What did you want to be when you were young and what do you do now?

[quirky]

I wanted to be a doctor or psychologist, definitely didn't want to work with kids. Now I work in a school. Oops.

[SeanMacGabhann]

That's the kind of first post I like to see - nice one quirky

I wanted to be an actor/writer and now I work in a bank

[Keef]

I wanted to be a rock guitarist, now I work for social services.

I still continue pretending to be a rock guitarist though.

[BARA]

I wanted to work with animals when young and in my teens wanted to go to Agricultural College. I especially loved cows, spent holidays on farms - ended up a social worker!! Is there a connection? Social Work was a career change undertaken

15 years ago.

[*Bob*]

When I was young(er): writing music

Now: writing muzak

[Brendan]

When I was I boy I wanted to be a Palaeontologist. As a teenager it was a rockstar or professional skateboarder.

What do I do now? Write news for the engineering and construction industry mainly.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Didnt have a clue about what I wanted to do as a feckless youth.

In 2006 I found myself in Kathmandu doing some organisational development consultancy with a UK Government Department.

From my Hotel I looked out over Kathmandu to the far Himalayas and wondered

"How did this happen?"

[spadetownboy]

i wanted to be a forrester, now i work in the field of forensic pathology.

[macker]

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

> From my Hotel I looked out over Kathmandu to the

> far Himalayas and wondered

>

> "How did this happen?"

Followed by "I wonder where a KFC is around here?"?

[citizenED]

then; I wanted to be an artist

now; I am an artist (p!ss variety)

[ratty]

Wanted to be an astronaut!

Now I work with the homeless!

Wish I was an astronaut!

[capt_birdseye]

I wanted to be an IT Geek.

Now I am an astronaut.

[????]

I wanted to work in a bank but now I'm a rock star

[lozzyloz]

I think my earliest recollection was wanting to be a cartoonist. At Grammar School, I found I really enjoyed and excelled at design and physics and upon leaving school embarked on an apprenticeship in Design Engineering. Somehow I ended up running Advertising Agency's. I'm now a poor struggling Photographer!

[Michael Palaeologus]

I did find the Irish Pub in Kathmandu. Didint try the Guiness, I was drinking "Everest" bottled lager because it has such a cool label.

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~ja9lsz/everest%20beer.jpg

[Ant]

I wanted to be a bed tester or a lemonade taster. Later a writer and/or photographer and/or illustrator.

Now I work in publishing, but those last three are still tempting me.

[georgia]

I wanted to be a farmer when I was a kid (yeah right), then a teacher, then a social worker. But ended up becoming a nurse

[mockney piers]

I wanted a soulless job in a sterile office working on an ill thought out piece of legacy enterprise software.

[barrymarshall]

I am now am a financial journalist covering the Middle East.

When I grow up I want to be a real writer.

[wee quinnie]

Well, it's always been my ambition in life to be a kept woman....and now I am one. Yay! (Work... its sh!t isn't it?).

[atila the gooner]

I'm 50 fast approaching 51 and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!!!! I always wanted to work for a record company, which I did in 74/75 for a period of a year, the company was called Contour Records based in Hanover Square off of Oxford Street. I loved it to death but unfortuntely the company went under because of huge losses. Since then I've been made redundant at leasrt 5 times. I'm thinking of changing my name to lucky!!!!!!!!! :(

[Brendan]

I want to be a kept man. :'(

[KalamityKel]

I wanted to be a tree (when very little of course and didnt understand the options available)

Then I thought hmmm I'll be a piano teacher - you know give something back or share my talent kinda thing. Then I wanted to be a bus driver. I have no idea why tho lol

I now work in performing arts, in a church up in London.

My brother ended up being the bus driver and I may choose to do private tuition at some point but more likely to be in woodwind rather than piano.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

When I was a kid I wanted to be a vet or an air-hostess, then as a teenager I wanted to be a freedom fighter and join the PLO. Then I wanted to be a spy or a hit-woman. After that I fancied myself as Prime Minister or hotshot lawyer!

I have done many things, including running my own fitness & martial arts centre and being a sex worker for 12 years, but am now working my way towards being a legal-ish eagle and minor politico.

[wee quinnie]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I want to be a kept man. :'(

Yeh - so did Mr Wee Quinnie. Luckily I got in there first!