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

To the other cowgirls…After I graduated HS, I got a job, and since I was still living at home, I bought a horse for $300. I didn’t tell my parents (I was over 18) and I boarded it out. My friend bought a horse too. Her mom met my mom in the grocery store and told my mom her daughter bought a horse because I had one. My mom said “What horse?”

HotAttic What Horse?

I got a horse and boarded it 4 blocks away. Mom figured my smell was from working on the ranch or farms. I would disappear like I usual and out of the blue, my mom was at the barn entrance looking at me and the horse. Asked where the horse came from and I told her I bought it and have been paying for the board. She reamed my secondary parents (spent a lot of time with them, but not related) Mom took me down to the bank and I got my first checking account in 7th or 8th grade, so I didn’t have to bother my secondary parents to write the checks.

I wanted to be a teacher, interior designer, and then a CPA. Never wanted to have children. I have a degree in Accounting and have worked as a Tax Advisor. I have 5 great kids and am able to stay home.

Happy … and guess what? I am

I wanted to be a Veterinarian OR a Truck driver, I grew up on a livestock farm and took all the Veterinary Science courses in 4H, and worked with a Veterinarian for a few summers (under supervision I even did a spay on a dog once!), read all those wonderful James Herriott veterinary books, and took Biology, etc in HS till our lovely Guidance Counselor just killed my dream by pointing out that my grades werent good enough for a scholarship and my parents , nor I could never afford college (It was far different back then as far as Student loans).

Sooo….I became a Truck and Bus driver and travelled far from the farm here in IN. and saw a lot of this great country and met some wonderful people over the miles and years.

I loved it (and would still be driving today if not for my back problems and arthritis) but, I still wonder what it would have been like to be a Veterinarian though.

a nice guy

Already answered as ccmom…but will add after I always wanted to go into space and the bottom of the ocean

Got one of them! And I turned out to be on the First All Woman Dive Crew of the Alvin

okay so bragging

I don’t attic S—- happens:)

I wanted to be a music and PE teacher….I became a music teacher and taught for a couple of years….then started my own family, but have never stopped doing music in one way or another and as far as PE…..I like to swim and challenge some of the younger folks to almost any game. I just have fun!

I had four interests growing up: gymnastics, figure skating, playing the piano, and playing the violin. I would have been able to pursue at least the last two had we not moved from Missouri to Texas when I was just starting 4th grade. I already had my violin, which I had to give back to the school with tears when it came time to move three weeks into the school year.

As for the other two, I was already a speed demon on wheels at the roller skating rink, but never got to learn any tricks. Gymnastics I was learning from a school friend who was taking gymnastics. We couldn’t afford to get me in them at the time, but I would have been great, being a natural-born athlete.

Now, my body is seriously out of shape and I’m losing my hearing. So now what? LOL I guess I could try to get my foot in the door at SETI since I love learning about the Cosmos. Yeah, like that would ever happen. LOL

It’s amazing how far most of us are now from our “chosen path” in high school or college! I wanted to be a teacher when I was little, then a doctor, now I’m in business. Where will life take me next?

I dunno Cindy It coulda been. What? Dont you think I watch PBS?? LOLOLOL Heck, I watch Blues Clues, Clifford, Martha Speaks and Caillou nearly everyday

Seriously though i just LOVE watching all those undersea type shows, the shipwreck stuff and all that just intrigue me. That and the fact that we know ohhh so little about that alien world right here under our very own oceans. Amazing. I am truly envious.

I do remember that they said how small and cramped that dude was. I seem to recall a deep water submersible that the pilot laid on their stomach too “drive”,is that one like that??

Kinda cool about that just happening. To be a part of history! WOW!! Cool Beanz!

I wanted to be a school teacher, but I married young and then had 2 kids and then at age 30 started assembling GM trucks and cars. So I am enjoying retirement from that. And of course would of never dreamed of being at a place called Bonanza even a few years ago! This Oct., I will have been here 4 years. woo hoo.

AMEN and AMEN Bro!