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Posted: 3/13/2010 7:09:05 PM EDT

Have the job that you said you wanted to grow up to be when you were a kid?

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:13:44 PM EDT

[#1]

Yep, the wife works I stay at home with the kids and I go shoot whenever I want. I also get to work on the house and other homes.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:15:52 PM EDT

[#2]

I always said i wanted to be like my Dad. Big family and happy. Im close with a big family and a Job (Mechanical Engineer) i truly enjoy. Never set any goals until I was in my 20's though.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:16:02 PM EDT

[#3]

I got close, when I was a kid I wanted to work for Ford, and now I drive a Chevy

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:16:52 PM EDT

[#4]

Still working on that whole "king of the universe" thing.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:17:02 PM EDT

[#5]

3 years old.... wanted to be an electrician.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:21:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Growing up I always wanted to be Jacques Cousteau but I ended up working for a motorcycle roadrace team, that's kind of the same isn't it?

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:33:58 PM EDT

[#7]

That depends. In kindergarden I wanted to be the Sparklets Water Delivery guy. I am not doing that but I'm sure there is still time.

Then I wanted to be a pro baseball player. That isn't happening.

Then it was a pro wrestler. There is still time I supose.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:43:31 PM EDT

[#8]

When I was a kid (5-6), my life's ambition was to be the man that hung off the back of the garbage truck.

Then, when I was 8-10, I used to watch the salt ships unload in Chelsea from across the Chelsea Creek in East Boston. I always wondered what kinds of neat places all those ships went and how neat it would be to do that.

I love my job.

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Posted: 3/13/2010 7:46:51 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes, I became an Ironworker, however it was a poor choice climbing Derricks and Towers wasn't near as much fun at 50 as it was at 17.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:47:21 PM EDT

[#10]

Baseball @ 9. Nope.

Didn't know until 11th grade.

28 years IT.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:48:50 PM EDT

[#11]

Close enough. I have the job I knew I'd have since jr. high (developer / sysadmin). Before that I was like every other kid. Astronaut/racecar driver/etc.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:48:55 PM EDT

[#12]

i remmeber saying i wanted to be a "mad scientist" once when i was a kid. just ended up as a mechanical engineer (not doing automotive like i wanted to back in middle school)

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:49:40 PM EDT

[#13]

I'm still trying to figure out what I wanna be.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:50:19 PM EDT

[#14]

I did, but then I changed my mind.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:50:51 PM EDT

[#15]

Nope.

I didn't even end up pursuing the career path I expected from high school through most of college. I had planned to go into law. I switched gears only after my junior year in college.

And now, I am perfectly happy with my career.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:53:16 PM EDT

[#16]

When I was a kid I wanted to be a Marine.
I grew up and became a Sergeant of Marines.
I got out and moved on.
My family is my job now.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:55:46 PM EDT

[#17]

I'm an engineer (electrical). I knew growing up that in order to earn the kind of money I knew I was going to want to earn, I would need to do something technical. Plus, I'm good at technical stuff. I find it interesting. So yes, I have the job I wanted to have as a kid.

Posted: 3/13/2010 7:56:39 PM EDT

[#18]

I wanted to be a firetruck. I'm a project manager.

Close enough.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:00:58 PM EDT

[#19]

Not me.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:01:42 PM EDT

[#20]

When I was a kid I wanted to be a teacher, didn't know what subject though. Now I'm in college earning a degree as an American History teacher. Hopefully I get a scholarship to get my Masters so I can be a professer.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:10:02 PM EDT

[#21]

I don't , but then I wanted to be garbageman when I was a little girl.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:13:35 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

I wanted to be a firetruck. I'm a project manager.

Close enough.

Well, you DO fight a lot of fires in that job.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:36:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Rockstar
Astronaut
Tank Driver
Seattle Seahawk
Policeman
Fighter Pilot
Fireman

Had to go down the list a ways, but it pays the bills.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:38:33 PM EDT

[#24]

After seeing Top Gun, I wanted to be fighter pilot. I'm now a college professor who teaches international business and marketing. So.....not even close, but I'm not complaining.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:44:09 PM EDT

[#25]

Growing up I wanted to race cars. I got the opportunity to drive one back in 2008. My top lap was timed at 174mph. I did 60 laps total that morning.

Posted: 3/13/2010 8:45:10 PM EDT

[#26]

I always loved chainsaws as a kid,so I guess I am living the dream...with a really sore back.

What the fuck was I thinking.

Posted: 3/13/2010 9:05:03 PM EDT

[#27]

No, I wanted to fly fighter jets. I work in a warehouse so not even close, but I have done a lot of cool things in my life that I think would impress a younger me.

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