Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.
I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.
One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.
Children often ask me, they say, 'Well, how do you become a fighter pilot, or how do you become an astronaut, or...?' And I say, 'Love what you're doing and do it very well.'
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.