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When I Grow Up 29 Pass the Aux
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When I grow up I want to be famous, I want to be a star, I want to have boobies (or was it groupies). Oh and obviously every dolphin girly’s dream was to be a marine biologist. When I grow up I want to be a volcanologist – or a surgeon. I can’t do maths. Or tell the time on a clock. I like finding bugs, have a fucking ugly fringe and needed glasses and no one got me glasses, so I haven’t learned to read properly yet. Where I am now: I realised at like age 10 that my hopes of anything mathsrelated were doomed. I still can’t tell the time on a clock. So, here I am, studying law.
When I was six, I wanted to be a teacher. Not because I wanted to inspire curiosity, or educate the next generation of children, but because I really wanted the job of cleaning whiteboard marker off the whiteboard. It looked super satisfying. Now I’m getting ready to start a diploma in journalism next year, but sometimes if I’m in a room with a whiteboard, I rub a little bit of marker off with my finger. Living the dream.
I wanted to be a barber, I used to practice cutting hair on my teddies and family.
When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. Either a teacher or Peter pans girlfriend who got to fly off out the window at night. Sadly, I am not either of those things but I still hold out hope. As a kid, I wanted to be a doctor… but I would probably faint at the sight of a lot of blood. I also suck at bio. And making decisions. Then I wanted to be a tennis player because for some reason I had a crush on Rafael Nadal?? Yeah nah. Now
I’m just happy to be here.
What did I want to be growing up? I can’t tell ya mate. Honestly, I had no idea then and I still don’t know. I think when I was six I was so excited about the idea of space, that I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to be the first woman through the asteroid belt, but then I got old enough to realise that was a death wish and it was safer just to stay on earth (but at the rate the climate crisis is progressing I may have been better off in space, ammiright?!).
