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Title: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Clive on March 09, 2007, 08:51:21 PM Back when you were a kid (say, up to the age of perhaps 12), that is.
Are you in that job or even that field today? Were you ever? Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: spacey on March 09, 2007, 08:52:58 PM No and no. Thanks. While you're at it maybe you could give me a nice paper cut and pour some lemon juice on it. :sad3:
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Seamus on March 09, 2007, 08:55:34 PM Sheeesh at 12?
I wanted to be the black knight in the holy grail skit. It was a weird year for me. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: spacey on March 09, 2007, 08:59:07 PM Sheeesh at 12? Lots of ganja? I wanted to be the black knight in the holy grail skit. It was a weird year for me. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Salamander on March 09, 2007, 09:07:26 PM Heh. After I grew up I wanted to be Sir Robin's minstrels (all of them), but they were eaten at the frozen land of Nador, so I gave up with this plan.
Seriously now, I wanted to be a music teacher. I made it come true, for a while. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: MFAWG on March 09, 2007, 09:09:46 PM I wanted to be Princess Margaret, but it didn't work out....
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Salamander on March 09, 2007, 09:10:36 PM You can always try to be the corgis.
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Fuzzy on March 09, 2007, 09:58:41 PM At 12? If I'm honest, I didn't even know what I wanted to be when I went off to school. Maybe a teacher so there could still be time.
Actually, this is a timely question as right now and for the past year or so I've been trying to figure out what's next for me. Plus we've recently had a shake-up at work. A new president for our division, yada yada yada, and here's the end of his lengthy e-mail from a week ago (italics mine): Organizational change and restructuring takes a toll on everyone. Over the next few weeks we will make decisions that affect the careers of every person in ME and I have three requests. First, please carefully consider how you could best combine your skills and aspirations with the goals of the business, We need the right people in the right places. Second, we need to maintain focus on the business at hand. Reorganizations are a clear distraction and I would ask that you maintain the discipline to put the customer first and execute on your area of responsibility. Finally, I ask for your participation and enthusiasm in creating the new structure. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: BobA on March 10, 2007, 12:40:26 AM I really can't remember what I aspired to at 12. Probably playing for the Baltimore Colts ::) I do know that I wanted to be a sports writer by the time I was in high school, 10th grade or so. I did work for a newspaper (the long gone Houston Post) for about 15 years in nearly every department doing almost everything except writing. That seems a couple of lifetimes ago.
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Teed on March 10, 2007, 02:31:58 AM I wanted to be Dr. J.!!
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: birdymaker on March 10, 2007, 03:44:46 AM cheech marin ;)
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Art Vandelay on March 10, 2007, 04:09:29 AM At 12 I wanted to be a police officer. As an adult, I'm glad that I didn't get what I wanted when I was twelve.
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Blader on March 10, 2007, 06:16:16 AM I can't really say at 12 I knew what I wanted to do for sure, but I can say even at that early age I was fairly convinced my life's work would be somewhere in the copulation sector. Copulation simply fascinated me back then!
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Seamus on March 10, 2007, 07:05:29 AM Sheeesh at 12? Lots of ganja? I wanted to be the black knight in the holy grail skit. It was a weird year for me. Serious though at 12, probably an athlete, unfortunately I invested all my time and energy into soccer, misplaced Saxon tendencies. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: birdymaker on March 10, 2007, 07:07:28 AM I can't really say at 12 I knew what I wanted to do for sure, but I can say even at that early age I was fairly convinced my life's work would be somewhere in the copulation sector. Copulation simply fascinated me back then! little did you know you would be on the receiving end of a life long government *fudging*. ;) ;D Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Aske on March 10, 2007, 07:08:33 AM self made billionaire retired at 25
and no. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Spanky on March 10, 2007, 07:09:46 AM Major Steve Trevor
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Seamus on March 10, 2007, 07:21:28 AM I wanted to be Princess Margaret, but it didn't work out.... Sooooooooooo the nice kicky sandals purchase makes a little more sense to me now. ;)Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: APTech on March 10, 2007, 07:36:47 AM As a youth, I wanted to be an Astronaut. After seeing the Astronauts walking on the moon, I thought that was what I wanted to be.
Suffice it to say, that didn't work out. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 10, 2007, 08:17:06 AM Steve McGarrett
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Danno.jpg) Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: ForeDucks on March 10, 2007, 08:24:18 AM At 11 and 12, I wanted to be Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. I wanted to conduct spy and counter-intelligence operations and assist Napoleon Solo save the United States.
After growing up an seeing how government really works.... well.... let's just say that I'm glad it didn't happen. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Spartan on March 10, 2007, 08:45:26 AM I wanted to be an architect. I took three years of drafting (including an architectural drawing class) in high school. I'm not sure why I gave it up. I used to think it had something to do with the attitude of the drafting teacher, but that was just an excuse. It was probably some idiotic teenage reasoning that kept me from going on.
I never pursued it after high school. But, if I had studied architecture. I wouldn't have gone to Michigan State and never met my wife. So I guess it all worked out okay. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 10, 2007, 10:30:10 AM Let's see, at about 8 or 9, I wanted to be an elementary teacher.
By about 12, I started preferring mathematics and sciences. So then what I wanted to be changed (only slightly) to teaching high school mathematics and/or sciences. And, as you all know, I'm not doing either right now. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: campy on March 10, 2007, 10:38:15 AM I always wanted to be either a Forest Ranger or Fish & Game Officer. For monetary reasons only, I am glad I pursued a different career path.
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: stin on March 10, 2007, 10:41:46 AM I wanted to be a ****y top golf player but unfortunlately didn`t work out the way I wanted so I decided to become a carpentry and joinery :'(
stevie 8) Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Clive on March 10, 2007, 10:48:01 AM I wanted to be a ****y top golf player but unfortunlately didn`t work out the way I wanted so I decided to become a carpentry and joinery :'( But a ****y one, we trust?Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: tdcoly on March 10, 2007, 11:46:01 AM I don't even remember being twelve, let alone what I wanted to be.
However, it was probably something different than this. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: dystopia on March 10, 2007, 01:11:59 PM At 12 I wanted to build rockets. I held onto that dream longer than I should have, and got an Aerospace Engineering degree. But 3/4 of the way through college, I had talked to enough people in the industry to know not to get involved.
I still finished the degree anyway as a tip of the hat to a foolish, idealistic kid, but changed my focus/obsessions toward working on computer games (guess I hadn't matured much ;) ) I worked in the games industry for a couple of years before I realized how crappy it was, got out, and never looked back. [sm_whistle]And where are the clowns Quick send in the clowns Don't bother, they're here. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Jules on March 10, 2007, 01:15:42 PM The answer is a big fat NO!!!!
I never got to folllow my dreams!!! You see, I couldn't decide if I wanted to join Charlies Angel's, solve crime, wear great clothes, and have great hair, or join forces with Jamie Sommers, maybe get a bionic leg or two, and help save the world!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: Dunk on March 10, 2007, 04:39:56 PM I honestly can't remember, but it was probably a pro hockey player or football player.
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: worst_golfer_ever on March 10, 2007, 07:52:28 PM I think I wanted to me either Dr. Who or some kind of scribe from the Middle Ages.
So, let's see, now that I'm all grown up, I ended up in the sciences, writing code, so I guess that's close enough. Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: MidwayJ on March 10, 2007, 10:36:24 PM At 12 I had no idea what I wanted to do and I just hoped I'd figure something out before I was booted out of the house. ;)
Title: Re: What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? Post by: AKABubba on March 11, 2007, 04:44:16 PM Stan Jonathan of the Boston Bruins.
I'm not a very good skater though :sad3: |