I went through a few phases, just like everyone else, I'm sure! When I was a real little kid, like nursery school age, I just wanted to be a kid forever! When I was around 9 or 10, I wanted to be a real estate agent. I remember how much fun it was looking at houses when Mom was in the market at that time, and I thought it would be a fun job.
When I was around 11-12, I wanted to own my own trucking company. That was around 1981-82, when big rigs were really cool to us kids. "Smokey and the Bandit" and "BJ and the Bear" and stuff like that was fresh on our minds, before they messed it all up with "Smokey and the Bandit 3", and long before I learned the double meaning of "BJ and the Bear", as told on Wil and Grace!
Soon after the trucking phase, I wanted to be a videogame designer for Mattel Electronics. I got an Intellivision for my 12th birthday, and thought it was the coolest thing. Little did I realize how far videogames would come by the time I would reach adulthood, and how ancient history Mattel Electronics and the Intellivison would become! Back then they complained about videogame violence because you could fly over WWII Europe in all its 96X160 pixel resolution, 16-color glory. Nowadays in videogames you can kill your hooker after having sex with her and get your money back!
Anyway, after I outgrew videogames (the first time), I wanted to be a computer programmer. And at some point, I wanted to be an architect.
Ultimately, I ended up in a job where I sit in front of a computer all day and slowly go brain-dead. But I do like to check the real estate listings in far off locales from time to time. And I have an Intellivision emulator on the computer. And I still like trucks. And I'd still like to be a little kid with no responsibilities. I think I'll go play out in the snow now, although I guess I should be shoveling it. :