| User | Comment |
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| daver | | posted 15-Dec-1999 5:51pm |
I simply love the monster.com ads: "I want to be forced into early retirement." |
romkey  | | posted 15-Dec-1999 6:17pm |
an inventor |
Maarten  | | posted 15-Dec-1999 6:41pm |
A cook. |
| drdt | | posted 15-Dec-1999 7:05pm |
Later on I figured out that I wanted to be a toymaker. I'm still working on it. |
| Gamera | | posted 15-Dec-1999 7:07pm |
For a while I wanted to be an airplane. |
| mandy | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:09pm |
An famous actress/singer  |
| Mariah | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:11pm |
It changed at least once a month. I remember wanting to be a nurse for awhile. I don't know what I was thinking. That's probably the last job I can see myself in, now. |
Frostbrand  | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:22pm |
You put lawyer in twice. |
| Mariah | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:23pm |
Whoops!!! The qualification system has failed me!!! |
| quark | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:32pm |
Mariah: That's it, be like everyone else and blame the system ;) |
| magbast | | posted 15-Dec-1999 10:27pm |
start out as generally a doctor...then funneled to physical therapist...but i'm a failure :( |
| Pomeranian | | posted 15-Dec-1999 11:39pm |
I wanted to be a minister or a priest. |
| Jody | | posted 16-Dec-1999 8:58am |
*snicker* I actually wanted to be a model. |
| Lizabeth | | posted 16-Dec-1999 9:08am |
I wanted to be a teacher or a nurse. And someday, I'm actually going to be one of those!  (The second one.) |
| cpierson | | posted 16-Dec-1999 9:47am |
Earliest memory was wanting to be an architect when I was five. After that, I had a long stretch of having no idea, until I was well into university. |
| ILJ | | posted 16-Dec-1999 10:11am |
A rock star |
| yorricks | | posted 16-Dec-1999 10:31am |
I wanted to be a vet. I realized it wasn't for me when taking a college tour and seeing an operation for the first time. |
| jonathan | | posted 16-Dec-1999 10:45am |
I went through periods of wanting to be an astronaut, a paleontologist, a marine biologist, a pilot, and a physicist. That one lasted into college, then I changed majors for playwrighting. I ended up being a technical writer, a software tester, a software consultant, development manager, and now I'm CEO of an internet startup. I still write for fun on the side, eventually I'll turn it into a full-time job. |
| Oscar | | posted 16-Dec-1999 12:16pm |
"I don't wanna grow up..." |
| magbast | | posted 16-Dec-1999 2:45pm |
"...i'm a toys'r'us kid...." |
| Jane | | posted 16-Dec-1999 4:06pm |
I wanted to be a famous actress. :) |
| Oscar | | posted 16-Dec-1999 4:14pm |
I wanted to be a doctor first and foremost, but other times I wanted to be a nurse, teacher, chef, and secretary. (I succeeded at secretary) |
bill   | | posted 17-Dec-1999 7:28am |
scientist |
dab  | | posted 17-Dec-1999 10:41am |
a forest ranger |
| romkey | | posted 17-Dec-1999 12:07pm |
maybe a mad scientist, too... back in the days when they were glamorous and cool - before prozac |
| jjg | | posted 17-Dec-1999 12:09pm |
Amongst other things scientist (field was never thought of), priest, politician, teacher. |
| Oscar | | posted 17-Dec-1999 12:32pm |
JJG- You wanted to be a priest, but you never enter a church or temple because you feel you will burst in to flames?!?! |
| drdt | | posted 17-Dec-1999 2:08pm |
Oscar: which is probably why he can't be one. What a job hazard that would be... |
| Oscar | | posted 17-Dec-1999 3:26pm |
drdt- lol |
| kirst | | posted 19-Dec-1999 8:06am |
artist, musician, writer |
| mikecap | | posted 19-Dec-1999 9:53am |
Coast Guard. :) |
| pandora | | posted 19-Dec-1999 9:11pm |
lawyer two times. |
| jjg | | posted 20-Dec-1999 12:50pm |
Oscar: it was when I was young and innocent, which would be about 14 years ago. |
| phi | | posted 22-Dec-1999 12:09pm |
cut-and-pasted from what I said the last two times:
"A Builder of Everything". It took another twenty-odd years for me to realize this meant "Generalist" and not "Architect". |
| Maggie | | posted 23-Dec-1999 12:30pm |
I wanted to be a social worker and deal with adoption, foster care and juvenal cases of all sorts. |
| lelle | | posted 27-Dec-1999 10:14am |
It varied a bit, but tended to things like inventor, medical researcher, engineer, architect. For a while I wanted to be a cosmetologist (the chemical engineering kind, which I guess is closest to what I am now). Pilot and astronaut, too, but when my eyes turned bad, those were out. I checked 'celebrity' because I wanted to be a Nobel laureate for medicine for quite some time. |
| jzp | | posted 29-Dec-1999 5:24pm |
The six million dollar man. I'm not kidding; my mom tried to talk sense to me by saying "they'd have to cut off your legs and arm..." to which I cheerily responded "I know; they'll give me better ones!" I was 6 or so at the time. |
| Raven_Call | | posted 1-Jan-2000 10:33am |
a very old person! |
| sedi |
I remember we did an exercise at school once where we had to write about people who did different jobs. One kid did well for saying that he wanted to be a dustman when he grew up, so when we did postmen, I said I wanted to be a postman when I grew up. And I got a good mark for it too. Any kids reading this - bear it in mind. It will serve you well. Oh, but I don't want to be a postman any more. Too hard a life for me. |
| eris |
Doctor - I wound up being a chemist, which is close. |
| SVML |
Like my father: director of a zoo. |
| lion | | posted 16-Jan-2000 7:49pm |
I alternated between an astronaut and an airplane pilot before I discovered the world of computers at age 14. Now, I'm trying to groom myself for the role of CTO at an internet startup (yes, the same one jonathan is attempting to be a CEO), and will hopefully start taking pilot lessons sometime this spring. Now, if I can just convince dab to start his private space company his been talking about and convince him to hire me.  |
| dab | | posted 17-Jan-2000 12:13am |
Lion, take a look at http://www.rotaryrocket.com first. Suppose they pull off 7,000 lbs to LEO at $1000/lb within the next three years. It's time to start thinking about the next step. What do we do once we're out there? |
| lion | | posted 21-Jan-2000 9:50am |
dab, build a web sight up there, sell advertising on it, and then have an IPO. Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do these days? |
| dab | | posted 22-Jan-2000 2:31pm |
But who wants to do what everyone is supposed to do. Besides, after reading Slashdot the other day about all the intellectual property lawsuits being filed, its time to move.
I've got another idea.
Stage 1: Build and launch an orbital transfer vehicle for moving satellites between LEO and GEO.
Stage 2: Launch an orbital processing station to convert water to rocket fuel. Now satellites only have to bring water with them which is safer and more compact. It's also a set up for stage 4.
Stage 3: Launch orbital repair equipment. This is either manned space or remotely operated devices so you don't have to bring satellites or the OTV down to Earth to work on them.
Stage 4: Send an automated prospector to some near Earth asteroid and bring back water to process into fuel. This reduces the costs for people sending satellites to GEO but it also can be used to refuel SSTO spacecraft for the descent to Earth meaning they can have better mass ratios to orbit.
Depending on how fast you move through the stages, you might want to reverse 3 and 4. A sideline might be space salvage. |
| mandy | | posted 22-Jan-2000 3:05pm |
On we plow
the big bully try to put his finger in my chest
try to tell me , tell me, he's the best
but I don't really give a good gosh darn cause
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I wanna grow up
I wanna be
a big rock and roll star
I wanna grow up
I wanna be
so no one fudges with me
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| natsim | | posted 24-Jan-2000 4:46pm |
I wanted to be a science teacher. I'm a scientist. Not bad.... |
| phi | | posted 28-Feb-2000 3:04pm |
dab: interesting ideas, but the point of H-O chemical rocketry is the thrust, and thrust is really only important for getting off planets. There's much more future in ion drives (nice high specific impulse) or magnetic loop drives (theoretically infinite specific impulse, but require a nearby planetary magnetic field) for the kinds of things you're talking about. |
| daver | | posted 28-Feb-2000 3:41pm |
**phi: I'm not certain that you'd want to boost your satellite from LEO to GEO on the slow upward spiral through the Van Allen belts that ion propulsion would necessitate. |
| dab | | posted 28-Feb-2000 4:34pm |
Oh, I'm more than willing to consider other propulsion possibilities. I like solar sails too. I mainly wanted to start thinking past getting to LEO; there are lots of people working on that. Suppose they succeed, what next? Not only something that makes money (though that's important too) but something that leads to follow-on projects that hopefully also make money. |
| mary |
I swore I would be a veterinarian, but look where I am now, in a stinking office building. I don't think I could actually operate on animals though, but I could protect them in some way or something, like hunt the hunters. just kidding |
| pengy | | posted 14-Mar-2000 2:43pm |
I want to be a penguin. |
| mandy | | posted 14-Mar-2000 8:10pm |
Rock star..Yeah......dirty dirty dirty...Rock star......Yeah......... |
| Matt | | posted 20-Mar-2000 6:19pm |
I wanted to be an archeologist, digging for Dinosaur bones... that and open a store. |
| anonymous | | posted 17-Apr-2000 12:42am |
a flight attendant...boy I'm glad I changed my mind! |
| Enheduanna |
Astronomer and teacher were the big ones. |
| Analog | | posted 14-Jun-2000 10:02am |
As best as I can remember it I would have said ``a scientist'' or ``a saint.'' I don't remember ever actually saying so, though. |
| Zang | | posted 18-Jun-2000 1:20am |
Clown, Witch-Doctor, Alchemist, Astronaut, Rock-Star, Artist. Later I decided to combine all these things into some unnamed occupation. Unfortunately the pay is lousy.  |
| sunshine | | posted 17-Jul-2000 7:47pm |
A physicist. |
| Butterfly2000 |
You have lawyer in there twice! |
| Jemmy |
Lawyer, doctor, celebrity, elephant, now I don't know what I'm going to do. |
| North79 | | posted 14-Sep-2000 12:52pm |
Prime Minister. I still want to be. I'm gettin' there. |
| TeddyMiller | | posted 18-Sep-2000 4:06pm |
I wanted to be a physicist. I didn't change my mind until graduate school, where I switched to computer science. |
| RGirl | | posted 17-Feb-2006 12:27am |
librarian or vet |
