...vs what are you doing today?

There's a home video somewhere of me being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up at my preschool graduation. No lie, we counted 13 whole seconds of silence before I finally answered "...a storeperson" which is probably because I went to the store with my mom like, all the time xD

One thing that hasn't changed about me is my indecisiveness. Even today I still don't know what I truly want to do, and I'm grown up now! But I ended up getting a marketing degree and I'm currently a marketing assistant and training to be a mortgage loan officer. So, not quite a "storeperson." In fact, I've never worked at a store before lol.

What about you guys? What did you want to be when you grew up? Are you still on that same track or did you completely veer off of it?

i was also a v indecisive kid and changed my mind like, every two years |'DD

but anyway in order the ones i remember are

policeman -> astronaut -> store owner -> managaka -> psychologist

eyyy i'm about to graduate in marketing! i'll take pretty much any job but i would def like to work in advertising eventually :>

I went from a librarian, to a drug dealer (...yes), to a doctor and now I am studying to be a tech in social work. It's in the 'medical field' but it isn't quite what I was hoping for. I'm too engaged now in this route, as I will be graduating next year. We can say that I've made about a 360 when it comes to my career path as I grew up haha.

If you are asking me what I want to do when I 'finally' grow up: who knows. I want to study different things in university, instead of focusing on a single degree. It's boring!

A lawyer. I was tired of seeing all the hurt and corruption in the world and I wanted to make a difference but things didn't align to let me get into it. Because you have to prove you know which books to look things up in and how long that'll take to do so and American law is funny in that it's all on precedence from cases before? Like uh, okay.

Now, I'll be happy to just have a job.

It's hard to choose just one path when there are so many great options out there! I guess technically speaking, later on I also wanted to be an "Animal Cop" (like from the tv shows on Animal Planet) and a zookeeper.

Yea I was pretty similar. I had a hard time finding a job honestly so I just took what I could get to start off. I don't picture myself staying with this company for forever but hey, at least it's experience. I honestly don't know what I even want to do with my marketing degree yet lol.

Ahaha a drug dealer xD Yea I can't blame you for wanting to stick it out at this rate. You could always go back to school if you wanted to, but at the same time, school is ridiculously expensive.

And I totally agree. Ideally I would've liked to minor in graphic design, but my school required me to minor in business administration since I majored in marketing (which does make sense...but I preferred something more diverse from my major) I was already doing an extra year of school due to indecisiveness, and I didn't want to do another extra year to minor in it so I said screw it.

Funny enough but it was something I had considered back in the days. I have been in college for soon 7 years. I've tried different major but I couldn't get into any of them, until sticking to social work tech. There are things from the field that I love. But like any jobs, there are things I'm just not happy with.

I feel you! I had to extend my studies on 4 years for mental health reason. Now, I just want out. I'm not sure if I want to go to University yet. If I end up going, I need to touch different subjects. I'll drop out otherwise :c!

I wanted to be an artist and a detective. I still draw, and I married a man who used to hunt people for a living so I guess its close enough! I'm currently between jobs but my title is usually retail or food services manager and that is just so disappointing to me. Yay I'm in charge! but, Boo, its always of a sinking ship :p

I mostly wanted to be an actor or a writer but sometimes I thought about being a firefighter. :p I definitely can't be a firefighter now but writing's a possibility that I'm considering going to school for (and I've been working on my stories just on my own).

I'd still like to act someday, even if it's just in a skit with friends. There's some theatre groups in my town though and I may see about joining one. I just don't think I'm any good, haha.

It's still a dream of mine to be in Star Trek even if it's just as a background character with no lines.

omg thanks for reminding me i also wanted to be a doctor at one point! well a forensic doctor but i mean, cLOSE ENOUGH I GUESS |D (but i was so bad at chemistry in sixth form i was bringing down the class average so my teacher kicked me out lmao)

i haven't really started looking for jobs yet orz i'm pretty optimistic tho because from everything i've seen there's plenty of marketing entry level jobs in the uk and i already have experience, so hopefully i'll find something good quickly haha ;;

I wanted to be a graphic designer/full time artist. I'm working the front desk at an assisted living home today. I don't really like what I'm doing, but I need the money so I stick with it. If I could just drop everything and go, I would move down to Florida and join Sea Shepherd. They have other bases elsewhere, but I've always wanted to live in Florida, near the gulf. I live in Michigan now though...plus I'm broke and I don't know how I'd safely get my two cats down there with me, so it's probably not going to happen any time soon. One day though. Nothing means more to me than the sea.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist, a paleopathologist or a forensic pathologist. Would still sell my soul for that but instead I ended as a...nurse? What is wrong with me?

Im technically not grown up yet so i hope i'll still have a chance in pursuing my.. dream career. I've always wanted to be a sailor somehow. Most people who i've told so would usually start with 'are you insane?' or 'but thats risking your life! why not a doctor instead?'

Im planning to study real hard so i'll be able to enroll at a sailing school for college! :D

Solid Gold Dancer!

Really, does anything after that even matter? ;)

I really wanted to be a teacher but seeing how their environment is going these days I'm trying to become a zookeeper instead

As a child I wanted to be a zoologist. My ultimate goal was to appear in TV interacting with animals, like Steve Irwin. Then I wanted to become a digital animator because I loved Disney and Pixar movies. During my teenage years I wanted to be a psychologist because the human mind is really intriguing. I finally entered psychology school and didn't like it, lol. Now I want to try with nursing school. The only thing I know (that I realized over the years) is that I want to help people somehow. : )

All over the damn place.

Timeline from childhood to now: Paleontologist --> Veterinarian --> Comedian --> Archaeologist --> Crime Scene Cleaner --> Nurse--> Writer--> Graphic Designer --> Conservationist

Right now? I realized after service in the army as a medic and my other jobs (Veterinary assistant, Hospital sanitation), along with going through college, I realize I just have a big problem with being what told to do, usually by incompetent management.

I'm studying for a major in Advertising, because it's a field that would give me more entrepreneurial and creative freedom in the long run while I launch several eCommerce businesses and make supplemental income (and a few online commissions as well-- none of my graphic design classes have gone to waste). Once you understand the basic theories behind "selling stuff," you can turn a nice profit on your own terms and make your own schedule. It also helps that, since I have a background in graphic design, I can do my own branding and website design on the fly.

While advertising is what I'm studying (Bernays may have been a bastard, but I've found Propaganda is still quite relevant), it's just a springboard for what I really want to do. My ultimate dream is to be able to sell honey and rabbit meat at the local farmer's market while restoring the acreage I'm currently living on back to a prairie filled with wildflowers (so the bees are well fed and the soil gets its nutrients back). I'd also like to teach self-sustainability classes and run a few tiny home projects for people who don't want to be tied down with the debts linked to keeping large houses, new cars, junk they don't need, etc.

Basically, it's a massive irony-- I want to major in the art of consumerism so I can have the money to fund my dream of being the hippy chick who wants to help people not be slaves to consumerism.

People can call me selfish all they wish, but at the end of the day, I'm the one who needs to live with my choices and decisions-- We all have a finite number of days on this planet and I refuse to spend 40+ years of my life in servitude to someone who would leave me without a roof over my head if it meant they would meet their projected budget after they gave themselves a raise.

TL;DR - Really, I want to do now what I wanted to do as a kid: Whatever the hell I want.

Wanted to be a doctor or run a sports academy 8D! I've earned my Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery and now i'm training as a doctor and one day hoping to run a sports medicine programme. I knew what I wanted from a young age and just went with it... much to the disappointment of my dad. XD

Hmmm... I went through a few changes throughout my life. In order from childhood to adult:

Pediatrician/some sort of doctor -> Biologist -> Psychologist -> Crime Scene Investigator/Detective -> Entertainment Technician/Designer -> Chef/restaurant owner -> Computer Programmer

What changed is first, I didn't want to be in the medical field. Then, I learned I'm too squeamish to investigate crimes. I thought being an entertainment technician/designer would restrict where I could live. And finally, I couldn't handle the demands and work schedule of a chef.

So, yeah... I kind of went all over the place. XD I'm happy where I'm at now though! I have a year of school left and I'm enjoying programming. I'm hoping once I finish school and refine my skills, I can start freelancing jobs.

I still love to cook, so the chef dream still lives on in a way. :)

You truly sound like me haha. I commend you for the chef aspect. Cooking is an exact but beautiful desire for career. Go for it!

I always wanted to be a chiropractor but that quickly turned into a desire for psychology. Years later (and currently), I've discovered my desire again, but this time, to go for psychiatry. Yay med school lol but I absolutely adore learning. It's just a hard path before me.

I just wanted to be an artist. I still do, but it's hard to make money that way. I got a degree in Technical Writing only to realize I just hate working with people, even at the basic level that Technical Writers do...ahaha I actually just wrote a long post complaining about it but I post all that. I just wish I had done what I wanted when I had the chance.

Of course, besides art, I just don't want to do anything. I wanna sleep all day, buy anime merch, eat something delicious, talk to a friend. Just small stuff like that. Maybe just be a cat.

Yeah, I think want to be a cat that can also draw and paint. Claude Moewnet is what they'll call me.