What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up?
By LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (43)
United States
December 15, 2025 11:16am CST
What did you want to be when you grew up and is that what you became?
I had bad parents. They didn't inspire me or support me or encourage me to have any vision for my future.
I never really had any plans. I just knew I was supposed to work my whole life. Probably as a secretary.
But I do remember when I was younger, maybe 8-10 I liked to play "teacher" and run a classroom and I always loved school and learning things.
So I worked my whole life, mostly in managerial office or executive office jobs and liked it okay but when in my 30's I finally started college and my first graduate degree (MBA) and started teaching college, I finally felt that "fit" that I was disconnected from.
I think I was always meant to be some sort of educator. I ended up doing it for 17 years as a second profession.
Now tell us what you wanted to be when you grew up.
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8 responses
@LindaOHio (208340)
• United States
4h
Actress. Not a "gosh I'd like to be famous" actress; but a serious one. I was pretty good. My mother only had aspirations for me to be a secretary; but I managed to get promoted to various supervisory or managerial positions. I even had my own business for 7 years. She never encouraged me to aspire to a greater goal.
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@snowy22315 (200071)
• United States
20h
I had 3 things I was kind of focused on...being in the Peace Corps, which I eventually dismissed because I knew I wasn't cut out for it. My idea of helping people is from an air conditioned office, although I did applyy to ViSTA once. A foreign correspondent..seems like a cool job, or being a flight attendant aka stewardess. Probably few times in my adult life would I have met the weight requirements for that. I guess I did do the helping people from an air condtioned office though as a case manager.
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@FourWalls (81030)
• United States
19h
I wanted to be a math teacher. Seriously. Things took a left turn somewhere.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (16498)
• Torrington, Connecticut
21h
I used to want to be a Detective lol
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@AmbiePam (108096)
• United States
21h
I went through a whole host of possibilities growing up, but my parents just wanted me to strive to do the best at whatever I chose. I had a lot of professors push hard for me to go into psychology because I excelled at that. Unfortunately, I take other people’s problems as my own, and I knew I couldn’t do it for my own mental health. In the end, I was going to be a teacher.
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@LeaPea2417 (39240)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21h
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a teacher.
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