What did you want to be when you grew up?

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  1. I wanted to be a vet! Going into medicine now (for humans, not a dr though)

  6. I wanted to be a teacher and I became one but it wasn’t anything like I thought it would be unfortunately.

  10. A few things. A vet. A marine biologist. A voice actor. An animal rehabilitator. A comic artist.

    I was too academically dumb to pursue any of the science-y stuff, so I gave up on that. Grew up and realised it’s probably a good thing I gave up on being a vet tho. I know a couple of people who have worked in the industry and are still working there, and the stories I hear were just super depressing… If I were in it, idk how I’d be able to handle being absolutely pissed at irresponsible people.

    As for voice acting, I ended up developing social anxiety so that flew out the window.

    Now I’m currently trying to get over my anxiety to post comics online.

    Oh, I also thought it’d be nice to work in a dog daycare, but the reality was a nightmare. Those businesses just min-max profits, so much irresponsible shit going on, the dog screening process is a joke (so many dogs that should be rejected get accepted because $$$), and the bosses really don’t care about the dogs much. You don’t pay for your dog to have quality time, you pay for someone to ensure your dog is not dead. And even then, it isn’t a guarantee due to the horrible screening process! I know a few people whose dogs have died in dog daycares due to dog fights….

  12. I really wanted to be a psychologist and help people feel better.

  14. A dentist. Because I enjoyed yanking my loose teeth out. And my friends’ teeth too.

  22. As a kid I wanted to be a spy, and also a detective. As an adult I worked in military intelligence (although I was not an actual spy). Later, I worked as a Special Investigator for the government, which is kind of a distant cousin to being a detective. I think 10 year old me would have been pretty happy with the way my aspirations turned out.

    Edit: I’m considering getting my Private Investigator license in retirement. The 10 year old in me is SO excited at the idea.

  23. A paleontologist but everybody discouraged me from doing that saying “you won’t make any money and you’ll just end up working in a museum.” So I didn’t become a paleontologist but I ended up in a museum and making no money anyway lol

  26. I was in kindergarten and was in awe of the school bus driver. There are jobs where all you do all day is get to drive?! It seemed/sounded so fun! Now I’d hate my life if I had to drive all day long.

  28. Idk how far back we’re going here but I wanted to be the tooth fairy SO BAD

  29. I never bothered wanting to be anything because i genuinely just couldn’t imagine a future as an adult.
    I also thought “dream job” meant something you actually go to sleep and dream about. Then i was interested in welding/tattooing/biology/anesthesiology/anthropology
    but in my hs girl just “never seemed to make the cut” since there were so many boys wanting to take it, my grandpa was making me help with moving 10+ft boards and in ended up dropping one on my wrist in a way that it has a problem and i dont thin’ my arts that great for tattooing, and my mom just straight up didnt take me to school some days and refused to take me to summer school so i didn’t graduate and lost a scholarship (wouldn’t been 2 free years of studying ANYTHING).
    She even lost my birth certificate and refused to help me get an ID so i could get a job. Ik you can go back to school later in life or whatever but with how expensive it is i doubt I can, it dont understand scholarships and i read (forgot where) that if you get a get instead of diploma or take a gap years than you wont qualify for most scholarships.

  30. Doctor because I love helping people.

    I am now trying to be an accountant.

  31. I wanted to play professional volleyball. I did, turns out there’s no money in it so doctor it is

  32. An Olympic event rider, or a zookeeper.

    I ended up working on horse farms for over a decade. So I guess I achieved a mix of both? 😂

  33. Movie star, pop star or model. I ended up being a chiropractor who did community theater for 10 years before the pandemic hit. No regrets. I did promotional modeling when I was in college, but I didn’t pursue a career in the industry because it made my insecurities worse, plus I was too short and not a size 00.

  34. I wanted to be a surgeon. My father was in an accident and almost lost half of his arm, but the surgeon managed to reconstruct it in 9 hours so well that after a year of rehabilitation, it worked perfectly. And it was a very serious accident. I was amazed by the surgeon’s work.

  39. A fireman!

    Yes I’m a woman but I never saw firewomen while I was growing up.

  41. I wanted to be a Photographer. Specifically would LOVE to go travel to super cool, dark and scary abandoned places. Especially places with a lot of vandalism & graffiti lololol.
    Orrrr something in the Medical Field.
    The most basic but still helpful type of position. Like front and back office and I would be able to handle giving shots or drawing blood.
    Idk why but I’ve always pictures myself being super good at drawing blood. lol. Never tried though 🙁

    But… both these dreams died A LONG LONG TIME AGO💔

  42. What I’m now. A doctor. It’s literally the only career choice I had since I was 5. It was like a calling.

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