i used to believe for a long time that engineers are those people who drive railway trains(i.e the engine)

Anon

Before I was 6 whenever my parent's mentioned that they had to go to work I always imagined them going to some farm and chopping wood. I also imagined that they had to wait in line to do this.

Anon

My mum is a sociologist and it took me a long time to work out exactly what she did for a living. When I was three we went for a holiday on a farm. One morning at the farm I ran off and hid. My mum called me from the yard and said "Where are you?". A little voice said back "I'm in the henhouse". My mum then said "what are you doing in the henhouse?" and I replied "sociology"!!

ET

i thought until recently a midwife was a middle aged lay who was married.

cheezymo

when i was about 7 i woke up really early in the morning and saw my dad going to work, i said "dad can you stay home from work today?" and he said" no i will get fired!" and i said *gasp* what will you get fired with?

mike

This is really my brothers, he used to think plumbers picked pmubs. He got confused because he knew our grandfather had been was a plumber and he always went plumb picking with our Pop to make homemade jam. He was about seven before he figured it out.

Emma

When my mom used to say dad went to work to get money, I imagined my dad standing at this large counter filling out checks
and stuff like that.

megan

i wanted to work in the mcdonalds drive through and was certain i would live in a mansion. then reality came crashing down on me...

chelsie

When my mom told me that I was born abroad because my father was posted to another country and that he had worked at the Canadian embassy there, I told everyone that my father was an ambassador. (My father was an office clerk). I thought that all people who worked at an embassy were ambassadors. My mother tried to set me straight, but I didn't really believe her. To me, my father was an ambassador!

Anon

I used to think being an astronaut would be the coolest job in the world. When I was about 8 my class and I watched the space shuttle Challenger explode live on television. Scratch that astronaut job.

Aaron

I used to think that the phrase "Why don't you get a day job" ment actually "why don't you get a job that gives you employment during the day?"

So when my dad, who was working night-shift at the time, was grumbling about working at night,
I asked him Why don't you get a day job?

He started laughing...
I now no what that phrase means

Natasha

I always thought the coast was the best place in the world, and so I didn't think anyone had to work there unless they really wanted to. So I wanted to get a house by the coast so I wouldn't have to work.

Heather

My dad is Mungo Gerry.

Sarah

When I heard my own heart beating in my ears as I laid in bed, I tho't it was the sound of my father's footsteps coming in from his second shift job.

Anon

My dad used to work in a mine. I though he was shrunked at a dwarve size and used earthworms holes to work under the ground.

Orphee

Yea,there is no doubt that the children think in there own way and perhaps it would have been a better world sometimes if the cids was in charge.I remember one time when i was a smal kid and was going to the town Copenhagen in the neighbour country Denmark.Was sitting there with my father in a sunny summer day and enjoyed my icecream when two wath i thinked realy fine dressed ladys was pasing our bench there we was sitting and looking at people.I told my father wath it probably was some realy rich ladys considering the nice cloths they was having,He laughd and lay one hand on my shoulder and told me that these fine looking ladys was something they caled prostitues.Didnt have a clue in this time to wath this was so i still think they looked realy pritty.Now he is realy old but sometimes we use to laugh at storys like these from the past when he never ever gets tired to hear them!. :)

Ghost Surfer

when i was little (like 4-5) i wanted to be a clerk in a big market because i thought that all money people give me is mine.

7jeans girl

I used to believe that men go the army and women get babies when they grow up! that was their fate!

Celesti

My friend's grandpa was in the Navy. He would always go on the boat. When she was young, she thought hewas a fisherman!!!

Fishy fishy

When I was younger, I used to believe that my mom worked as the tooth fairy. I thought that she got gold dollers from the bank, put it under my pillow, and took my tooth and...well I don't know what she would do with teeth, but that is what I thought.

cynthia