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28 July 2010

Think back to when you were 8 years old. What did you want to be when you grew up?
post by: desjardins at: 14:15 | 34 comments
A scientist.
posted by Obscure Reference 28 July | 14:16
Astronaut.
posted by chewatadistance 28 July | 14:21
News Anchor
Professional Football Coach

Mostly, someone who kissed Doug Livingston.
posted by rainbaby 28 July | 14:25
A Solid Gold dancer, which is really bizarre in retrospect, because I'm a tomboy.
posted by desjardins 28 July | 14:28
9.
posted by cjorgensen 28 July | 14:32
Detective. I had this "Detective" activity set, that taught you how to find fingerprints do other neat things. I used to prowl the house looking for mysteries to solve, and if I failed to find any, I'd make them up and then solve them.

Second choice: "Something With Computers", like programming or fixing them or whatever, although that went very far from my mind by High School. (I like computers fine but don't have a programmer's mind.)
posted by Monster_Zero 28 July | 14:33
A vet.
posted by gaspode 28 July | 14:40
Scientist and or Video Game Designer. I think that was the SETI phase.
posted by The Whelk 28 July | 14:43
A mystery writer. A high school teacher. A cocktail waitress/substitute elementary teacher. A spy. A primatologist. A pastry chef.

If we go just a few years farther back, I wanted to be the Pope. I didn't know what the Pope was; I think I just liked the mitre.
posted by Elsa 28 July | 14:46
A librarian. A museum curator (but I wouldn't have called it that at the time - it would've been "the person who picks the cool and pretty stuff to go on the walls").
posted by msali 28 July | 14:50
A lawyer, because I liked to argue.
posted by youngergirl44 28 July | 14:51
Ballerina or marine biologist. I hadn't decided.
posted by Specklet 28 July | 15:02
My eight year old self was pretty self aware. I craved structured, artificial environments as a platform to be seen and heard (TV News)and impose order (Coach). That, and make out with people.

Yep, that's me.
posted by rainbaby 28 July | 15:02
At 8 I wanted to be a teacher, then I wanted to be the first female president of the U.S. (I guess there's still time for that lol).
posted by amyms 28 July | 15:06
An ichthyologist.
posted by JanetLand 28 July | 15:08
A vet, a museum curator, a writer, an artist, a fashion designer.
posted by mygothlaundry 28 July | 15:09
An environmentalist.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 July | 15:25
Ice cream truck driver.
posted by Melismata 28 July | 15:31
A writer. Or dead.
posted by sperose 28 July | 15:33
An architect.
posted by dg 28 July | 15:51
An astronaut, so I could fly into a black hole and see what was inside.

(I was a great drawer at the time, but astrophysics? Not so much.)
posted by Rhaomi 28 July | 15:58
Either a zoo-keeper or a professional Game Show contestant.
posted by ufez 28 July | 16:22
A political consultant.

No, really!
posted by Madamina 28 July | 16:28
An archeologist or a paleontologist.

Even more so, I thought I'd grow up to be a traveler. Not as a hobby but as a career. I'm not sure what I thought I was going to be doing as a traveler, but I was completely convinced that that's what my life would be.
posted by Sil 28 July | 16:45

When I was 8, I wanted to be rich.
posted by knile 28 July | 17:13
When I was eight I wanted to be Olivia Newton John.
posted by fluffy battle kitten 28 July | 17:34
A teacher or a cop.
posted by deborah 28 July | 17:38
In 1967, it was astronaut all the way.
posted by Ardiril 28 July | 18:13
I was tooling around in the family business, trying not to shock myself while jamming screwdrivers into busted radios. This was back when the TV repair business was still pretty strong. We had hexagonal screwdrivers that were a yard long that were used to detatch the CRT from the yoke or frame. I wanted to be tall enough and strong enough to turn one of those suckers.

Then the Atari 400 came out the next year and that was it. I was a programming fool.
posted by lysdexic 28 July | 19:35
A journalist. Or some other kind of writer. Then I grew up and realized I'm not really very good at writing.
posted by leesh 28 July | 20:00
An architect.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth 28 July | 21:13
I wanted to be a paleontologist. DINOSAURSWOOOOOO!!
posted by ninazer0 29 July | 01:18
I don't remember being 8. By 10, though, a doctor. I even memorized all the bones in the body. Mainly to impress Glen, who I had a crush on then.

I also thought I was an alien back then.
posted by Pips 29 July | 08:42
In 1967 I was 8 and saw a TV program about Spacewar. I wanted to be the guy that played that game when I grew up. For years all I cared about was playing that game. I did not care about being the guy that made the game. I just wanted to play it.

Aim low children. And your dreams will come true a million-fold. ;-)
posted by Splunge 29 July | 19:03
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