What was your dream job as a kid, and what do you do now?

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1. I wanted to be a pilot. Instead I got into a career in arms trafficking.

2. I wanted to be an FBI agent – like all thru elementary school and thru highschool.

   I uhhh, dodged a real bullet there, and now I do finance. lol

3. I wanted to be an astronaut soooo bad. Now I work in an escape room and try to want anything bad enough to do anything about it, and fail to.

4. I wanted to be a spacefaring scientist, instead I am a bartender at what is essentially margaritaville 🤡

5. Astronaut

   Systems Admin

   Heart Murmur, poor vision and Asthma, oh well, that’s life

6. Navy pilot and I am a network engineer

7. To be a rockstar’s girlfriend. I work in medical research

8. I wanted to be a doctor.

   I’m a stay home parent.

9. I wanted to be a sports photographer going to all the big sporting events…

   I work in a cubicle for a university now.

10. Astronomer.

    About to start my PhD in Astronomy.

    We’ll see where it goes from here.

11. Firefighter

    Now teach history and work was ff/EMT on the side.

12. I never knew how to answer that one as a kid to be honest, I didn’t really want to be anything. I’m a geologist now and I enjoy it!

13. Dream: Racecar Driver (Nascar)

    Currently: Retail

14. Dream job was a National Geographic photographer. The idea of traveling full time appealed to me. I became a firefighter. Most of all I just never wanted a desk job.

15. I wanted to be a super model lol. Just like Cindy Crawford. I am a nurse.

16. I wanted to play basketball….topped out at 5’7. Quit playing after Middle School and now I’m applying to Med School lol.

17. As a kid I wanted to play in the NFL , then I wanted to play in a band. I was a sound man for Concerts for about 5 years.

    Worked as a Tech for the FAA for my career, finished as a Technical Operations Manager. Retired a couple of years ago.

18. I wanted to be a musician – a professional flute player, specifically. I am a musician but I couldn’t cut it to be a pro flute player, too much competition. But I am an executive in the music biz so it’s not a bad compromise.

19. I always wanted to be a professional hitman. Now i’m the Nurse Manager of an opiate addiction treatment center.

20. Dream job? I had several.

    -Train engineer
    -Park ranger
    -History teacher
    -i thought about joining the navy

    What do I do? I’m a welder, something I didn’t even think about becoming until about a year ago.

21. Veterinarian…like every other basic b. I actually almost became a vet tech, but hen I realized that I could NEVER emotionally handle it. Now I work in raw materials sales, food grade/pharmaceuticals.

22. Soldier. Am currently a soldier… though my childhood perception of it turned out to be substantially different than the reality of the job.

23. A spy. I wanted to join the CIA and do all sorts of shady things overseas.

    Temporarily unemployed right now.

24. Rally driver
    InfoSec Specialist

25. Touring musician. I just wanted to make a living playing my guitar on “world” tours through North America and Europe although I’d be just as happy playing in Asia, South America, or Africa

    I do work as an extra and actor when I can I suppose. I’m also trying to get into modeling and I’ve been thinking of looking into a coding bootcamp or something for a little pocket change when my “standard” jobs are slow

26. Things I wanted to be as a kid in chronological order:

    A fire truck.

    A race car driver.

    An NFL quarterback.

    An astronaut.

    A lawyer.

    A rockstar.

    Work in construction… and now I’m a little depressed.

27. First, it was a meteorologist, then I wanted to do something space-related.

    I now work in the space industry as a material sciences engineer.

28. Dana Scully.

    Homemaker, hopefully SAHM.

    A big pro is that if we have a child it won’t be at risk for alien abduction & giving up for adoption for safety, or being fathered by my husband’s arch nemesis.

29. Doctor, now I’m a lawyer.

    Went from my dad’s side to my mom’s side.

30. Wanted to be a storm chaser. I’m now a senior in the meteorology program at university and officially did my first research focused chase last week 😀

31. After I learned that Garbage Men got to keep the things they found in the trash, I decided as a young child I wanted to be a Garbage Man.

    Now I work in social services.

32. Wanted to be an Army Ranger

    I ended up as an Air Force tanker pilot