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I wanted to be a professional horseback rider or breeder, or else a writer.
I actually do hope to teach riding lessons one day, although my main career is Psychology. So not quite the same!
I remember saying to my dad once I wanted to be a professional netballer and he had to tell me there's no such thing!! The joys of womens sports. I have always wanted to be a writer or an editor and although my job in the bureaucracy involves a LOT of writing, it's not quite the same! I also wanted to be a ballerina but I just get my fix from dancing classes and the gym :) Right now my "when I grow up" job is a health psychologist, but I'd have to do post graduate study for that which I just can't afford yet.
I switched it up between veterinarian/pediatrician for as long as I can remember! I'm on the biochemistry researcher/professor track right now, I think I've kept it pretty close to my original goals (at least I stuck in the general physical/natural science area haha) :)
Ooooh. I always wanted to be a ballerina. I've danced ballet since I was 3 yrs old, and continue to do so, but am far from being a professional... :) I teach ballet now, to little itty bitty girls... so cute.
I also wanted to be a Doctor, and started college off pre-med... changed my mind junior year, and finished off with a Philosophy/ English degree. Now, I am in graduate school, hopefully eventually will get my Ph.D, and teach at the collegiate level. I guess I'll just be a different kind of doctor.
Its so interesting to see that so many young girls aspired to be athletes when they were young! Its terrible because I'm super inactive now... I used to do a lot of sport (netball, field hockey, ice skating, gymnastics) and now I do nothing.
I wanted to be a model. That's it just walk the cat walk smile have a lot of adoring fans and be admired for my beauty, but when I grew up I felt very self conscience about my body because I was too short to become a model (5'2"). Then after that I just wanted to get married and raise a family. I really didn't like working or going to school........ I wasn't really the ambitious type, more of a traditional simple girl that just wanted a simple kind of life.
I wanted to be a gymnast mainly specialising in floor routines all my life pretty much. I got to the age of 16 and realised, if I hadnt made it by now,there was little or no chance, so I gave up and decided on other things and then I grew 10cms in height since giving it up :)
I wanted to be a (all at the same time): a race car driver, a ballerina, a figure skater (in the olympics none the less) a truck driver and a receptionist. HA. After I grew out of that, I wanted to get married and be a wife and a mommy.... which I am on my way to doing! Not the mommy part yet, :P.
I wanted to be a journalist or a musician. Before that I wanted to own a stable - á la The Saddle Club (Loved those books). I'm now a theatre stage manager so I guess I do a lot of writing and am surrounded by music! Hehe. Bit of a stretch though.
An author. Now I'm a Professional Writer who's working on books. Not much has changed!
Oooh! I totally wanted to be a ballerina. But my parents never took it seriously and I never got to take dance classes, hehe. I also wanted to be a nurse (like my mom - too bad blood makes me queasy!), a grocery store clerk (high ambitions, eh?) and a missionary's wife (my views on women have since become a little more progressive ;P). By 3rd grade though I figured out that all I wanted to do with my life was write. It wasn't until college that that dream finally actualized into "wow, it's stinking hard to make a living doing that. Let me find a more stable career path..."
Hehe. I've always wanted to be an architect. I remember sitting in my room when I was 10 looking around thinking how I can redesign my room so it's more comfortable and functional.
Been working in the field for 6 years now! 
SUPER lucky to be doing what I love.
Oh I was an ambitious child... I wanted to be a hairdresser (and my reason was apparently because they get to chew gum at work lol), a cross-walk guard, and one of those people on construction sites who holds the stop sign and directs traffic. I gave up on my big dreams and became an engineer. Haha.
Oooooh boy. I was indecisive as a kid, and I still am. From the age of about 4, I have wanted to be (in order):
I also want to be a mother, and I actually get really torn on wanting to just dote on my kids and wanting a career of my own. So I will try to do both...
My sister used to write little stories since she was about 6 years old. She went through phases of wanting to maybe do theatre or something, but she continued to write all while growing up. She went to school for creative writing, and that is what she does (well, she has a "day job" but she is very much working towards getting published) so she is someone who actually is (trying to be) doing what she wanted to as a kid.
I always wanted to do corporate law. Yeah, I'll probably end up in a creative field. haha!
(Yes, I am fully aware that I was a weird kid)
@Ottawabride- hairdresser because you get to chew gum!!! hahaha that's awesome!
@princess poolau - Haha I know! My mom still laughs about this. It's funny because there is nothing wrong with being a hair stylist, it's all about my reason for wanting to be one...
I wanted to be a veterinarian. I even had my parents take me to one of the local schools that focuses on veterinary studies when I was little. Part of me still does, but instead I double majored in Psychology (child and personality) and work in Human Resources and have my dogs.
@littlemissmoo - SADDLE CLUB! Did you read the Thoroughbred books too? And Marguerite Henry? Oh, that takes me back. I kept them for my kids someday. :)
Let's see. At 5or so, I wanted to be paid to be naked. It sounded like the best job ever. Then I wanted to be an architect, because I liked building things.
Between 5 and 15, I wanted to be an OB/GYN, surgeon, Dr., toy maker, a vet, and god knows what else.
I decided after volunteering at the local hospital, being an angsty teen, and some heavy thought, that perhaps I didn't want to do people-medicine. I'm not a people person, I don't like hospitals, and I was not keen on seeing some of the smelly things that I would be guaranteed to see. I figured I wouldn't be compelled to keep people up and running, aside from insurance issues. Vet medicine, I figured I would flip out too easily over not being able to save a squirrel.
Toy maker, I decided I would go to school for engineering, because it made sense. But the toy makers aren't anywhere I'm willing to live, and I think they want mechanical engineers. Jerks.
I used to love reading books so much when I was younger that I wanted to be a writer.
I'm an attorney and I do my fair share of writing, but it's certainly not the same as writing a novel :)
When I was younger, I wanted to be.... (in no particular order)
-Actress/singer/model
-Lawyer
-Make-up artist
-Storm chaser...lol
-Writer
-Teacher
-Nurse
...I am going to school for nursing. :)
i wanted to be a music therapist. weird career choice for a child, i know! but now i have an art therapy degree... so i kind of got there.
I wanted to be an archaeologist for years and years. I can remember asking my teacher in grade 1 "What do you call a person who digs up dinosaur bones?" and then made her teach me to spell archaeologist. LOL! I stuck with that until I was about 16 when I went to a summer school and took archaeology courses and realized that A: I would have to sit in the dirt with bugs all day for weeks if not months or years on end, and B: If I found something at one end of the plot I was digging in, I couldn't just dig it up, I had to keep going over the whole plot, one tiny layer at a time. My abhorence to dirt and impatience won. Now I'm an interior designer!
Oooh but my dream job now would be being a Disney Imagineer! I've designed a couple rides in my head already ;)
first I wanted to be a vet, but after the first traumatic experience with family pet death, I changed my mind. Then throughout jr high and high school I wanted to be a concept artist for lucasfilm, and then a manga artist...
yeahhh I don't really know how I ended up in engineering, but luckily I really do like it!
When I was young I remember seeing some movie where a girl popped out of a giant cake and thought that would be the coolest job ever. I obviously didn't have any understanding of what happened after popping out of said cake, and have since increased my professional goals. haha.
Besides that though I wanted to be a ballerina, lawyer, writer, teacher, and editor. I originally went to school for journalism, but then changed my major to recreation and tourism so that I can do event planning. There's still a tiny piece of me that still would love to be a lawyer, but the extra years of school and student loans I would end up with will probably keep me away from it.
@Blondee - I kid you not, I very seriously considered storm chaser as a career! I am obessesed with severe weather. I even looked into the University of Oklahoma, which apparently has one of the best meteorology programs in the country... but I am happy being a nurse too!
A couple of things that got in the way of me being a severe storm analyst;
1. The physics. I was really good at physics in high school and first year of university, but I didn't think I could hack the higher level physics and math courses. So seeing as there is lots of physics and math in storm analysis....uh, yeah, so that option left out the window.
2. The cost - I wanted to go the university in the US (I'm Canadian) but the cost for a Canadian to attend an American school is simply astronomical. I knew a couple of students from my high school that went to the US, but almost all of them got big scholarships. Meh, I am sure if I really wanted to, I could do a meteorology degree in Canada...but there are not really any tornados around here!
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What did you want to be when you were young? Anyone something they wanted to be ever since they were little?
I remember wanting to be a figure skater or gymnast at about age 8 or 9 (I was taking lessons in both areas at the time). Needless to say, I'm neither a gymnast or figure skater, but a special needs preschool teacher! I hope to become a mother in the next few years, and I know that's something I've really wanted to be since my teens (I love babies and children and the lot!)