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DS4 spontaneously mentioned these 3 (in ascending order of importance/desirability):

3. Race car driver
2. Astronaut
1. Engineer/inventor

DS16 has no idea. Something in STEM is about as specific as we can get out of him.

Love reading these posts - it's so interesting!

DD10 wants to write, and is currently thinking of journalism.

DS7 last year it was video game designer. This year he told us letter carrier (because it seems easy, and he doesn't want to work hard - LOL). Then he learned that mathematician was a real job, so now he wants to do that (or be a grade 3 math teacher).

My son is 5 and since he was 4.5 he has said that he wants to be a level designer, making dungeons, puzzles, and mazes for games. When his preschool class asked the kids what they want to be when they grow up and he answered level designer, no one had any idea what he was talking about, lol. He then tried writing it, thinking they just weren't understanding his speech or that he was saying it wrong.

Ds today said he wants to be a wide receiver who owns a restaurant and builds inventions in his garage...I told him to go for it!

DS 5 wants to be a contractor, a physicist, an actor, an environmentalist and an author of children books that do not have any sad parts in them.

DS3 hasn't declared that he wants to work in any particular profession when he's an adult, but these are the things he enjoys pretending to be during play:

- A construction worker
- A housekeeper
- An engineer
- A veterinarian
- A father
- A scientist
- A doctor (specifically, a radiologist or immunologist)

Dd11 wants to be a professional soccer player. When I mentioned that soccer players might not last too long, she said that she would make so much money she could retire when she got too old to play. When asked what she would do then, she said "play video games." So we looked up salaries for professional women's team players and it turns out that the average salary is about $8,000/year So now she wants to be on the Olympic soccer team and then be a scientist!

We joke that our daughters talents will cause her to be the next Katy perry (her favorite) and all her money will go to fund her brothers science experiments, inventions, labs, restaraunts and football career lol

My daughter (4) said ballerina.