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What did you want to be when you grew up?
- Thread starter Draka
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sandandfoam
Veteran Member
I wanted to be Barry Sheene.
I wanted to be a member of the clergy I just never imagined I would be a Buddhist member. Being a professor was not on the top of my list I just needed a job after being a member of the clergy didn't work out the way I thought it would in the USA but I have considered taking a year off here and going to work in a hospital in California for 1 year I understand they (Californians) are more opened minded to Buddhist clergy than Pennsylvanians.
Draka
Wonder Woman
Well, I guess it's a good thing you didn't somehow miraculously become him...else you wouldn't be here now would you?
I take it you wanted to be a motorcycle racer then?
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
Good point !
Oh so so so badly. And I did. But I was never nearly good enough to make a living at it.
I do have the arthritis though !
Draka
Wonder Woman
Well, when I was a child I wanted to be a nurse or doctor or teacher. I also knew I wanted to go in the Navy. So I figured being an HM in the Navy would suit me. Unfortunately when I enlisted the HM rate was closed and I had scored so high on math and electronics that I kind of got shuffled into Avionics instead.
I have since been "shuffled" into many jobs and career options I never considered. I guess I go with the flow now.
I have since been "shuffled" into many jobs and career options I never considered.
I guess I go with the flow now.
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
Well, when I was a child I wanted to be a nurse or doctor or teacher. I also knew I wanted to go in the Navy. So I figured being an HM in the Navy would suit me. Unfortunately when I enlisted the HM rate was closed and I had scored so high on math and electronics that I kind of got shuffled into Avionics instead.
I have since been "shuffled" into many jobs and career options I never considered.
You still in the navy?
Is it what you expected ?
Why the navy ?
Melancholy
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I wanted to be a nurse.
I did the second best thing and became a care nurse for a while and will go back in a couple of years.
I did the second best thing and became a care nurse for a while and will go back in a couple of years.
Draka
Wonder Woman
No, got out almost ten years ago. I actually loved my time in. Wouldn't trade the experiences and the people I met for the world. I only got out (honorably at my EAOS) for reasons of certain family obligations. If those certain obligations hadn't been an issue, I probably would have stayed in. I quite miss it.
As for why the Navy...I guess it was just instilled in me. My father, both grandfathers, all my uncles (both sides) telling of their Navy experiences kind of drew me in. Just the kind of person I was when young also just led everyone to believe that it is where I would go.
Pussyfoot Mouse
Super Mom
I wanted to be one of those mean teachers that cracks the pointing stick at the kids and tells them to put thier heads on their desks even when they weren't doing anything wrong. I'm not like that anymore
cardero
Citizen Mod
A comic book artist or a songwriter. I was supposed to go to the Joe Kubert's School of Graphic Design which is a 3 year course in New Jersey that dealt specifically with sequential art and animation but my family couldn't afford to send me and I would have had to dorm there.
The songwriter afforded me some opportunity as I have participated in a few bands and have entertained people for money but it was always "icing" on the cake and always took a backseat to my career in toll collecting (which was never on my list of things to do).
The songwriter afforded me some opportunity as I have participated in a few bands and have entertained people for money but it was always "icing" on the cake and always took a backseat to my career in toll collecting (which was never on my list of things to do).
kadzbiz
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Draka
Wonder Woman
I had one of those in first grade! Old lady who yelled at you and sentenced you to detention for coughing loudly because she claimed you did it on purpose and other such nonsense. Half the class would be staying up to a half hour after school everyday. Parents would be lined up along the playground waiting for the kids to get out of detention. I, and the rest of the class, had detention on average of at least 3 times a week. My mom, along with the other moms, hated that woman.
When I was ten, I was an avid watcher of the TV show Emergency (that tells my age, doesn't it, lol) I told everyone I wanted to be a paramedic. When I was a teenager I wanted to either be a writer or a astronomer (I love looking at stars and planets). I became none of those.
