What do you want to be when you grow up?

LittleMissAspie

sexyjacksparrow wrote: »

Similar here. I am 34 though and have had less jobs but I have never really known what I want to do and have always done admin type jobs (which I have enjoyed or not enjoyed to varying degrees) and still no clue now. I've been a full time mum to my little boy for the past three years but goodness knows what I'll do once I decide to go back to work!

I keep hoping that when I grow up that the answer as to what I should do will just 'come to me'. Or not...

Same here, I'm 35. I've tried studying various subjects but as soon it starts getting in depth I lose interest. I'm good at my admin job but I'm a jack of all trades at work, master of none. I suppose what I really want is to be retired, then I can dabble in hobbies and interests until I get bored, then try something else!

Elsewhere

When people asked me that as a child I had no idea what I wanted as a career, so I used to say "I want to be rich and famous" - that seemed to cover all the bases .

Later I decided I'd like to be an astronaut, or at least have something to do with space research - I got that out of my system doing an MSc in the Space Physics dept at Leicester University (though if I ever have the cash I'll be a space tourist!).

I'd still like to be famous, by having a unit named after me, like Volta, Ohm, Ampere, Newton, Faraday, Joule. At a pinch I'd make do with a constant or a number like Avogadro, Rayleigh or Hubble. Perhaps I should start a campaign to have the ratio pi renamed the "Elsewhere ratio". :cool:

itsanne

When I was six we had to write and draw what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wanted to be a Red Indian (not the PC terminology now, but that's what I wrote).

Now I don't intend to grow up.

fashionlover10

As a child/teenager I wanted to be a Police Officer or a Prison Officer but now I'd love to teach British Sign Language in schools when I grow up.

I'm still working on learning sign language for myself at the moment though (oh and growing up too).

thehappybutterfly

I want to be a child when I grow up! And do all the things I never got the opportunity to when I was little and sooooo shy!

HeadAboveWater

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I want to be a child when I grow up! And do all the things I never got the opportunity to when I was little and sooooo shy!

Awwww bless!

Tigsteroonie

I wanted to work in banking when I was grown up.

Now I'm grown up (or, I think I am), my career appears to have been in a variety of administrative roles - I've just started another new one. It's difficult to define the common factor* between the roles over the last 15 years so I certainly wouldn't have been able to describe it when I was younger - it didn't even really exist when I was younger.

(*data geekery in large organisations)

FatVonD

When I was young I wanted to be a waitress at a popular holiday camp, a vet or a pathologist.

I've always harboured a bit of a desire to be a shopkeeper.

scooby088

When I was 15 I put on a form at school I wanted to be a condom tester :rotfl:

I wanted to be a police officer I applied but didn't pass the medical, also applied for a prison officer again failed at the application phase this time.

thorsoak

I'm only 70 - so why the heck should I know what I want to be when I grow up????? :-D

Growing older is obligatory ....growing up is not!!!!