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as a teenager?

now?

my biggest dream, tho, was to be a baseball player. centerfield for the new york yankees. its all i wanted, its all i did. i used to sleep with my baseball mit on my hand still.

now? ... id definitely have to go with actor / comedian / entertainer. modeled after, say, jerry seinfeld, or adam sandler, or mike meyers, or robin williams.

Teenager a doctor ( I and again toyed with being a priest until I discovered the corruption involved behind the scenes of organized religions)

Now a director/producer to get some decent movies and/or television programs made.
Actually I tried out for the local fire department a few years back ( to be both a fireman and nurse is good money) but didnt have the juice to get in with the local politics involved.

And now? I still want to be a Jedi Knight when I grow up.

Xy

I broke into print, however, in the seventh grade with a poem about Hannibal (the Carthaginian general, not Samuel L. Clemens's hometown), and then, during my freshman year of high school, I discovered Mars -— the Mars of science fiction's two great romantics, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ray Bradbury -- and somehow understood that I, too, must grow up to be A Writer, or at least a rich and famous person. Ten years later, I was one! A Writer, I mean.

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Originally posted by Steven Utley:
As a child I enjoyed books and old movies and imitatively worked up my own stories both prose and in comic-book form. I was particularly fascinated by dinosaurs, too, and adopted as my first hero Roy Chapman Andrews, one-time director of the American Museum of Natural History and author of (among other things) ALL ABOUT DINOSAURS. It therefore struck me as logical that I should grow up to be a paleontologist, dig up some dinosaurs, and write books about the experience.

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Originally posted by thedoctor:
Why don't you just become an actor who draws comic books about dinosaurs?

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Originally posted by Kimi:
I wanted to be a pediatrician but pre-med was not my cup of tea and I wanted to have a career and be out of school before I hit my 30's.
So, I still went into healthcare and evenually became a nurse (after taking the very long route....)

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me too!!

as a child: prediatrician (didnt cause of kimi's same reasons)
career i almost choose before I knew about graphic arts: dentist (didn't cause I didnt want my drawing ability to go to waste)
what I want to be now or sometime in the future: too many things. Ill list a few

director
f/x creator/makeup artist
musician
writer
animator
actress
web designer
wife and mother

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Originally posted by TheTimeTrust:
I was kind of an odd kid. I wanted to be a scientist... mostly because all the mad scientist-types I saw in cartoons seemed pretty cool.

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Right on. Me too.
Either a mad scientist or an inventor of some sort. But I didn't know how to invent stuff. I wanted to be a photographer or artist of some sort in highschool but then I realized how, above all, I want to be rich when I grow up. So right now I want to be a physicist. Maybe something with astronomy. Definately cosmology.

Oddly enough, there's a connection in all the things I initially wanted to be (crazy, scientist, inventor): I have an invention I want to make which bridges a gap between psychology and theoretical physics. And succeeding in that will make me rich.

Become my friend now, before I take over the world.

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Originally posted by Uschi:
Definately cosmology.

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You want to do people's make-up and hair?