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What have you always wanted to do for a living?
I always wanted to be a U.S. Marine, but my physical handicaps disqualified me. Now I want to get a bit better at welding and build custom motorcycles.

Personally, I would prefer to be a arts correspondant for the daily Telegreaph, or a corporate Lawyer.

Something easy, something well paid. Damn, I'm screwed.

When I was younger, I wanted to go to the US Naval Academy and become a Navy officer or maybe an astronaut (perhaps both), but that got blown out of the water really quickly.

So now I'm doing what I love, teaching.

When I was little I wanted to grow up and be a war hero, but I quickly realized most of the wars we fight aren't worth dieing for.

Now I'm trying to get my degree in criminal justice, hopefully I'll get into the federal area but if not I could always go back home and be a local cop.

There's nothing I've 'always' wanted to do. Right now, or at least, when I graduate, I want to go into music journalism. Respectable music journalism, that is.

not really sure cos its changed from being a music producer, a novelist/travel writer, working in the videogame industry... all sorts of shit. i could never make my mind up

welding and build custom motorcycles.
cool :cool:

Respectable music journalism, that is.

An oxymoron if ever I heard one. I'll spare you the Zappa quote and go for this one instead: writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Something music related, hopefully...

Though i'm currently studying Politics and International Studies at university. I'll probably end up in some field related to these. If not, I can adapt to things fairly easily, and i'd be happy to go back to uni if I had to.

An oxymoron if ever I heard one. I'll spare you the Zappa quote and go for this one instead: writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Hmmm...I find that internet fanzines etc are generally respectable. When I said respectable I meant I don't intend to work for the NME or Kerrap! or anything like that.

Something music related, hopefully...

Though i'm currently studying Politics and International Studies at university. I'll probably end up in some field related to these. If not, I can adapt to things fairly easily, and i'd be happy to go back to uni if I had to.
I'm not trying to belittle your choices by any means, but I'm a bit curious here. Why go to school for something when its not what you want to do? i.e. Going to school for politics, yet wanted to be involved in music? Alot of people seem to do that, and I always wonder why.

On my way to becoming an MD, and that's pretty much what I "always" wanted to be... well, there was that short stint when I wanted to be a singer, but I soon realised that I really did not have the voice for it. Medicine is a nice consolation. ;)

I'm not trying to belittle your choices by any means, but I'm a bit curious here. Why go to school for something when its not what you want to do? i.e. Going to school for politics, yet wanted to be involved in music? Alot of people seem to do that, and I always wonder why.

Politics is also a big interest of mine, it's just mostly a back-up (I can't really see myself involved within machine politics). I don't really need a degree in Music to play in a band now, do I? :)

I also take music-theory lessons outside of university as well, but the way I see it, I don't really need any formal qualification.

I wanted to be a cowboy. That didn't work out. I ended up designing computer chips - but I do it while wearing a cowboy hat.

Fashion buyer

First gay Prime Minister of Australia!
:D :D :D

First gay Prime Minister of Australia!
:D :D :D

I'll vote for you. You can't possibly be any worse than the current choices. :p

I always wanted to be a tank commander, but it turns out I'm too tall.. not that it mattered anyway, since 9/11 happened right before I turned 18 and I had to drop out of high school to support the family business and get my diploma though correspondance... nowadays I figure i'll end up a bureaucrat, which will be cool. :) But first, one more year of mind-numbing courses before I graduate.

I'll vote for you. You can't possibly be any worse than the current choices. :p
Yay! But what party?
:confused:
*starts thinking*

Yay! But what party?
:confused:
*starts thinking*

The "Party Party" of course.

Historical linguist.

The "Party Party" of course.
:confused:

Historical linguist.
Is that like studying dead languages?

Just something which gives me a lot of free time. :rolleyes:

Some kind of job in linguistics would be awesome.

Producer of custom-made adult toys would be nice... :cool:

Historical linguist.
huh. you must have had an..... interesting childhood. :p

Why are y'all planning to grow up? I'm not. Hopefully I won't grow out either. *pats tummy*

What have you always wanted to do for a living?
I always wanted to be a U.S. Marine, but my physical handicaps disqualified me. Now I want to get a bit better at welding and build custom motorcycles.
what cind of handicaps :( ?

*pats tummy*

*pats your tummy, too*

when I was young I wanted to be a superhero and I am one (only without the superpowers and motivation)

either that or a dinosaur :( (no work for dinosaurs anymore)

*pats your tummy, too*

Stop! That tickles! :D

Sorry, for a moment there I forgot this was a forum. :cool:

When you grow up
God forbid that ever happen to me. What I've always wanted to be as a child was stay a child...
This has resulted in me not knowing what it is I want to do for a living.

I want to be a fireman. VROOM VROOM

Well up to the age of 8 I wanted to be a vet
8-14 a psychologist
14-16 a forensic psychologist
a forensic scientist/ virologist
a history teacher
then I realised I would have to study chemistry in college...Chemistry is very very very hard and its so difficult to enter any field of forensics in Ireland
16- I still like science, but precferred histroy more, then I realised that I had always loved politics
So I am now doing politics and history in college, going into my final year.
I want to do a masters in International Law and international Relations.
I WOULD LOVE to work for the UN-either in the field or as Secretary General(hey the thread did ask for you dream job). I do have a notion of entering politics, in the nether regions of my mind, but I think that I would become far to corrupt. I'd start out wanting to do good and I would become evil :eek: and have minions and ...ok I'm starting to like the sound of that! :D

I want to be a real boy!

A failed author :)

I'd probably go into Publishing, family business.

Professional Bass Player for my Rock Band

Always wanted to be a chef, but not like the Tv kind, I just want to make good food that everybody likes, not personal glory or anything. It just amazes me how people can add spices and cook things just right and it will taste and appear so much different than something you would make with the same ingredients.

What have you always wanted to do for a living?
I always wanted to be a U.S. Marine, but my physical handicaps disqualified me.

That must suck. :(

Maybe you should try to join the Air Force! That's what I'm going to do, and I doubt there are many physical things you must accomplish....

Or, maybe I'll become a mercenary, and fight for money! I think I'd make an excellent sniper. :sniper:

What have you always wanted to do for a living?
I always wanted to be a U.S. Marine, but my physical handicaps disqualified me. Now I want to get a bit better at welding and build custom motorcycles.
When I finally grow up, I wanna die. :D

I never plan on growing up, but I've always had ideas of what I'd like to do for a living.

5 - Airplane pilot (inspired by Robert Munsch's 'Angela's Airplane'.)
7-12 - Actress
12-16 - Lawyer
16-now - Editor or something related to books and reading.
Presently - Still probably want to do editing, but then I have a bunch of other, new ideas floating around my head, like english teacher, actress, something involving science, science teacher, something involving math ... it goes on and on and on.

I used to know what I wanted to do when I grew up, only I don't think that I ever grew up, so it was just a matter of taking what was available and finding out where it goes.

Right now, I'm head of Quality Assurance in a plasma center.

I'm hoping to be a musician and sound engineer.

If not that, there are plenty of things I can fall back on...

...Though it's mainly sports (Baseball, Football, Soccer, Swimming, you name it).

What have you always wanted to do for a living?
I always wanted to be a U.S. Marine, but my physical handicaps disqualified me. Now I want to get a bit better at welding and build custom motorcycles.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be fighter pilot and then an astronaught. Started studying very young. Math and science, tatics, and then my eye sight when to hell.

Now, I just try to be the best that i can be in whatever I do.

when i grow up i want to be a catipilar! (the simpsons rock!)
erm on serious note i don't know what i want to do. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm eat pies for a living! FOOOOD TESTER!

i've always wanted to be a taxonomist. in the last year or two i've lowered it down to population taxonomy and cladistics of poacaea and cyperaceae.

Pfffffft. I really don't know. Bum?

African Warlord. I will accept nothing less.

First gay Prime Minister of Australia!
:D :D :D


I thought we already had a gay Prime Minister.. :confused: Now i feel stupid..i just thought..he looked so short and cuddly..thats why everyone voted for him...damn..my bad!

Dammit! I'm already grown. All I've left to look forward to is to become a whining old man who holds up the counter line on the supermarket while looking for my pennies to pay a 60 dollar bill.

I want to be President of the United States.

when i grow up i want to be a catipilar! (the simpsons rock!)
erm on serious note i don't know what i want to do. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm eat pies for a living! FOOOOD TESTER!
then you'd have to eat all of the bad ones they come up with :p

I want to be paid a dollar for every word I type. $18, give it to me now.

Ideally my career will be in the arts in some way. Since that isn't likely, I will probably end up in politics if I don't make some really stupid mistakes (not likely to happen for that reason) or journalism most realistically.

Blackhawk or Chinook pilot, but I wear glasses so that put a stop to that.

man... i've always wanted to program stuff.... particularly video games...
but my real dream job would be a samurai (in ancient japan, of course)....
i just love the whole warrior culture, and i think its lost on modern fighters...
that and i've been doing a bit of Iaido recently....

when I was little I wanted to be a ninja
now I want to be a repo man

I want to make sweet video games and get like awards at GPhoria and go to E3 and have ppl like "oh his games own"

US Airforce pilot
definitely

F-14 pilot. Still do, but I'll have to settle for an F-18E/F. Although my ultimate wish is to fly a VF-1S Valkryie. :cool:

When I grow up I want to be 5'5"

Small steps...Took me like a year to get to 5'4".

Doctor, military scientist, geologist, marine biologist, others.

Then high school hits, and I see some aren't a possibility (average grades), or I just don't have the passion it takes to do such things. I had the brains to maybe go into science, but it wouldn't feed my family realistically unless I invent and patent something new, and even then, I'm not the type of person who likes looking at a microscope all day long.

Business it is for me.

i did it. not going to say what exactly what it is, but i am really good at it.