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What Did You Want To Be When You Grew up?
GarandMarine:
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--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 19 Apr 2014, 19:54 ---Also I still want the pony I wanted as a kid. I just want her to be around 15 hands and ready for trail riding now.
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Gosh, yes. I want a pony. However, I do realise that with my current career path, that's not likely to happen - ponies need lots of time and attention.
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Once you start an actual career, a boarding program can help you out with that without changing your lifestyle completely like I intend to. My "end goal" for life is building a house I've designed on a couple acres with barn space for two or three mustang mares for me, and a boarder or two if needed, some big dogs and a good sized set of hutches for a pair of red foxes and a red tailed hawk. (Red isn't my favorite color still but I can see why people might suspect it is)
And cheer up Gareth I totally see the resemblance.
The Seldom Killer:
I think my earliest, most serious career choice was to be a forensic scientist. I've always found science fundamentally more interesting and beautiful than anything else and an inherent sense of law and order combined to wanting to that. I think I was inspired by TV in this. Not by watching NCIS, CSI type programmes but by watching real life crime programmes and thinking that the forensics people were really awesome.
Alas, with just about any other career idea that I had, I'm let down by a lack of academic capability. I'll never get the kind of degree needed to do any of the things that I might truly enjoy and starting at the bottom and working your way up isn't really an option in these fields. It's really annoying to me because I have a great capacity to understand scientific theories and principles. I've helped numerous engineers, programmers etc by talking through their problems and asking questions/making suggestions about what they've told me. These days I trawl around different office environments, usually in the public sector, doing admin work and in very small ways trying to make the world a little bit better. It's an acceptable consolation prize and it allows me to indulge my external passions.
94ssd:
On this topic, I have a cousin who's a couple years older than me who wanted to be a firefighter ever since he was a little kid. He's a firefighter now.
Redball:
More or less in order: doctor, aeronautical engineer, physicist, journalist. I was the son and stepson of aviation writers, and one of them used to deliver Piper Cubs from Lock Haven PA to dealers for the fun of it. I ditched physics after a flunked out of university, but I was pretty good at reporting science stories.
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--- Quote from: Schmee001 on 19 Apr 2014, 20:19 ---I remember back in preschool everyone was saying what they wanted to be when they grew up, and one kid said he wanted to be a duck. Sometimes I wonder where that kid is now...
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Playing for Anaheim in the Stanley Cup playoffs?
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My daughter's best friend in childhood is an operations manager at the arena there, and sometimes drives the Zamboni for the hell of it.
Sorflakne:
Saw Top Gun when I was four years old, and knew that I wanted to be a fighter pilot.
Fast-forward a couple decades, and I did get a private-pilot's license, and I did join the Air Force for a few years, but never did make it to military pilot. So 2 of the 3 isn't so bad. I blame my discontinued flight training on the likely fact that I was not ready for college at 18 -.-
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