Did you become what you wanted to be when you grew up?

Well, congratulations. Most people do not end up with what they wanted to be. Take me

for instance. I wanted to be a journalist one day, but end up taking Bachelor of

Science in Nursing since it's what my mom wants me to take up. Getting no choice

at all, since she is going to pay for my college, that's what I did.

But, it doesn't end there. Maybe in the next few years, I would go back to college

(Wee!) And take up journalism. Maybe it's time for me to be accomplish and fulfill

my goals..

Unfortunately, I did not. I always wanted to be a doctor from my earliest memory, and I did get as far as pre-med. I was in a horrible marriage and I finally gave up trying. I do work in the medical field, but I have always wondered how my life would be if I had suceeded in achieving my dream.

No as i always wanted to be a vet or a vet nurse,as i was always looking after birds as well as other wild animals that were hurt when i was alot younger.Instead i ended up working in a chicken factory and then i went on to work with the elderly.Now i am a stay at home mum with 6 children and married.Funny how things turn out.

I wanted to be a police officer, after seeing them on tv. I didn't end up going, but became close to it. I graduated with a diploma in Private Investiagations in 2000

Congratulations!!! you really did what you wanted to be... For my case I really wanted to be an archetecht since I was small for I love math and I love designs, but my parents discourages me for as my father said only boys are being given opportunity on many companies to be an archetect. So I put that behind, I enrolled on a Computer Science Programming Course the time I reach college but I get bored after 2 years and a half since my interest is not their...
I shifted to another course which is Mathematics education, then I find it really interesting, I discovered more things in math that I really wanted to learn and the thing that cought my attention to enroll with that course in the NonEucledian Geometry which would use your eye perseptions that two parallel lines meet at a ceratin point...Their during my four years in that course I find every minute of it worthy. And now I am already a full pledge math teacher... I did not get what I really wanted to have when I was small but I guess I get what the Lord wanted me to have.

I think that slowly and sometimes painfully I am becoming what I want to be. I´m 64 and I still ask myself what exactly do I want to be when I grow up. Every time the answer is nearer my latest dream. I have discovered that what I want to be is a person who can say what she wants and doesn´t have to or care to hide her real thoughts. I want to be fully unveiled when I grow up.
I have done lots of things in my life, most of which were things I really wanted to do. I had kids, planted trees, wrote books. I loved and was loved.
As you have told us, when I was young I wanted to be so many things that it would have been absolutly imposible. But in a way I did all of them. When I write stories I get into a made up world and my characters are all parts of myself.
It´s spring in my country now and this spring and summer I will also be a gardener. I cleaned up a small space and just planted beans, fava beans. I have tomato seedlings growing in a pot. Last winter I did an experiment on potatoes and planted some in bags in Winter. Today I went to dig them and I´ll eat them now skin and all with butter.
Take care!!!

Yes i too became what i wanted to be when i was younger but at a great cost!! I was that child that everyone hated!!! When i started high school i rebelled!, I never turned up for school and even when i did i was causing trouble, i prefered to be out late at night smoking,drinking and doing drugs!, It was then i met my current partner of 9 years, I left school without any qualifications, After 2 years with my partner I fell pregnant at 17 and relised that i had to change!,I juggled college,uni,work and a baby to become what i always want to be a qualified BSL interpreter!!! Ive now been working as a BSL interpreter for 4 years and have earning much more qualifications along the way! It was hard work but it has given my son the life he deserves and myself an acheivement i didnt think id actually acheive!!

congratulations!you become what you wanted to be when you grew up by your efforts.

I agree your dad said that only people who are slightly insane become artists.
maybe it's not perfectly right. But only you immerge into art,you can achieve. at that time you will be unique,just like insane.

I wanted to be a veterinarian technician as a kid. Currently I work a level below that in the kennels, so I can say that I am 'on my way' to achieving my childhood goal. I just have to work hard and prove myself as someone that they want to move up in the ranks and train as a technician.

congratulations,you finally made it! i kinda envy you!
I can barely remember what i wanted to be and i guess i am kind of design of somebody else.i never lived the way i want(shame on me). life is a struggle.
but,as a high school guy, i still have time to think about what i want to be in the future,and im sure i'll figure it out soon.from now on,my life depends on me!