O/T - What did you want to be when you grew up?

[phikappa]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a football player. A far cry from the sedantary job I have now. :(

[Marius_Ursus]

A soldier. I ended up doing it, and I still miss it sometimes.

[snoack]

I wanted to be a yes man

I wanted to have a brown nose

I wanted to claw my way into middle management

[Capt_Lou]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a football player. A far cry from the sedantary job I have now. :(

I wanted to be a Marine and I did that.

After I wanted to be a Police Officer and I went out and got a job in Information Technology lol.

Not everything turns out the way you plan.

[IronCamp]

I wanted to be a singer in a rock band! I was adamant about it, but just never pursued it...I took voice lessens and went to college to major in voice and then switched over to stats! :eek:

I always wished I had become a police woman, fire fighter, or boxer!

[phikappa]

I wanted to be a yes man

I wanted to have a brown nose

I wanted to claw my way into middle management

Nice! :D

[OutOfStep]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?


I wanted to be David Lee Roth. :cool: That never panned out. :mad:

[biggaz]

I wanted to study forestry, then I decided I wanted to be a vet.

By chance I ended up an arborist (tree surgeon) for the last 23 yrs.

[Minotaur]

I wanted to be a teacher. Then I wanted to get into computers. Now I look back and wish I had become a cop.

[agsuper]

Baseball player. Golf Course supt. now.

[Capt_Lou]

I should have invested in some stupid company named Microsoft like my one friend did, but I wanted to get drunk instead :(

[alec_braithwait]

I always wanted to work with aircraft, I guess I am lucky, I got to design military aircraft for 12 years before I moved over to America.

Now I get to play with aircraft like 747's and 777's

[IronCamp]

I wanted to be a yes man

I wanted to have a brown nose

I wanted to claw my way into middle management

Ah yes, the American dream!

[SAFD99]

Living the dream! Always wanted to be a firefighter. Now that I am, I could never go back to a 9-5.

[snoack]

Nice! :D


remember those commercials?

[phikappa]

remember those commercials?

Yeah, with the kids.

[snoack]

I wanted to be David Lee Roth. :cool: That never panned out. :mad:


my wife has always thought he was teh ghey

[OutOfStep]

my wife has always thought he was teh ghey


I heard from a friend who used to build bikes for, and was friendly with the band for many years, that he swings both ways. When I was 10 I thought Dave was the coolest guy on earth.

[maryinmesquite]

i thought healthcare was what i wanted to pursue but went into accounting ,,, but being a mom has been the job i have loved most , being a mother has made me happier than anything else i have ever done

[Stevelegh]

I didn't want to do anything.

Years ago the useless son was made to join the clergy.

Now they become salesman.

I am a useless salesman!

Livin' the dream!

[grace_ou]

LOL, I wanted to be a farmer. Now I don't know what I be when I grow up.

[snoack]

I heard from a friend who used to build bikes for, and was friendly with the band for many years, that he swings both ways. When I was 10 I thought Dave was the coolest guy on earth.

not to mention an amazing performer. Still has the presence onstage, if not the voice anymore.

[Karl_Hungus]

Pretty much the opposite of what I actually ended up doing.

[Jimislash]

I wanted to be a firefighter. I ended up being a cop, which I fell in love with.

[OutOfStep]

not to mention an amazing performer. Still has the presence onstage, if not the voice anymore.

Oh yeah dude, Dave's the king of the frontmen. The splits, jumps, kicks and all the whoo! and wow! was killer. The guy is a rock star and born entertainer.

[chodan9]

well when I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be a monkey,



I never claimed to be too bright,


actually came pretty close before I got clean and sober!

[Marius_Ursus]

LOL, I wanted to be a farmer. Now I don't know what I be when I grow up.

Hell, I still want to be a farmer...well, to be fair sort of a Raymond Blanc kind of farmer except where I grow my own food then bring it into the kitchen and prepare gourmet meals to feed to people who are hungry and can't really afford "expensive" and "gourmet" food.

[grace_ou]

Hell, I still want to be a farmer...well, to be fair sort of a Raymond Blanc kind of farmer except where I grow my own food then bring it into the kitchen and prepare gourmet meals to feed to people who are hungry and can't really afford "expensive" and "gourmet" food.

I love farms!! Problem is I cain't grow nothin!! My son every year since kinder he gives me a planted flowers for mother days and every year no matter how hard I try it dies. :( He's in fourth grade now last time he gave me plants he said, "Here just throw it away and be done with it." I felt so small!! I felt bad but damn it he was right it was dead a week later. I try I swear I do!!

[DNG]

I wanted to be an airline pilot.

While I was in the military I did the physical, but my eyes weren't good enough. Then I applied directly to an airline - and had the same roadblock.

[bamaborn67]

I don't want to grow up!!!!!!

[GSOgymrat]

I wanted to be a veterinarian as a kid especially after reading "All Creatures Great and Small". I did work on an exotic animal farm for a couple of years which was fun.

Now I'm a mental health counselor for a hospital and county mental health center. Some days it's great and some days (usually when a patient is spitting at me) I wonder why I do this.

[TDetroit]

i don't remember what I wanted to be, probably a carpenter - my dad was a carpenter.

but, looking back, and being a 40 year old man, if any young men are asking what career they should angle for....



... lingerie designer. Imagine it....

[TDetroit]

I wanted to be a veterinarian as a kid especially after reading "All Creatures Great and Small". I did work on an exotic animal farm for a couple of years which was fun.

Now I'm a mental health counselor for a hospital and county mental health center. Some days it's great and some days (usually when a patient is spitting at me) I wonder why I do this.

you would have been better off as a vet - the patients are more fun.

[phikappa]

... lingerie designer. Imagine it....

http://scott.club365.net/uploaded_images/drooling_homer-712749.gif

[blw_redone]

I'm going to respond to this from a different angle. This is a mandate to you parents out there to instill confidence in your children at an early age. Nurture their dreams and NEVER EVER EVER put them down. Do not deflate their spirits thru discouragement, unkind words or any other mental or physical degradation. I am the end result of that and I'll probably go to my grave even now mourning what I could have or should have been. Yes I know I'm an adult now and should be over all that stuff, however, the voices of condemnation echo into eternity. Anything you say or do is like writing on their blueprint and imprinting them for life. I can't count the times where I was on the verge of some greatness or success only to fail because I lost belief in myself and fell utterly apart. You'd think after hearing from my peers of how good I was at this or that or that I should be doing this or whatever, that I would have made something of myself...if only I could have believed it. This is not a pity party. I am what I am and do my best to exorcise those ghosts of condemnation who still haunt me. If I fail I will blame no one. I will bear my shame alone and simply get up and try again. Love your children and love them hard. Tell them they're great and challenge to be all they can be. Lift them up and instill pride in them. They are an extension of you and will carry your legacy. What will that legacy be?

[Marius_Ursus]

Now I feel bad for calling my son the biggest F-up I've ever seen who can't do anything right.

[blw_redone]

Now I feel bad for calling my son the biggest F-up I've ever seen who can't do anything right.

I know you better than that....lol. You're a good man.

[Capt_Lou]

Now I feel bad for calling my son the biggest F-up I've ever seen who can't do anything right.

I just tell my son that he is the proof that I needed that his mom smoked crack.

[raffim]

wanted to be retired :p

[IronCamp]

I'm going to respond to this from a different angle. This is a mandate to you parents out there to instill confidence in your children at an early age. Nurture their dreams and NEVER EVER EVER put them down. Do not deflate their spirits thru discouragement, unkind words or any other mental or physical degradation. I am the end result of that and I'll probably go to my grave even now mourning what I could have or should have been. Yes I know I'm an adult now and should be over all that stuff, however, the voices of condemnation echo into eternity. Anything you say or do is like writing on their blueprint and imprinting them for life. I can't count the times where I was on the verge of some greatness or success only to fail because I lost belief in myself and fell utterly apart. You'd think after hearing from my peers of how good I was at this or that or that I should be doing this or whatever, that I would have made something of myself...if only I could have believed it. This is not a pity party. I am what I am and do my best to exorcise those ghosts of condemnation who still haunt me. If I fail I will blame no one. I will bear my shame alone and simply get up and try again. Love your children and love them hard. Tell them they're great and challenge to be all they can be. Lift them up and instill pride in them. They are an extension of you and will carry your legacy. What will that legacy be?

Good advice...I have vivid memories of my mom complimenting me and telling me there was nothing I couldn't do. She told me to be happy w/who I am and what I've been given...she stressed to me how unique I am and how I should be proud to be me. She was adamant about it and I never understood why, until I grew older and realized how much her encouragement really effected who I am. I hope to do that w/my daughter.

[wulf88]

Let's seee.....

wnated to be in the military - accomplished (Navy/Army/Navy)
wanted to be specops - not accomplished (dropped 3rd night of hell week at BUD/S)
wanted to be a police officer - accomplished (LAPD Reserve)

what i really want though is to be able to do my specialty from college....historical anthropology and archaeology. Maybe one day....

[maryinmesquite]

I'm going to respond to this from a different angle. This is a mandate to you parents out there to instill confidence in your children at an early age. Nurture their dreams and NEVER EVER EVER put them down. Do not deflate their spirits thru discouragement, unkind words or any other mental or physical degradation. I am the end result of that and I'll probably go to my grave even now mourning what I could have or should have been. Yes I know I'm an adult now and should be over all that stuff, however, the voices of condemnation echo into eternity. Anything you say or do is like writing on their blueprint and imprinting them for life. I can't count the times where I was on the verge of some greatness or success only to fail because I lost belief in myself and fell utterly apart. You'd think after hearing from my peers of how good I was at this or that or that I should be doing this or whatever, that I would have made something of myself...if only I could have believed it. This is not a pity party. I am what I am and do my best to exorcise those ghosts of condemnation who still haunt me. If I fail I will blame no one. I will bear my shame alone and simply get up and try again. Love your children and love them hard. Tell them they're great and challenge to be all they can be. Lift them up and instill pride in them. They are an extension of you and will carry your legacy. What will that legacy be?
you are so right . that is the one thing i always wanted my girls to know that they can do what ever they want in life , yes you may fall down but you get back up and keep going

[Marius_Ursus]

Let's seee.....

wnated to be in the military - accomplished (Navy/Army/Navy)
wanted to be specops - not accomplished (dropped 3rd night of hell week at BUD/S)
wanted to be a police officer - accomplished (LAPD Reserve)

what i really want though is to be able to do my specialty from college....historical anthropology and archaeology. Maybe one day....

Dr. Doug Sharon from The San Diego Museum of Man told me not to go into anthropology because someone has to die for anyone else to get a job. :D

[wulf88]

Dr. Doug Sharon from The San Diego Museum of Man told me not to go into anthropology because someone has to die for anyone else to get a job. :D

HAHAHAHA, that made my day...too funny...

[GnomusMaximus]

First American Soccer player to play for Paris St. Germaine. Instead I became a Psychologist.

[Capnwilliam]

Rich enough to not have to work. Then I learned that you have to work hard first in order to get rich. Still working. Not rich.

Jim

[WizardGlick]

Outrageously happy 24/7.








Still working on it .....

[phikappa]

First American Soccer player to play for Paris St. Germaine. Instead I became a Psychologist.

Hey Gnom, when are all the Oly throwing events?

[MagnumXL]

A college professor or a research biologist.


Someone who wears a clown suit when they have sex.

Accomplished the first two but not the last one. However, I am asking for a clown suit for my birthday.

[IronCamp]

A college professor or a research biologist.


Someone who wears a clown suit when they have sex.

Accomplished the first two but not the last one. However, I am asking for a clown suit for my birthday.

I think someone has a fetish! :D

[NotTooLate]

I wanted to be a ballerina when I was in grade school. I took lessons and was very good at it and the instructor said I was naturally built to be a ballerina. My parents divorced and I couldn't go to the lessons anymore. Had to give it up.

When I was a teenager I wanted to a worthless hippie and I was ;)

When I was a young lady I wanted to be an air traffic controller. There were only 2 places you could learn to do it. The military or a school back east. The school back east was way too expensive and my grades weren't good enough and the military had a 3 yr waiting list. I couldn't even get into the American military. Gave up on that.

I became a geological draftsman and graphic artist who was apprenticed by a master. I liked doing that but eventually it all went to CAD and I gave it up.

Then I was a central station operator in the US, monitoring alarms internationally. I liked that. It was almost as stressful as being an air traffic controller. Maybe more.

Now I'm a worthless hippie again ;) Life seems to repeat things LOL

[MagnumXL]

ROFL....The fetish is in my signature..."Laugh often."

Actually I am afraid of clowns because a clown killed my father and mother.




I think someone has a fetish! :D

[Capnwilliam]

Now I feel bad for calling my son the biggest F-up I've ever seen who can't do anything right.

Hello, Dad! :-)

Jim

[IronCamp]

ROFL....The fetish is in my signature..."Laugh often."

Actually I am afraid of clowns because a clown killed my father and mother.

I have that fetish too! :D

Not sure how to take your second statement...I can be gullible at times. Are you serious?

[MagnumXL]

Sorry, I lied about clowns murduring my parents.


BTW, did I mention that when I was a professor and Dean, it was in a Clown College? My specialty was 20 clowns getting out of the backseet of a tiny car......after having sex at the drive in movie. LOL



I have that fetish too! :D

Not sure how to take your second statement...I can be gullible at times. Are you serious?

[IronCamp]

BTW, did I mention that when I was a professor and Dean, it was in a Clown College? My specialty was 20 clowns getting out of the backseet of a tiny car......after having sex at the drive in movie. LOL

LMAO...I'm not that gullible! :D

[HoosierHardGain]

I wanted to be the next Johnny Bench



Farthest I got was as a mediocre high school second baseman :(

[MagnumXL]

Its true...its all true. Promise. I even have a package of red and white striped clown condoms to prove it.




LMAO...I'm not that gullible! :D

[IronCamp]

Its true...its all true. Promise. I even have a package of red and white striped clown condoms to prove it.

:eek:

[SP1966]

I wanted to be a yes man

I wanted to have a brown nose

I wanted to claw my way into middle management
It's nice to see at least one of us lived our dream!! :D

[MagnumXL]

Surely there is something else that can be said about clowns before this thread dies. Maybe someone wanted to be a clown prostitute or jigilo when they were young, or something.


When I was young I wanted to be an artist.....but soon realized that most of them struggle to survive. Now that I am retired I am going to art school.....starting Tuesday. Yeah! I get to draw naked ladies....or gagh! have to draw draw naked men. LOL

Maybe I will start a new career by being a model for the art class...dressed as a................................................. ..............................clown.

Sorry!

[Husky Bob]

I wanted to be an astronaut. I was always interested in science and healthcare.

Joined the USAF, and ended up working in Supply, driving a delivery truck! LOL!

But then went to college and now am in a field called Nuclear Medicine, a part of radiology, doing imaging of patients! It's pretty cool actually!

[KimberleyRN]

When I was very young I watched the OLD Cheaper by the Dozen movie... I just knew I wanted 12 kids after that.

I came close when I was a foster mom and had 9 kiddos at one time... 5 of them under the age of 3 and I was pregnant at the time.

Then, I watched Danny Thomas's March of Dimes specials... that made me want to be a NICU RN.

I am an RN, but not in the NICU.

I take care of cardiac patients mostly, and do wound care about 36 hours a month.

[StressMonkey]

well when I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be a monkey,

Hey, I got to do that!

When I was a kid I wanted to be a Disney Imagineer.

[Whiskeyjack]

Astronaut - I vividly remember the July 1969 moon shot - was only a kid but my mother woke me up to see Armstrong step down the moon and my dad pointing up at the full moon in the sky and saying, "there are men there" and being astonished.

I had all the adventurism but I never really developed an appetite for physics in high school...

[tomdana]

Forest ranger turned doc. All I wanted to be was a park ranger in Yellowstone until my mom almost died and when she was better, asked who had done it and she said the doctor. I said I am going to be a doctor. My dad had taken us to lunch and gave us the mom is going to heaven talk and then took us to see our mom who had gone septic after a ruptured appendix. Talk about lifeless and gray. I was convinced she was dying, but the next day she was pink and stronger and could hold me. I was in second grade. I was pretty impressed with whoever had done that for my mom. I had no idea what it meant or what it would take. Nonetheless I am ten years into my practice after residency and still dreaming of being a park ranger in Yellowstone. I settle for an annual vacation there. I have offers to leave clinical medicine and do academics, or admin stuff but cannot yet give up the patient care aspect. Not to mention I am a bit of an adrenaline junky so still love the excitement of critical care medicine. I just don't know if 15 yrs from now I am still going to be able to sustain 60 -100 hr weeks. For now I cannot imagine doing anything else.

Sorry so long. Tired. Good night.

[kimm4]

I wanted to be a marine biologist...not even close :(

[NotTooLate]

I forgot to mention that I wanted to be an assassin for hire. I even became a marksman but I couldn't figure out how to get hired by anyone LOL I wouldn't want to kill any nice people either, just rotten ones LOL

[Keltron]

i wanted to be an actor. But as I got older, I realized that a life of fame and fortune was not for me.

[Tyrbolift]

I wanted to be an OTR truck driver or heavy equipment operator.

[mikieson]

Wanted to be a carpenter....I did that for 14 years and hated it for the last 10.

[Tyrbolift]

Wanted to be a carpenter....I did that for 14 years and hated it for the last 10.What was different about it that you hadn't considered?

[mikieson]

What was different about it that you hadn't considered?
Well you are young and dont realize how hard it is. Being here in the South it gets so humid you can actually cut the air with a knife. PLUS the heat. Its horrible.

Plus being on a construction crew that is only 2 and sometimes 3 people strong, you get worn out and beat down quickly. PlUS we did everything from digging footers to blocks to framing, sheetrock, roofing, flooring ...everything...We did it all from the ground up. You tend to get worn out and tired quickly..

Also when I was 25 I messed my back up from pulling concrete. So now for the past 11 years I have gotten to live wishing I was dead from all the pain. So bad it makes you sick, like you just got kicked in the n u t s....

BUT other than those things, its been great!!!..."NOT"

[Tyrbolift]

Well you are young and dont realize how hard it is. Being here in the South it gets so humid you can actually cut the air with a knife. PLUS the heat. Its horrible.

Plus being on a construction crew that is only 2 and sometimes 3 people strong, you get worn out and beat down quickly. PlUS we did everything from digging footers to blocks to framing, sheetrock, roofing, flooring ...everything...We did it all from the ground up. You tend to get worn out and tired quickly..

Also when I was 25 I messed my back up from pulling concrete. So now for the past 11 years I have gotten to live wishing I was dead from all the pain. So bad it makes you sick, like you just got kicked in the n u t s....

BUT other than those things, its been great!!!..."NOT"It's really too bad that we have to decide what we want to do for a living when we are young and don't know anything. lol

[mikieson]

It's really too bad that we have to decide what we want to do for a living when we are young and don't know anything. lol

Good thing is ...For the next few years im going to just take an odd job here and there. Im able to do my own thing and be here for my boys when they get home from school. IM going to do that untill they graduate highschool, then go on to something like UPS or Postoffice...Something with retirement and a little less stress on the body. And believe me...In my home town, UPS or Postoffice is about all the retirement jobs we have with benifits..

[MaskedManiac]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a football player. A far cry from the sedantary job I have now. :(

Wanted to be a Baseball player and wound up a Pro Wrestler..........

[clammo]

I wanted to be a marine biologist...not even close :(


Same here, was hooked after watching Jaws when I was a kid and wanting to be the character played By Richard Dreyfuss! Never happened!

[Nota]

Green Beret.

[Reality_Check]

I wanted to be a pilot till my teens (we used to fly around Africa in small planes a fair bit when I was a kid).

Then in my teens I planned to become a Civil Engineer (I liked Lego). Then I ended up deciding I wanted to be an Electrical Engineer because I thought that would please my dad (a medical Doctor who hates medicine and got an Elec Eng degree but still practices medicine).

Well I flunked the Elec Eng degree (actually I quite before I could flunk it). Then went and got a job as a bank teller for 6 months, then a prison officer for a year. Decided I needed a degree to get anywhere and went back to uni to do a Physics degree. Did well enough to qualify for entrance to a PhD but went off to be an Operations Research Analyst with the Australian Defence Dept (Navy) instead.

Found there was a glass ceiling in DSTO (Defence R&D) without a PhD so quit and went back to uni to do the PhD (and some lecturing/tutoring). Finished the PhD seven years later.

Now unemployed looking for work (but doing the odd tutoring).

I also developed a fear of flying and am technically colour-blind (not in reality though), so the pilot thing never really worked out.

I still have dreams of one day owning my own plane though (and getting over my fear of flying so I can fly it). So far I've had 1 half hour introductory flying lesson (years ago in a Cessna 152) and 2 introductory hang gliding lessons (off sand dunes).

(This week I auditioned for a small bit part in a film - a mafia guy - they sounded positive at the audition but haven't herd back from them - don't tink I'll give up my day job just yet - well i wouldn't if I had one).

[Marius_Ursus]

Mr. Bear in first grade:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h42/oraculo666/Stuff/bearboy.jpg

[Kudza]

Wanted to live in the USA, somewhere warm and close to beaches. and I accomplished it.

[johnnyironboard]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a football player. A far cry from the sedantary job I have now. :(


in 9th grade I wrote a paper on meterology- in 10th Petroleum Engineer mostly because of the money. Got the Petroleum Engineering degree.

[Arlecchino]

I never wanted to grow up.

I am successful in that.

[jsmircich]

A jockey, than a vet, than I figured I'd go into social service, than I wanted to be a cop or firefighter, now I'm a casemanager in a psychiatric hospital.

[japetro]

When you were a kid, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a football player. A far cry from the sedantary job I have now. :(

I wanted to be a vet. Now I test medical software. must have been that left turn in Albuquerque.

[DanVanVliet]

I wanna be a cowboy baby.

[Bo_Flecks]

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be a paratrooper. So after high school that's exactly what I did.

Then one fine day in October of 1983, the 82nd Airborne Division got sent to a beautiful little Caribbean Island named Grenada, on a fun little adventure called Urgent Fury. At that time I had the epiphany that there must be a better (and safer) way to make a living. I decided right then and there that I would look into becoming a teacher.

And that's what I've done for the past twenty years.

Bo

[Keltron]

I want to be an SNL cast member when I grow up.

[dbx]

What did you want to be when you grew up?


Happy.

[Keltron]

Happy.
Would you say that you are?

[dbx]

Would you say that you are?

More than most people I know, and more than I ever thought I'd be.

[Keltron]

More than most people I know, and more than I ever thought I'd be.
What would you attribute it to?

[HeloRugger]

When I retire from the military I want to open a pub...

[dbx]

What would you attribute it to?

In one word - perspective.

I have a few things going on in my life right now that would likely frazzle many other people. I have my ups & downs like everyone else, of course. But even in my worst "down" moments I'm able to see it as just a bump in the road. Life is an awesome adventure, and I'm always looking forward to the next chapter. Just being able to make choices as a free man every day. How awesome is that?