When I Was a Child What Did I Want to Be When I Grow Up? Response to Daily Prompt

As a child, I had no plan for the future.
I had no career, or wont for work.
I watched the A-Team and Star Wars
And Ninja Turtles. I ate hot dogs.
I'd eat apple sauce and tuna fish casserole.
I'd go to kindergarten, and fret about school.
There, even, it was too hard.
I'd write my letters on chalkboards,
And sound out all the letters,
And I'd put my number blocks together
In ones, tens, hundreds and thousands...
I'd play with playdough, and learn about division;
I'd learn about multiplication on our blocks.
I'd learn about addition on them, too.
I'd learn phonemes and suffixes and prefixes.
I'd learn about subtraction from apples
And grapes, by eating them.
I'd listen to the teacher read stories.
I'd learn Tall Tales, and about our Revolutionary War.
I'd learn about our Civil War.
I'd learn about Wright Brothers, Ford, Edison and Bell
Earhart, Robinson, King, and Tubman.  
I'd learn Mammals, and Fish, and Amphibians, and Birds,
And Reptiles, and Mollusks, and Cephalopods and Crustaceans
And Insects, and Arachnids and Anthropoids. Some Dinosaurs too.
I'd have little card catalogs with all the animals
And their species, classification and phylums.
I'd play Super Mario World and Donkey Kong.
I'd gaze for hours at the hollo sheets on my encyclopedias
That had the human systems, 
Digestive, respiratory, nervous, cardiovascular, skeletal, endocrine, reproductive.
I'd run with a stick in my basement, and make elaborate
Wars with Army Men and Star Wars action figures.
That was what I was good at, so I tried to turn it into a career.
I guess, that's what I wanted to be, was a professional
At taking all of this and creating something good.