Yay! just remebered
When I was a kid I really, really, really wanted Aliens to abduct me and take me to their planet. (This was before I knew about probes etc). I used to spend hours at night staring out of the bedroom window waiting for them. I would stare at every star or airplane light wishing it to be a space ship.

Of course it never happened.



Or did it!
( girlinthehole, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:17, Reply)

But seriously folks
As a child all I wanted was a little hand in life.

Kind Regards
J Beadle
(The_Greyhound wrote www.luckymcdanger.blog.co.uk on, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:12, Reply)

me?
Han Solo.
(japper, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:10, Reply)

when I was a nipper..
I wanted to be the most hated cocky gypsy waiter looking showpony tunnel blocking foreigner known to Britain. And with a lot of hard work, dilligence and a hilarious wink caught on camera last year, I done it.

Arrgoantly yours,

C Ronaldo
(The_Greyhound wrote www.luckymcdanger.blog.co.uk on, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:07, Reply)

Waiting!
As a child and upwards I never had any idea what it was I wanted to do. I was good at art so I went to Art school. Didn't become an artist though. Fell into everything else after that and at the tender age of 41 I still have no idea what to be when I grow up.

I'm still waiting for that bolt of lightning to strike and give me the knowledge of my future career.

If it gets any later I think it will probably involve charity shops!
( girlinthehole, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:07, Reply)

I wanted to be...
a handicapped, like the ones on "Let's Go!"
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:02, Reply)

My childhood ambition
Was to be a train driver.

I don't know why. It's a boring job and you're not allowed to take drugs.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 16:01, Reply)

Theme Park Catering
about 4 years ago when i was an innocent 17 year old, i thought it would be brilliant to work at a theme park. fun all day right? Well i used to work in a kids theme park in Windsor (i'll let you guess) I worked in a themed restaurant for a while, but soon got bored of it, so found ways to amuse myself. It worries me that the things i did probably wouldn't amuse a normal person, and when i look back, are in fact downright dangerous.

*when asked to mop the kitchen floor, i kept dipping the mop in the oil catch tray from the deep fat fryers instead of the washing up bucket. the floor was slipier than an ice rink, and my female supervisor went down the instant she set foot on it and had to go to home after damaging her elbow.

*found a dead mouse and hid it in a bowl of chips. the girl who was eating the chips let out a blood curdling scream when she found the said dead mouse in her dinner.

*found a dead pigeon one morning by the fryers, dipped it in batter and fryed it then thought it was funny to place it on display in the front counter/hotplate with the chicken kievs.

*filled the potwash machine so full with detergent that it pissed out of the sides and the whole kitchen was like a foam party.

*made hybrid tea & coffee mixes for the customers, and took great amusement when they didn't even notice.

*anonymously made Cd's for the restaurant with say 10 tracks of nice music, with 1 track in the middle, just a soundclip of some man going through a list of swearwords at volume, i used to put it on in the mornig when no-one was looking and just patiently wait till it got to the said track; much to the disgust of the parents of the kids, but i couldn't stop pissing myself.


yes i did get sacked. in fact i don't know what it's like to hand my notice in. i've had 5 jobs, and i feel the need to play stupid pranks at every one, which always leads to my dismissal. maybe i'll grow up one day, but i'm only 21 so not for a while yet :)
(boosh, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:58, Reply)

I wanted to be.....
a LUMBERJACK!
( Spunk Murphy Tchaikovsky is a synonym for fanny, apparently, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:54, Reply)

Poet
I used to write poetry at secondary school - and I was bloody good at it too. (No, I'm not gay by the way)

Anyhoo - I got bitter over 2 things:

1. A girl in my class got her brother to write hers for her once and it got pride of place over mine
2. I realised that poets are paid nothing and are, generally, wasters

I stopped about 3 seconds after that and I've written none since.
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:54, Reply)

Transformer
Actually, I wanted to be a Transformer

I mean it's a cool idea - you're a car, then you're a big ol' robot, then you're a car again.

Then I realised that I wasn't a robot. Or a car. Or a cartoon character.

Arse
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:51, Reply)

My dad
wanted to go into the RAF and fly planes, but for one reason or another he didnt get in. He became an engineer instead and spent most of his working life building surface to air missile launchers for British areospace.

Bitter? not in the slightest.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:49, Reply)

I was a huge...
fan of Doctor Who as a child and dreamed of one day writing and producing the series.

Now of course middle aged, overweight, bespectacled, camp and hailing from Swansea I have to realise that would never happen.
(Tammytastic, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:48, Reply)

stockbroker to the stars
i wanted to be a stockbroker when i was little because i heard they made lots of money.

then i found out it involved dealing with dull clients, dull companies, dull numbers and dull percentages. plus my maths is positively remedial (and dull).

so i decided to be a lawyer, which of course has only sexy clients, interesting companies, no numbers or sweaty percentages whatsoever and my whole working life is one endless rollercoaster of excitement.

did i mention i work in uxbridge?

clearly i am the weakest link, goodbye.

ps: frankspencer - don't get me started... feel free to send me your article though!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:48, Reply)

Um
I wanted to be bigger
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:47, Reply)

fighter pilot
i wanted to be a fighter pilot but then discovered that the RAF had shit planes compared to the usaf, then i thought id be a test pilot for the raf, but soon realised (as with all the forces) yo had to dress really neatly and have shiny shoes and buttons...so i decide to become a vet. but then one came round to my house and killed my dog - so i changed my mind.

so after years of meanial jobs (i even worked behind the service desk at a couple of garages, so sorry to all the people i was forced to rip off - seriously i got fired from the last garage i worked at for being honest to a customer) i now work for my dad, the pay is shit but i get a 3 day weekend!!

length? pass me the magnifying glass and tweezers
(pogo_it, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:42, Reply)

Ghostbuster/...or a thundercat
Being a child of the 80's the two biggest things in my life were the Ghostbusters and The Thundercats.

Now I wasnt 100% sure how to become a Thundercat, and the tinterweb wasnt around for me to look at either. So by default this left me dreaming of being a ghostbuster.

I had done all the essential training, including watching both films, and the cartoons. Made a proton pack out of a shoe box and old string-blue peter stylee with the bluetack on the inside of the box to pierce it) and a bog roll innard for the gun. I was set. A smarties box provided me with the PKE reading. I tucked my trousers in to my socks, and grabbed my daddies sunglasses. I didnt have an Ecto1, so I improvides. My bike would have to do.

I was always bitterly dissappointed when I didnt find any ghosts. I always insisted that I ener a room ahead of my parents to zap any bad guys.

Then I watched the back to the future films. Always wanted to be a time traveller.

In truth, when I watch the old ghostbuster films (yes, I still watch them, at the age of 23, and yes, they do still rock) I kinda wish I could be a ghostbuster.

But ive grown up since then. I now want to be an MIB agent.

length?- its intergalactic!
(drain_bamaged, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:41, Reply)

.
the childhood dream: a train driver or a circus performer

the reality: an accountant who gets the tube to work every morning and who works with a bunch of f'ken clowns

arse.
(Handel blah blah blah, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:38, Reply)

when I was a child
Like everyone else i was asked what do you want to do when you grow up. Even at the tender age of 11 I was quite cynical, and thought for a minuate of getting trapped in a soul destroying cycle of work untill I die ie: a career. This didnt apeal to me so I said "retire". Now as soon as i graduate Ill escape the debt by changing my name and moving to new zealand and spend the rest of my life pissing about drawing cartoons for a living.

The glares the teacher and class gave me for being a smart arse were drowned out by a mystical voice from within that could only be my future self; "live the dream son, live the dream"
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:36, Reply)

I had a few.
First of all I read some books when I was quite young about a little girl wanting to be a farmer. She had the same name as me so automatically I thought it was my destiny (breathe). That lasted till I realised I'd have to get up crazily early and put my hands places in animals that hands should never go.

Then I wanted to breed Siamese cats. As well as my parents telling me "they manage quite well on their own" I got the shit ripped out of me in school for it.

Then I wanted to live in a windmill. Or, to be exact, the one in Jonathan Creek, with him. See above.

Now? I'm two-thirds of my way through uni (French and Italian) and still don't have a fucking clue. Answers on a postcard shaped like a keeton.
( Maladicta, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:22, Reply)

Ambition?
I don't remember really having any childhood ambitions. As an adult I have been a musician, led a theatre group and run a pub, amongst other things. I am now an accountant.
I STILL have absolutely no idea what I want to do when I grow up! (er..I'm 50 this year, so ballet dancer is out).
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:17, Reply)

I wanted to be a zombie in a zombie film, and open a major festival
I'm two for two (Shaun of the Dead and V99)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:15, Reply)

Ambulance/ Paramedic

Wanted to do it since I was little, got all my St John's Ambulance awards and all. I thought it sounded really interesting, helping people and stuff.

All my life until I was 18 and just finished college ready to try and start getting in and filling in the questionnaires and forms!

Only when asked the question about eye sight and I told them that I was colourblind it kinda hit us what a stupid plant I was...I wouldn't be able to see what colour things are!

Oh well.
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:14, Reply)

I wanted to be a cat
Now bear with me, this isn't as stupid as it sounds. If I could paint a picture of a typical school day of mine it would be running up the road in the pouring rain with my school bag & (immaculately cleaned) rugby kit to catch a bus full of chavs to get to school (full of chavs) to spend another day at the thin end of the Comprehensive school wedge surrounded by chavs who want to hurt & humiliate me...that would be it.

Every morning as I contemplated the coming days misery, I would see my cat stretched out in front of the fire, she would look at me through half closed eyes, and you just knew that she understood that she had the better deal in life.

And that's why I wanted to be a cat, although I always knew that a life of such uncomplicated lazyness would never be mine.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:12, Reply)

I did my childhood ambition for a degree!
At the tender age of 14, I though 'Hmm I like biology and chemistry, so for a degree I'll combine them and do biochemistry'.

When it got to A-levels I suddenly discoved that chemistry is a lot harder than I thought, and I didnt think I liked it anymore.

But did I think 'I'll do Biology instead'? No, I fecking still applied for Biochemistry!

I'm in my final year now, and although I was going to change to biology in my second year I didn't because I was too scared of the man in charge of changing your degree!

I perspective, its not actually that bad, any chemistry we d do is organic (which I did well at in college and really enjoyed) and generally we don't do much anyway.

Still wish I'd done Biology, mainly because they have more choice over what options to take.

Oh and there was the time that my Dad suddenly decided I should become a vet, I like animals but having to treat psychotic dogs is NOT my ideal career, plus I'm scared of needles.
(purplefairy, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:06, Reply)

Arsonist
Not me, my kids.

He's 4, says he wants to be a Fireman when he grows up.

She's 5, says she wants to be "one of those people that starts fires"

And Arsonist? Yes.

It escalates to the gruesome...

He says he'll put out her fires.
She says she'll set fire to him.
Undaunted, he says he'll wear fireproof clothes.
She thinks, says she'll lift them up and set fire to him inside them...

That's my daughter, that is. She's six now and wants to be an artist, but my money's still on arson.

First post! Yay!
(sminkyminky, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 15:02, Reply)

When I grew up
I always wanted to meet Michael Jackson, dunno why... but then when I got old enough to realize why they kept talking about him and little children on the news channels they meant something other than them just meeting him and it kind of put me off :(

Also from about the age of 5-10 I wanted to play in my dads pub band because it seemed really glamourous at the time. Anyways, after that I just forgot about it cause I didn't really want to and I ended up learning to play guitar and playing rhythmn guitar for them one new years eve when I was fourteen and I discovered it was the shittest thing ever. A guitar starts to feel really heavy when you've had it on your shoulders for almost three hours playing non stop. And it's kinda worrying when the rest of the band start playing a song you've never even heard before and are expecting you to play along. And all the time there's about 400 drunk faces trying to celebrate new years eve with some little kid on stage trying to play guitar.

Got £200 for it though so I guess it wasn't all bad :o


EDIT: wow and I wanted to breed ants too :o
(danecobain I have a new sig!, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 14:59, Reply)

Ants!
I wanted to breed Ants!

No punch-line, I really did... and still kinda do :(
(Minty Hit, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 14:58, Reply)

Explore the universe!!!
Around the age of thirteen I started reading science fiction. So of course my big dream was to become an astronaut and explore the universe. I'd still love to actually... Being the lazy sod that I am I decided it wasn't worth the hassle of trying and I'd fail anyway. Instead I'd become an engineer and work on the space ships :-)

But when the European Space Agency came to our university their requirements (intelligence-wise) were so high that once again I chickened out of even trying.

I guess I'll stick to designing computer chips to do the engine management in cars then, it's probably safer for the astronauts ;-)
(sooo special no-one does getting lost like i do, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 14:58, Reply)