Jobs you thought were cool when you were young

[pengaleng]

I had the best job that any kid could have and I was paid silly amounts for what I did. Even today, twelve years on, I'd still do it for the same money.

rent boy?

I bet you've got an arsehole like a crisp packet.

 

[girasol]

i wanted to be an ice-cream van. yes, a van.

Surreal from an early age, hey?

My son used to say he wanted work in an ice-cream van.

 

[Fez909]

I wanted to be a computer games tester when I was younger. Obviously it was the idea of getting played to play games which sounded appealing. Probably would to a lot of kids.

Pretty pointless job at the end of the day, though, and not very well paid either.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

trapeze artist
librarian
pilot

 

[catrina]

First I wanted to be an astronomer. Then it was a doctor, then a chemist, then a psychiatrist.

I'm a phd student in a very loosely related field, so not too off the mark.

I was one ambitious little lass.

 

[Red Faction]

my mum dug out of the cupboard a few weeks back a little crayon picture id drawn when i was about 6
scrawled on it were the barely legible words
i want to be a doctor
and me in a white coat

fuck
24 months left and i will be

 

[sojourner]

my mum dug out of the cupboard a few weeks back a little crayon picture id drawn when i was about 6
scrawled on it were the barely legible words
i want to be a doctor
and me in a white coat

fuck
24 months left and i will be

Not many people can say that And have you got disillusioned yet?

I still wouldn't mind being a trucker, but the delights of book stamping, tutus and farting about in pointy shoes, and operating on animals no longer seem so desirable

 

[Tank Girl]

I dunno why, but I thought that being a pharmacist would be good fun - what an exciting childhood I must have had

I'm not a pharmacist, but I am in charge of ordering pharmacy items and have control of a cupboard full of contraceptives.

I. Am. Living. The. Dream.

 

[sojourner]

I dunno why, but I thought that being a pharmacist would be good fun - what an exciting childhood I must have had

I'm not a pharmacist, but I am in charge of ordering pharmacy items and have control of a cupboard full of contraceptives.

I. Am. Living. The. Dream.

They used to be called chemists back in my day, I'd never heard of pharmacists til I was about 25

 

[Herbsman.]

I reckon firky was a pirate

 

[dylanredefined]

Pilot thought that was cool lack of maths and reactions of a slug put paid to that .

 

[felixthecat]

I wanted to be a vet, a ballet dancer, an air hostess, a pathologist and a horse trainer at one time or another.

 

[PacificOcean]

I wanted to be a vet, a ballet dancer, an air hostess, a pathologist and a horse trainer at one time or another.

I don't know what a pathologist is now, let alone when I was six.

 

[sojourner]

I wanted to be a vet, a ballet dancer,

Why are those two occupations so popular? Is it just amongst people of a 'certain age' or do kids today still want to be ballet dancers? Can't say I know one kid who's thought of it

 

[PacificOcean]

Why are those two occupations so popular? Is it just amongst people of a 'certain age' or do kids today still want to be ballet dancers? Can't say I know one kid who's thought of it

I am sure there was a spike after Billy Elliot.

 

[janeb]

Really wanted to be stonemason, still do really but too old and too used to a good wage coming in to start again - might take it up as a hobby

 

[catinthehat]

A Pans People or Blue Peter Lady or hanging about with ponies.

 

[madamv]

At my first job interview, they asked me where I saw myself in ten years.

I said I wanted to be married with children

Ok, so it took me more than 10 years, but I got there.

At 15 when we chose our work experience placements, I chose a Funeral Directors. Didnt get the placement, but at least now I get to work as an embalmer.

My mate, who got the FD placement, has his own Funeral business now.

 

[editor]

When I was much younger, I really wanted to be a steam engine driver but then they stopped running them (yes! I'm that old - I can just aboiut remember steam engines running on BR and they were well k3w1!) and then I wanted to be an astronaut and wrote to NASA.

They sent back an amazing pack full of glossy A4 space pics which I dearly wished I kept.

 

[Firky]

"Come on Ivor, up the hill."

 

[dolly's gal]

I bet you've got an arsehole like a crisp packet.

u shld know

shrly



?

 

[Firky]

rent boy?

I bet you've got an arsehole like a crisp packet.

I worked as a paintball marshal for years. It was cool - its how I ended up playing for a team and coming second in the world amateur championships in 1994. I used to be one of the best - but only cos I was so small I couldn't be shot. I'll tell you a story about it one day

 

[Firky]

u shld know

shrly



?

She took a photo of my mangina

 

[dolly's gal]

yes we've all seen it

 

[Firky]

even the fly?

 

[dolly's gal]

yup

 

[janeb]

When I was much younger, I really wanted to be a steam engine driver but then they stopped running them (yes! I'm that old - I can just aboiut remember steam engines running on BR and they were well k3w1!) and then I wanted to be an astronaut and wrote to NASA.

They sent back an amazing pack full of glossy A4 space pics which I dearly wished I kept.

When I was 15 (1980) I did my school project on 'the Space Race' - I also wrote to NASA and got a bunch of photos........which I still have, they are in my project A4 file which is on a bookcase even as I type

 

[Firky]

I did a project on Ray Mears' tracks in 1992 and it is prolly in the loft upstairs

 

[scumbalina]

Forensic scientist

 

[cliffferry]

pilot:
small planes.

in Australia.

excited me to no end