What did you want to be when you grew up?

[DI]

Meteorologist

[wmarat]

MD

[Math_Rocks]

The first thing I remember wanting to be was in kindergarten or 1st grade: an astrophysicist. Have no clue how I knew what an astrophysicist was back then! In high school, I went through a stage where I wanted to be a judge, paying my dues as a prosecutor first. I got over it when I realized how often deals are made. Then headed off to college as a physics major only to find it way too applied for me, then chose mathematics. Thought for a while that I wanted to work for the NSA but fell in love with teaching (college math) while in graduate school.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to be like Jesus!!! 

Who said he was a carpenter ???  I thought he was a doctor .  So  that's what I became an MD

[Math_Rocks]

He is truly the Great Physician so you definitely followed in His footsteps!

[fused]

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DI wrote:
Meteorologist

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Me too!

[Anonymous]

I want to be very old. So far, so good.

[MattH]

Well, for most of my childhood I wanted to be a scientist, then as a teenager I decided I wanted to be an engineer instead so I went and got an engineering degree.  After three years of designing control systems for Siemens I decided I really wanted to be a scientist after all so I went and got a Ph.D. in biology.  After getting my doctorate I did postdoctoral work at a major medical school, then got a job in R&D for a big pharmaceutical company where I've been doing that since 1998.  What makes science fun for me is that it's never the same because the field keeps advancing.  Most of the stuff I'm working on now hadn't even been discovered when I was in grad school.

[llecs]

I wanted to be a business owner.

[Cory]

Good off credit topic post. Makes you feel like human.

I've always, and still want to be a singer, chef and nutrienist. I think I still have time.

Cory