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Different things at different times.....lawyer, teacher, wife and mom, politician, artist (of some kind)
I have worked in a variety of offices (clerical/clerical accounting), teacher (substitute), retail sales (Home Depot, etc.), deli person, electrician, card dealer, usherette, and will be a tax specialist beginning Tuesday, January 2, 2012. 
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. 

I wanted to be a Doctor 1st then I really wanted to be a Vet but my Maths were real bad so that was out of the Picture then a Artist so I went to Art college and hated it and left after 6 months then went into accounts weird as my maths were still bad !!!! I have had lots of Jobs and loved them well most of them still my job that I do now

I wanted to be "Elvis a good hip shaker .I also had the shakes maybe it was alcohol No I don't drink. Coke only.glass of red wine Sunday with lunch. 

I wanted to be a rich Hippy but I became a Republican and somewhat poor. (Not related to one another)

i wanted to be astronet  but i've become a loser i mean artist ( i paint )

I loved airplanes, and wondered how cool it would be to fly one. Today, the thought of flying gives me severe anxiety. If man was meant to fly the Lord would have covered us with feathers.

As a pre-teen and early teen years I played a lot of baseball and was pretty good at it (so I thought). My dream was to be a professional BB player. Something happened when I became an older teen and I lost all my coordination .... and my dream.

I wanted to be a lawyer for the regular people that really needed help.

Thank you all for your answers!

Have a nice winter - officially starts today - Merry Christmas, Happy New Whole Year and stay healthy please.

Val

You doo have a gift for English; which war?

When i was 12 i loved bowling and had a 200 average for 12 weeks.  At 15 i had an average at one time of 220. I wanted to be a professional bowler. Was on a tv bowling show where i had a chance to bowl three strikes in a row for 1200.00. I was the only kid against 10 other adults that night. It was a big thing to be on live tv and ended up two strikes and nine pins. No other kids did as well as i had done. Then testosterone and growing kicked in and ruined my career.  I ended up working with convicts in prisons,as well as studying microbiology and genetics. . My bowling friend back then went on to be one of the worlds best bowlers in the 1990's.I also wanted to play soccer because nobody was better than me at being a goalie at 14 years old.  I was in sports illustrated as a young athlete. Accomplished alot for kid.

I wanted to be a genius and an opera singer....

I am currently a smartarse and was a pro-musician and singer-songwriter for 20 years (tho' not opera) and now I'm just glorious whacky me....oh yes...I am a Sasquatch researcher for no-one in particular....whoop!whoop!

I don't have any clue what I wanted to do when I was a pre-teen...too busy with learning "animal" languages and feeling really weird (hormones??) nah- I've always been a bit 'off' lol.

When I was seven I wanted to become an engineer. Later, in 1955 just before going to college, I wanted to become a journalist! but  I had to go to study engineering.  I became an engineer, worked, still working as an engineer and quite happy with my professional life.

You must remember then who Nagy Imre was. The Sovites brought him in Romania and executed him in a place not far from the city in which I was in my 2nd year in college. Of course I learned about this about three years ago. I defected in 1978.

Must confess back in the 1930s I wanted to be a Rodeo rider in a travelling ,as we called them in Australia at the time, Buck Jump Show".

Then in the early 1940s as we were at war I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion.

Seemed very glamourous to a lad from OZ.

Then when I was 14 Mum told me what I was GOING to be and so I became a apprentice Cabinet Maker making wooden clock cases and grandfather clock cabinets.

Next, as the Korean war was on I joined the Australian Regular Army (full time army)

After rookies I was made a artilleryman and served just over six years when I was discharged and not able to reinlist due to loss of hearing.

I next went into selling and spent the rest of my working life in some form of sales and marketing in managerial positions and at one stage I was Sales Director of a company.

For what it is worth I was listed in the 1979 "Whos Who in business in Australia.

Had a total of 55 years working from 1946, age 14, to 2001 age 79 when I pulled the plug on full time work.

I wanted to be a professional football player.  But fate and probably ability had a different idea.   I've spent most of my life in the financial services business.

i wanted to be a singer and i am on my to becoming an oceanographer :)

hi im called sian my answer for this is wen i was a teenager i wanted to become a fashion desghner  and live in austraillia and now i am a fashon desghner as my job and a model as my carere  and live in austraillia so most of my dreams have come true and i am sian of Corrie ................. really its true :) (^^^)

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