what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be an Aromatherapist but fell into secretarial work instead.
Random question I know, was just wondering how many people got into their chosen careers and how many fell into something else.
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i was 5 when i first said i wanted to be a zoologist
then i wanted to be a psychiatrist but stopped saying that when people started drawing cartoons of me, sat behind a doctors desk with a jesters hat on.
i did biology and animal behaviour, then worked in telly, then worked in womens magazines, now i work in landscape architecture but now im training to be a shrink, so im sort of getting there.
why dont ya copy me and train part time... do you still want to do aromatherapy kel?
then i wanted to be a psychiatrist but stopped saying that when people started drawing cartoons of me, sat behind a doctors desk with a jesters hat on.
i did biology and animal behaviour, then worked in telly, then worked in womens magazines, now i work in landscape architecture but now im training to be a shrink, so im sort of getting there.
why dont ya copy me and train part time... do you still want to do aromatherapy kel?
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I always wanted to be a trolly dolly, never got there, working in an office instead!
Always a vet, then I realised I dont have the heart to put animals to sleep. I know its the right thing to do when they are in pain but I just couldnt do it. x
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wanted to be an astronaut but ended up a space cadet instead!
But Nato is right, its never too late to follow your dreams and train for a career change.
I'm told when i was about 4 i wanted to be a stripper.!!
Not a career path i followed.
I fell into my career, now self employed in kitchen design something i got into through my husband.
Stress levels go through the roof!
Not a career path i followed.
I fell into my career, now self employed in kitchen design something i got into through my husband.
Stress levels go through the roof!
If you cant look on the bright side of life, polish the dull side :)
Oh I wanted to be all sorts of things when I was little: a poet, an inventor and I also told my mum I was going to win Wimbledon Ladies as well.
I am none of these things now!
I am none of these things now!
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I wanted to be a palaeontologist because I loved dinosaurs for a spell when I was about 7 or 8. Then, as a teenager, I wanted to be a forensic scientist or a pathologist until I found out that you had to work on live people first. I have ended up as a physicist, so I've stuck with the science but veered away from bones/people/biology. I had one blip when I considered hairdressing at the age of 11 or 12!
I insisted to everyone that i was going to be a Nurse in a hospital, as when i was little i was often going to the hospital to visit a family member who often went in.
I even had a dress- up Nurses Outfit, and when i played nurses with my friends and always had to be the nurse, one of them had to be the doctor and the other child said they'd be the patient, but i always made sure most of the time that i was playing the nurse.
I am not a nurse and i don't think that would be the right career choice for me. I am currently doing admin/ secretarial work, but i have the ambition of becoming a teacher in the future lately i've been thinking a Learning Support Teacher in a secondary school would be a good job, as i would like to help people be able to do well with their subjects like art and other things, as i think when people are in school and not very well, i would like to be someone who is tthere for them, and help them focus on things like their artwork and other things because i have found out myself that when i'm doing something i enjoy, it makes me feel better.
Love H&F x
I even had a dress- up Nurses Outfit, and when i played nurses with my friends and always had to be the nurse, one of them had to be the doctor and the other child said they'd be the patient, but i always made sure most of the time that i was playing the nurse.
I am not a nurse and i don't think that would be the right career choice for me. I am currently doing admin/ secretarial work, but i have the ambition of becoming a teacher in the future lately i've been thinking a Learning Support Teacher in a secondary school would be a good job, as i would like to help people be able to do well with their subjects like art and other things, as i think when people are in school and not very well, i would like to be someone who is tthere for them, and help them focus on things like their artwork and other things because i have found out myself that when i'm doing something i enjoy, it makes me feel better.
Love H&F x
I wanted to be a truck driver but I still haven't actually learnt to drive.
It's always good to learn to drive, i will someday when i save my money up and when i get a permanent job. H&F
I wanted to be a lorry driver and did a YTS as a HGV mechanic thinking i'd get in that way. Then i was diagnosed diabetic and could no longer follow that dream.
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I would have liked to be a designer (clothes) but that didn't happen. I was a translator but the shifts were a killer when the kids were small, and it was very upsetting if I had to go out to RTAs, and I often brought the work home, sit reps, translations and the worry. Now I work in a cake shop, and when my shifts over I leave the work where it belongs, at work!!
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why dont ya copy me and train part time... do you still want to do aromatherapy kel?
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No, I don't think I want to do aromatherapy anymore. But I am definitley thinking of a career change although am not sure what I want to do. Need to have a think about my strengths and weaknesses, what would interest me and then funding for any courses. (although from the research I've already done I tend to fall just outside of funding criteria)
GG - love your answer and wish I could have seen the look on your mum's face when her 4 year old annouced she wanted to be a stripper!!
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Yeah, the 4 year old stripper was a cracker wasn't it. 
Kel, what do you do at the moment? Is the funding you mentioned for uni fees? sorry about the dumb questions but don't live in UK & haven't a clue how they conjure up the plans of who can have what, but what i do hear about always seems unfair to me
Kel, what do you do at the moment? Is the funding you mentioned for uni fees? sorry about the dumb questions but don't live in UK & haven't a clue how they conjure up the plans of who can have what, but what i do hear about always seems unfair to me
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