Special offer

When I Grow Up....

By
Services for Real Estate Pros with ActiveRain

When I was very young I either wanted to be a Dentist or a Bartender at the top of the Space Needle.  We moved out to Seattle when I was about 4 and we always had family from NY visit so we'd take them to the Space Needle for dinner.  I dreamed of riding that elevator each day to work and having the best view in all of the city.

If you weren't in the real estate field, what would you do for a living?

Comments (51)

Ed Gillespie
WealthWise Mortgage Planning, a Division of American Pacific Mortgage Corporation NMLS #1850 - Folsom, CA

Professional musician.  Have electric bass, will travel!

Aug 23, 2011 12:18 PM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

I think maybe I'd do marketing again. I'm pretty good at that.

Aug 23, 2011 01:00 PM
Peter Pfann @ eXp Realty Pfanntastic Properties in Victoria, Since 1986.
eXp Realty, Victoria BC www.pfanntastic.com - Victoria, BC
Talk To or Text Peter 250-213-9490

Real Estate, but sooner, handy man and teacher

Aug 23, 2011 01:04 PM
Ben Blonder
Broker/Owner, Keller Williams - Fort Collins, CO
Buyers, Sellers, Investors!

Ummm, a meteorologist actually. That just sounds fun to me!

 

Aug 23, 2011 01:39 PM
Kristi DeFazio
RE/MAX Advantage - Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs Rea lEstate 719-459-5468

I wanted to be a teacher, and I was. I am liking Janet's answer above more though!

Aug 23, 2011 01:53 PM
Cindy Edwards
RE/MAX Checkmate - Johnson City, TN
CRS, GRI, PMN - Northeast Tennessee 423-677-6677

If I were not in Real Estate I would be a detective.  Let's face it, we kind of are anyways.

Aug 23, 2011 02:00 PM
Carol Pease
JP & Associates Realtors - Bastrop, TX
CRS, Broker-Associate 512-721-6320

I don't know if I'm ever going to grow up.  It's too much fun being a kid!!  I want to be a CSI detective, but I sell real estate!!!

Aug 23, 2011 02:15 PM
J. Philip Faranda
Howard Hanna Rand Realty - Yorktown Heights, NY
Associate Broker / Office Manager

I would probably be a teacher. I used to teach in a past life. The problem is that it doesn't pay. So I sell real estate! 

But if I were a teacher I'd probably moonlight was a bartender or a writer and pretty much work the same crazy hours I put in now. 

Aug 23, 2011 02:41 PM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

I'm still not sure what I want to do when I grow up. That being said, I'm fine being a real estate agent. And now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I Dont' want to grow up!

Aug 23, 2011 03:05 PM
Tammy Anderson
"The Gateway Home Team" of RE/MAX Alliance - Collinsville, IL
Owens, Broker/Owner

First a teacher then a country music singer and then a mom.  Now all my dreams have come true as I bought a real estate office and teach and mother all the agents and if I have a bad day I can head down to the local pub and sing a little karaoke.  lol

Aug 23, 2011 03:37 PM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Kerrie, I think I would write children's books and sit around and read to my Grandchildren! Hum...that's a thought.

Aug 23, 2011 04:31 PM
Lisa Wetzel
RE/MAX Realty Affiliates - Carson City, NV
CDPE, SFR carsonvalleyland.com

I love Seattle and the space Needle ... Aside from that ... I'd have a professional nursery and grow things every day!

Aug 23, 2011 04:37 PM
Lisa Dunham
Alexandria, VA
Associate Broker, Alexandria Virginia Real Estate

I would be a child psychologist!  Someone needs to hold the hand of the child who desperately needs it.

Aug 23, 2011 04:48 PM
Nikesh Parekh
Suplari, Inc. - Seattle, WA
Technology Entrepreneur, Executive, & Investor

Professional wrestler.  Jimmy Superfly Snuka, anyone?  (Checking out Wikipedia on the Superfly makes me wonder what I was thinking back then.  Good memories.)

Superfly Snuka

 

 

Aug 23, 2011 04:59 PM
Loreena and Michael Yeo
3:16 team REALTY ~ Locally-owned Prosper TX Real Estate Co. - Prosper, TX
Real Estate Agents

If money was no object, I would like to take landscape photography, people photography. But if I needed income, I must say I'm already doing what I love. I could probably be a real estate blogger, just passing on leads though.

Aug 23, 2011 05:07 PM
Ruby Lee Sweeting
Darville Wong Associates Realty Bahamas
Your Bahamas Agent for Relocations & Second Homes

Operate the ultimate beach-front B&B on the Island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas; I may yet! 

Aug 23, 2011 05:33 PM
Lina Robertson
AMAX Real Estate - Springfield, MO
REALTOR® Serving Springfield, Nixa and Ozark, MO

I've always dreamed of being a stay home wife.  A homemaker.  It's the one thing I haven't figured out how to make money doing.  LOL

Aug 24, 2011 12:36 AM
Donald Reich
Madison Specs - New Rochelle, NY
Cost Segregation Specialist

Relax on the beach in an uninhabited remote tropical island.

Aug 24, 2011 01:07 AM
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

I was a broadcaster with a FCC third class license at 14 until age 23 working in two markets one with Howdy Doody as my boss, then at a Bangor ME station owned by horror writer Stephen King.. doing everything from announcing, running camera, doing commercials, being news director. With real videos, that first career before the 31 year real estate one is a marriage made in heaven with the need for media harnessing and creation, propagation. Just like broadcasting where you see the audience, cater to the niche segments. I am a broadcaster again, my first love, passion.

Aug 24, 2011 11:39 AM
Susan Goulding
Crown Key Realty, Inc; Tracy & Mountain House Sales and Property Management - Tracy, CA
Northern CA - Tracy & Mountain House Real Estate

If I could be anything and new i could be successful, I'd be an actress.  although fairly shy, i'd love the attention and the money.  HAHA -- then again reality says I'd be teaching school, since that is what I was doing previously.

Aug 25, 2011 06:50 PM