When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did that actually happen?

When I was very young I wanted to be a firefighter. My mom was a volunteer firefighter and I basically grew up hanging around at a fire station. I did not become a firefighter.

In high school I thought I wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I did a shadow program with one my junior year and realized very quickly that I was wrong about that one. I observed two or three vasectomies and one impacted wisdom teeth removal.

weatherman 

Aside from the obvious pro sports player...

Figured being an announcer would be amazing. I didn’t end up doing that, but gave it a shot for 5 years. Ended up doing something very similar though, working on TV broadcasts throughout the world.

posted by Laley23

Aside from the obvious pro sports player...

Figured being an announcer would be amazing. I didn’t end up doing that, but gave it a shot for 5 years. Ended up doing something very similar though, working on TV broadcasts throughout the world.

I thought I recognized you.

posted by justincredible

I thought I recognized you.

My brothers went to high school with him. 

My earliest recollection is teacher, because I liked writing on chalk boards. 

I wanted to be an astronaut. The idea of going to space intrigued me. I did not become an astronaut. Although the idea of leaving earth still intrigues me more than ever currently.  

posted by justincredible

I thought I recognized you.

We actually studied this poor kid in a course at Indiana. Our teacher was his producer up in Muncie and basically told us everything he did wrong in preparation lol

Baseball player

Thought about pharmacy early in my college years but decided I wasn’t smart enough. Didn’t decide on teaching until my 2nd year of college.

When I was in HS I thought about Pharmacy or majoring in math (to be an actuary). Decided I hated science and then did not do well in honors calc so now here I am in Finance/ Accounting (CPA). 

As a young boy I wanted to be a soldier (that dream did come true for a short time).

In High School I studied drafting, was very good at it and won several awards. During the summer I work for a short time with a manufacturing company doing drafting design. I wanted to become a designer / architect. My career/ education took many different paths before and during my military. A career with Red Adair Oil Well Fire was a vision of mine, in college at one aspect it was suggested I move into sport medicine (anatomy was simple for me to learn) however I when into education. I end up teaching for a few years and then moved into doing architectural reprographics restoration, and later designing heavy equipment instrumentation.

Earliest recollection is to be a fireman.  I had a Texaco fireman's hat and one of those big Texaco toy firetrucks. Only trouble was, I was deathly afraid of fire, so that was out.  Thought about being a cowboy, until my dad said I was born too late.   Astronaut was in there somewhere, and pro football player.  In middle school, it was to be a pro bowler on the PBA tour.  

I didn't really have any clear idea, though.  In high school I was thinking about the military and hoping to qualify for an interesting field in the Navy or Air Force and learn something I could then use in the private sector, but my parents weren't keen on me going.

It wasn't until I'd worked in the Postal Service for a decade, mostly in the training department, that I realized I had good people skills and communication skills, and really enjoyed the HR field.  So I didn't really grow up until I was 35 or so.  

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posted by thavoice

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Shooting for the stars, eh?

https://youtu.be/e3-5YC_oHjE

posted by justincredible

Shooting for the stars, eh?

Shooting for the stars and then realizing that, however insane this may sound, he's actually under-qualified for the gig.

posted by Heretic

Shooting for the stars and then realizing that, however insane this may sound, he's actually under-qualified for the gig.

Absolutely.

So I went to work for the federal govt!

posted by thavoice

Absolutely.

So I went to work for the federal govt!

Overqualified.

posted by justincredible

Overqualified.

I do have 1/4 of a brain, so yeah, overqualified!

posted by justincredible

Overqualified.

If you can breathe and walk at the same time, you're overqualified for that shit.

Major League Baseball player...

But once reality set in in HS (I was good enough to play college but not in the pros), I really liked studying how the world/universe works...so engineering it was.

I truly knew early on in life that I would be doing something with math/science, I just liked baseball so much.

Pro football player; I once scored 4 touchdowns in a single game. Then I got a girl pregnant, didn't get to go college, and ended up selling shoes to fat women. It is horrible on days like today with a heat index of 100 trying to squeeze shoes on to the big girls.

First - Cowboy

Then - Major League Baseball player

Later - interpreter for a major corporation (German)

posted by Al Bundy

Pro football player; I once scored 4 touchdowns in a single game. Then I got a girl pregnant, didn't get to go college, and ended up selling shoes to fat women. It is horrible on days like today with a heat index of 100 trying to squeeze shoes on to the big girls.

I wanted to work with numbers in a office in my house, preferred architect, tried actuary, didn't like calculus that much, so settled for a business degree, do get to work with number from home.

As a young kid, I wanted to be an artist (painter/sketch artist). Don't know how my mom kept a straight face when encouraging that.

Then after a few years of elementary school baseball, I decided I would play for the Indians. 

From middle school through freshman or sophomore year I wanted to be a high school math teacher and coach.