| What was your dream job as a child? Did you become it? Did it change? I originally wanted to be a surgeon when I was a kid. Went to some private advanced schools on scholarship to bypass so regular classes. When I went to public school I took honors and AP classes to get ahead and followed the career path recommendations for classes such as AP Biology and Anatomy. But my senior year I panicked about finding scholarships and going to a big university so I chose culinary instead since I liked cooking. Only stayed for the first year before I dropped out and started working. Until I got sick I worked in both healthcare and culinary fields as a nutritionist assistant and almost got my CNA certification. |
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| Never really had one. Working sounded pretty tedious and I was right. |
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| I wanted to be a Palaeontologist as I always loved Dinosaurs since being taught it in School, and later being home educated, those were the things I read & watched a lot of. Unfortunately Palaeontology doesn't seem to be a permanent course in the UK, and it wasn't available for me to study at universities when I was looking, and I didn't feel comfortable studying in the USA or Canada. I self-taught myself some stuff and my parents helped me join the Open University - which had a Paleontology short course, but I had to jump through hoops because they didn't want me to study with them, because I was underage. I eventually was allowed to study with them...if I passed. I did take on the Course, and I passed it with quite a good score (76/100), but the course itself really didn't teach me enough, it was lots of trick questions or examining plaster fossils, but there was nothing else after that. But not long after that my family members had lots of Mental break-type episodes and illnesses, so I basically helped look after whoever was released back home etc. Ironically though I noticed that many UK universities now have Palaeontology courses... but I lack motivation, and I would probably only take it on to learn more rather than as a Career. UK is a crap place to be a Palaeontologist, most study here and go abroad. |
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Cavaler_Lup said: spaceslut said: I originally wanted to be a surgeon when I was a kid. Went to some private advanced schools on scholarship to bypass so regular classes. When I went to public school I took honors and AP classes to get ahead and followed the career path recommendations for classes such as AP Biology and Anatomy. But my senior year I panicked about finding scholarships and going to a big university so I chose culinary instead since I liked cooking. Only stayed for the first year before I dropped out and started working. Until I got sick I worked in both healthcare and culinary fields as a nutritionist assistant and almost got my CNA certification. So now you work as a nutritionist still? Not currently. I've been off work for a year with a chronic illness. |
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| I wanted to be a marine biologist. I grew up in a city by the ocean and was always near the water. My elementary school teacher's son was a marine biologist and a lot of his material made it into my 2nd & 3rd grade curriculum. I chose to go to a university with an oceanography institute attached and worked there for a year studying ocean sediment. I thought it would be the coolest thing to be on an actual scientific research vessel, like the Enterprise (TNG baby). Too bad I needed to get a real job out of uni and start paying bills. |
| Astronaut, Pilot, Concert Pianist. I could play the piano at grade 8 level throughout my teens and early 20s. I got to do one flying lesson as a birthday present from my mother. The video is on my YouTube channel. |
| Dream job as a child? I wanted to rule the Galaxy. Did it change? No. |
| As a child, astronaut. As a teenager, an ophthalmologist. I went into pre-med after high-school. One semester is all I needed to know that it won't work. |
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| i wanted to be a video game developer now i want to perform a colony drop |
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| Doctor, I lost the desire before I even entered highschool |
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| I wanted to be a teacher. I did not become a teacher. |
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| pilot. ever since kid, and perhaps till now |
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| When I was really young, I wanted to be a clerk on a toys store. When I was going to enter college, I wanted to work (just during college) as a porter, most porters in my country don't do anything 99% of the time, so I could just read manga during work time. Now that I am on the last semester of Computer Science, I don't even know what I want to work with. |
| I wanted to become a cook, and I am now working in a similar field. |
| when i was a kid i didn't think about careers. i just wanted to play video games forever. today i wish i could work at a top quantitative trading firm for one year, make 5 million dollars in performance based pay, then retire. my actual job is so pathetic i am too ashamed to even mention it. |
| As a kid I wanted to build robots. Now I'd kill to do gardening for rich people, you know, the kinda rich folks with fuck you money that pay out the arse. |
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| As a kid: Veterinarian, but I no longer want to become one because I don't think I could stand watching animals pass away on a regular basis :( Now: Artist. |
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foxecairn said: I am working to become my adult dream job. Meusnier said: I wanted to become a cook, and I am now working in a similar field. Do you cook meth? Wow, great guess! You are just one letter off. |
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| Researcher. Preferably, space related. |
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| I played Saga Frontier as a kid, and since then I have always wanted to become a time lord, the one who controls time. But it never happen until now. Maybe in afterlife |
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| My dream job now is being a homesteader in Mars because I'm smart enough to take care of myself. Also strong enough to build my own crib and capable of turning plastic into kerosene for a generator. Would also make enough kerosene to power a rocket. I would build a colony, build a homestead in it and eventually put a solenoid around my colony while wearing an improvised radiation suit so that there will be a magnetic field around it. If John Plant can build his own crib, then so can I. |
| May be like Ben Simmons, Phil jones, harry Maguire etc Make 30 million a year just to hangout with your favourite players and sports teams, date a famous woman and drive around in a Bentley, a Ferrari etc.. May be show up for training once or twice a year |
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| I had no dream job when I was younger. "Work" isn't exactly a value that naturally occured to child me. I'd be fine just eating berries from a bush, and after realizing it, I did the only logical thing: I started working to open my farm. Currently going well, I'm working for a farmer, and hopefully I get a piece of land and a crash course on this crap soon. It's crazy the kind of opportunities you find when asking around (like towns letting you use their land for free if you can make 2 grammaticaly correct sentences in a row). I'm not even in a farm I like that much (people are nice, methods are less attractive to me), but sometimes I'm on my knees under the rain harvesting potatoes in thick mud, and I think about some of my friends who work better-paying soulless corporate jobs and either burnt themselves out, or drink 3 beers every evening after work to swallow the pill. I feel lucky (^% |
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| getting paid to sleep... not like a sleep study thing but literally just being paid for being able to be asleep it would even be a challenge cause i have bouts of insomnia so it wouldnt be just a simple easy work either. just to sleep i want to sleep |
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| as a child, i wanted to become a doctor. now i want to be a neurologist :D same thing |
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| @Scud you must've been a smart kid. I first wanted to be an artist as a kid, but I quickly realized I was horrible at art. Then I wanted to be a writer, and sometimes I still think about being one, but I'm not much better at writing than I am art LOL |
| Unfortunately it turned out to be an aggressive case of terminal laziness. |
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| As a kid I wanted to become an archeologist so I could find remains of dinosaurs and dragons lol and I also wanted to become an engineer even though I didn't even know what it means or what an engineer does, it was something my parents had fed into me, when was in 8-9 grade I wanted to become an animator too since I loved anime. In the end didn't become any of them. I honestly didn't have any specific job in mind till I finished BSc after which I wanted to get a VAPT role which I didn't so ended up becoming a software developer in the end. |
| Searching for cryptids all around the world would be a very cool job. |
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| I wanted to do this too actually! I wanted to be both a Palaeontologist & a Cryptozoologist. |
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| An erotic female fashion designer. |
| I want to be a Governor-General, you have awesome salary, prestige, awesome residence, Roller state car with special number plates and other job perks. You do need to do really anything, you job is to simply appoint a prime minister selected by parliament and delegate all governance to a him. Awesome almost $500 000 pay. What could be better, being a King or Emperor may be. Even if you are US President you actually have to do shit, which is not cool. Too bad there are not many Governor-Generals I guess I can be MP, councilor, member of the corporate board or something so similar. |
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| As a kid nothing, as a teenager car mechanic and now astronomer |
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| The concept of having a a dream job is absolutely asinine. I never had a dream job because I don't dream of working. I only work to be able to do the few fun things life has to offer. |
| As a kid I wanted to be a President or company executive (Managing Director). As adult I realized that being Governor-General or Emperor is better. |
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| My dream job is one where I WFH doing fuck all with a 7 figure a year salary. |
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| When I was a child? I wanted to be a teacher that dressed as a unicorn. No, I'm not kidding you. My parents still tease me about it to this day lol. However, as I grew up, it changed from wanting to be a teacher, to becoming a biologist, to becoming a social worker/therapist. Still looking to go into social work or becoming a therapist. I wanna really help work with LGBT+ teenagers to make sure that they're okay, getting the correct support that they need, etc. I also wanna be a voice actor but I have no idea where to start, what to get, etc. So...that's nifty I guess LOL. |
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