what didn't you want to be when you grew up?

[BrickPoet]

a prison inmate

A parent. Someone who worked in an office. Married.

Struggling for money
Which is ironic sadly

A wife and mother. Boring. Stuck in the country.
Professionally not a medic, not a teacher, not a civil servant.

To work in a pub.

Lonely.

A parent.

Not an office worker. Which is what I ended up doing for over 30 years. Ugh.

Nurse or hairdresser which were the two options my teacher presented me with after all the other girls in my class had been asked what they wanted to be and those were the only things they said.

The small detail that I was quite bookish apparently didn't factor in.

A mother or a wife.