What did you want to be when you were a kid?

[Alotak]

My new (idle) dream is to somehow (magic) obtain a ludicrous amount of money--bazillions and infintillions of dollars--and use it to jumpstart a massive space-exploration and colonization movement. I'm talking mass drivers, orbital elevators, O'Neil cylinders, Lunar colonies, Mars domes, the whole shibang.

Can I come? I can make the tea.

Have you been playing EVE by any chance?

I would like to become a genetisist so if zombies come about blame me.
But i wish i could have been alive for either of the great exploration ages, the exploration of earth. and the (hopefully) soon exploration of space. (i mean actual different solar systems rather than the little odd one we have here full of idiots and Athiests -being the polar opsite of idiots-).

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

An archaealogist (NOT because of Indy, i just liked dinosaurs)
and then Link from LoZ

 

[exoneuk]

This is gonna sound so daft but I always wanted to make traffic lights! I used to make them all day out of Sticklebricks! Suffice to say I grew out of it. I wanted to be a singer when I was 11 but not since I was 18. I'm not good enough for it anymore!

 

[Instinct Blues]

I either want to be a rockstar or be really good at something to the point where thats how people refer to me.


They bring my name up in conversation and the other person would say" Oh the guy who rocks at making figurines out of sugar cubes"

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

I was that miserable fuck who didn't know what I wanted to be. Sure there were the short fireman and police officer phases before I got bored with that, but that was all before i was five, and after that I simply didn't know.

"And Sean what do you want to be when you grow up?" The teacher would ask
"I don't know." I would reply with an adorable inquisitive look and some blinking.
"Come now surely there has to be something." She would pry.
"Nope. I don't know yet." I would again reply thinking little of it before she labeled me as being difficult and marked me down for the day... *****

 

[ke7eha]

I wanted to be an inventor [possibly an innovator, but I didn't know the difference at the time]

now I am an engineering student and loving every minute of it

 

[Phowks]

I wanted to be a mortician or a forensic anthropologist when I was in grade school, then I found out that the smell of embalming fluid makes me sick...
I also wanted to be a Pyrotechnician in middle school

 

[Vidiot]

When I was really little, I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but I was told my grades would keep me out of that field, then I wanted to be a game designer or tester. It didn't matter, so long as I worked in the industry, and after I was told that was impossible because you had to know a game designer to become one, I turned my attention to art, then comedy and bass guitar. really, I just wanted to make people laugh and smile. Everyone's at their best when they're laughing.

Now, I'm the class clown in my last year of the Video Game Design & Development program at Brown College. Here they train us in every aspect from AI, programming, art direction, storyboarding/concept art, script writing, level design, 3d modeling... I think you get the picture. sorry if I came off sounding like a brochure, but I feel really lucky for landing randomly in a great school as opposed to all the ones that only teach you Maya and kick you out the door. Also, I get to make funny stuff for my games. Tim Schafer is my new hero because of Psychonauts. (proving that not all good games take themselves seriously)

Vidiot

 

[Khedive Rex]

There were a couple of months when i wanted to be a fire fighter. However that dream died when they invited a professional firefighter to talk to our class.

I was appauled to learn that we would be fighting against the fire.

 

[Mephilese]

A model for all 'Mummy's magazines'
I would then proceed to make myself up with her expensive makeup, I always thought lipstick looked better on the eyelids

 

[Tanthalos]

Hmmm I wanted to be an X-Man! Wheee mutant super powers.
At the time I thought it would also allow me to date Storm.

Then they introduced the Borg in Star Trek The Next Generation and I wanted to be assimilated.