So when you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

[Haggis]

A pro football player? A surgeon? A rally driver? An astronaut? A heavy construction equipment driver?

And from an adult perspective, what do you think of that career option now?

I wanted to be a palaeontologist. Dig up dinosaur skeletons out in the desert. I think it would be a lot more tedious and lower-paid than I assumed it was when I was 8, though.

You?

 

[One to watch]

'A pork football player'

WTF is that?

'Really driver' as well.

What are these things you speak of?

 

[Haggis]

'A pork football player'

WTF is that?

'Really driver' as well.

What are these things you speak of?

Stupid phone.

 

[gumbo2176]

Like most kids growing up when I did, I wanted to be a cowboy. Westerns were on TV all the time and it looked like the perfect lifestyle of riding horses all day, wearing a gun strapped to your hip to defend yourself, sleeping out under the stars at night while on a cattle drive and getting crazy rowdy when hitting saloons in frontier towns. But, cowboy jobs were few and far between even back in the 50's when I was a little kid.

Maybe that is one of the reasons I still like to ride my "Iron Horse" and prefer to do so solo. Me and my motorcycles have been over a lot of this country in the past 47 years and I've slept out under the stars many nights on long rides. No, there's no gun strapped to my side, but I've been known to get rowdy in out of the way places where spirits are being served.

HMMM, life imitating art.

 

[Lunny]

An explorer. My view of that was just going to jungles and fighting lions and crocodiles and shit.

 

[KO KIDD (ESB EX-Patriot)]

It changed so often and unfortunately I never became passionate about anything so now I have a job instead of a passionate career

Either way being in the army, a boxer, and a stand up comedian were always high on the list

 

[aliwasthegreatest]

Never had any idea

 

[G-fellaaaaa]

I wanted to be a mortician. I was obsessed with it.

 

[Matty lll]

I always wanted to be a paleontologist because I liked dinosaurs.

 

[gumbo2176]

An explorer. My view of that was just going to jungles and fighting lions and crocodiles and shit.

Ah, the dreaded Tarzan Syndrome.

 

[turbotime]

Pre teens? A WWF Wrestler.

 

[tommygun711]

A software engineer.

 

[Herbaholic]

Professional footballer, like almost everyone else. I realised by the time I was 8 that it wasn't going to happen.

For brief spells after that I've wanted to be a writer, a cartoonist, a cameraman, and some other things I've forgotten.

They all still sound pretty good tbh. Way better than average jobs.

 

[Mrboogie23]

A womanizer. I did it!!! Woot Woot!!

Now I've got a daughter and I find my younger self disgusting.

God damn life and the way it keeps giving you perspective. Son of a bitch.

 

[nuclear]

a police officer. but really i just wanted a cop car cause the i thought the lights were cool.

 

[joe297]

Still part of me wants to be a fireman.

 

[jonnytightlips]

A footballer. Specifically a goalkeeper. I was decent in goal and enjoyed it but I was too small. Then I wanted to be a striker and told myself that if I ever did make it that I had to be at least as good as fat Ronaldo or it was pointless.

A pro boxer. Loved boxing from an early age and wanted to be like Mike Tyson.

I still flirt with the idea of writing films.

 

[Dazl1212]

Astronaut, still wish it had come off.

 

[DobyZhee]

What I wanna be now.

I dunno..

 

[Trail]

A musician.

As I hit 20 I desperately wanted to be Evan Dando. I failed.

Never mind.