What did people think you were going to grow up to be?

I haven’t gotten a job yet, but everyone can see me being something like a doctor, which is great because I wanna be a surgeon.

I wanted to drive an own a transport truck since I was six, now as an adult I realize I don’t want to own one but still love operating them.

I don’t remember anyone prognisticating but they probably thought I would be a librarian – or a tree-climbing bookworm.

I would never take no for an answer. I drove my parents nuts. There was always room for negotiation. I quickly learned to develop charm in order not to be spanked for being a smart ass four times a day. I rarely won the important arguments, the life-threatening idiocies I would attempt, but that wasn’t for lack of trying. My parents eventually developed a system of delegating to the older siblings in order to keep the younger ones in line. And they would just smack me if I even attempted to argued with them. They always thought I was slated for law. Boy, did I surprise the hell out of them.

Taller, more mature & a great Dad…two out of three ain’t bad.

A spy.

@ragingloli Wait…are you a spy?
[suspicious squint]

An artist or veterinarian. Never did either on a formal level but I am very creative, draw, worked in interior design ( dad was an Architect and I inherited his designing eye ) and have had just about every animal known to man.
I am very good at doctoring critters. Vaccinations, medications, etc.
You’ve never lived until you have learned to pill a goose. lol

@fluthernutter
I am not russian spy! I am as colonial as apple cake!

I grew up in a time when women weren’t expected to be anything.

I think a lot of people I grew up with figured I would wind up in prison.
It is a long story, but everything changed when I volunteered for the military.
Combat, (marriage,children,divorce), combat, education, more education, combat, business experience, contract work with the US DOD etc., and I am about as far from prison as Mother Theresa.
There you go.

A doctor. The closest I got was nursing school and hated it. I’m a legal assistant. Not glamorous, but it’s a better job than most of my family members have, so they’re still proud. I’m the first in my family to get a college degree.

I didn’t think about it and nobody made me think about it. I was left to my own resources.

I think most thought I’d be a truck driver or something average like that.

As a woman I was given limited options. Work in retail, an office or be a nurse. I worked in an office for a while, but that’s not what I do now.

An actress. And indeed I did major in theater in college. I did do some paid theater related jobs. Mostly though I have done community theater. So they weren’t that off. It’s just not how I make a living.

Many people told me to model. I joined the navy and now I work dead end jobs because I have no passion or motivation in life.

Mine thought I would end up being an architect. I did end up in the construction field and have come to detest the vast majority who are actually architects.

In my early years there was a time when I was a total disgrace for my whole family, just because I thought so differently and didn’t hesitate to say what I thought. My parents were so upset that they thought I had no future. My aunts and uncles (who I dislike) thought even by a miracle, I could just end up in a factory as a worker, otherwise I could only be a cleaner, or have no job at all (and that made them proud of their children who had a “brighter” future). Even my grandma thought I could never grow up and learn.

Now I’m in a major college, with three languages in my head. The cousin with “bright” future have mostly screwed up and ended up wasting their parents’ money for nothing. My grandma, ironically, forgets what she used to say and calls me “the only hope of the family”. Everyone thinks I will be a teacher, which is half true. The other half is that I want to be a writer, which I hide from everyone my parents never wants me to. Well I’m still in college, who knows where fate will take me?

A vet. I would probably have been a good vet, too, so they were not delusional.

A teacher told me I’d be a priest someday. He was delusional.

I was always going to be a scientist.
Close enough.

My family didn’t really seem to have expectations of what career I would pursue. It was entirely left up to me. I laugh when I think of the aptitude test we took in high school where my 2 highest ranking professions were house painter or investigative reporter/private eye. I am very curious and I love slapping paint on things apparently.

I think a lot of them thought I would be more successful at some sort of “professional” career.

My family expected me to be anything white collar, though they didn’t care exactly what. I expected myself to be a writer when I was young. Took me a long time to discover that I have no stories in my head. Nowadays, though I’m still plugging away towards my Master’s in philosophy and psychoanalysis and may eventually head in a professional direction, for the past few years my efforts have been towards getting my little dairy/veggie farm up and running. No one, including myself, saw farmer in my future. My parents have been very supportive, surprisingly enough.

@ragingloli is an alien spy. Everybody knows that.

Me.

@osoraro Not a very good one evidently since we all know it and therefore feed false info on our species

“Myself, only bigger.” ~ My son’s answer to this question when he was about 8.

They all joke that I can be in the best university in China.
The chance of that is like making Stanford or Harvard and rank top 30%= =
Well I didn’t achieve that and I’m proud of where I am now.