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What did you want to be when you were a child, did any of us become what we said we'd be from an early age?

The first thing I remember saying that I wanted to be was a missionary. I'd watched the film 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' with Ingrid Bergman. It seemed to be an exciting and worth while job to lead children through the Chinese mountains away from the bad soldiers.

Needless to say the only exciting thing I ever did was in a Chinese take away, and I'd better not mention that!

By the age of ten I realised I wanted to work in fashion and thats what I did.

My eight year old neice says she wants to be a teacher or a tv presenter, and my six year old nephew says he wants to make babies or play for Burnley F.C. Good luck kids.;)

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I wanted to be a Nurse...........so yes maybe I am half way there......

The other thing I wanted to do was be a astronomer, which took my fancy for a while, but it doesn't interest me now.

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Slinks you did realise your dream then because you do nurse and care for people.:)

Although I worked in fashion, I was making shirts for people with more money than sense, and not the new Yves St. Laurent I imagined at ten years old I was going to be.

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;) OMG what a good thread Rind!

OK I always wanted to be in the RAF or the army untill I was told at about 13 year old it weren't ever gonna happen ............ gutted was an understatement and I know that if life had dealt me a different set of cards that's were Iwould be today :( !!


Then I wanted to be an air stwerdess untill I had that dream shattered when I was told I was to short and a minger lol!


Then I thought I just wanted to live and work out in Spain not really caring what I did just as long as I lived abroad ........... dream shattered when I had kids instead!


soooo ...... now I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up but who cares, in the words of the Baz Luhrman Sunscreen song .......... "Don't feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life...the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't".

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I wanted to be a princess....:D Isn't that what every 3 year old girl wants??

Unfortunately the princess thing didn't pan out and by the age of 6 I wanted to be a dancer. There was only one problem..........I lacked the ability, with a terrible sense of timing, no grace and chubby elephantine legs, I didn't stand a chance.

By the age of 12 I realised that I was good at biology and chemistry but they were too boring to do anything with. I nursed a secret ambition to make it onto the Wimbledon circuit but my tennis was short of the mark (way short).

I was good at drama and debating at school and by the age of 14 I wondered if there might be anything there, but never followed it up as I hate rejection.

At 15 I was getting rather good at skiing and was offered the opportunity to go back to Italy after leaving school to take my advanced award and train as an instructor. Unfortunately I had left school by then and my dad had suggested that I stop dreaming and get a proper job.

At 19 I started nursing and loved it. It was never my intention to stay long in the NHS. Cruise ships and Down Under were calling but I reckoned I would stand more of a chance of a decent job with a second qualification. Midwifery was the obvious choice at the time, so I went for it. 2 qualifications and a mortgage later my mate who was going to come Down Under with me got married and I didn't want to go alone (so I'm glad I didn't tell anyone I was thinking of it). They might have thought I was a wuss.

I can't believe I have been in the NHS for 18 years. My ultimate ambition is to earn loads of money for doing as little as possible.

So if anyone has a vacancy for a bone idle princess who can't dance or play tennis........ Send me a pm and I'll send you my cv.....;)

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I'd have thought you'd have put Princess as well, like Lettie, and that you have achieved your dream job 'caus you are one now.;)
You're only a whipper snapper anyway, and with the exams you are doing the world's your oyster. Even though you are a Mum as well, there's still a great career ahead of you Miss Freud.:)

I think the reason you didn't become an air hostess wasn't because you are a minger, which you certainly are not, but more likely that they may have thought you would open the cabin doors mid flight to make people laugh.:D

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I wanted to be retired until i was 65 then get a job as a lollypop man!:(

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I wanted to be a vet 'til I realised you had to be good at science subjects and that I was definitely more an Arts student than a scientist. :(

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I remember when I was about 4 or 5 I wanted to be a Milk Man..... as you can see I always aimed high. :rolleyes:

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Filthy rich international playboy. My God what a letdown.

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I cant remember what I wanted to be when I was really little, but as I got older I wanted to work with horses, then I wanted to become Quincy, I spent many an hour dissecting flies, spiders anything that I could find under my microscope, I never became Quincy, I'm still fascinated by forensic pathology but have never done anything about it, instead I found myself working in a chemist and became interested in pharmacy, I studied pharmaceutical science and now work as a technician in hospital pharmacy.

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I can't believe no one has said Lumberjack....




Or am I the only Monty Python Fan :)

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I love Monty Python Kipax but the thought would never have occurred to me!

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Its the famouse line as he works up to the start of the song ......I never wanted to do this.. I always wanted to be.... To be .... A LUMBERJACK!

My wierd SOH I guess :)

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I always wanted to be a Nurse.......and somewhere my mother has a picture of me in her cut down wartime uniform.......I think I might have been about 3 at the time.
It wasn't all plain sailing though and I didn't get the chance to realise my ambition until I was married and my daughter was going to school.

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well i wanted to be a jockey i was the perfect size ( 4ft 7 n half inch in my final yr at school....no....bull) then bloomin mother nature took hold and i grew :mad: (now 5' 8" lol) so i then decided i wanted to be a chef but after carefull thought i decided against it as i would have to attend college and quite frankly id had enough of school so college was out of the question, so i started work as a upvc fabricator for a year till the firm went bust then i ended up as a creeler/weaver for gaskell carpets for 9 years and took voluntary redundancy when they were in financial trouble earlier last year and i now work as a sealant contractor...oh how life changes....but hey i wouldnt swap it for all the tea in china :D

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i had you down as a sportsman b.r.... funny the image you get of people,,,

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only sport i do gc is running ( from pub to pub :D )

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well when i was 15yrs i wanted to go into the army, dad who had served in the army many yrs.. refused he said no way!!!.. 6months later i despratly wanted to join the police force........... again dad said no ............. o bother i'll just carry on working in the print works then , . my biggest disappoint ment was when id said to my mum that i wanted to be a hairdresser, i was 14yrs old then , but as you can tell the answer was still no.

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Your a guy after my own heart Staggers. I wanted to be a Lllipop Lady.
By the age of 12 I wanted to be a Nanny.
At fourteen all I wanted was to be married to someone that loved me and have ten Children.

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well im still waiting for my superpowers to kick in!!!! till then i have no idea what i want to do so ill just keep doing what im doing

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Lmfao....................That's more like it rindy!!!! Tell you what, if she had made it to being a air hostess, i would never have flown ever again........Crazy son of a B'''''h.........:D

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At age 15 when I had just finished college, I wanted to work with children. I actually went to a meeting at Blackburn collage about it all. I went through a induction programme for a full day, then about 2 hours before the end they said to me " You will have to do 12 month working with the elderly, then be placed on a 2 year course with children".
Well after being told i would have to work with the elderly I said "no thank you" the thought terrified me.
At age 19 and up til now I work with the elderly, love every minute of it, and the fulfillment i feel from my job is fantastic. I really do make a difference to peoples lives every day, and i wouldn't change a thing. Sometimes it gets me down, but i have more good days than i do bad days. I get to meet some of the most interesting people I will ever meet through my job and, I cant stand monotony, which is why I don't work in a factory (tried this once too). Everyday is something different and i love a challenge and boy do i get it sometimes.......But it is the job i chose and the job I love.

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always wanted to be a pro footballer when i was a kid,played for junoir school and later for a local team-was never going to make it, didn,t help much being a bad sport lol for the local team i played for the a-team 3/4 times was sent off twice so they made me captain of the b team, lasted about 6/7 more games sent off twice again,after that i decided to become a p**s head,that i easily acheived,and now i cant even have drink=suppose thats poetic justice lolll

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As a small child I had a fascination with space so wanted to be the first woman in space!!! Ok so someone beat me so I gave up that idea. Next I wanted to join the police, met my now ex hubby when just turned 17 and still studying and it just never happened. But I have done so many different jobs and now work in the housing sector but who knows it could all change!!

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When i was at primary school and somebody asked me that question i honestly replied that i was going to be marry a prince and become a princess far away! to this day my friends still take the harry hiss out of me! i actually went to college to do a 3 year course to join either the R.A.F or police, i completed the course and im still not there. why? can you honsetly imagine me running after a thief or going to war? the enemy will just look at me and laugh! the theif would end up chasing me and they dont give you pink handcuffs!lol. so now i do part time in a video shop while at the moment im looking for a full time job so i can do what my dad says and get a house! two weeks ago i was accepted onto a beauty therapy course at blackburn college i did accept it but i had to turn it down as it costs just under 300.00 and im not allowed a grant neither, i could afford it but the parents would have moaned at me that id be spending another year at college when i could be in a full time job!

so if anyone out there knows a good place to work and there looking for full time staff you know where to find me lol

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does being a daddys little princess count??? (no i am not creeping dad i have some money thank you!)


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