When I was little and I was your nephew's age I started my drawing and painting classes, then I continued for 11 years and the only thing I wanted was to be a drawing and painting teacher, but everybody said I would starve to death with that... my family above all.

Then life took me in different ways until I was giving computer classes and some students encouraged me to give painting classes for adults, and I did it for three years. It was very rewarding!

Whatever your nephew chooses, he will do well because he has parents who are looking out for him and an excellent uncle.

You look like a fireman!!!!

I wanted to be an astronaut.  I was fascinated by anything relating to science or more specifically space.  I always  thought that would be a cool job along with an astronomer as I pointed out in my post today.  I didn't make it happen, but I am working in technology which is science, so I feel like I did pretty good!

My favorite place in any mall is the bookstore. 

I honestly can't remember if there was any specific thing I wanted to do real badly as a kid. Maybe play basketball? I am not sure. I did it a great deal as a little kid. It never happened though as I just wasn't coordinated enough. I sucked at it.

The same thing happened to me ...

 I wanted to be a fighter  pilot, just like my dad. As a child, I would draw and ask my dad a lot of questions, but in my country, the fighter jets stopped operating in the army and the pilots became helicopter pilots, and that was not as attractive as the fighter jets, so the dream ended very quickly. 

Still, life led me to help people in a different way, a different manner. 

<i>However, I still hope that one day I can at least pilot a crop duster plane </i>

# Keep up the good work. 👏

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# You are loved.

Interested to to help music map cXc.world [spread more good vibes on Hive?](https://peakd.com/me/proposals/314). 

When I was a similar age to your nephew, I spent time at my mother's workplace. in one hotel, where she worked as a maid.
That hotel was a quarantine for the players of the big football club of the city where I live.
I met then famous goalkeeper, who played with me (I was his company) on the days when they had a certain rest before the games.
He let me play with his goalkeeper gloves, he smuggled a soccer ball, which we used to throw around the hotel corridors... And so, I wanted to be a soccer player...
My mother enrolled me in that big football club, but...
unlike you who want to support your nephew's wishes and ambitions, I did not have the support of my father. He was uninterested, and I, as a young beginner, could not achieve success on my own.
I ended my football career before it even started 🙂
When I think about it, maybe it was better that way... Or maybe not... It all depends on what kind of player I would become... 
This way, I went to school and got a job in the technical profession, which was my choice, right after that football dream 🙂

Hi Galen, I like the way you encourage your nephew's wishes. And about his future work it is likely as you say he will change his mind several times. I also don't think in that phrase "you can be anything you want to be", it just seems to me a childish phrase. But I do think it can help to focus on one's goals, as long as they are realistic. 

About my childhood, I remember when I was 6 years old I was given a book about the Egypt of the Pharaohs and the pyramids, and I remember how I wanted to be an archaeologist. Maybe my love for anthropology, which is not the same thing, comes from there. 

Now I deal with people, although they are not mummified, and I like what I do.

Best regards

Yeah, I wanted to be a vet. 😁 I like to be a doctor but not able to save human is hard to carry in my heart so, I think be a doctor for the animals because less pain if it dies. Since we cannot control death. I did not manage to achieve it because of financial situations. 

I remember wanting to be an astronaut when I was younger, fascinated by the idea of exploring space. Though that dream didn't materialize, the wonder and curiosity it sparked stayed with me.

I never knew what I wanted to be with the vague notion that I told before that I once wondered if I would like being a marine biologist. I have the analytical brain that fits with science well, but it was not a passion that I pursued.

I understand about the price not being an issue for gifts for certain people.  I'm that way about my Mom.  Price doesn't count when it comes to her. At this time in life, if she wants it, I want her to have it and if she doesn't know she wants it, I STILL want here to have it. LOL

My father was a firefighter and later worked for a state department where he traveled to different parts of our state, teaching different fire fighting related classes to volunteer firemen.  He was totally serious about it. 

I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. 😄

One of my niece's husband is a Marine.  His family says that he began to say he wanted to be a Marine when he was very young, around 6 or 7.  He has followed that dream and he has done super good in a short time.  Seems some folks just know somehow.

I also disagree that you can be what you want to be, it always depend on the situation, before I went to college,  my dream was to be an accountant but the public school in our province don't have this course😂. 

Has MrB shown any interest in Motocross (motorized) or racing go carts.? 

You are correct about the 6th gens.
 
And a.i. will be flying the human hunter killer drones when it becomes sentient. Humans are so eager to destroy themselves it is disturbing.... 

I think I wanted to be a doctor when I was younger, because they save people. But that all stopped once I realized I don't like blood. I'm fine getting my blood taken, seeing blood in movies and whatnot, but cutting another human and seeing the blood ooze out is a bit much. 

Your nephew has the same child age aspirations as you in the child age, we change our minds as we grow and that's normal, because the thing's we will like and want for ourselves would be different, the book will guide him when he grows up into a teenager.

>Do you recall wanting to do a job so badly when you were a little kid?

It wasn't a shelf filler at Kwiksave, but my destiny still led me there 😒

During my school days, I saw the 1987 movie Wall Street and I wanted to become a trader. I became one in 2006.

I think I was the exception to the rule and never really knew what I wanted to do.  I just wanted to play with friends and get out and stir up some shit!  Funny how one of my kids is in that same boat while the other one seems to know exactly what she wants to do.

I have been thinking about the "you can be whatever you want to be" lately.  While I am a bit concerned about how is has shifted more to "you are whatever you pretend to be," that could just be my vintage. ;)

One thing I know for sure, if you want to be something, it sure as hell isn't going to happen (anything difficult or substantial that is) unless you believe you can, and do what it takes to become that.  Mostly the hard stuff that will scare most people off.  

So, I tell them they can be whatever they want to be if they are willing to do what most people are not willing to do.  You have to suspend a little disbelief and failing while daring boldly and challenging yourself is better than Gen X cynicism if anything special is going to be made happen.