Getting to know each other: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

**Katybird** · 08-02-2006, 11:15 AM

What did you want to be when you were growing up? Is it the profession that you ended up in?

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a teacher. I would have all the neighborhood girls and my sisters seated around the dining table at my house and I would be in front of it with our chalkboard on an easal and I would "teach" them. I even spent evenings making out worksheets for them to do when we played school and when the school gave away books at the end the school year I always took as many as I could carry for our play school over the summer. I did not end up as a teacher, I went into the health care field but I still look back and wish I had became an elementary school teacher.

What about you....

**fernykins** · 08-02-2006, 11:35 AM

I wanted to be a nurse......... I ended up being a Medical Assitant...... Then the State of Cal took my neices away from my sister and if I wanted them I needed to stay home....... because of the mental abuse and neglect they went thru. They were 3 and 6.
Fern

**JustJoy** · 08-02-2006, 11:53 AM

Honestly.... I had no clue

**AmyMCGS** · 08-02-2006, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Katybird

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a teacher. I would have all the neighborhood girls and my sisters seated around the dining table at my house and I would be in front of it with our chalkboard on an easal and I would "teach" them. I even spent evenings making out worksheets for them to do when we played school and when the school gave away books at the end the school year I always took as many as I could carry for our play school over the summer. I did not end up as a teacher, I went into the health care field
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Wow.... I could have written that myself! I, too, wanted to be a teacher when I was little and I was always the teacher for my little sister (only had one then, lol) and friends. My dad was a principal, so he supplied us with plenty of textbooks (samples he got free). I planned to be an art teacher.

When I got into high school, I had an awesome art teacher who told me about Art Therapy. I looked into it, loved it, and majored in it in college instead of education.

Now, I'm the Activity Director in a nursing home... which is sort of related to me degree. I don't regret my decision at all.

**SewCrafty** · 08-02-2006, 12:03 PM

I didn't have a clue either, LOL

**Edelweiss** · 08-02-2006, 12:29 PM

Always wanted to be a singer, until I got an audition at Julliard and was too chicken to go through with it.

**Kitten20** · 08-02-2006, 12:36 PM

I was another one who wanted to be a teacher. I also enjoyed playing school and "teaching" all of the neighborhood kids.

I will be starting college soon and have decided to go with my dream and be an elementry school teacher, although it was a tough decision between that or nursing.

**das1gal** · 08-02-2006, 12:40 PM

I never could decide, first a nurse, then a lawyer, then a doctor, most recently a teacher. I am a production supervisor, so go figure..

**emily_hope** · 08-02-2006, 12:51 PM

Teacher, here, too. I used to play school all the time. Even by myself. My stuffed animals and dolls were very smart. I wanted to be that and be a Mother. I did end up with doing the Mother part. Which I dearly love. However, I became a cosmetologist which is a far cry from a school teacher. I like my job, but I do wish I had become a teacher.

**bevjean** · 08-02-2006, 12:55 PM

I went through the usual round of "girl" stuff (mom, nurse, mortician, etc...). Right now I'm a mom. I'm back in school and can't seem to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

**babetteq** · 08-02-2006, 01:01 PM

When I was little I went through a phase of wanting to be a cow with their big pretty eyes

babs

**Dedlered** · 08-02-2006, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by bevjean

can't seem to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

Still trying to figure it all out

**Amanda W** · 08-02-2006, 01:16 PM

Another teacher wannabe here. By the time I finally started college though, I had changed my mind to business. Then I flip flopped again and started nursing school. I found out that nursing was totally not for me, and happened upon medical transcription. I've been a transcriptionist for the last 2 years from my home, and I absolutely love it. It's definitely my calling.

**mom2matty** · 08-02-2006, 02:34 PM

I mostly just wanted to be a Mom but there were days when I thought about being a teacher too!!

**kabin63** · 08-02-2006, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by babetteq

When I was little I went through a phase of wanting to be a cow with their big pretty eyes

babs

LOL Babette

I wanted to be a nurse, SAFWM (stay at home farmer's wife/mom)
I came close, I am a SAHM and I live int he country, just not on a farm...