arcane Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 Bwah hah. I'm hijacking the QotD. When you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcane Posted June 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 Grew up? I grew up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 i was going to be a teacher i dont think i can really think of anything else i wanted to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 Dentist... after my first encounter with Nitrous when i was a kid... i knew there was a reason ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 me.................... still workin at 'er folks! but as far as a job is concerned, I dont think I ever really knew. A dentist at one point (since I was there once a month), a doctor (since I was there once every two weeks), then an athlete (soccer, since I was there almost every day), then a musician (since I loved music full-time) I now love what I do and ALOT of people say to me, "I dont know how you can do what you do" I guess that is why I can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddak Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 I wanted to play the saxophone (have done for almost 9 years now) play the guitar (for about 4 years now) play soccer (been doing it for 16 years) and be a doctor (going through school). I guess I was a lucky kid because I still love all of it.. except the school part on most days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reba Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 i wanted to be an obstetrician, a writer and a tennis player. i loved tracey austin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarlet Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 well i still am growing up, but when i was smaller, i wanted to be a teacher. my friend and i used to play teacher all the time. then i wanted to be a ballerina after i saw swan lake, so i started taking dance. so now i think i want to be an actor and dancer... maybe a writer... i dont know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 A ROCK STAR! but i realized i can't play any instruments and my singing aint that great so i went to the closest thing to it but much lamer...radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 ok... here's a similar thread... what does everyone do now for a living? and selling glass or grilled cheese is only considered a part time job! hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 lazy fat and stupid guess i can retire now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 Well mostly because of my father I wanted to race cars, but common sense and a desire to live overrode that. I guess since high school all I have wanted to be is a good father. My profession is irrelevant. And now, I map landscapes and such with GIS based computers. Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieDon'tSurf Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 I did (and still do) want to be an astronaut... pretty typical, I know, but just imagine that whole zero-G thing, floating around outside our atmosphere, seeing UFO's and weilding the NASA issued light-sabre.... Now, I'm just some Masters' drop-out (not the golf tourney, the geology post-grad thing) working some job that I have no idea what the hell it is I'm doing... I also was interested in becoming an NHL superstar, but that Gretzky kid beat me to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieDon'tSurf Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 I can't be bitter... no need, I guess... The stinkin' inertia in that department made me a little nuts Although, in hind sight, being a geologist was a pretty damn cool job, too! An unending supply of 'skipping rocks', vast expanses of mirror-smooth Greenlandic lakes and an arm ready for the occasion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingfool Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 I had no desire to be anything in particular when I was a kid. Now I'm not doing much of anything (as a career - hobbies aren't making me money, on the contrary). So I guess I succeeded! ... ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddak Posted June 14, 2002 Report Share Posted June 14, 2002 Right now I'm a landscaper, I don't do anything with cool with computers, I just build what Northern Wish creates. It's just a full time summer job.. wooohoooo.... 15 hour day yesterday was not fun. Ah well. It's better than the restaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcane Posted June 14, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2002 Ooh, I'm not the only Masters' drop-out, then. Okay, I'm actually a Masters' "I'm leaving because my idiot supervisor doesn't realize that my cross-disciplinary thesis work would last, oh, five minutes in a defence with professors from the *other* discipline, one which *he* doesn't understand". 'Druther have walked away from that than have been fried spectacularly. Sometimes there are no good alternatives. But I'm not bitter. Well, yes I am, but not about that. Don't ask me what I'm bitter about. Me, I wanted to be happy doing whatever. Right now, I'm kind of a documentation jack-of-all-trades. It's a cool enough thing for the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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