Jobs you thought were cool when you were young

[editor]

I'd still like to be astronaut. Or a steam engine driver driving a little passenger train over a lovely little branch line that starts off from an exciting city, goes through beautifully remote countryside before ending up at a small fishing port wit great pubs.

 

[Gromit]

The job I actually fancy atm is web designer. I have a feeling though the reality isn't as fun as the dream. Plus I ain't that great at designing my own graphics and stuff.

 

[_angel_]

I'd still like to be astronaut. Or a steam engine driver driving a little passenger train over a lovely little branch line that starts off from an exciting city, goes through beautifully remote countryside before ending up at a small fishing port wit great pubs.

*imagines dreads in zero gravity*

 

[Swearing Nonna]

Harrier jump jet pilot. Discovered it meant a) joining the army & b) being a bloke. Errr you're alright thanks perhaps I'd like to be Jill in Jill's Gymkhana instead

 

[Tank Girl]

between the ages of 6 and 9 this was what I wanted to be when I grew up

then by ten I realised that you had to take orders, do running and other hard things and lots of boring work. I lost interest.

 

[Swearing Nonna]

The horse or copper Tanky? *worries*

 

[Tank Girl]

the copper but only on horseback. see, it was the horses. I had it bad from an early age.

I told milesy I was a policewoman, when we were mates. he believed me

 

[NJNinJa]

I always thought being a foot doctor would be awesome when I was younger. I am sure that there is a technical name for it, but I am not sure what it is. Podiatrist maybe..

 

[Kanda]

Guys that came round and fixed TV's or Amplifiers or whatever, electronics engineers, good all rounders.

Tis what I ended up doing till I got into IT at 26

When I was a kid, my mum used to knock on neighbours doors for broken radios or gramaphones etc, she'd get them and just put me in a room with a toolkit.... hours of fun. Sometimes I managed to fix stuff, sometimes it had to be scrapped

 

[bi0boy]

When I was in primary school I thought being a scientist would be 'cool' and fun because you got to do all these amazing experiments with bubbling test tubes and colourful chemicals and stuff. Fast forward to the age of 20/21 and I finally realised that laboratory work is the most tedious, uninspiring, repetetive work I could imagine.

Thats me. A colleague left to go into gardening, i'm trying to move sideways into health & safety administration (thats how boring lab work is)

 

[FiFi]

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

NASA used to be (and possibly still are) good for this. I applied to be an astronaut when I was 8yrs and got some wonderful photos and a letter explaning that it would be "impossible" for me to be an astonaut because I was a girl but if I studied math(!) and science/engineering I could become a member of the ground-crew.

The sexism stinks, but the photos are still magnificent!


Oh, the other job I wanted to do was stablegirl at Follyfoot Farm.
(those of a certain age may remember the books/TV programe)