What did you want to be when you were younger? What did your parents say?
By whiteheron
@whiteheron (4222)
United States
April 25, 2009 1:24am CST
When you were younger, what did you want to be?
When you were younger and you asked your parents what you would be when you grew up, what did they tell you?
I thought when I was very young that being a marine biologist was cool because of a television show that I watched as a child. Later, I thought it would be fun to be a writer.
My mother used to say that I would be a "none such"... as in there is "none such like you and none such like me." It was not too helpful as far as career planning was concerned. :)
How about you... As a child, what did you want to be as an adult?
What did your parents tell you that you would become?
5 responses
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
25 Apr 09
My parnets never really told me anything for I never asked.
But I would have loved to have been a Jockey but I was to big for that.
also wanted to be a race car driver.
But then they didnt let women in lol.
My grand father wanted me to gointo one of the Services He thought I would be very good at it, which I might have been.
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
24 Feb 10
It used to be harder for women with not as many choices of things to be and do...
My mother was told mother, nurse, teacher, business collge were the only choices open to her...
hmm jockey and race car driver... sounds like you are a woman who likes adventure.
@marshiemallows (1010)
• Philippines
25 Apr 09
when i was younger, i wanted to be a doctor. i remember myself saying that i want to help others. i actually never told my parents about it. i don't know why, i just didn't want telling them. things turned out differently when i got older, i decided that i want to be an accountant and i really hope i become one.
@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
24 Feb 10
I hope that you are able to realize your dreams whatever they are now or change to be...
Thanks for sharing here.
@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
25 Apr 09
Translation is a great thing to do for others... It means a whole lot. Thanks for your service and for your comment.
@LaSenyoraSilis (313)
• United States
25 Apr 09
First of all, how can some parents be so cruel. I ask because my mother was and continues to be that same way, which to me is quite sad. :-( Well, as a child I really wanted to be an architect and that time my mom was supportive of that decision. It was later in life that I learned that being an architect was not the thing for me because too much math was involved. By the way, I suck at math, lol. :-) As I grew older my mother began to trample over my dreams. I still have not realized that dream to this day. :-)
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
25 Apr 09
I understand your feelings regarding math... I have not thought I was good in it either... Arithmetic is not my strength.
Architecture is an interesting thing... wondering if you like drawing buildings... perhaps being a city scape painter might have given you some of what you wanted to do or using one of those architecture programs on the computer...
Wondering what it is that you think would have been fun about the architecture?
Also wondering what you wound up being?
@jsteinpimp (46)
• United States
25 Apr 09
I wanted to be a sky diving instructor!
They always laughed!
:)
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@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
25 Apr 09
That sounds like it would have been an interesting career... full of adventure. What did you wind up becoming?
