I have a dream!

What did you want to be when you grew up?

What did you end up doing?

What is your dream job now?

When I was a kid I wanted to be famous - dancer, actor and singer lol.

Then I wanted to be a vet, until I realised I'd see a lot of seriously hurt and ill animals, and have to put some down. I couldn't handle that without spending a good part of my day crying.

Next I liked hospitality, particularly hotel management. But on work experience the customers were awful and I realised the hours were even worse.

I settled on wanting to be an accountant. The main reason was that two of my parents were accountants and I liked their lifestyles, and I was good at maths. At the careers expo at Uni a bank was there, and it seemed a lot better than accounting. I got a job there and I'm still working for them. Problem is I really don't like it. It's very bureaucratic and there are so many systems, departments, rules, forms, it does my head in.

What I would *love* is anything to do with property. I love houses, I always have. I wish I'd realised earlier. I'd do real estate, architecture, development, anything.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

A fairy princess ballerina, then a teacher, then a singer/dancer/actor, then a chef, then a town planner, then a surgeon, then a lawyer.

What did you end up doing?

A lawyer.

What is your dream job now?

A fairy princess singing dancing acting lawyer who is an awesome mum and abolitionist.

I wanted to be a lawyer, the law fascinates me.

Now I am an import administrator.

I want to join the police intelligence after I pop another kid out

I wanted to be a writer, archaeologist or artist.

Now I am a writer, curator, working generally in the arts.

Oddly, after DD was born I started thinking about studying law. I've been drawn to the notion of justice of course but also attracted to the language and persuasion side of things. The idea that this is a profession where words and the specific, explicit use of language is paramount. But to start a new and very specific, detailed degree just for the fun of it?!

Ps now just waiting for BB's lawyers (hi peanutter) to laugh at my romantic ideas of the law ;)

I wanted to drive a cement mixer. Not just any, a pink cement mixer!

I'm a nurse midwife by trade, haven't worked as one in 20months though...

Now, if I could make enought money as an artist and from my drawings I would never go back to work. I did at one stage want to be an architect, and all my high school classes reflect this, never did it though...even though now I'm itching to do more study, this is appealing to me again

I wanted to be a marine biologist.

But ended up starting a teaching degree. Left that to become an aged care worker for a brief stint which I enjoyed but was incredibly draining both physically and emotionally. Then had kids and am a stay at home mum who will be homeschooling them starting this year with my eldest.

My dream job would still be a marine biologist and to work in conservation and hopefully one day that will happen. I'd also love to be a published author.

I wanted to be a dentist as a child.

I did a year of nursing but gave it up due to not being able to get transport to night shift placement (didn't have a licence).

I'm now studying law!

I wanted to be a policeman for most of primary school. Secondary school I wanted to be a doctor, specifically OB/GYN. However my brother got into medicine first. So I did law.

And I love it. Wouldn't do anything else.

I wanted to be a nurse..

Currently working in export seafreight.

Not sure what my dream job is now :(

Wanted to do law. All my year 12 subjects were geared towards it. Particularly wanted to worked juvenile justice.
Ended up a nurse. Currently working older adult mental health.
Planning on going back and doing my midwifery. Dream job is combining mental health and midwifery as a maternal mental health nurse.

I found a piece of paper from when I was in primary school of what I wanted to be when I grew up it said: nurse & mum

I am both :)

Dream job is to be a midwife, but will be hard given I've not been working for a few years now and need recent work and limited student positions available...but I won't give up!

you will get there Eenee, might take time, but there is still time =)

I find it amazing how many people wanted to go into law!! for me it is the last thing I'd like to do!! I'd rather get on my hands and knees and clean out sewage pits than do law! (please dont see that as me dissing law and laywers...cause im really not. its just not me, but it is others who are great at it. i know i wont be). I do though, like knowing people who do it/know it so i can ask them things, hehe.

I always wanted to be a primary teacher, but did work experience when I was in year 10 and hated it.
Then I wanted to join the cops, but when I left high school I wasn't old enough so did nursing. I loved it and got to work in some awesome places. Then a stupid ex dared me. Said I wouldn't survive at the police academy.
I showed him. Top 5 out of 997 in a very large intake.
Left after the beaurocracy got too much to be a SAHM and we moved states and DH police forces.

I truly have no idea what to do now and some days im truly sad about that. My choices are limited by remoteness, but we are happy here and there isn't a real rush I guess.

All through primary school, I wanted to be a lawyer. Defence actually, because I loved debating at school and loved a challenge. Then some things happened to me in early secondary, and I decided on primary school teacher. Did work experience in year 10 and hated it. Then I worked as an assistant stage manager for 2 years, and I thought I'd always do that.

My current job is nothing, I've been a sahm for the last 2.5 years, with a few short certificate courses here and there.

My dream job is to open my own independent practice in Melbourne, offering low cost midwifery and doula services to young and disadvantaged mothers, and free information and support for pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting. It would be a huge collaborative effort, and I don't know if I'll ever achieve it, but that's the dream.

I wanted to be a mum in primary school then a teacher then and avertising exec.

Now working as a software test lead which i also love.

Dream job, personal bargain hunter shopper coz i love online shopping and finding bargains!

I always, always, always wanted to be a primary school teacher. However, there was a time when I wanted to combine it - a teacher who writes children's books and has a herb farm!

The week before uni preferences were due, I changed to Business (Human Resource Management) and did a year of that. Hated that it was so money focused. Changed to Education and became a primary school teacher like I'd wanted all along. (Second) best job ever! Now I'm a SAHM and have been thinking about what I'd like to do. I miss teaching almost every day, but it's a big job. Not 9-3 with 12 weeks holidays (well, not for me anyway) and I just don't have that time to devote to it anymore. I did some part time intervention work with kids who didn't meet the national literacy and numeracy benchmarks, and was working implementing a school wide literacy program before we moved interstate, which was great. Maybe that.

I also love the idea of having a little B and B with attached tea rooms. I'd work in a school part time and do that with DH on weekends ;)

As a child I wanted to be an actress, then as a teenager I was torn between being a theatre director or a politician. At high school the career guidance report said I should be a psychiatric nurse and I laughed and laughed because of how ridiculous a notion that was! I couldn't decide what to do at uni so got a few jobs and decided that because I like being in charge I should aim for project management which I figured I would focus on after kids. Then I had my kids and everything changed.

Now I am almost qualified as a nurse and midwife and hoping to specialise in mental health issues

As a child I wanted to be an artist or a 'horse rider' (not sure what is!).

From year 8, I wanted to be a writer. In year 9 I realised it's hard to make money writing novels so I decided to be a journalist. I flirted with the idea of being a lawyer in year 11 and 12 but I got into my dream course studying journalism so that's what I did.

Worked as a journo for quite a few years. But now I use my talents for good in the NFP sector doing marcomms.

Coincidentally, my DD's three greatest loves are writing, horseriding and art :lol:

I wanted to be Wonder-woman for most of my primary school years. High school dream was lawyer then psychologist. I did work experience in two court houses and didn't like it. Studied psychology at uni but decided against that as a career as well as it didn't feel right.

Got a job in admin to give me time to decide what I wanted to do. Found out that I love it and still doing it 14 years later.

Still peeved I missed out on Wonder Woman though.

I wanted to work with children, always. I geared everything in school to get into the diploma course for children's services at tafe . Got into it but gave up after a year as it was just not what I expected. So many rules and regulations when all I wanted to do was have fun and play with kiddies.

Worked a part time fast food job while I did some admin studies and was a top of the wozza PA/admin for a good few years until I had DS. I love organising and bossing people around!

Now, since having DS and being that mum and person who loves kiddies I found I still have that knack with other kids and also a photographic eye. I can make strangers kids do anything like putty in my hands ..... So once I have more time I think I'll be like many other sahm's and be a children's photographer.

Dream dream dream :)

When I was very little I wanted to be a bricklayer! Then I wanted to be an architect, then an interior designer, a jeweler, a travel agent and a lawyer. All the way through though I wanted to be a mum.

I ended up with a degree in project management and economics with some experience in contract law and counseling.

Now I am a SAHM. I love it. I think now this is my dream job.

I would probably like to look into creating my own natural cosmetics. It really interests me.

For most of my childhood I wanted to be an archeologist. Specifically, I wanted to work in the Egyptian pyramids.

For most of highschool I wanted to be a pediatric OT. I did that for work experience and loved it but I wasn't a very motivated student and it took high marks to get in so I kind of gave up on it and ended up deciding I wanted to be an accountant and started a commerce degree. I switched to a Marketing major and worked in marketing for about a year before giving it up.

The desire to work with children wouldn't leave me alone and I ended up going back and doing a second degree in Early Childhood Education (first degree didn't offer any credit so I had to start from the start again). I worked in child care and preschool while studying and with my diploma qualification but now I've been on maternity leave and finishing my degree part time for the past 6 years.

I don't want to be a teacher anymore but I do still want to work with under 5 year old children, and their families so when I'm ready to get back into work I'll give it some more thought. Fortunately my degree does reach a broad range of jobs so I'm not limited to teaching and can still use it in other ways.