first a newspaper reporter at 10, later on my sister and i romanticising layla khalid wanted to join PLO as foreign guerillas which our father didn't like the idea at 13 and tore the poster we had of her, newspaperman again for a while, rock musician, film maker, archealogist, artist, finally around 20's, architect.
i am still trying to be an architect 25 years later. i admire architects who had designed and built many buildings of merit. i have just a few. but i still got some time.
i don't want to study anything nomo. i just wanna do it..

fireman
teacher
writer
musician

architect

I had dreams of an NFL career at one point but that did not last too long. Then it was to become a chef, lawyer. I think it was in my junior year of high school that I seriously thought about architecture and it has been that way ever since. One day though, I want to desing a restaurant, own it with my brother, and eventually cook a few nights a month.

was a sous-chef for a few years before going to architecture school, and before that made a living (of sorts) as an artist. But when I was a kid what I really really wanted to be was an astronaut. still do really, deep down...

professional ping-pong player
airforce pilot
accountant
fashion designer
music writer and djing
classical animator
carpenter

architect.

I hate how much time I wasted switching back and forth. But I've never felt so much passion like I have to become an architect.

billionaire with 8 yrs (still want 2 become one)
(car) designer with 12 yrs
architect with 14 yrs
plastic surgeon with 16 yrs
classical singer with 20 yrs
orthopaedic surgeon with 23 yrs

architect once again....

well, all of the above with the great exception of billionaire practice some kind of architecture...

if not an architect..
a master chef.
or a traveling pro photographer.

an astronaut

vice president...






i couldn't ever shoot for the top. but just bellow the top sounded swell.

biomedical engineering then med school. really just wanted to do medical research.

recently got a fortune cookie that had "you could prosper in the field of medical research" set off in mocking smiley faces.

*sigh*

baseball player
architect since age 12

musician, architect . . . still making making my way towards both!

in my fifth grade yearbook, i wrote, "in 20 years, i will be an architect..."

so young and so stupid, i guess i never thought it would stick.

i wanted to be the one to shed light on new idea for architecture, but Per beat me to it...

lawyer
teacher
ballerina
engineer
farmer

dictator of a small south american country

chemist
astronaut
astronomer
musician

at least I can do a couple of those as an amateur.

musician
writer
architect
pilot
scientist

i wanted to be a blob

free
comic book writer
industrial designer
civil engineer

and after 20 years of not knowing who I was

architect, I still dont know.

astronaut
astronomer
neurologist
painter

always and only an architect.

add writer to my list too.

fighter jet pilot (thanks Top Gun)
archaelogist
astronaut
architect

....and now that i'm almost registered, i want to change professions and become an international playboy with yachts, and cars, and fine food and drink, and women, and houses, and........

in school, they don't tell you that the fun part of architecture only comprises about 5% of your actual work

i was hoodwinked, bamboozled, run amok, etc....

At 5, a comic book writer
5-9: Barber
9-12: Weatherman
12-14: Artist
14-Current: Architect
Now, if I could choose one thing to do in lieu of architecture, hands down, it would be sushi chef.

Owner/operator of either:

bookstore
movie theater
bowling alley
brew and view
brew pub

I always just wanted to own a business.

I think I strayed somewhere along the way...

I fantasized about having Vanna White's job when I was about 13.

But since I was a little kid I've known I wanted to be an architect.

supreme overlord of all life.....i have become Destroyer

i've always wanted to have ian's job from the globe trekker series.

wanted to be a dancer, but my knees couldn't take it, and I decided that if I already needed reconstructive surgery at 13, then there was a pretty good chance of something else happening by the time I was 18 or 20 and could actually begin my career. Plus, I didn't want to end up like my old gymnastics teacher, who had metal pins build into her knees. That always creeped me out.

24 year old architecture school drop-out running my own design office that would never actually become profitable.

Airline Pilot...sigh...still want to be one!

in chronological order:

Age 3: garbageman (wanted to hang out the side of the truck)
Age 4: fireman
Age 5: paleontologist
Age 7: robot maker
Age 10: musician
Age 14: chemist
Age 16: economist
Age 18: doctor
Age 19: photographer
Age 19: musician
Age 19: Art Restorer
Age 19: Music Critic
Age 19: Architect

sequential/comic artist
architect

it would also be nice to play football again, so i could take some frustration out on the field.

Secret Agent

1. wanted to work in a tall glass building...had no idea what people did in one...but i wanted to work there. (i do now and its not that great)

2. a pilot...and now i hate to fly

3. international business...and can't speak another language...

...glad architecture was there for me!

War Photographer
Diplomat
Urban Badger Counter
Architect

in no particular order.

priest

chef

military strategist

artist

archaeologist

architect

rock star. a self-destroying, cocaine snorting, bipolar lyrical genius with suicidal tendencies at 27.

Pre and during highschool:
car designer
archaeologist
palaentologist
psychologist
stockbroker
rockstar
m/billionaire

After high school I studied ancient history, economics and philosophy for a couple of years. After a year working in retail hell, I rediscovered my earlier dreams of becoming an architect.

Now, I love being an architect, and the potentiality of being an architect. I see myself practicing architecture in some manner for the rest of my life, but I want to put myself in the position of being able to practice with as little compromise as possible. I also want to make alot of money - pretty much to see if I can do it...

I am also actively interested in physics and scientific theory, composing music, painting... I would also love to go back and finish/restart a degree in ancient history when I am a bit older. I believe that pretty much anything is possible - its just a matter of being selective and ethical.

In mostly chronological order:

Normal, like all the other kids
Paleontologist
Anthropologist
Archeologist
Historian
World Adventurer
Astronaut
Oceanographer
Marine Biologist
Park Ranger in Africa
Zoologist
Doctor
Astronomer
Physicist
Architect
Aeronautical Engineer
Environmental Crusader
Pilot
Industrial Designer
Special Effects Technician
Writer
Graphic Designer
Landscape Architect
Urban Designer

mr Steven Ward, are you telling us that at the age of 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever you knew what architecture was and you wanted to be an architect?
I'm impressed!

a photog for time/ Nat Geo/ newsweek
a food critic
a hs teacher/ coach
a dairy/bee farmer

but mostly, i still want to be a hard-core porno star/ sex therapist

a ninja

a ninja sex therapist/ porno star

art thief and or art forger
counterfeiter

I first wanted to be an architect when my older brother got a t-square for christmas. I was SO jealous and would steal it and hide it.

I just wanted to be a stay-at-home mom sometimes.
Or a golf pro.

car designer (10-20)
architect (13-on)

rich(will never stop)

famous(don't care anymore)

happy(progress is improving rapidly...see above)

Drawer (ages 3+)
Environmentalist / Naturalist (age 7 - hiking and camping; read a John Muir biography)
Illustrator (age 8 - read a Beatrice Potter biography)
Horse tamer (age 9 - got into riding; read a lot of horse-related fiction)
CEO (age 9 - Mattel launched "CEO Barbie")

vague memories in middle/high school - animals, nature, people

Fashion designer (age 16 - read a lot of vogue, l'officiel)
Dot com executive (age 17 - peak of bubble)
Illustrator (age 18 - after bust)
Magazine publisher (age 19 - and still would like to)