Jacobean Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 When I was little I wanted to be a post office clerk because I thought all the paperwork was great and I could use a rubber stamp. I've worked in finance most of the time with the odd blip doing different things when moving to different locations. I remember lots of other little girls wanting to be nurses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tisaann Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I never gave a thought to what I wanted to be when I grew up. Nothing was ever spoken about what we wanted to do so I left school as soon as I could and did shop work up until 10 years ago and then got an office job which I hankered after as I thought I would have a 'posh' job. 10 years down the line.............yawn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil_angel Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I wanted to be a nursery teacher when I was little and then I wanted to be a vet. Ah well administrator/dog groomer will have to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooster Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I always wanted to be a vet, but when I did my work experience at a vets, there was very much a 'them and us' feeling between the vets and the other staff members. No one really seemed to like the vets, which put me off a bit. So my careers adviser suggested I do a job that uses my brains, but gives me time to keep my animals as my hobby, which is what I did. Became an optometrist, which is well paid, 9-5 work, which means I can have my dogs (albeit at mum and dad's house as am out at work all day), and Blue, but enjoy them too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I wanted to work with horses and dogs. I wanted to live away from home. I got a YTS scheme set up, but that got scuppered, so ended up working in a factory. once I got married I did jobs working round his hours, mainly shops and factories. I always hated the idea of working in a factory, but actually enjoyed them. much more than shops, with ....customers! lol Once I was divorced and disabled, im at home with my dogs and helping rescues, and im loving it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittycat Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I wanted to be an animator and make cartoons. When I was a child I wanted to go on Rolf's Cartoon Club Life had different plans and I ended up being a carer for my parents with part time jobs in retail/finance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmagic Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I only wanted to be a mummy but everybody told me I had to get a job first. So, I started training to be a teacher but gave that up after 18 months, was a bank clerk then joined the Inland Revenue. Next came an accounts clerk with the Electricty Board. In the meantime I had got married and became a mummy. After twenty years in that job I rejoined the Inland Revenue until I retired 6 years ago. Now I have the best job- being retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonniebird Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 Something to do with animals, just as well as I've been a groomer for the past 16 years and I still love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 When I was very young I had ideas of being a vet..when I got to my teens, all I wanted to do was leave home any way possible, which is probably why I got married at 18! My English teacher wanted me to go to teacher training college and be a teacher myself, but I didn't like that idea. If someone had pointed me in the direction of journalism, I would have loved that...I could have been another Lynda Lee Potter or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greygal Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I always wanted to be a teacher as I loved school.....and that's what I became. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I wanted to be a dancer. I studied ballet till I was 16 but was always going to join Pans People (ooh, that dates me!) I would dance till I was 24 then would be too old and become a nurse. Reality - I joined the civil service straight from school then became a librarian, then a university administrator. I have enjoyed most of my jobs, made a good career for myself, and like blackmagic now have the best job of all. Retired to a little village in France where I can spend all day with my dogs and potter about in my garden. Sorry for the misery public sector cuts have caused to some but it's given me early retirement so a blessing for me. I possibly could have become a dancer - I was good enough,though maybe not for Pan's People - but getting pregnant at 16 scuppered that dream. But god help the poor patients if I'd become a nurse! I don't regret how my life panned out, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I still don't want to know what I want to be when I grow up I don't even know what I SHOULD have spent my working life doing but have done all kinds of things, many of them pretty useful, so can't really grumble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacqui d Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Mother informs me i wanted to be a vet and the entire family thought thats exactly what i would do, life obviously had a different path for me to follow though as im a support worker for adults with disabilities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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