What did you want to be when you a child?

[Sprailenes 47]

"When I grow up I want to be a..."

I always find kids answers so interesting and my son is stuck on Pilot.

When I was a kid and people would ask me I would say: "A duck"

I truly wanted to be a duck. How the hell does one become a duck!?

Its the longest running joke of the family... my mom has art of mine from grade school where I have drawn pictures of ducks for the "what I want to be" projects. You'd go see the art in the display cases and there'd be policeman, fireman, doctor.. and then Nevada's duck.

When I finally came to my senses I wanted to be a pilot but that died when I had an asthma attack in a glider and realized I couldn't do the fancy things pilots do due to a lack of oxygen.

[Emancipation 2]

hmmmmm i think either a teacher or a nurse..

Many nurse friends talked me out of nursing... and the teaching thing.. still need to progress on that

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I wanted to be an engineer.... then I realized how beautiful I was and how beauty and engineering did not mix

[Bern. 3]

I wanted to be a firetruck. :|

But now I want to go into Criminal Justice and I'm starting next year!

It might put a long delay on my VISA though >_<

[JillA 2]

An author.... I loved writing, well still do but when I was a kid in school and we had writing assignments I would always write pages and pages and go into great detail about everything!!

[Y's_habibitk 2]

A vet

An Oceanographer

An Egyptologist

A teacher

it depended on the year and mood heh

[Sprailenes 47]

I remember I wanted to be an archeologist for a while too, and so my mom sent me to a day camp at the ROM during the summers... and it was fun but I remember not being too amazed with digging holes and finding ** all.

[Krikit 1,163]

"When I grow up I want to be a..."

I always find kids answers so interesting and my son is stuck on Pilot.

When I was a kid and people would ask me I would say: "A duck"

I truly wanted to be a duck. How the hell does one become a duck!?

Its the longest running joke of the family... my mom has art of mine from grade school where I have drawn pictures of ducks for the "what I want to be" projects. You'd go see the art in the display cases and there'd be policeman, fireman, doctor.. and then Nevada's duck.

My son told me he wanted to be He-Man.... like Daddy. I had no idea who He-Man was until then.

I've wanted to be all kinds of things. A meteorologist, an actress, an author. The list is endless. I never wanted to be a duck, though.

[Sprailenes 47]

Yea people just didn't understand me, they'd smile and say things like: "Oh you can't be a duck"

Sure I can! If Michael Jackson can turn white! And Joan Rivers can look like an alien, then I can SURELY be a duck.

Quack.

[MrsCat 6]

I wanted to work at the cosmetic counter at HBC. It seemed so glamorous. Mind you I grew up in the NWT and my only exposure to big city life was the 2 trips per year to WEM, and always a stop at HBC.

[Sprailenes 47]

I wanted to work at the cosmetic counter at HBC. It seemed so glamorous. Mind you I grew up in the NWT and my only exposure to big city life was the 2 trips per year to WEM, and always a stop at HBC.

Thats cute!

Oh I wanted to be a shoe salesman for a while. I loved the smell of new shoes so I thought it would be fun.

I dreamt big!

[Jasman0717 9]

I grew up watching Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Sky King so I wanted to be a cowboy pilot. I haven't owned cowboy boots in about 30 years and the closest I got to flying was the Corps.

[Bern. 3]

Oh, at one point I wanted to be a librarian. So I got to work in a library for a while during High School but shelving books was completely boring. So then I worked for Indigo Books (Chapters/Coles/Indigo) It was a bit of a upgrade, but not really.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I wanted to work at the cosmetic counter at HBC. It seemed so glamorous. Mind you I grew up in the NWT and my only exposure to big city life was the 2 trips per year to WEM, and always a stop at HBC.

WAIT. It is NOT???????? There goes my dream career :crying:

[Sprailenes 47]

Haha I just read the title.... I missed the "were"

Oh well ducks don't need to worry about such things.