Future professions

DS1 wanted (when 2) to become a big girl called Lucy.

kitty DS2 at 12 wanted to be a premiership footballer or a rock star. Now age 32 he has a degree in music but works in IT and in his spare time he plays in a heavy metal band.

My five year old gs has wanted to be a paleontogist for at least a year. His reception class teacher made the mistake of asking him why he wanted to be an archeologist. She was treated to a five minute lecture on the difference. I worry about him.

My DD1, who went to Oxford and is now a SEN teacher, used to tell us that she wanted to work in the 'paying house' at the garage, ' where all the sweets are!'
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Interesting discussion with my 2 year old over Christmas who declared that he is going to buy five cars when he is a grown up man. When asked why five cars, he said "Because I have two hands of course."
No idea how he will fund said cars yet though.

It changes day by day with our 3 DGC. Latest set of answers to the question = DGS (6 nearly 7) - Dr Who and Yes, he does understand that he will be an actor playing the role; DGD1 (6.5) would like to be a drummer 'like Granpal', a singer, a dancer and a teller of jokes; DGD2 (4.75) would like to be 'a very tall lady like Daddy' so that everybody will see her and she will be able to reach things on top of cupboards - I think she has her eye on the biscuit tin.

I don't know if any of these ambitions will be fulfilled but it does look likely that DGD2 WILL be a VERY tall lady.

My granddaughter decided when she was about 12 that she wanted to work with babies and young children, and after leaving school worked in a nursery for a while. But she didn`t like it because the children were a bit older than she`d have liked, and she`s now, aged 21, at the opposite end of the spectrum, working in home care, and despite long hours and low pay, she`s loving it.

GD1 is going to be an artist, I don't doubt it, she has been drawing people and animals since she was 18 months old. GD2 says she is going to be a princess

4yr old DGS states emphatically when asked that he wants to be a vet

My elderly neighbour asked my DGD (she was about 10 at the time) what she wanted to be when she grew up, expecting I think 'a nurse, hairdresser or such like'. My DGD replied 'a marine biologist'. My neighbour's face was a picture!

Dear GD told us she is either going to sell ice cream from a van or be a cheer leading instructor. As she is 7, I am not too concerned.

Isn't it interesting to see where the little darlings will eventually end up. Just hope I am still around.

At 15mths he's a bit too young to make a decision yet, but at Christmas we were all very impressed by his sense of rhythm and timing while dancing to "Frosty the Snowman".

When DGS was about 7 he decided he was going to be a slacker or beach bum - he is now 23 and having gained a first in engineering is doing a PhD!