As a kid I always wanted a really cool job: jet pilot, submarine captain, game developer, gifted software dev... Ya know, stuff like that. Turns out I'm shit at maths, taking care of my health or basically anything that I needed for those jobs.

So I settled for minimum wage jobs and depression, some consider this a bad move

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. That's probably why I had no idea what to do with my life up until a couple of years ago, I never really wanted anything else.

I wanted to be a landscape designer. Used to love putting together ideas for peoples back yards and things. 

I ended up being exactly what I wanted to be as a kid (after I no longer wanted to be a cowboy).  I won't tell you what that is, though.

I always wanted to "work with computers" when I was child. No real idea of anything particular, just the vague idea that I wanted to make sure that I was sat at a computer all day every day. Little did I know how little that would narrow down the field I would be working in.

I wanted to be Rolf Harris, lol. Which is obviously a let down. I wanted to be an Artist and a Vet or working with Animals. why did he ruin my dream, dammit.

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a pediatrician. I have always loved helping people, and especially kids. I had a really good pediatrician as a kid which probably helped me really want to be come one. 

i wanted to join the military from a young boy until i graduated highschool.

fast forward two months i get told i couldnt join when i went through meps.

As I thought all my life all kids just had 2 things they wanted to be, girls wanted to work in hospital and boys always wanted to be a fiore.man and thats what I also wanted to be as a small kid, is flew away pretty fast in my brain but still remember that it was that I wanted to be.

Did any of us really want a "job" as a kid?  When I was growing up I just wanted to be able to do anything that sounded cool.  That was the real dream!  Getting paid for it was an added bonus, but the stuff I wanted to do as a kid weren't really jobs, they were hobbies and passions...One day I'll get back to them :)

As a kid I always just wanted to be a hockey player... once I realized that wasn't gonna happen I wanted to be a mechanical engineer... and once I realized how much more school that was going to require I took a trade. Never was a fan of classrooms or sitting still for long periods in general. 

I always wanted to be a garbage truck guy.

When i was a kid, i always saw those guys working hard and yet always happy and joking with each other. Plus the hazard suit looked amazing lol.

Anyways, i know it's a reality that those guys work hard and need more attention. Few people know how important they are. Thanks garbage truck guys!

Man I always wanted to have my own company and do stuff. Like I never had a dream to like, be in specific industry, I would like to be in IT now and have my own company. And my only goal is to have good wages to everyone so that their families can live from their hard work :)

I had big goals when I was a kid. I wanted a job at Chuck E. Cheese. I mean, you get paid to work there. It seemed like a solid career choice to me. It was close by my home so when I got bigger I could even ride my bike there by myself. Then I could play games, eat all the pizza I wanted and drink free soda without my parents monitoring me. Then they got rid of the ball pit and I thought naw, can't work all day and then no ball pit.

As a young boy i wanted to become a historian. I loved reading about wars and history and swallowed books by the ton. Sadly it turned out that i had real low self discipline when it comes to other than reading things that interest me so never did well in school.

Thats how it goes sometimes.

The job i wanted most as a kid was a race car driver just always loved how fast they drove and how skilled it looked they had to be to drive like that.