What did you want to be when you grew up?

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Hannah_Alumni
Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
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With the summer holidays drawing closer, I have children amongst my family and friends who are finishing exams and enjoying end of the school year treats, like amusement park trips and prom. 

It got me thinking, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a singer like Shania Twain. Saying I strangle cats when I try is putting it lightly! 😂 
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  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,687 Pioneering
    @Hannah_Scope

    A Bellhop, I didn't set my heights too high.  :o
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,995 Championing
    Pilot :)
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,574 Championing
    i left school at 13 started milking cows the day after and milked cows up to my 2 strokes 18months ago aged 65 have a job to walk and see now but i potter around in the garden on my 2nd youth haha
  • C_J
    C_J Online Community Member Posts: 715 Empowering
    When I was younger I always wanted to work on a lighthouse.
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,687 Pioneering
    I was in the wrong year at school, I should have been in the year below, I was born in late August, the new year starts in early September. That made me 'extra rubbish', had I been in the right year, I would have been just 'rubbish'.
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @rebel11 Why a bellhop? I always think of a Hollywood movie, is that where you saw them first? 

    @66Mustang You aren't afraid of heights then! :D 

    @michael57 My friends husband works on a dairy farm. What kind of cows did you have?

    @C_J Are you a fan of the sea? 

    @woodbine I pray every time I put the lottery on :D 
  • life
    life Online Community Member Posts: 526 Empowering
    Human 👀👍
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,687 Pioneering
    @Hannah_Scope

    Yes and my job description would be simple 'push button' to go up, 'push button' to go down, eaves drop on secret conversations, pass that information onto 'SMASH', a counter intelligence organisation.  :)       
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,759 Championing
    Wanted to be an archaeologist when I was very young.

    By the time I was leaving school I just wanted a trade, plumber or electrician.
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @life :D 

    @rebel11 Haha! You'll be a spy then!
  • C_J
    C_J Online Community Member Posts: 715 Empowering
    @Hannah_Scope I've always been interested in the sea but when I was younger lighthouses fascinated me for some reason.
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @C_J Have you visited any? 
  • C_J
    C_J Online Community Member Posts: 715 Empowering
    Hannah_Scope said:
    @C_J Have you visited any? 
    Only a couple in the UK I also like old buildings and the history behind them I find things like that really interesting especially historical things how about yourself?
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    I haven't ever visited a lighthouse, but definitely done a lot of historical sites over the years. My grandparents live in South Wales. So we always visited castles as kids :) I recently went to Charlecote Park, for a visit, was lovely!
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,574 Championing
    haha hannah in my limited working life i have milked every breed of cattle in the uk worst one i ever tried was farmer had a french beef breed cow lost its calf and he said we will milk it boost the butterfat i milked it for a week then had my day off and farmer got kicked and broke his arm end of milking beef cows lol
  • rustledjimm
    rustledjimm Online Community Member Posts: 91 Empowering
    An archaeologist.

    But then at 9 I realised I was scared of skeletons and that might come up. Then I moved onto astrophysicist.

    Ended up being neither but keep hobby interests in both! No longer scared of skeletons either.
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Oh no! @michael57 What did the farmer move onto next? 

    @rustledjimm Glad you are no longer scared! Have you seen the article on the new species of dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight?! 
  • DayDreamBeliever
    DayDreamBeliever Online Community Member Posts: 75 Contributor
    A vet then a zoologist, I've always related more to animals than humans! I switched from wanting to do zoology to psychology when I was about 16/17 because of a desire to understand humans. Apparently not an uncommon experience for autistic girls 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @DayDreamBeliever I studied psychology too! Did you want to work with animals broadly or did you have a specific animal you wanted to work with? 
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 963 Trailblazing
    edited July 2023
    I'm the third that wanted to be an archaeologist. I did go on a dig when I was 13, but they didn't show me anything to keep my interest up, I was just on the wheelbarrow! :s

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