Jobs you thought were cool when you were young

[DRINK?]

Wanted to be a window cleaner...used to think when my ma gave them a couple of quid they must be like the richest people in the world....fortunately I changed my plans

 

[LDR]

I never wanted to be a teacher and I used to really respect them thinking they were some of the brightest people around. Having worked in a school, I know that's not the care and don't even get me started on teacher assistants.

I still think teachers are a special breed and I do respect the work they do. I just don't think they are as smart as I thought they were.

 

[maximilian ping]

i love looking back at old school essays etc, esp the 'What i want to do when i'm older' stuff. I wanted to be a mechanic, footballer or look after leopards in south africa

 

[chriswill]

Wanted to be a window cleaner...used to think when my ma gave them a couple of quid they must be like the richest people in the world....fortunately I changed my plans

My mates a window cleaner and he's minted.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

When I was little, train driver. From about 13/14 what I'm doing now, sound engineer.

 

[dlx1]

back then and Still now - crime scene photographer

long distance lorry driver - the film Convoy (1978) probly have something to do with that

Somthing to do with animals, RSPCA or Vet Downside don't like cats.
Not a Zoo keeper

 

[Dowie]

I always thought being a pilot or a train driver would be fantastic. though this is coming from the viewpoint I had as a young kid that work = slaving in a factory or doing something very very boring in an office. As far as I was concerned every other adult in the country was a mug for working when a select few got to just sit at the front of a train and just watch the English countryside go past.

Tbh... I still think pilots have an awesome job and if I ever had the cash to save up for lessons I'd love to learn how to fly helicopters and send a few applications off to firms at battersea heleport.

 

[mett87]

When i was young (although i am 19), i'd like to be a militar pilot, but finally, i'm studying mechanical engineer. Not bad

 

[spoone]

paeleontologist (sp?_

 

[Groucho]

I always wanted to be an author but it didn't seem to occur to me that to do that I'd have to write a book

 

[Portia]

i wanted to be thomas the tank engine. then after that, a doctor- which was an even stupider idea. i would be one as well if i hadn't dropped out. i met up with a mate who stayed on and she hates it. got loads of debt though so she's stuck. for maz

 

[xenon]

I used to want to be a demolision expert when I was a kid. Partly to legitimise my interest in explosives. Thank god we didn't have the internet then.

That's X interest BTW.

 

[xenon]

I never wanted to be a train driver. My dad's one and hates it now.

 

[xenon]

When I was little, train driver. From about 13/14 what I'm doing now, sound engineer.

Your tagline now makes a little more sense to me. I assume that's where your studio's set up?

 

[moonsi til]

I found this thread whilst doing a search for summit else...but my 7 year nephew was telling me his dream last night which apparantly was really cool and him and his mate were working in an ice cream van. I asked him if he would like this as a job to which he bounced around like a puppy...

 

[Herbsman.]

Vampire

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wanted to be an air hostess but was told I was too short

Luckily later in life I learned they were only glorified waitresses

 

[equationgirl]

I wanted to be a nurse, a teacher or a writer.

I'm an engineer instead - turns out I can handle blood but not vomit, so being a nurse is out and I'm don't have the patience to be a teacher.

I might write a book one day though

 

[SW12lad]

Mine were boring, I wanted to be an Airline Pilot, then next I wanted to be a Militar (the naive side of growing with a militar junta) and President of the country.

 

[nino_savatte]

Physician
Train driver
Political cartoonist.

 

[dada]

i thought journalist could be quite cool.

 

[_angel_]

Only ever wanted to be a writer.

 

[Arik]

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was 10 - 12ish but didn't really follow it up with any action..

 

[Yetman]

I wanted to work in IT, doing some sort of boring job for a big company where I'm actually nothing but a number on the payroll but I fell into pimping purely by accident and laziness of finding something more challenging, so this is what I do now, it aint the best but it pays the rent

Oh hang on......

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

when i was about 10 i wanted to be a bus driver.

now i'm studying advertising at uni and have absolutely no idea what i want to do.

 

[Badgers]

Never really thought it was 'cool' but really wanted to be a Marine Biologist as a nipper...

Now I work in an office and dream of my fishy friends

 

[rollinder]

I always wanted to be an author but it didn't seem to occur to me that to do that I'd have to write a book

snap then got talked into wanting to be a librarian or journalist

"you could be the next Jill Dando"

 

[bluestreak]

Only ever wanted to be a writer.

i'm very similar. i've always known i WAS a writer. ever since i was very little i've had this knowledge that what i am, like being male and human, unchangeable and undeniable, is a writer.

sadly i've never really done anything to back that up. not that i don't write. i just don't write in the way someone who is a writer is supposed to.

other things laid over that over the years...

well, as a child i wanted to be a paleontologist, and it was always there until it turned out i was shit at science. apparantly not being any good at gcse science counts you right out fo the 'digging bones out the ground' gang.

at one stage i thought the coolest thing in the world would be to own a scrap yard so i could crush cars and whatnot all day. i kind of think that would be quite good.

once i hit my teens i didn't really want to do anything. all i wanted to do was drop out and live in a van or a yurt or something, perhaps make a living exchanging decorated twigs for soup and filthy sex with impressionable middle-class girls, i dunno.

at uni, with my ambitions slightly curtailed, i followed the path of least resisistance and did what i knew. having been turned down for a job by music and video exchange for not being geeky enough i ended working in a bookshop for a major chain. which was the most depressing thing ever... the commodification of art i was hired as the resident book expert, and generally my job was to spend four hours a day explainaing to people that we didn't have the book they wanted because it was too highbrow, one hour a day trying to catch shoplifters, one hour a day pretending to restock shelves, and the rest of teh time bickering with management. in the end i was stacked for stealing. which was a fair cop, cos i had been.

i decided at uni that being a music journalist would be the bomb, and promptly muscled my way into the student paper and took over all things musical. i loved being a student journalist and didn't let constant rejection (or complete apathy on the part of the various mags) put me off. After uni i carried on the dream, even getting a couple of interviews, and ended up in promotions. promotions was interesting, and gave me a chance to see how the industry really worked whilst supplying me with plenty of free stuff. However, as a romantic lover of music, as it were, seeing the sheer cynicalism of the machine at work and realising that I was becoming part of it as i rewrote record company bumpf to make it look like i genuinely believed Bubba Sparkx or Puddle of Mudd were fucking geniuses set to change the face of western culture... well, it gets a bit much. and still no-one wanted me as a staff writer or weren't willing to take me on without at least a few months unpaid work (not that it stopped a couple of nameless mags from using extremely similar feature ideas not long after my proposals were submitted) and gradually that dream died, drowned in cynicism and bitterness and class resentment.

never really have found what to do after all that. still kind of waiting for the next dream to come along. feelin acutely aware of my unemployability right now.

 

[hiccup]

I wanted to be an inventor. A mad professor kind of inventor. Like Doc Brown in Back To The Future.

And Lo!

I work in an office and it makes me want to cry.

 

[mrsfran]

As a very young child, I wanted to be a physiotherapist because I had to go to one and she was a nice lady.

As a teenager, I wanted to be a journalist. I now work in the media and people are starting to pay me for my food writing, so I'm getting there.