Any aspirations?
A survey was taken in 2019 of US, UK and Chinese children.
Almost a third of the children surveyed said they wanted to be a vlogger/youtuber when they grew up. 11% said they wanted to be an Astronaut.
In order, UK/US children voted vlogger/youtuber - teacher - professional athlete - musician - astronaut.
56% of Chinese children voted astronaut as their first choice with vlogger/youtuber being the least popular.
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I wanted to be an astronaut or gymnast. When I was about 7 I also wanted my parents to buy me a horse so I could become a show jumper. All far more exciting than the world of finance.
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A cowboy.Not much call for them in Wales so doomed from the start.
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A train driver….but rugby came along and I wasn’t going to work weekends!
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I wanted to be a mother and cook,yehhhhhh sorted.
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A tractor driver. I modified that a bit later.
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An astronaut and/or an Egyptologist.
I had a bit of a phase when I wanted to be a hermit and live in a cave by the sea, much less claustrophobic than being an astronaut I suppose.
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An ice-cream van man. Meet lots of happy people, maybe have the occasional free ice-cream in between serving others. And those tinny chimes, the most exciting sound. I was only four and three quarters; other ambitions to follow.
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I just wish I was what I was when I wished I was what I am now.
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Very clever. 
@Bretrick I had in my mind, becoming a Publican and following in my paternal grandparent’s footprints. My life unfurled along a completely different route with me becoming a professional civil engineer.
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A radio and tv engineer and that’s what I became. Started various courses in 1954, qualified in 1960, retired around 40 years later.
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I wanted to be Just like my Dad when I was very young…But I later found a passion for electrics so I wanted to be an electrician. In those days you had to have a job upon leaving school. I had an interview with the YEB (Yorkshire Electricity Board) but didn’t hear anything so I went for an interview at a back street engineering company and got the job. Six months later the YEB said there was an apprenticeship I could have with them, but I was enjoying mechanical engineering so much I declined…I learnt many things as an engineer that I would not have learnt as an electrician. I studied electronics in my own time, and although I don’t do any mechanical engineering anymore, I still do electronics…
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It’s a shame this route isn’t open to school leavers now that there are so few “back street” small players. The Govt apprenticeship schemes are so bureaucratic I doubt many employers want to go down that route without losing the will to live. It’s no longer about hands on work it seems.
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Absolutely Annie, the days of the proper skilled man are gone…
A few days before I was due finish my education back in the summer of '54, with no qualifications I might add, just the determination to repair peoples tellies and radios, I and other kids about to leave school soon, were visited by a grey suited middle aged man with little interest in what he was there to do, spent the next hour convincing me that anything involving electricity was not for me. He then asked me what was I good at that I could do for the next fifty years and in a moment of madness I said Carpentry, I think his job title was Youth Employment Officer. A few days later I was working on a building site as a Carpenters labourer. I stayed doing that for a few weeks till the penny dropped then I walked into a radio and tv dealers, started my apprenticeship and never looked back.
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We were all easily influenced when we were young.
Unable to make decisions of our own. We often took the easy path.
Case in point, I lived in a town were the only real employment was an underground copper mine.
Straight out of school into an apprenticeship Fitting and Turner.
I never enjoyed it but because there was little else, and because I was an introvert I done as I was told by my father who worked at the mine for 40 years up to his death.
I stayed in the job for 20 years before finally finding the courage to leave the mine, leave that town and leave Tasmania.
Best thing I ever done though I consider I wasted 20 years of my life underground.
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When I was young, I was given the choice of teacher or nurse. Neither of those appealed to me so I had no aspirations until I got older.
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When I was very young I wanted to be a shop lady, then a teacher, then an artist
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I just wanted to be rich, have a nice house with land, stables, outdoor school & horses, dogs & other animals. No idea how & it didn’t work out like that anyway.
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