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Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213189 03/24/15 10:50 AM
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Tinker Junior Member T Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 8	drone pilot

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213192 03/24/15 11:21 AM
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SAHM Member S Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 251 Mountains, USA	DS4 wants to be an engineer, doctor, architect, and dad -- all at the same time. He says he'll stay home with his kids 6 days a week and rotate through the jobs on the last day.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213194 03/24/15 11:23 AM
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HowlerKarma Member Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 5,181	DD2: Emeril. Or maybe a puppeteer for Sesame Street. DD3: forensic pathologist, and Emeril DD5: mathematician and FBI agent DD6: astrophysicist and concert pianist DD9: civil rights attorney and physicist DD10: civil rights attorney and mathematician DD11: civil rights attorney, then federal judge, and jazz pianist DD12: civil rights attorney, then federal judge, or something in physics DD12-13: Federal law enforcement? DD13: something in physics, probably, but maybe electrical engineering and/or mathematics DD14: math teacher, maybe? computer scientist? Statistician!! DD15: Stats-math, technical theater, maybe physics or public health, or, or, or... It's been interesting to see how her interests have evolved. Schr�dinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? SAHM #213196 03/24/15 11:28 AM
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aquinas Member A Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,513 Likes: 1	Originally Posted by SAHM DS4 wants to be an engineer, doctor, architect, and dad -- all at the same time. He says he'll stay home with his kids 6 days a week and rotate through the jobs on the last day. Your son wins the internet, SAHM! What is to give light must endure burning.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213217 03/24/15 03:41 PM
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chay Member C Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 448 Canada	DD6 - chemist or artist - the chemist has been a high runner since we saw an amazing chemistry demo put on at a local university two years ago. She wan't to "work in a lab and make things go boom!!!" DS8 - the latest one is to work at the LHC. Generally his ideas revolve around physics, math or engineering. Should be interesting to see where they end up... I would be surprised if DS strays away from STEM but DD is much more even so who knows where she'll find her passion in the end.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213718 04/04/15 01:25 AM
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Gwen Junior Member G Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 10	My now nearly 5yr old DS wants to be a water slide engineer since he was 3.5.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213720 04/04/15 03:39 AM
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Tigerle Member T Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 602 Europe	DS8 wants to run a family hotel, like the wonderful place we go to once a year for skiing. Or teach physics in high school like his father, but not combine it with math but with chemistry. Recently he's come up with "what do you call the people who design what products look like? That's what I'd like to do...". He is excellent at drawing. I confess I've been checking out industrial design schools at night...I'm thinking materials science and then a graduate degree in art school...dear me, let's get him safely through the middle school years first! Last edited by Tigerle; 04/04/15 03:40 AM.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213722 04/04/15 05:29 AM
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aeh Member A Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 4,076 Likes: 6	#1--math teacher #2--architect #3--queen ...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213724 04/04/15 06:54 AM
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it_is_2day Member I Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 149	Asked again this morning, and dd3 wants to make toys. I don't think I have ever told her that she comes from a family fairly full of engineers. The last time this came up I asked her and she had wanted to be a Ninja, so I guess her career plans are still in flux. Last edited by it_is_2day; 04/04/15 07:05 AM.

Re: what does your child want to be when they grow up? Cola #213726 04/04/15 07:45 AM
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CCN Member C Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 978 BC, Canada	They keep changing their minds. DD: math teacher, artist, illustrator, author, video producer DS: pilot, anesthesiologist, stay at home spouse ("I want someone else to go make the money"), dentist, actor

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