What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
Feb 8th 2016, 12:18 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
I wanted to be a car breaker (wrecker in local parlance). I'm not.
My daughter is a trial lawyer, a prosecutor, like on Law and Order. I don't know that it accords her the satisfaction I hoped to gain from automotive disassembly but few of us wind up where we would have chosen.
A glance at linkedin would tell you, btw, that my ambitions have evolved. Deck chair attendant/Beach Chair Administrator, is what I should have been and dream of being now.
My daughter is a trial lawyer, a prosecutor, like on Law and Order. I don't know that it accords her the satisfaction I hoped to gain from automotive disassembly but few of us wind up where we would have chosen.
A glance at linkedin would tell you, btw, that my ambitions have evolved. Deck chair attendant/Beach Chair Administrator, is what I should have been and dream of being now.
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Feb 8th 2016, 1:09 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
I recall asking my 15 year old niece what she was planning to be when she left school. "A policewoman" was the response. So I asked her how she could face being a first responder at a serious accident where people were badly injured and/or dead with perhaps body parts all over or enter an abode where someone had been dead for quite some time. She replied she wouldn't do that, she'd be a detective working in the background. Needless to say, when finally realizing what she'd really have to do before becoming a detective in the background, she quickly changed her ambition and ended up pushing a pen for the Civil Service.
Feb 8th 2016, 1:30 am
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Feb 8th 2016, 2:16 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
I wanted to be involved with aircraft, either flying or working on them. I joined the RAF age 16 and landed a job working with the AVRO Vulcan at Waddington, happy days.
I later learned to do all the flying stuff but on my own time :@(
I later learned to do all the flying stuff but on my own time :@(
Feb 8th 2016, 2:26 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
The people doing this were always shouting at me to not ride my bmx on the promenade. The hippy twats could never catch me though.
Feb 8th 2016, 3:08 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
An astronaut or a skateboard star.
Tony Hawk.
Tony Hawk.
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Feb 8th 2016, 4:51 am
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
I also wanted to be Journalist when I was in high school.
Feb 9th 2016, 5:42 pm
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
I wanted to be a kept woman
Feb 9th 2016, 6:14 pm
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Re: What did you want to do as a kid when you grew up? (job wise)
sadly, get away from my mother asapp