What did you want to be when you were younger?

Well... when I was really little, I wanted to be a pastor. My mom and dad used to call me 'patola' or 'patols' Why? 'Pastora' is the Filipino word for a female pastor. When I was around 4-5 years old, (according to my parents, family friends and older churchmates) they always asked me what I want to be and I always answered "I want to be a patola." I couldn't pronounce the word "Pastora" clearly and always made it "Patola". So they call me 'Patols' or 'Patola' until now. I became a high school student and dreamed to be a doctor. I'm not from a rich family so my parents said that they can't afford the tuition fee for a medicine course so I took up Secondary Education major in Science (at least, it's somehow connected because it's Science). In short, I became a Science teacher... and now, I'm an English teacher! Hahaha! Anyway, I believe that everything happens for a purpose. I now enjoy being a teacher and I don't want to get another full time job than this. hihi!

I have always wanted to be a doctor since I was a kid. My uncles who were both doctors and my mom and aunts are nurses. That is where I got my interest in the Medical Field. However, I was not able to take up Medicine in College coz I was discourage by my mom.

good day andrewbarclave, what a nice topic to cherish. well, if i will be given a chance to go back, i will just go back to the year of may 2011. yes, you read it right, it is just two years back from now. i intent to go back to that month and year as i want to go back to the place where i used to have a work before. wherein i felt the love and care given to me by so many friends. wherein i was loved and cared by my whole family. wherein me and my niece was just like a bestfriends then. how i wish a fairy will appear in-front of me, then, i would definitely request this things. but, i guess, God has allowed me to pass this ways that i am encountering now, maybe to learn something, to discover one thing, and to accept those things. a lot of reasons that keeps on bouncing inside my mind, but i can't really find the answers. so, i am just doing my best everyday, as if it is my last days of my life.

I always wanted to be a chef when I was younger. But it turned out that I will be a computer programmer in the mere future. I'm taking up BS Computer Science this coming school year.

I wanted to be a performer when I was a teenager, but never had any good singing voice to start with, and there's s much competition and stress in that field, way too hard to really make it. Plus you can be real talented and work hard for years, and still get unnoticed.

Nothing great,and not especially fixed and rigid goals to be achieved in life far so....just a kinda luxurious life by what work we do to achieve it....

When I was about to enter college, I wanted to take journalism or eduction. The parents thought it was not a good career choice; hence I took up business administration. I was not really interested and went on to finish college just for the sake of pleasing the parents. I ended up being in Human Resources but while the job was good, I wanted to teach or write. Good thing that the company applied for ISO certification and I got assigned to Training and Education. I really loved the trainings, seminars and orientation I had to provide the employees as finally my dreams of being able to teach came true.

Just like you, I have dreamed of becoming an accountant when I was in high school. I did take that course, only that I was able to reach my sophomore year. Now, I wanted to take up psychology but Im still thinking about it. I also am thinking of taking up a managerial course so that I'd be efficient and effective when I put up my own business. Im not yet sure, maybe I will still change my mind in the next couple of years, besides, change is the only constant thing in the world,right?

I've wanted to be many things! Vet Teacher Model Singer (oh gaw no!) Ah dreams!

I wanted to be a nurse like my Mum. but as I grew up, I decided I was not capable of doing it because i was scared of blood and vomits.

I always dreamt of being a doctor. In childhood, my granny gifted me a doctor set, which quite interested me in medical science, and i always felt i should be a doctor. But I din realise what a difficult job and academic life we have to face for becoming a doctor. Its not so easy as we think. But today , I dont have much interest in Medical science, but i still admire that field. Im in the field of commercial studies and my real area of interest and work is Banking.

i always wanted to be a detective but i changed my mind when i got into high school in 12th grade , i started thinking about becoming a fashion designer , im actually studying that now in college , hopefully ill get the job.

AT present i am doing nothing i am just studying i am a student but after my studies i want to become a singer i like doing something lively i hate doing same things again and again..i beleive change is fun if not a singer i wish to become a writter as i personally beleive pen is mighter than the sword.

i want to be doctor when i was teenager .. but it didnt happen with me ... so i got in electrical engineering field .. its too long for me to change the field now ... in anyways if i give good suggestion i will feel like iam doctor

When I were young, I wanna be a doctor working in really really big hospital. I thought it would be my job and it was my dream at that time. It's still a great dream I think but I found to be a doctor need to study much longer time than others. And I am not good at those knowledges might be used if want to be a doctor. I have to stop my dream and now I will study economics in university.

Hi Andrew! Nice topic to take us back in time. As for my story, my childhood dream was to become a runway or fashion model. I grew up in the home of a seamstress that loves all forms of art (dancing, singing, playing the piano and acting). My "lola" or grandmother always dresses me up with all her designs for girl's dresses collection. I was even given accessories to complete the outfit. My mother was all supportive because she's the one putting make up on me while her sisters do my hair. It was all "kikay" for me. Unfortunately, as I grow older, I didn't grew that taller so my dream was left as a dream. LOL!

Your childhood is the time when your mind gets occupied with myriad thoughts, just live in fantasies and imaginations. As you grow older, you start knowing about your strongest desire and keeps focusing on it. As a child, i dreamt of being a celebrity, a doctor, an astronaut, a scientist, a writer, a poet and what not? It's a beautiful feeling to go back to the memory lane once a while.

I wanted to be a doctor but became an engineer instead.