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What did you want to be growing up?

Did you achieve it? I wanted to be a concert pianist or ballerina. Didnt achieve either unfotunately.

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I just wanted to be loved more than anything. 🎻

Degbeme · 70-79, M

@SW-User I wuvs ya .... well you`re cooking more than anything. ☺️

Isthisit · F

@SW-User Im sure youve always been loved

SW-User

Thank you both sending you love 💕 @Degbeme @Isthisit

Penny · 46-50, F

i wanted to be a stay at home mom of two girls close in age like me and my sister. for the most part I did :) i did have to work a little here and there but i got a few solid years straight of getting to stay at home and raise my kids. it was great :) besides that I never really had any serious ambitions

Isthisit · F

@Penny Being a mom and wife was a wish of mine when i was a teenager. I have one son but am not a wife yet.

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Easygoing1234 · 46-50, M

@Isthisit dont make the past dictate your future

hunkalove · 61-69, M

I wanted to rule the world. I'm still working on it!

bijouxbroussard · F

@hunkalove Good to see you, Hunk ! 👍🏽

ozgirl512 · 26-30, F

As long as you tried... Not everyone has the ability to fulfill their dreams... Doesn't mean you shouldn't try though

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bijouxbroussard · F

I wanted to be a teacher. And I was. First, in a public school, and when I was laid off, I joined a corporation and became one of their training instructors.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I kind of wanted to be a lepidopterist at some point, travel the world and study species but of course that was just a silly dream. I'd still want to take pictures of various species around the world as a hobby though.

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Because you seem to always be blossoming and evolving since I’ve know you . Also I love the way you flutter about like a butterfly 🦋

. @CrazyMusicLover

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@SW-User Lol, that's so cute. Can I be Apatura iris? It's a forest butterfly that comes to a newcomer, flies around to observe and then flies away and disappears for hours before it comes back to "socialize" for another short while. 😆

SW-User

Sure why not 😊. Wait don’t you already do that everyday as it is 😌 @CrazyMusicLover

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Nobel prize winning scientist. Didn't manage it but I had a decent engineering career.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

I wanted to be a writer. Didn't accomplish it.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 It's not too late. I didn't finish my first novel until I was 60. Since then I've written three more.

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

I wanted to be an archaeologist. That didn't happen.

akindheart · 61-69, F

nope. i wanted to be an airline stewardess. all the flight crashes changed that. Dad wanted me to be a nurse. The Richard Speck murders changed that. I wanted to be a teacher. nope.not that either

CestManan · 46-50, F

I thought I was gonna be in a band or something.
Right.

I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up but I am pretty sure my present job isn't it.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

Never thought I'd live past the age of 20, so I didn't plan for anything beyond that.

NoGamesTolerated · F

@Thevy29 why did you think you wouldn’t live past 20?

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@NoGamesTolerated When I was 8 years old I was hospitalised in a ward for kids with Brain tumours. There were 8 of us. The oldest was Mark, he was 21. He had been having issues since he was my age. I made good friends there, but by the time I was 15 I was the last survivor. And somehow I had the feeling that I would not live past the age of 20.. It was a horrible feeling.

NoGamesTolerated · F

@Thevy29 I’m so sorry you had to experience that. 😞

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Growing up i always wanted to be in tech. I am in it. :)

ArishMell · 70-79, M

A Scientist or an Engineer, but since both disciplines are highly mathematical and I was always weak at maths, that was out of the question.

I had to content myself with semi-skilled "shop-floor" work allied to those.

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

I've seen medical dramas when I was little and said I wanted to be a doctor, after years I decided that this childish dream was silly and unrealistic, yet I ended up as a dentist, still a doctor I guess.

exexec · 61-69, C

My "growing up" goals were short term. I wanted to be a high school football star. Then I wanted to be a college athlete. Finally I realized I had to make a living, so I wanted to be an engineer, and that's what I became.

antonioioio · 70-79, M

Mechanic
Never got the chance,
But my work included, welding, fixing machinery, driving machinery, even designing machinery, so I got more than what I wanted to be ❤️

smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F

I wanted to marry a rich man. I wanted to stay home with the kids. Also own a big house and never have to work. I did get the house and the kid's I do work from home

Carissimi · F

No, I didn’t, even though I put years of hard work and money into trying to achieve it. I don’t even want to think about it. It still hurts.

Degbeme · 70-79, M

PhoenixPhail · M

All I wanted to be was alive. I was too busy surviving to want to be anything.

Fluffybull · F

@PhoenixPhail Same here. Just wanted to get through school alive.

PhoenixPhail · M

@Fluffybull We made it, and we're here.
Seems there are some things we could share. 👥

romell · 51-55, M

Grew up into what I wanted ..gods been Kind

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romell · 51-55, M

@Isthisitgods Been kind

Isthisit · F

@romell what are now that you wanted to be when younger?

romell · 51-55, M

@Isthisit pm.me

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Professional full time musician

Only achieved semiprofessional in my spare time of my regular job

Isthisit · F

@SW-User awesome

cecile · F

i wanted to be a vet but decided against after finding out i would have to put animals to sleep aswell as treat

Driver2 · M

I wanted to live near nature and own just enough to be happy . Not more than that.

Isthisit · F

@Driver2 sounds ideal to me

jackson55 · M

My mom had some silly ideas about me playing the piano. But I played guitar in a rock band.

Jeffrey53 · 51-55, M

When I was young I wanted to be a fire fighter like Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto

Barny52 · 56-60, M

Gamekeeper it didn’t happen but happy just walking dogs in countryside

FemboyJessi · M

Yep I became exactly what I wanted to now that I’m a grown up ☺️

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An artist, I still do but it’s not very realistic

HootyTheNightOwl

A HGV driver... and a mom.

Didn't achieve either.

thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M

I wanted to be a geologist or a rock star.

Neither of those things has happened, and neither has much of anything else. Still no career, no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life, and no idea where I would find the energy to worry about it anyway 🙃

OhIsMe · 36-40, M

I only ever wanted to help people. And sometimes I do so that's good! 😊

I still think I'd make a good therapist or counsellor 90% of the time but my tendency to fall madly in love with people would not be a good fit for that role.

Nimbus · M

A lumberjack.

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smiler2012 · 56-60

@Nimbus 😆right nimby when is the punch line comiing then

Nimbus · M

@smiler2012 When Liverpoo next win the treble 😆

smiler2012 · 56-60

@Nimbus 😆i suppose i did ask for that one nimby

PassingThrough · 46-50, M

The first job I every wanted was a paleontologist when I was in elementary school and obsessed with dinosaurs. Then I wanted to be an artist. And after that a ghostbuster.

Montanaman · M

Those are wonderful dreams actually.
I wanted to become a World renowned National Geographic Photographer/Writer.
Not famous. But I'm very good at both. 😎❤️

fun4us2b · M

Still growing...will let you know...

You can still play the piano or dance and gain mastery and great enjoyment from them.

Torsten · 36-40, M

that sucks that didnt work out for you.
I wanted to be a astronaut or police officer. Neither happened

Fluffybull · F

Didn't have a clue. Tried several things until I realised that self-,employment suited my temperament best 👍

NewBeginnings7790 · 41-45, F

Elementary school teacher.

Or running a children’s home for kids who don’t have a family.

Alfarrobas · 31-35, M

Uffff... so many things. One of those where scientist. Problem? Math is my worst subject...

TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

Train driver.....no ,because working Saturdays would have messed up the rugby.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

A ballerina or a gymnast, but I was too short to be a dancer. Became an actuarist instead 🤦‍♀️

SensualRomantic · 46-50, M

I wanted to be a famous soccer player. I became a web developer and IT consultant.

iamelijah · 26-30, M

Nah. I thought I wanna join military but my height is not helping me. I stopped growing.

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

I wanted to be a writer, science fiction or fantasy.

Sadly, I am no such thing. Oh well.

Easygoing1234 · 46-50, M

I wamted to be a toys r us kid

Isthisit · F

@Easygoing1234 my best friend wanted to be a milk bottle! Lol

Easygoing1234 · 46-50, M

@Isthisit lol

WhateverWorks · 36-40

I wanted to be a vagabond or a counselor. Did 1, working on the other 😜

Daveuk · 56-60, M

Be in a band..play guitar but not in Anand😞

Isthisit · F

@Daveuk I wanted to be in a band too- another thing i wanted to do.

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