What do you want to be when you grow up?

[draconis]

This article, "Still Seeking Your Dream Job?" looks at a survey of people in various professions in different cities around the country. Not only does it look into which professions and which cities have the highest job satisfaction, but it also looks at what people in different professions wanted to be when they were kids.

From the article:

When asked what they dreamed of becoming as a child, more than half of doctors and lawyers as well as 24 percent of teachers wanted to be President. Forty-one percent of firefighters and police officers wanted to be firefighters while 33 percent of nurses and 28 percent of homemakers wanted to be professional dancers. Thirty-three percent of administrative professionals wanted to princesses while 22 percent of manufacturing workers dreamed of being cowboys.

What about you? When you were a kid, what did you want to be as an adult?

For me, I grew up being a cowboy (yes, literally -- my family had a cattle ranch), but I can remember wanting to be a magician, a scientist (although never got so far as specifying a particular field of science), a starship captain/astronaut (okay, so I got hooked on Sci FI -- Star Trek, Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Space 1999, and Battlestar Galactica -- at an early age ::G::), and a computer/robotics expert.

Comments

[tarshaan.livejournal.com]

Astronaut. That was pretty much it, the consistent dream all through. Realised it was pretty nigh impossible fairly early on; still wanted, though. Actually, still do.

[jcbdragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm right there with you!

I would dearly love to make it out of this gravity well at least one time during my life. Not just out of the atmosphere, but actually out of the well.

I doubt it will ever happen, but damned if I'll stop hoping for it until the point where things like gravity and atmosphere don't hold relevance for me any more.

[kat-denton.livejournal.com]

scientist, later I specified anthropology. Sad thing is that I have a 3/4 or better completed degree in it, put aside when Walt got sick. Maybe I'll be one of those retiree students one of these days, LOL.

[mzlizzy.livejournal.com]

I wanted to be a costume designer -- but I discovered I wasn't that great at designing, and I liked constructing and teaching more.

So I'm working in my field and expecting to be able to spend more time teaching. I love that light-bulb moment where you see that the student has understood what I'm trying to teach.

[jcbdragon.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean -- I love seeing that instant where the student finally "gets it." The longer and harder they've been working on it, the more they really do light up, too!

[alysswolf.livejournal.com]

Started out wanting to be a nurse - until I discovered that I hadn't figured out how to put the shields up on empathetic input at that time.

Switched to my second love (the past) and decided to be an archaeologist, but didn't have the top level grades needed to get a scholarship/assistantship to pay for graduate school and was already neck deep in college loans.

Ended up as a librarian because I love books and love answering tricky research questions -- both traits are fast becoming quaint relics of the past in my profession. :: sigh::