so... Because I was born in USSR - more than anything I dreamed to be a paratrooper (blue beret) or recon soldier :)
But - reality is sad, Ministry of defence said me "Son, you haven't enough health for military service, go fuck out of here" :)). Then I had to choose a civil career, in 1997 graduated the medical school and now I work as project manager in large medical corporation.

born in USSR too. Wanted to be an army officer, then USSR collapsed and military career become miserable. So, I graduated as an IT engineer and working as a programmer.

Interesting what part of your readers is russians :)

Tell your nephew that he might want to think twice about his dream. Because being a scientist (which I am) is not really as much fun as I thought it would be when I decided to become one at a sweet age of 13. It is actually a lot of very hard work for very little money and one has to deal with constant frustrations when experiments fail (very often).
However, my very first childhood dream was about being a truck driver. I still love cars and driving, so part of that is very much alive.
Oh, and about your teaching aspirations - Try teaching older kids. I teach junior college and I enjoy it tremendously. It's a very rewarding experience, and at a college level I don't have to deal with a lot of discipline problems.

I wanted to be an astronaut or a test-pilot, but only till my 13 years old. After that I turned on to a lawyer, graduated uni and have a really good work for 15 years.
And now I graduated as rehab trainer, massage therapist and physio - I very excited about my work and now I came back to my childhood dream again and think that some day maybe I could be in astronautic team as physiotherapist researcher :) Even very bizarre childhood dreams could be embodied :)

Off-topic: This is amazing that you have a lot of russian readers around whole world in the livejournal now! What do you think about it? :)

Well, I used to think I would become a space engineer or scientist and maybe even fly into space someday.
But I finished school in the crisis of 1990s. It seemed almost hopeless to go to the astronomy, and I used a more realistic chance to secure my future and went to the IT faculty of a chemical engineering university.
But my further path went quite close to the plan. I worked in science for several years, and then I started my career in the industrial automation. This is a broad and interesting area of knowledge where a man can be busy for his entire life never getting bored. And it still leaves me an open door to the space engineering, though chances that I'll take this way today are small.

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Changed my mind many times in the childhood )) Frankly, I do not recall whom I wanted to be when I was 5. Later on, I decided to be a biologist and followed this path till 14 (attended biology classes). But at 15, I found out that at the biology faculty of St.Petersburg (then Leningrad) university, math was the primary exam. And I changed the school to the one focused on math and physics, then graduated university with the Computer Science degree, and finished with technical writing now :)

A diver and an aviator were professions I had dreamt about since I was 5 till 13 after that I decided to become a doctor. And now I work as neurologist.

I thought, that I will become a singer, as a Freddie Mercury) but now i'm a system administrator (IT):)

I do not remember what kind of work I wanted, but now I am an engineer.

where your poetry?

Edited at 2013-04-08 06:31 am (UTC)

Я всегда хотела быть среди книг - библиотекарь. И сейчас хочу. Но уже не буду никогда.)))
Красивые девочки на фото.

Wanted to be a programmer. I'm programmer now.

While a kid I wanted to be a manager or an economist. Now I am working as a safety engineer. But I want to be a scientist in Environmental Enginering :)

I was born in the USSR, East Germany. Guess, who was my dad? I dreamed to become a millitary man. But when the Great Empire ruined, I started to serve as Customs officer, the best 13 years of my life. By the way two my wives, ex, and not ex forever used to be Customs officers too. In our Customs house I was fab, because all women with my famaly name, were my wives in time.

As a child I wanted to become a doctor or biologist, but became a geophysicist :)

Dreamt of becoming a farmer=) probably because i was grown up in a village. But later on got a diploma in linguistics, worked for Austrian Airlines, now i am a scientist´s wife. Well, I hope not to stay a housewife for the rest of my life)