Careers: What you wanted to be when you weren't grown-up ... 26 Articles

by Vanessa D. Alexander

It was the Ballet. I don't even have to think about it. From the time I was old enough to dream I imagined being part of a ballet troupe. My mom would listen to Classical music as she cleaned the house. If I was nearby...read more

by Marissa M. Carter

What do you want to be when you grow up? Adults ask this question of unsuspecting minds every day. As a child, my answer changed every day. I did the dance between lawyer, singer, writer, dancer, zookeeper and ice cream...read more

by Kate Johns

When I was a child I wanted to be a school teacher. Somehow along the way, everything changed and I went to school for media communications. Why I did that I don't know, because I was always the person who never, ever want...read more

by Michele McDonough

How many times were you asked as a child, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's one of those questions that adults love to ask children, and we take delight in their myriad of answers. Most of the time, kids re...read more

by Luningning Sugbu

I vividly remember a slightly different version of the title of this article when I was in lower school. In Philippine schools, we were taught the rudiments of the English language by a subject aptly named Reading and Phon...read more

by Vonda Sines

I'm one of the truly lucky ones. What I wanted to be when I was four years old is exactly what I became as an adult. Born into a family of readers and teachers on my mother's side, I grew up among piles of books an...read more

by Alexis Whaley

From the beginning I loved animals. First were bunnies. I carried my twin stuffed bunnies everywhere. I loved Easter because I always got a bunny! I got stuffed animals as gifts from everyone. Once I was a little older I s...read more

by Tracy Mabe

Astronomer, Zoo Keeper, Archaeologist, the next Mary Lou Retton. As a child, the possibilites of what I could be, and wanted to be when I grew up were endless.My uncanny ability to communicate with all animals made me the ...read more

by Inayah Ahmed

As a child, I was an utter nuisance, for my parents and everyone around me, I was a real menace. I was violent, loud, boisterous and a complete bully. Being a girl, it was a little bit disturbing for my parents to see thei...read more

by Casey Clay

Every child looks forward to growing up to be big and strong like the adults that surround them. Children often mimic their parents' and other adults' words and actions. When we were young we all dreamed about what we wo...read more

by Lowell Frederick

There was no doubt about what I was going to be when I wasn't grown up. My mind was made up and there was no other option. My parents were aware of it. All of my friends and teachers understood clearly what my life had ...read more

by Patricia Gilliam

"Look at my book!" I first pointed the folded piece of copier paper toward the TV, where I seen my image projected from my Dad's small video camera. Quickly noticing that I had to point the inside of the paper toward t...read more

by Ted Sherman

As children, among our daydreams are visions of what we'll be when we grow up. Until this generation, the first choices for boys were to be policemen, baseball players, firemen, astronauts and soldiers. Even the President ...read more

by Kemba Howell

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a nurse. Then I discovered I was squeamish. It did not take me long to realize the two did not mesh well at all. When I discovered I couldn't be a nurse I decided I wanted to be a ...read more

by Robert Bluck

I knew what I wanted to be, before I ever stepped inside a school building. At some point in time a children's story book sealed my fate from within its pages. As a young child, I encountered several colorful characters i...read more

by Trenna Sue Hiler

Sometimes what you want to be when you aren't grown up gets all tangled up with what grownups want you to be. Allow me to introduce myself. I am stubborn. If there is one quality I truly possess that is it. Some people...read more

by Glenda Weiler

Careers: What you wanted to be when you weren't grown-up ... As a little girl growing up in the early "fifties," what I would be when I grew up was what most woman of my mother's generation already were - a wife and mo...read more

by Karen Chamchuk

I clearly remember the first time I thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was seven years old and I was sitting in my Mom and Dad's old, powder blue Volkswagon, dreaming that I would become a piano teacher an...read more

by Latrese Younger

Talk about confusion... Here I am approaching twenty-five and I have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up". At some point of our lives, we come to grips with the fact that our childhood aspirations severely contrast w...read more

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by Todd Lang

What did I want to be when I grew up? The answer to this question is: a cop. I changed my mind a lot but I always came back to being a cop. I used to be extremely afraid of them up until I was five or so. My mom wanted me ...read more