What Did You Want To Be When You Were Younger, And What Are You Now?

[PurpleRain]

I'm a very very low thousandaire. Some could say hundredaire and they would be correct.

I'd be a dollar'aire right now, my entire paycheque I received Friday goes to bills, and once the last one pulls the cash, I'll have $40 to my name to last me until the 15th. Add to that, I've nearly maxed my credit card buying my new paintball gun and gear. The only thing pushing me into the thousandaire level is the equity in my car and house. Mortgaged my condo at $70K ($59K remaining), currently worth $250K, car was $21K, financed $18K, and I've paid off 20 of 48 months on it.

If I had to cut and run, I definitely hold more assets than debt, but day to day I tend to spend it all down to the penny. It's sick really... It's like I'm totally responsible with my money, never in debt and always paying my bills and all, and yet I'm always blowing my cash like a drug addict. I have my cake and I get to damn well eat it! HUZZAH!

Car, insurance, college, food so I don't starve, and I'm left with $20 at the moment. Yay! Though I'm in a terrible job, working next to no hours and don't own a house. I'm pretty sure you win.

 

[Copter400]

I was really into dinosaurs, so I wanted to be a palaentologist.

Now, I'm in dire need of a shower.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

When I was little, I wanted to be a spy.

Now I'm in high school, and I want to be a lawyer. If the last 11 years of school are any indication, I'm going to kick ass academically and get into a good college with a good law program.

Or maybe I could be a rock star. That'd be okay.

 

[Helmet]

I always wanted to be a firetruck when I was a kid. Always seemed like it would be fun....

Now I'm an "Inventory Specialist" at Best Buy. Take 1 part janitor, 1 part laborer, 1 part peon, and 1 part scapegoat, blend until no more chunks, piss in it, then pour it on somebody's car and you have my job. I hate my job....

 

[type_zero]

I wanted to be an Egyptologist, a marshal arts trainer and a pathologist. I'd still love to be a pathologist, and although it may not seem weird, remember I wanted to do these things when I was a kid.
Now I'm a pharmacy technician, which isn't so bad, I guess...

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

When I was small, I wanted to be an artist. When I was in high school and college, I wanted to teach English in Japan. There is no way I could have conceived of my current job back then, because it didn't exist. The idea that every white-collar worker would sit at a computer all day every day was science fiction, dystopian for the most part, with pallid little drones typing their lives away at VAX terminals. Except for the VAX terminal part, they mostly got in right.

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

I wanted to be (no shit) a ninja. My mom bought me a Japanese phrase book.

Currently a teacher. Dream accomplished.

 

[meatloaf231]

I wanted to be (no shit) a ninja. My mom bought me a Japanese phrase book.

Currently a teacher. Dream accomplished.

Well I have met some pretty ninja-ish teachers. They sneak into the room at the complete wrong moments.

 

[pha kin su pah]

what i wanted to be: Architect
what i am: Accountant
what i aim to be: Director/Investor

 

[the monopoly guy]

I wanted to be a paleontologist. I still do, I guess. But right now I want to be governor. That's right, governor of Wisconsin.


Or a National Geographic photographer.

 

[Gitsnik]

Evil bastard in control of other peoples lives.

Now, I'm an evil bastard and a network administrator... so all plans complete

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Worlds youngest multi millionare.
seriously i wanted to win the lottery and retire to a happy existence.

School sucks

 

[Somethingironic]

The best. I'm still a teen so it could happen.

Cause he's the best.... AROUND

Nothing is ever going to keep him down!

3 internets to whoever knows where that's from...

 

[Khedive Rex]

When I was young I wanted to be an alien. Humans always struck me as incredably odd so I just assumed I wasn't from here.

Now-a-days, humans still strike me as odd but i've given up trying to make a career out of being an extra-terrestrial. Instead I'm a Mineral Title Agent.

Although, I'm still young. I suppose it's never too late to have been born on a different planet ... Maybe.

 

[quack35]

i wanted to be the best pokemon master ever

Haha, just kidding. I think I wanted to be a teacher or something, but I'm still a student.

 

[Lord Krunk]

I wanted to be an inventor. Mainly because of my creative side.

However, I'm not very 'hands on,' so I'm looking at the field of writing instead.

Writing novels in my spare time, Journalism for a healthy source of income.

But I did choose Chemistry and Physics for my HSC curriculum, so the "Inventor" in me hasn't died yet.

 

[Portkins]

Always wanted to be an engineer, or a space marine...

I work in a cubicle, on earth, in accounting.

 

[NonMagicPoet]

I think when I was little, I wanted to be a runner in the olympics, a ballet dancer, and Madonna.

Now I'm aspiring to be a journalist.

 

[poleboy]

I don't remember. I have a vague recollection of wanting to draw comics.

Now I want to be a writer, I think. I guess I should write something. I'll be back when I'm done.