[Janey]

I was thinking the other day after meeting a very nice librarian on a course, that she has the job I wanted to do when I grew up...that or a field studies instructor.
It got me to wondering...what did you want to be when you grew up and is it anything like what you do for a living now?

I did get to be a field studies instructor for a little while in the end but I had to live in a shed.

[Gold Joinee Twinkle]

I wanted to be home economist, a book shop owner, a librarian or a supermarket cashier.

I was a supermarket cashier when I was in 5th and 6th form (pre scanning days!) and hated it. I am now working in accounts and have not fulfilled any of my job dreams.

[spannz15]

I wanted to be a maths teacher, a footballer (specifically rb at forest), or a rock star. Am now studying accounting (and surprisingly really enjoying it) whilst bouncing around temp bar jobs. I hate working nightclubs much prefer the pub shifts but hey what can ya do.

[Rachel Rose]

I wanted to be a teacher, medical examiner or shrink.

Now I am a student learning criminal justice and psychology.


That is backward baby stepping in action.

[Gaz]

I wanted to be an astronaut or an ice-cream man.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

When I was about 8 I told a friend's dad (much to my parents' embarrassment) that I wanted to be a pitlane blonde. Meaning that I wanted to hang out at races near the cars and be involved. (I meant it in a totally innocent, non-hotpants sense, obviously!)

I currently have an unrelated job that I adore, but meanwhile I spend my spare time hanging out in the pitlane at races, near the cars, being involved. In a totally innocent, non-hotpants sense. So I guess things are working out OK.

[Joinee Bird]

I always wanted to run/own a sweet shop. There's still time.

[GJ Drought]

NO idea! never have, and its a curse!




like Lou though i'd love to work in motorsport in some capacity!

[Joinee Mum White]

When I was very small I wanted to be in a circus, then I wanted to be an explorer or a steam engine driver, then I wanted to be a teacher. I got to be a teacher, and I do get to do a lot of travelling now, and I did once get to drive a steam engine - so not bad there. As for the circus, well, I had 4 kids so I gues I've done my stint as a ringmaster!! Mum White.

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

A train driver, then an AA man (my dad was one), then a pilot.
But when I got to school, and it actually came down to making a choice, I had not a clue. And still don't, although I am thoroughly enjoying what I do now.

This post has been edited by SJ Del (The Train Man): 24 January 2012 - 12:49 AM

[Worm]

I always wanted to be a doctor. Or run a bookshop.

I'm now a performance officer for the Social Work department, so I'm not sure it's really in the same area

Damn good job though.

[Lady Alexandra of Herts]

I wanted to be a nurse or a rockstar!!!! LOL!!!! It didnt happen (although I did carework for quite a while and toy with the idea of studying nursing sometimes) Then when I got to my late teens, I didnt want a career anymore and I just wanted to be a mummy. That didnt happen until I was 28, but at least it happened in the end Xxx

[Joinee Michelle]

I wanted to be a nun. Or page three girl. I am neither.

When I was 14 I wanted to be a forensic scientist. I sort of am

[Au Joinee Rory]

When I was so young that I only knew of the existence of a handful of jobs I apparently claimed I wanted to be a bin man. I think this was because all of my peers claimed to want to be doctors or pilots and I thought at least someone was going to have to do the non-doctor, non-pilot jobs.

I've always had a desire to be somehow involved in the movie industry. But it's hard to think of it as a serious dream since I've only ever really been interested in Hollywood, and wouldn't really be interested in UK or Ireland–based productions. I think I just like the idea of being involved in making the movies that I love, rather than there being a particular job I'd be very keen on doing.

I'm happy in software though. If I didn't do it for a living I'd be doing it for fun in my spare time. I started programming almost immediately on getting access to a computer for the first time and I haven't really stopped since. It definitely helps to keep me motivated that I'm in one of the top two companies in the world that most coders would probably wish to work for. If I were a movie star I would probably still spend a little bit of my time wondering what it would have been like to be a software engineer at Google.

[GJ Drought]

I discovered today that my current job is alot like chat roulette without the video!, you click the button hoping that you will get someone nice, but more often than not you get a penis!

[Keen Joinee (GTJ)]

Due to my love of M*A*S*H, I always wanted to be a military chaplain.

[Lethal Biddle]

I wanted to be a lawyer for a fair few years because I loved arguing. Until I learned that you actually have to be fairly sedate & reasonable.

But as well as that, despite knowing it cannot be, I always wanted, & still do want, to be a super hero. Although nowadays I think it's just that I'd really like to have superpowers. I couldn't guarantee that I'd be an out & out hero.

[Gaz]

I think my friend Funky Si did best - he always swore that the two things he didn't want to do on leaving university were retail and finance. He works in retail finance.

[Mr Phil]

I wanted to be a vet. But I also wanted to open a butcher's stand on the green on the seafront in Exmouth. My USP was that my customers could look at and smell the flowers while they queued.

I have since dabbled in a number of careers. None of which involve cutting animals open.

[Hernaic Tom]

Gaz, on 25 January 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

I think my friend Funky Si did best - he always swore that the two things he didn't want to do on leaving university were retail and finance. He works in retail finance.

Wow, he does sound funky!!!! Was his nickname related to his career choice?

After I saw a farmer pulling a lamb out of a sheep, I wanted to be a farmer.

Then I drew a picture of a car that hovered above the road, using powerful electromagnets, and I wanted to be a car designer.

Then I realised the car wouldn't hover unless the roads were magnetic, so I wanted to be some sort of road designer.

Then I saw The Relic, and I wanted to be an evolutionary biologist....

...And now I'm being paid to study why there are so many (or so few) species on planet Earth, and the processes and mechanisms that structure communities and ecosystems... Naturally, evolution plays a big role.

[PJ Hannah B-R]

I wanted to be a vet. Until I was 15 and my music teacher told me to stop being a dickhead and go and study music.

I'm now doing a job I didn't even dream of or know existed.

[joinee_doug]

I can't really remember wanting to be anything in particular...I guess I just had this sort of fuzzy vision of working at something, probably in an office of some sort. That hasn't changed much.

Well, I suppose I could, uh, work in a shop of some kind, or... or do, uh, freelance, uh, selling of some sort of, uh, product. You know...
A salesman?
A salesman, like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um... a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you... what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me.
Uh... seven and a quarter.
"I think we have that." See, something like that I could do.
Yeah... you think you'd be happy doing something like-...
"No; we're all out. Do you wear black?" See, that sort of thing I think I could probably... muster up.
Do you think you'd be happy doing that?
Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?

[Gaz]

Hernaic Tom, on 26 January 2012 - 12:05 PM, said:

Wow, he does sound funky!!!! Was his nickname related to his career choice?

After I saw a farmer pulling a lamb out of a sheep, I wanted to be a farmer.

Then I drew a picture of a car that hovered above the road, using powerful electromagnets, and I wanted to be a car designer.

Then I realised the car wouldn't hover unless the roads were magnetic, so I wanted to be some sort of road designer.

Then I saw The Relic, and I wanted to be an evolutionary biologist....

...And now I'm being paid to study why there are so many (or so few) species on planet Earth, and the processes and mechanisms that structure communities and ecosystems... Naturally, evolution plays a big role.

It's actually because Mark & Lard used to call Simon Mayo Funky Si, and we nicked it from that.

</rubbish nickname explanation>

[GJ Drought]

while we're here, can someone recommend me a job?!

[Lethal Biddle]

GJ Drought, on 27 January 2012 - 12:34 PM, said:

while we're here, can someone recommend me a job?!

Lion Tamer!
Insurance salesman!
Rocket ship!

[Joinee Hathorn]

GJ Drought, on 27 January 2012 - 12:34 PM, said:

while we're here, can someone recommend me a job?!

A little specific maybe, and there almost certainly isn't a vacancy at the moment... unless by some twist of fate. Bradford Uni have a Mechanical and Automotive Engineering course, they would need some form of technicians for this, so they might have some kind of fun automotive technician vacancies. Unfortunately they canned their motorsport course, but if it had been anything like Cranfield's that would have been a fun job. I guess Coventry, Derby and Oxford are too far to commute?!

[Hernaic Tom]

Lethal Biddle, on 27 January 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:

Lion Tamer!

No good, Biddleborough! He'll need a hat for that.

You haven't got a hat, have you, Craig?

[joinee_doug]

"Would you... what size do you wear, sir?"
"Uh... seven and a quarter."
"I think we have that.......No; we're all out. Do you wear black?"