As a child, what job did you hope to have?

Teacher, architect, archeologist, pet shop owner, lawyer........

I don't have a career. I have a job.

I'm not interested in a career. I am interested in a way to pay the bills. I have no interest in advancing for status, or spending any more time than necessary at work. I do not give a crap about the company - or any company.

When I clock out, my life begins.

Dr. of Physics. Now? New: Keeper of Court Record....MUUUUUHaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I wanted to be a movie star. Instead I'm an Executive Assistant

Scientist .... and I became a... er, um, computer scientist?

At various times, I wanted to be an artist, a teacher, a musician, a writer. Now I'm mainly a parent but I did teach elementary and middle school students for ten years. I may go back to teaching after the next school year as well.

Mad scientist.

I wanted to be an author. I still do, sort of, but not as a career. I'm a student now.

I went from wanting to be a veteranarian, to a truck driver, to a secretary. Now I'm an Research and Development Manager for a textile mill.

A forest ranger or astronaut is what I wanted. I became a computer programmer.

I wanted to be the next Walt Disney.
I was actually called up by them, asked if I could design a theme park from start to finish, just a week after deciding to retire that goal. (Must have been California Adventure, I should have talked them into taking me on, spared the public the garbage that was built instead of ideas I had).

My life goals now still aren't too terribly different though actually; create a global network of high-tech music/art/global-energy-tech campus/commune/corporations.

I had a variety of weird and wonderful career aspirations as a child; clown, witch doctor, alchemist, astronaut, musician, and artist. Later, in my early twenties, I tried to combine all those into one thing by being a performance artist. It wasn't particularly lucrative.

I'm a tenancy support worker. Here's my employer's website:

http://www.lookoutsociety.bc.ca/index.html

I work three days a week at this site:

http://www.lookoutsociety.bc.ca/Jim-Green-Residenc...

and two days a week at this site:

http://www.lookoutsociety.bc.ca/Sakura-So.html

Currently I teach, which was one of the things I wanted to do as a child. I never imagined that I would be teaching Hebrew and biblical studies, though. At various stages when I was younger I wanted to be an astronomer, a secretary, a businesswoman, and an interior designer as well.

I wanted to be Tarzan (or his son, "Boy") ... or a "Hawaiian warrior" (as in ancient Hawaii) -- but nothing realistic. I had no ambitions as a kid and did not wish to become a grownup. I got a low-paying clerical job in an insurance office in my early '20s -- I knew how to type on an early (before computers) standalone word processor so got trained on-the-job as a word processor with tapes and earphones. I stayed in the (repetitive kind of job) clerical field like this, also doing other repetitive clerical jobs where I didn't have to interact with other people much, including various temp jobs like mail-opening machines and envelope folding, till I was old enough to retire.

meterologist/weatherman. maybe an astronaut.

Age 5 - Astronaut
Age 7 - Paleontologist
Age 9 - Engineer
Age 11 - Artist
Age 13 - Journalist
Age 15 - Solicitor
Age 17 - Translator

Somehow I ended up in IT Support.

I don't remember ever having any specific thing I wanted to be as a kid.

Librarian. I was a nurse. Now I do nothing.

I wanted to be a ballerina, a vet, and various other things. Now I am a psychologist at 14 years old. I don't have a license or anything, I simply am one. I don't care what anyone says. I am one. 8D

I was hoping to have some kind of job working in a grocery store , I work in a warehouse doing orders and
putting away shipments that come in plus yes i have done housekeeping as well

It changed every week. On particular job I was always interested was being a pilot.

I don't know what I wanted to be as a child, but I attended a vocational high school and found myself attracted to three majors: cosmetology, hydraulics and pneumatics (fluid power), and electronics. I wound up majoring in electronics because I thought it would make the most money.

Wife, and mother.....a little later, an herbologist, lawyer. My interests have leaned toward natural medicine, politics/law towards the good.

I wanted to be a film producer.

I'm a Health Data Specialist for a mental health insurance company.

I didn't want to work as a child.
I think I was normal often using my mom as a sound board, and mom had a way of not being interested or saying things like "you wouldn't want to do that" or "that's really hard work" (no idea what really hard work meant) or "that's too dangerous" In other words, there was no further discussions. I didn't really have anyone ask me what I was interested in in a serious manner that I recall. I went through high school not knowing. I didn't have much enthusiasm about job or careers, I do believe this is one of those things that is a learned behaviour. Enthusiasm about the future, if mom and dad don't really make you look at any or all possibilities, I don't think kids would bother.
I was really surprised when my dad thought I would make a good cop. I wonder what he saw in me at that time.

I wanted to grow up and become a Hell's Angel or a Vampire... Unfortunately neither came to pass...

I wanted to be the man in an Iron mask that flew with a rocket pack on his back, catching the bad guys in old black sedans driving on dirt roads through the south west.

I've been looking into making a solar-motorized paraglider recently. Mine would be integrated on my camping mountain-bike though, not harnessed to my back.

Cool! I am in the photovoltaic industry if you want information maybe I can help. There is some new thin film product, very light and flexible, the efficiency is rather low but it is relatively less expensive.

I'm quite interested, actually. I've heard someone makes a film which can be stapled to roofs, and was planning to look into that. Lightness, flexibiliy, and alas, cost, are my main concerns above power density. I just put in a bid for my first paraglider tonight.

My companys (the one I work for) web site is sunwize.com check it out if you want more information email me at the address on my user page and I will send you some, just give my some idea as to what you have in mind. I also am a CAD engineer and mght be able to help in the design (if you wanted) sounds like a cool idea.

I turned AutoCAD into a stereographic 3D program using AutoLISP before they made it 3D themselves, back in '87.

I don't see any fabric formats there. Perhaps you don't understand my application; I need to sew something flexible onto the top surface of a paraglider (those controllable parachutes). Do you carry anything like that?

I just got a 3 HP electric motor as part of my system. My plan is to use multiple engines and recharge the batteries while stationary or during road use (with solar and the gas engine) for half an hour of air use.

I wanted to be an archaeologist from about the age of 5 until I was 14 or 15. I'm in medical school now.

A fireman, a policeman, a soldier, an astronaut, a spy but I don't have a career. I'm still in high school.

Perhaps you can move on to studying prehistoric diseases, when specimen recovery improves. Something worthwhile could be learned from that.

A home husband to a career wife and stay at home father for our kids

That could be interesting, but I'm definitely more interested in practicing medicine than getting involved in research. If I hadn't been, I would have gone straight into a PhD.

Ah, well tha sounds good. I'm still of the opinion that AIDS was created by a biolab, as the RNA cloning mechanism sounds like just the sort of tool such labs would want. That topic was a bit of a jump from my prior question, 'any new diseases on the horizon'?

If there existed a biolab capable of creating AIDS, where are all the other amazing results from that lab. Supposing they were able to create only one incredible product seems highly improbable.

Aren't they doing things like gene therapy, organic LEDs, DNA computing, genetic engineered seeds. Even 30 years age we were growing human insulin from algae and modfying e-coli to live on things like oil spills and grease-traps (which is probably the actual cause of the inexplicable e-coli breakouts at fast-food restarants. I know we used the stuff haphazardly at Jack-in-the-Box while sterilizing the tongs that handled the spatulas that handled the burgers. It so reminds me of Brunner's book 'The Sheep Look Up' where people were dying in droves of similar mysterious toxic idiocy).

If it were a military bio-lab, we wouldn't know of any of their products. I know for a fact that military computing tech has been 30 years ahead of any publicly announced products, so it wouldn't surprise me if the same was true in bio-tech.

..and then theres' my other theory that it simply arose in spiritual synchronicity with mankind's new interests and abilities in genetics. Creatures from the Id. ('Forbidden Planet' was another classic)

None of that seems to even approach the capability needed to created AIDS, except by incredible accident.

You're right of course, as far as complexity goes, but they may have found something which only required slight modification.

Perhaps, but not as hard as having a career AND being a housewife.