What did you want to be when you were a child?

Question: What did you want to be when you were a child?
- Keywords:
  career,
  child,
  job
Asked by charlottedevitt to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 19 Jun 2011.
- Dalya Soond answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  Novelist.
- Tim Millar answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  Probably the same as most boys, a footballer or Luke Skywalker (or really Han Solo)
- Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  I’ve almost always wanted to work on radio telescopes.
  
  See my answer this other question: http://ias.im/42.158
- Tom Crick answered on 18 Jun 2011:
  
  Probably a professional footballer, but these hopes were dashed in my teens! I’d always been interested in science, but only seriously considered as something to do as a career around GCSEs and A-levels.
- Sarah Thomas answered on 19 Jun 2011:
  
  I went through all sorts of careers ideas!! I wanted to be a nurse, a teacher, a musician, an artist… My mum wanted me to be a hairdresser – I was sorry to disappoint her!! I also remember thinking I could be a stunt woman after our P7 trip and we got to do things like abseiling and rock climbing. The army always kind of appealed to me too and when I was 17, when I decided to go to uni instead. I thought I might join the army after my degree but I got into research instead.

Question: What did you want to be when you were a child?