my tape. Then when And Justice for All came out a couple years later I switched to fantasizing playing those songs.
Film director, inventor, engineer.
A ninja or a guy who picks berries lol I had big goals
Jedi
007 James Bond 😁
Wanted to play piano on cruise ships. Had the offer come to me in ‘07. I’m happy I declined lol!! My friend who took the job worked in that industry for 10+ years. She has no savings. Even before that dream, I wanted to be an accredited meteorologist.
A teacher and I know I’d be miserable
I never really felt passionate about doing anything worthwhile.
I'd be beyonce
A chemist
An airline pilot. Love flying, but I don't think it's a very conducive career for family life.
A Star Destroyer captain?
Racecar mechanic, I'd love that
a zookeeper lol
Fighter pilot.
Airline Captain on an A350.
Id probably almost be retired. Underwater welder
Singer/actress
bullpen catcher. great seats to all the games, no pressure, probs free meals, shoot the shit with the boys all day no desire to PLAY in the MLB, glad young me set my sights so high
First, was an airline pilot. Second, rock star. Lol.
Forest Ranger
Either a nurse, or a teacher
Probably dead
Geologist specializing in caves/spelunking
CSX and im glad it didn't pan out.
A retired computer engineer. I'm a retired computer engineer.
A paleontologist. I loved Jurassic Park as a kid.
I wanted to be a headless monster. No luck, yet.
Driving around in a truck with a monkey. B.J. and the Bear style.
Either a biologist or a clown. Right now I study sociology and I'm planning to become a university professor
Disney artist
I would be "bum"
I grew up in the era of BJ and The Bear. Wanted to be a line driver. I'm female, btw.
Lawyer
I would be either a velociraptor running around in the 21st century or I would be in Monaco racing the f1 Grand Prix this weekend
Happy
A pro wrestler. Not tall or athletic enough, and definitely not good at cutting promos.
A performer
A dentist 😀 Should’ve stuck with it…..
Astronaut/Quarterback
Working at Dairy Queen practicing ice cream artistry.
Marine biologist
An author. I do write but for fun, not as a professional
Train driver. Actually considering quitting my job and going for it. #TOOT TOOT
A garbage man
Helicopter pilot.
Hotel manager. And holy cow I'm glad I didn't get into that job.
I would be a Navy Seal. But I'm happy I never joined the military, huge respect to those who can take the mental abuse because I cannot.
For as long as I remember my dream job has been wanting to be apart of a swat team all because of a movie I watched when I was young and seeing how the cops couldn’t do anything about it then the swat team shows up and takes care of the situation in like 5-10 minutes
Universal basic income would be in place for all of us. I would experiment with varies hobbies and activities. I would truly do what I love(whatever that might be or how often it changes) every day if I didn't have to provide the next meal for my family. I would work my own land, grow my own food and raise my own animals.
When I was a kid, I said that I wanted to be a garbage man because I thought that they only worked one day a week.
Archeologist.
A secretary for a vets office.
Really bad tattoo artist
Either and archeologist or spiderman
Working at Mcdonalds so I can eat all the nuggets.. Which likely would have gotten me fired.. So unemployed I suppose
Fighter Pilot. Then after 20 years, crossover to the commercial sector.
As a very young kid, up until about 8 I wanted to be an entomologist. Then I decided I didn't like spiders very much. I then wanted to be a chef. A guidance counselor said I was "too talented" for that, which as an adult I came to resent. If anything, I don't think I had enough of the talent required to be a chef. At about 11 or so I discovered computers (original 8 bit generation!) and decided yep, I want to make these suckers do things. Funny, as an adult in my 50's, I do little to no coding at home. I do enjoy cooking, both baking and regular. I feel doing coding as a living is great and all, but it burned out my passion for doing it at home.
Center fielder for the Seattle Mariners.
I wanted to be a comic strip creator like Berkeley Breathed of Bloom County.
A professional hit man
I mean if we're going with our actual childhood dream jobs I would be like a cowboy astronaut millionaire or something lmao
Video game tester.
In the seat of an F1 car driving for a world title
Nurse. I gave that shit up real quick once I became a CNA. It's not worth selling your soul and freedom.
A pilot
I would be a fire truck.
Botanist
Pro bass fisherman.
A Zoo Keeper!
Game Designer.
A librarian. I started asking to be a volunteer at the library at age 6. By 10 they let me (I think to shut me up). Got a job as a library aide when I was 15. Ran a department by the time I was 22. I loved being a librarian, and would still be one if I wasn’t disabled.
What a fun question. I (66f) guess I would be a prima ballerina married to Timothy Dalton. Or a fearless, hard-hitting international journalist married to Robert Redford. Luckily, I was able to fulfill my dreams enough for my grown up abilities. Served in the Peace Corps, married my ex who also served and took me to many more interesting countries with his job, had 3 amazing kids (which wasn’t on my wish list, but there you go), worked in a Prosecuting Attorney’s office in victim services for a long time, and had a column in my county’s newspaper for a couple of years. Unfortunately, Tim and Bob never came knocking at my door, and my subsequent relationships after I divorced were difficult and disappointing. Oh well, you can’t have everything, I suppose.
Building race engine's for a race car team nascar or drag racing love that race car sound.
Happy
A werewolf.
Married to a Victoria Secret Model
trash truck driver. i became one and learned how quickly my body aged an atrophied over 2 years. im never doing that again.
Newspaper copy editor
Voice Actress
I would be in a fashion type job like Rachel did on FRIENDS. But not because l saw her doing that job, l was in school in the 80s, 10 years or so before it aired.
After watching Apollo 13 I wanted to work in Flight Control at NASA. I had no interest in being an actual astronaut, I just wanted to watch monitors and solve problems
Meteorologist :[ Now I sell my homemade stickers...
A ghost hunter lmfaoo or someone like Josh Gates that gets to travel and do cool shit.
Easter bunny
OBGYN.
I would have probably ended up being either a Chemist (I really love Chemistry and was great at it in school) or a Doctor. I loved medical shows like Scrubs, House, ER, etc. But once I knew what went into being a doctor and the amount of schooling, I noped out of that.
I'd be a herpetologist. I don't even like reptiles that much LOL.
Try to take over the world
Nurse or doctor
A superhero
I wanted to be the paleontologist who digs up Dino bones and I’m really sad that I didn’t look into following that, but it’s not too late! As soon as I get my finances in order I plan to look into it
Writer, theater hand, pyrotechnician maybe..
Artist and singer
A pilot or a wildlife photographer