I remember watching Madonna's "Lucky Star" video and telling my mother, "When I grow up, I want to marry Madonna." As in marry her as a career. Some boys wanted to be fireman and I wanted to be Mr. Ciccone, which, I guess, still could be a plausible career choice.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that a "Prima Donna" was "Pre-Madonna"---someone before Madonna's time.
— Lacey S - When I was younger, I wanted to marry Willie Nelson so I wouldn't have to change my name.— stacy
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- When I was little, I wanted to grow up to be a firetruck. Not a fireman, a firetruck.— Ryan
- I used to believe that the word prima donna was actually pre-MadonnaAnon
- I used to believe that Madonna's Papa don't preach was pop-a-long priest— Mark "lyric master" Rowbowtohme