what do you want/wanted to be when you were young?

[0gr0]

please, diskuss

[Bloodshadow]

I once wanted to be a scientist who studies all fields of science. Now it's focused just on theoretical physics. I've pretty much always wanted to be a scientist.

[Thalas]

First documentary cameraman to travel around the world and observe animals, then I wanted I wanted to be scientist (just scientist of I don't know what). And now I still don't know which scientist I want to be, but surely not some scientist that has a boring life and no one never-heard of him. I want to be a teacher or scientist, I just wait I still have 2 years to decide, I'm still 14.

[johannhowitzer]

Video game designer/programmer.  Since I was 3-4 years old I was designing game levels, mostly Mario-style at the early stages, then I got into Zork-style textbased games later on, and other kinds of puzzle games.  I actually got into programming to some extent and produced some rudimentary games, and then I took a left turn into music and never looked back.  I still design things now and then, though - just look at my card designs around the forum for evidence of my obsession.  As destiny or fate would have it, I am now doing the music for a video game.

[Pineapple]

Very first dream was to be an artist, when I was maybe 5.

[siriosirio]

astronaut 

[pervepic]

that guy who cleans streets manually (don't know english word for that), nightwatcher, mail-man

[CoyoteStarrk]

Very first dream was to be an artist, when I was maybe 5.

same goes for me ^^

[Cookiereaper]

i wanted to be an detective around 7,8 years old like holmes but chasing women or men who may betray her partner is just stupid.

[nilsieboy]

first dream of me was that i wanted to be a musician.

[The_Mormegil]

I wanted to restore the broken planet of Minerva with my grandfather's hammer. Not kidding.

If you don't know what Minerva is (or rather, was supposed to be): it was thought that the asteroids belt between Mars and Jupiter was the remains of a broken planet, who some scientists named "Minerva". Later it was found out that most likely the asteroids are what's left of a planet who never managed to be created, due to Jupiter's heavy influence.

[Astrocyte]

In this order, starting from around age 4 (why do I remember this?):
Artist
Teacher
Doctor
Geneticist
Actress
Writer
Teacher

So what am I doing now? I'm in school to be a speech therapist, which overlaps a lot of the skills and interests that come with wanting to be a writer or a teacher. Good thing, too, 'cause I don't have the talent to be an artist or actress and it's too late to be a doctor or geneticist