koogar

well, that should slow me down a tad at immigration.
thanks ro

hot wasabi peas

Yes, sorry for the delayed response. I'm behind in answering my PMs.

Souvenir

And what would this crime duo be called? How about "The Loan Arranger and Chemo-Wasabi"?

Deer Hunter

hot wasabi peas

Bienvenue au Canada... <snapping of rubber gloves>

Deer Hunter

I knew a guy who tried to smuggle some marijuana from Jamaica to Canada and got caught at the Kingston airport (cue rubber gloves here). He ended up spending a year in a Jamaican jail. When he returned home for years afterward everybody called him red ass behind his back. LOL :scared:

hot wasabi peas

willmore

I love this thread....come on folks lets see some more responses from young and old alike about this question!

pinkpanther

I wanted to be a groupie.............

wonderwoman

When i first left school i wanted to work with children so trained and qualified as a nursery nurse, soon discovered that as a young lady supporting herself this didn't pay the bills, so started working in admin for various companys (inland revenue/banks etc) but also took lots of P/T jobs to pay the rent, in the past i have waited tables, worked as a barmaid, cleaned, cooked, worked with old folks, worked in a shop, been a casual for a painter and decorater and done market research, Reality now............. i am a full time mummy and domestic godess, who also makes a little money buying and selling on ebay, The future.........who knows ??

Britjo67

Well originally I wanted to be a nun.

Then around 14 I decided I'd rather be an astrophysicist (bit of a fixation on Carl Sagan). Flunked physics so gave up on that dream.

Studied Russian because I wanted to be a translator. Ended up working for the civil service at GCHQ.

Then at 26 wanted to be a lawyer. Kids got in the way so put that dream on hold. Now at the age of 38 I've finished the academics, and will hopefully be a trainee solicitor in the next 12 months, so I've nearly achieved that dream.

Rich_007

A space cadet......
Obviously, I fulfilled my every childhood dream

Rich.

Steve_P

Long story.

Left school at 15 no career aspirations went to work as office boy in estate agents. Had I stayed there I probably would have trained as a draftsman.

Left England at 16 came to Canada.

First job in Canada order clerk in a magazine and paperback book wholesalers. Left there took some book keeping and accounting training.

Started working at Shell Canada as mail room clerk and general office boy. Transferred into exploration department as assistant to a geophysicist worked there for almost five years. Got laid off when Shell moved from Edmonton to Calgary.

Applied for Air Traffic Control went through interview process got turned down on educational grounds. Turned out the what Shell had considered equivalent to first year university, Alberta Education considered to be grade nine. I had only completed nine years of formal education in England.

Quite a shock to say the least.

Went back to school, now aged 24 and married. I was the oldest student in a regular high school in Edmonton. Got my grade twelve in nine months.

Re-applied for Air Traffic Control got accepted and was a controller for thirty years retiring in 2004.

Absolutely loved ATC, when you finished a shift it was done and you could forget it. Come in the next day and everything was different, nothing on your desk left over from yesterday. No two days ever the same, my dream job.

Now I have an even better one, I'm retired and get to spend a great deal of time with my best friend and partner, Mrs. H

Butch Cassidy

You REALLY are a soppy old git aren't ya.

Steve_P

Yeah, but you love me anyway.