What do you want to be when you grow up?

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

Originally posted by Tuttle:
How about a professional student?

If I remember correctly, that was the backstory behind a Zelazny story. The protagonist had a bequest from an uncle that said that he would be fully funded until he obtained his bachelor's degree, so he carefully chose his courses so as not to fulfill the requirements of any one major. I seem to recall the admin of that college changing the major requirements to boot him out finally, but it's been too long since I read it to be sure. :-) *beats self with OT clue-by-four*

[wolf_wizard]

I think I might want to do something with writing/reading, but I am also interested in math and science. I think I am kind of stuck between a editor/writer and a wildlife biologist(studying wolves). I really enjoy writing (fiction) but I also REALLY like wolves- I know, it's suprising, but what can I say?

[Rubywolf]

I want to be an actress. If fate proves to vbe against me, I'll be a critic, and bash successful actresses to smithereens out of jealousy.

Seriously, though, I want to be an actress. Preferably film.

[Not So Silent One]

I'm part of a group called the Police Explorers. It's sort of a training program for youth interested in becoming police officers. Through it you get college paid in full by your city, so I pretty much have everything covered.

[eowyngirl]

I'd really like to be an actress. I don't know if I'd prefer stage or film, though, because I've only ever done stage. Other than that, I'd like to write commercials because I had to write and perform a satiric commercial for a theatre workshop once and it was incredibly fun.

[spyells]

Being an actress sounds cool. Of course I've never been able to act though. But it does sound like fun. One of my friends wants to be an engineer when she grows up. I have a feeling that it involves a lot of math. I'm terrible in math so that wouldn't be one of my career choices. My mom just fulfilled her dream of becoming a nurse. She started working this week. It gives me more encouragement. She was able to accomplish her dreams so I know me and my brothers will too. I'm glad that she did it. It took four years but it certainly paid off in the end.

[vashmata]

Ironic isn't it. I don't think I would ever be good at acting. On the other hand, I love science, and even though I'm not actually the smartest mathematician in my grade (or anything else either), I am in the highest group, and I'm pretty good at it too. And, yeah, I love LEGO Mindstorms (Robotics) and last year I tied for first place in my toothpick bridge-making competition (the science/physics department head ran out of weights - it held like 17500g. The other bridge was lighter, so it might have been more efficient). In conclusion (I hope this doesn't sound like an essay too much), I want to be an engineer.

[kk]

I want to go to the moon, but since science hasn't really tested the temporospatial claudication yet, I'd like to be an astronaut, or maybe one of the people who builds space probes to go to other planets.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

When I grow up, I want to be an actor. I've auditioned a couple of times, but I haven't been in a play since middle school.

For one of the auditions, I learned the closing monologue from Equus: I think that would be the role I'd really like to play.

I got up the nerve to tell the Brewer Hometown Band conductor that I'd like to try conducting sometime during the summer season. She was open to the idea. :-) It will be my first time up in front of a musical group since the conducting class in college. I can't decide if I should be excited, terrified, or both. I hope she lets me do Grainger's "Irish Tune from County Derry" -- that's one of my favorite wind band pieces. (If you've seen Brassed Off!, you've heard that arrangement.)

[Jacob ~ Asphorune or Alomonni]

I'm so multi-talented I could do anything.

Pfft, yeah right. I used to do tap; got fat and then I stopped. Boohoo... Used to act! Was Judas in every Jesus Christ Super Star and Godspell preformance we ever did back in school... Moved to the new district and stopped!

Weehee, but my true passion is writing. Yes, how corny? Especially considering the forum I'm on. -Sigh.- I've written hundreds of different short stories which I eventually trash and inevitably go back to piece together with scrap paper.

I've got, like, ten sagas in my head... six stand-alone novels I could write, but yeah..

I'm lazy as * ***** ******. I have the attention span to do things but I'm a procrastinator and need short, acute deadlines. No one wants to set them for me though. I'd love to share some of my plot-summaries with you people though. I'm pretty conceited about their kick-assidiness. (Oh yes, I did just say "assidiness." )

If the writing thing never works I'll probably end up a senator or a general... Or the third Napoleon....

[alla]

hehe Spyells, you started this thread and you have since replied twice - with two different possible careers (I'm not poking fun at you - I find it interesting, because I took forever to decide what I want/ed to do with my life).

When I was little, my dad taught me basic stuff along the lines of medicine (as he is a doctor). Had I really shown a lot of interest, I am sure that he would have helped me further and taught me more stuff. As it stands now, I have more of an inherent knowledge of first aid than anything else. As I grew up, I toyed with various ideas, but never straying far away from science. Along with all of my class mates in prep, I toyed with the idea of becoming a palaeontologist (yes, Jurassic Park had just been released), then with the idea of becoming an astronomer/astrophysicist, then a meterologist, then an author - this was all before I had left primary school. In high school, I went through the same motions as I learned more and more about each of those fields. Then we spent a whole term looking at volcanoes and earthquakes (and other aspects of geology). The thing was, however, that my teacher was a geographer, and all of this discussion of the different rocks and how they are formed stirred my interest enough that I began to do more research into it (on my own) to try and find out more about this geology thing.

I never really looked back from there. My truest interest is in science - the different interactions between the different processes that shape our world fascinate me, and I am always willing to learn more about them. I am currently studying towards my BSc (Geology) and will graduate at the end of the semester. Don't ask me where I want to go from there, though. I'll be doing an honours project, but after I am finished with Uni, I do not know where I want to work; whether I will go bush and work in the sticks for a while, or if I'll try and get a job overseas, or... there's just too many options.

Oh, and while I'm posting; Jacob, I don't know if you noticed the asterisks that are in your post (whether you put them there or not), but generally we try and keep bad language to a minimum here, as we do have some very young members. Also, in regards to sharing plot summaries, if you wish to do that, it might be an idea to do it off the forums (via email or some other method) with the people who are interested, as these forums are paid for and run by DD - put simply there's a copyright issue (same as for fanfic, I believe).

Anyway, welcome to the forums I hope that you enjoy your time here.

[dorotheia]

I hopped along with several careers through elementary. I wanted to be a paleontologist, a physicist/engineer, vet or zookeeper (not my best ideas), and finally, an author.
Being an author is probably the only thing that stuck around four years, so I think I'm doomed to it. But other than that, I should have a second job, right, in case? So I'm still searching.

[Wiccangixie]

I'm definitely going to be a doctor, particularly either a cardiovascular surgeon, or a cardiologist. I know that whatever I do its gonna be about the heart. One thing's for sure, I'm gonna become one. Its my dream.

[Cress]

I like a whole lot of stuff, so it's really difficult for me to decide on anything. I would love to write, it's been a dream of mine since 5th grade. I also wouldn't mind doing something with music, since I'm half-decent at piano and taiko, and I adore music. Being an actress would be cool, but I don't think I'm good enough.
However here is my complete geek when I grow up-right now, I'm looking to become a linguistic anthropologist. Or a psycholinguist. Or a sociolinguist. Or a combination of all of the above. Or study theology. Or the classics. But my most likely would be linguistic anthropologist. Maybe I'll end up doing something with translating, because I want to learn as many languages as humanly possible. I'd also like to join the peace corp at some point.

I think my problem is not that I lack goals...it's that I have too many goals.

[Stormwind]

I've thought about it, and I really do want to work in the Forensics field. I've been graduated almost two years, but I'm not giving up easily. I'll get there, it just takes patience, and a little thing called experience in the field somewhere.

I have done some acting, and was an extra in movie, it was really an awesome experience.

I'm also wanting to write stories.