What would your occupation be if you'd have followed your childhood dreams?

[Demovictory9]

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[regnaD kciN]

1. Probably one of "the next Beatles"...

...which should establish how old I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

[rsdsharp]

2. My mother said when I was three I wanted

to be a cow.

Given my present weight, I think I made it.

[NJCher]

39. --

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. A vetenarian

Working in Africa with big cats.

[Laffy Kat]

35. Me, too.

As a teenager, I worked as a volunteer tour guide at the Memphis Zoo for a few summers and would dream of being a vet.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

36. I worked as a volunteer

For a vet during 2 summers,then volunteered
For a wildlife education program for a few weeks.
Worked with a young bobcat there.

[Laffy Kat]

37. What a great experience! My niece does that in Florida.

She's worked as a vet assistant and she also works at a wildlife rehab. center near their home. She gets to care for everything from snakes to possums. She grew up on many acres of land with a pond and has interacted with all things wild since she could walk. She is about to graduate from FSU, Biology with Honors. I'm so proud of her.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

38. That is wonderful

Good on her.

[mainer]

4. weirdly enough, I'm doing it

And I feel very grateful.

[3catwoman3]

10. My curiosity is piqued.

What do you do? If you prefer not to answer, I understand.

[mainer]

29. I'm a writer

Make a living making up stories.

[3catwoman3]

30. How very cool!

Thank you for answering.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

5. Famous artist living in Greenwich Village. Yeah right! LOL nt

[gopiscrap]

6. Greyhound Bus driver

when I was 8 I thought that the company just handed keys to a drive and he got to drive where ever he wanted...

thank God it was drummed into me that I would be going to college wound up as a social worker

[Wicked Blue]

7. When I was 5 or 6 I wanted to be a ballerina

When I started ballet lessons at 7 I quickly realized I wasn't cut out for it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Me, too. My klutziness really manifested itself through ballet lessons.

[Lars39]

8. An architect.

[csziggy]

9. Horse stable owner - did it and now retired

The horses beat me up too many times and now I am physically unable to do the work any more.

What is funny is that I didn't want to ride show horses, or work on a ranch, or anything like that . I wanted to take care of horses.

I did get into breeding horses and my big love was imprinting the new born foals as soon as they hit the ground and doing the ground training. When I had to stop doing that, taking care of the other horses lost its joy. I realized I could no longer do the other jobs around the farm so I've leased the facilities.

Now I still live on the farm and get to watch the horses, but I don't have to go out and shovel shit, fix the fence or spend hours on the tractor mowing in the summer heat. I miss handling them but my back, shoulders and knees make it dangerous and painful for me.

[dweller]

11. Tarzan ..

but then realized i'd better be Bomba ...


i spent a lot of time in trees ...

✌🏼

[Midnight Writer]

12. Idle rich.

[pnwest]

13. Singer.

Managed to fulfill that dream for a few years in the 90’s!

[2naSalit]

16. Same here...

Although I did it off and on from the early 70s to recently. In the 90s I was really doing it in the classical realm but I prefer jazz and popular music genres.

[pnwest]

20. Blues, funk and alternative for me.

I miss it

[2naSalit]

23. I love doiung those too!

Around my neck o' the woods it's mainly bluegrass and country which I will trifle with but I would rather have the more technically challenging types of performance.

And I miss it too.

[madamesilverspurs]

14. Miss Kitty

And I did that. Barely survived it, but did it. Whew!

Nowadays I'd love to get paid to sit by the side of a trout pond and fish all day.



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[Demovictory9]

42. From gunsmoke?

[madamesilverspurs]

43. That would be the one.

[Skittles]

54. I sent her a fan letter

received a signed pic

[First Speaker]

15. I wanted to be The Wizard of Oz...

...not Frank Morgan, but the relatively benign figure in the books. I was 40 before I realized this probably wasn't going to happen...

[BlueDawn]

17. Author.

I was always jotting down ideas for stories, even when I was a young girl. I even picked out my pen name when I was nine years old: Julia F. Spencer.

I had it all planned out and used to constantly daydream about illustrating my own books and everything.

[angstlessk]

18. Entomologist...study bugs

Have always had a fascination for those creatures

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. A pirate or a ballerina.

[Demonaut]

22. sailor, and I was

[Demovictory9]

58. Lucky

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. Physicist.

I instead majored in mathematics with a minor in physics. Then I married a woman who turned out to be a drug / alcohol addict, and my full scholarship at grad school was wasted as a result of the new financial woes.

Oh, well. I'm still alive and my life certainly hasn't been all bad.

[Mr.Bill]

25. Astronaut.

I wanted to be the first man to land on Mars.

[rurallib]

26. A catholic priest and OMG would I probably be miserable

[asiliveandbreathe]

27. I wanted to be a Rockette..the daughter of a friend of my aunts BECAME a Rockette..

I was too short..I took Ballet, and tap, and acrobat until 12..had the lead of 10 tappers at age of 9, top hat and tails - w-cane on stage..then a solo acrobat age 10 - a backbend with a lighted candle on my forehead, through a hoop..was a recital at Norwood HS in MASS..

[TwilightZone]

28. Rock star

At the age of 10, I wanted to be Tommy Shaw. I was in pretty much every vocal-related activity from childhood through high school and flirted with being in an 70s/80s cover band in college. Music was my world.

I still kind of regret not going into something music related. Producing, perhaps.

[3catwoman3]

31. I don't know that I had a particular childhood dream.

I like biology and animals. I am a pediatric nurse practitioner.

My after-the-fact-had-I-but-known dream job would be to be one of the people who gets to watch puppies and kittens playing with newly developed toys to see which ones they like.

I can't imagine ever having a bad day at work if that were your job. Someone has to do it.

[Glorfindel]

32. Paleontologist.

Until I found out how boring a profession it is. Unearthing fossilized bones with tiny hammers and paintbrushes. But I'm glad there are people willing to do it.

[Xolodno]

33. Astronomer

But as I got closer to high school graduation, found out how much they make. So, went with my other nagging interest, Economics.

[UTUSN]

34. Two parter: 1) Something my dream wasn't, and 2) something I didn't dream.

1) Catholic priest. I made a model alter inside a box/cathedral with figurines of priest and statues. But as early as adolescence I started drifting away from religious practice and in years of more rigorous education I realized that it was the drama of the Catholic performance art that was the real draw, so to answer the O.P.'s question, it would be something thespian.

2) Music. My family had strong musical tendencies, with several drinking it in all their lives and a few being actual practitioners with musical instruments. I took it as background, high school band, but took it as secondary to the "real" pursuits of math and science. So left off performing for the sake of appreciating. Only late in life, with music always in the background, I realized it should have been the focus.


********So, in the first place, the thing I thought I dreamed about was representing something else. And in the second place, the thing I forced myself *NOT* to dream about was what it should have been.

[MrScorpio]

40. My answer...

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[okaawhatever]

50. That's incredible Mr. Scorpio. nt

[Demovictory9]

57. Wow. You ARE a comic book artist

[Tikki]

41. Music Producer....

Tikki

[pfitz59]

44. I actually lived my dream

professional pilot

[Demovictory9]

47. awesome

[The Figment]

45. I Did...Adventure Traveler,

Spent my adult life doing everything I could, sailing out in the North Atlantic, hiked many a Colorado mountain, rode a touring bike across country more than once,spent 18 months living on a Kawasaki motorcycle,chased the Grateful Dead, Vanlifeing it long before it became Instagrams hot thing,been to all 48 lower states,Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean,owned a School bus,a Baja bug,Big Block Chevy, Mazda MX-5 Miata,motorcycles from a Honda Trail 90 to a Kawasaki LTD 1100,lord I could write a book.

This came with a price tho as I am poor in my retirement since I spent my time and money on being an adventure junkie...and I wouldn't change a thing!

[Harker]

46. I would've had a new job every few hours.

Dump truck driver, astronaut, pilot...

[Demovictory9]

52. Dump truck driver... lol... it does look like fun to hoist the dumpster overhead into the truck

[Harker]

53. Doesn't it?

[hunter]

48. I was obsessed with computers, electronics, and space ships. I was a pyromaniac as well.

My grandfather must have had similar obsessions. He was an Army Air Corp officer in World War II and later an engineer on the Apollo Project.

It's a wonder I didn't kill or seriously maim myself with my teenage pyrotechnic experiments. I was always concerned about the safety of others which kept me out of more serious trouble.

All hell broke loose when I discovered the agriculture supply place would sell me nitrates in bulk if I drove up in my dad's pickup, told them I was buying fertilizer for my parent's small orchard, and paid in cash.

I quit high school for college at sixteen. I started college as an engineering major but I wasn't comfortable in classes full of white guys who talked about cars and "babes," two subjects they seemed to know very little about. I probably didn't notice the quiet guys like myself. We might have had some common interests, but I never knew. I also felt extremely awkward that I was younger than most, especially the Vietnam war vets who were there on the GI Bill.

I switched my major to biology mostly because the classes had as many women as men.

I've never stopped following my dreams but society often refuses to follow along.

[JustGene]

55. ..

[Fla Dem]

49. Nurse or Gym Teacher.

Not sure where I got the urge to be a nurse, no one in my family or any other outside influence.

Always loved sports, guess influenced by growing up with 2 brothers. From elementary school on, always loved gym class, probably because it wasn't academic and I didn't have to do homework. Also participated on girl's sport teams. However ended up in a 9-5 office job which eventually became a bit of a success.

[IrishEyes]

56. I wanted to be an Aeronautical Engineer

I dreamed of going to MIT. I wanted to build airplanes. I also wanted to learn how to fly planes.