- A chef
**The obvious reason being, the love for food.Not like I am a great cook or something:P**
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- A teacher
**Dont know the exact reason.Probably, the thought that i could beat all those whom i hate in the class and there would be no one to whom they can complain :D **
- A cardiologist
**I heard back then that they earn a lot..so big bucks was the reason :D!**
- An IAS officer
** My mum told me that a guy who saw my horoscope said i would become an IAS officer and hence this joined the list :P "
- Kaam wali bai
**Absolutely no reason whatsoever!!**
- IAS officer disguised as kaam wali bai
** This was probably cos of the strong love for both 'ambitions'!**
- Psychic
** Well yeah! :D**
- Interior designer
**Arranging a couple of things strategically made me think i could be good at it!**
- Fashion designer
** Was the 'in thing' in school for a few days**
- Script writer
**After i wrote a small class skit for teacher's day.**
- Movie director
**when some intellectual told me that a director is the reason for any film to be good:P**
- News reader
**Few news readers on Doordarshan served as inspiration**
- Journalist
** LOVE that profession!!**
- A basketball player
** yeah captaining a couple of games and playing with kids of 6th and 7th class made me want to be the lady Michael Jordan :P **
- A government employee
**Absolutely loved the fact that my mum had nothing to do in her office and yet was getting highly paid!:D**
- A Post man
** Grins**
- A Restaurant owner
** Thought i could have unlimited food if i owned one :D**
- A playback singer
**What was i thinking!!!!!***
- A dancer
** Yeah!This was when i went along with my sister to dance classes when i was 6. Later I discontinued because i wanted to play/sleep in the house and not dance!**
- A Receptionist
** I loved picking up the phone as a kid. So, once an uncle of mine said "she is the receptionist of your house!" (he was supposedly trying humour)**
- An Air hostess
**After my first flight journey, when I saw those perfectly dressed ladies!!**
- A Farmer
**No apparent reason i can think of. Probably because I took 'farmers are pillars of our country's development' way too seriously!**
- A Typist
**Hmm...why not!**
- CEO of Pepsi co
** Jai Indira Nooyi :P**
- A job where all i have to do is keep signing on papers
**Am open for the job even now!!someone listening??:D**
- Photographer
** My love-photography!**
- Traveler
**Any day!!**
- A fence painter
** This is the Tom Sawyer effect! :P**
- The President of India
**Maybe! :D**
- An Ice cream parlor owner
**:D:D:D***
- working for CID
**Seriously!! Some aim i had!!:P:P**
- A Choir singer
** Was part of school choir for a year and though i was made for that! :P**
- An Auditor
**yeah!..whatever!**
Am sure all of us were asked as kids what we wanted to become when we grow up. The most lucrative answer we gave,the smarter we were considered. The above is the list of things i wanted to become till I was forced to decide something 'solid'. As kids,everything attracts us..right from a balloon seller to a story teller. I never thought about/wanted to be a CA...yes,i wanted to be an auditor but i also wanted to be a farmer and a postman/woman(whatever the word is!)..whenever i think about all this,it reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Wonder Years-
"When you are a little kid, you are better bit of everything - artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes, it seems is like a process of giving those things up, one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up. One thing we really miss. And we gave up because we were too lazy. We couldn't stick it out. Or because we were afraid."
At 20, i crave for being the kid i used to be and for the time when what i wanted to become changed every day and which never really bothered me. They say I am a grown up now but i don't remember when I actually did . Probably on the day when i stopped thinking,imagining and started taking life too seriously.
