What Did You Want To Be When You "Grew" Up?

[Laurel]

My 10 year old daughter had an assignment at school where she had to answer questions about herself. Well one of the questions was "when I get older I want a job as________. and she said "daycare"! I knew she liked to help me, but I never thought she would say that!

What did you want to be when you "grew" up?

I have always wanted to be an elem. teacher, but earned my a AA in Child Development and opened my fcc years later.

I always wanted to be a mom. I had it all planned out. I wanted three children and they would be two girls and one boy. The girl's name was going to be Rebecca. I saw a dress at a department store and decided that I was going to buy it for Rebecca when I was a mom. I guess I'm a planner.

Well I was a stay at home mom before doing daycare and I had three children except that one was a girl (didn't name her Rebecca) and two boys.

I had one daycare girl that definitely always stated she wanted to be a mommy when she grew up. One time we were watching an episode of Barney and they were rattling off occupations. She said "They didn't say mommy!" She was really kind of ticked off about it and, to be honest, so was I a little. Another time she told me she wanted to be what I was...a child care provider.

Laurel

[Josiegirl]

I always wanted to be a wife and mother. Evidently I wasn't very good at the wife part but I guess I turned out to be an okay mom. I mean my kids still love me. I think.

[jenn]

Job wise, I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. I knew from my own kindergarten year on that I wanted to teach. I taught kindergarten for 9 years before opening my daycare.
Non job wise, I wanted to be a wife and mom. I wanted an old farm house, a big wrap around porch, and a slew of kids that I stayed at home with. I have an old house with a regular porch. I have a husband that works hard to support us. I have 1 daughter and she will be an only. I do get to stay at home with her, the other slew of children here are the daycare kids. Not to bad.

[Sunchimes]

I decided to be a first grade teacher when I was in first grade. Somehow, my senior year in high school, I tripped and fell into a home ec major with elem ed endorsement. I'm still not sure how that happened. I don't like to cook or sew, but I loved the child development and family living parts. Taught 6 months and gave up.

I could have gotten a kindy endorsement with my degree but in those days, there were only private kindergartens, and they paid minimum wage. Public schools didn't offer kindy.

I taught 5th grade for awhile. The rest of my adult life I have owned my own business with my husband. Once I owned a pest control company, once I was a registered pork producer ( aka hog farmer), and had a business that contracted with the prison system. Never did teach 1st grade. ;-)

[Childminder]

Early childhood educator

[MyAngels]

Well I wanted to be a dancer or a singer. Unfortunately I have two left feet and can't carry a tune in a bucket, so that didn't pan out too well .

[Sugar Magnolia]

When I was a kid, I remember I wanted to cut hair.
When I was a teen I wanted to be a DJ (not the club kind, you know...the kind that played records on the radio).
When I was in college, I wanted to be a historical archeologist....got the degree....managed restaurants.
As an adult......I want to be novelist or professional sand sculptor. (translation: get paid for my hobbies. Especially sand, tired of entertaining the beach for free)

[BBDC]

teacher! So daycare is not too far off!

[Laurel]

Job wise, I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. I knew from my own kindergarten year on that I wanted to teach. I taught kindergarten for 9 years before opening my daycare.
Non job wise, I wanted to be a wife and mom. I wanted an old farm house, a big wrap around porch, and a slew of kids that I stayed at home with. I have an old house with a regular porch. I have a husband that works hard to support us. I have 1 daughter and she will be an only. I do get to stay at home with her, the other slew of children here are the daycare kids. Not to bad.

I always considered a mom a job. Still do.

Laurel

[Maria2013]

My 10 year old daughter had an assignment at school where she had to answer questions about herself. Well one of the questions was "when I get older I want a job as________. and she said "daycare"! I knew she liked to help me, but I never thought she would say that!

What did you want to be when you "grew" up?

I have always wanted to be an elem. teacher, but earned my a AA in Child Development and opened my fcc years later.

you're lucky, I think all 3 of my kids are pretty sure Not to even want kids of their own::

I wanted to own a farm with a male and female of every kind possiblehappyface

[MotherNature]

a cop, a ballerina, a ghostbuster, a vampire
In high school- tattoo artist( almost did go that route), a botanist, a psychologist
Once out in the real world- botanist, nurse/dr.. did actually do a couple yrs of medical studies before staying home w/ my baby. will go back and get a cert in something medical related, just to have it...

[jessrlee]

When I was six I told my Grandma I wanted to go to college to be a princess ::

Then I decided I wanted to be a teacher, and eventually became a daycare provider lovethis

[Lucy]

My mom framed an assignment I wrote when I was in 3rd grade. She had kept it for some reason, and when I started doing Daycare, she framed it and gave it to me. It says:

"When I grow up I want to be a babysitter. My mom is a babysitter and she has the cutest kids! One of them is a baby and I love to hold the baby. She is so cute! I would charge one dollar per hour but if the kids are harder to take care of I would charge a dollar and fifty cents per hour. I love babies the most."

So yeah, I fulfilled my self-prophecy. Fortunately, I get more than $1.50/hour! And ironically, I no longer take babies. Go figure....

[Brooksie]

My mom framed an assignment I wrote when I was in 3rd grade. She had kept it for some reason, and when I started doing Daycare, she framed it and gave it to me. It says:

"When I grow up I want to be a babysitter. My mom is a babysitter and she has the cutest kids! One of them is a baby and I love to hold the baby. She is so cute! I would charge one dollar per hour but if the kids are harder to take care of I would charge a dollar and fifty cents per hour. I love babies the most."

So yeah, I fulfilled my self-prophecy. Fortunately, I get more than $1.50/hour! And ironically, I no longer take babies. Go figure....

[Moppetland]

I wanted to be a novelist and screenwriter.