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What Did You Want to be When You Grew Up?

  • 12-05-2009 5:43pm
    #1
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭


    My first thread on AH - ooh-err,

    So yes.. what, when you were younger, did you want to be when you grew up?


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  • #2
    allabouteve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭allabouteve


    brummytom wrote: »
    My first thread on AH - ooh-err,

    So yes.. what, when you were younger, did you want to be when you grew up?

    An adult.


  • #3
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    allabouteve wrote: »
    An adult.

    Cool me to.


  • #4
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,223 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Actress! (My Ex said that I succeeded too... "When you're not acting, you're acting out!")


  • #5
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    i always wanted to be an astronaut.

    now, at the ripe old age of 29, i have come to terms with the fact that it's unlikely to happen!


  • #6
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    A writer ...and I'm currently working on that.


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  • #7
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,809 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    A penguin.

    Closest I came to it was wearing a tux to my debs


  • #8
    Schism
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Older, I'm living the dream.


  • #9
    Poccington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Poccington


    A soldier.



    Job done.


  • #10
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    stilll trying to figure that out :(....


  • #11
    Thirdfox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,110 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    Leader of the world.

    Then doctor.

    Now lawyer... still, that gives me a chance at no.1 again.


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  • #12
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Michael Knight from Knight rider.


  • #13
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I guess I should add my two cents then...

    Went through phases of wanting to be a singer (cant sing), guitar player (i can, but not well), priest (for a free mobile.. long story), fireman or doctor

    Now I have no idea,, I think I know deep down I'll have to end up as a teacher like the rest of my family


  • #14
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    A "fluffer" in porn movies.


  • #15
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    The government, fireman and pope


  • #16
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    The Doctor. damn my being a girl...

    Second choice was a TV reviewer for some kind of media outlet, a columnist or a political correspondant. Still following that route.


  • #17
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,057 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Fire Engine

    /Déjà vu


  • #18
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    Second choice was a TV reviewer for some kind of media outlet, a columnist or a political correspondant. Still following that route.

    Sorry to be serious in AH, but how would you go about getting into something like that? I imagine Politics and English Lit/Lang degrees are vital; I'm only in Y10 at the moment, would you have any tips?

    Anyway, back to normal: YORE MA, HUH


  • #19
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    A hippy:(


  • #20
    MissIT
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭MissIT


    I wanted to be a pound shop girl..


  • #21
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    brummytom wrote: »
    Sorry to be serious in AH, but how would you go about getting into something like that? I imagine Politics and English Lit/Lang degrees are vital; I'm only in Y10 at the moment, would you have any tips?

    Anyway, back to normal: YORE MA, HUH

    Basically I write and I write and I write... and watch a lot of television. I send articles to my local newspapers and have had a few work placements at them. Try and get experience/internships at small papers or even radio stations during the Summer maybe?


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  • #22
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    Basically I write and I write and I write... and watch a lot of television. I send articles to my local newspapers and have had a few work placements at them. Try and get experience/internships at small papers or even radio stations during the Summer maybe?
    OK thanks, we've got three or four newspapers around here, I'll try and get in touch with them during half term; I know I said a few posts back I wasn't sure what I wanted to do but something akin to a political journalist would really attract me

    Another thing I wanted to be as a (younger) kid: A clown,, even got an audition for Zippos Circus aged 7 (I wish I was joking, my mom tells everyone that)


  • #23
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Archeologist/Paleontologist, stuntman or Indiana Jones..............


    ........ended up being a Soldier tho.


  • #24
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,091 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    A Rhinestone Cowboy, Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo!

    tbh, there was a load of compromisin'.


  • #25
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    allabouteve wrote: »
    An adult.


    To go onto Barrymore's show to say that. I thought it was ****ing genius. Thankfully I never got on it!


  • #26
    overexcitedaj
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭overexcitedaj


    A horse.. when that dream was shattered being a Fireman was on the agenda


  • #27
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    I wanted to be a Pirate.
    A sail the high seas pirate that is, not a selling dodgey DVDs out the back of robin reliant kind of Pirate.


  • #28
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    A scientist.


  • #29
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    MissIT wrote: »
    I wanted to be a pound shop girl..

    jeez!! hey fiscal progress caught you out.

    You could be a €2 Euro girl.:cool:


  • #30
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    The Ultimate Warrior


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  • #31
    Sizzler
    Registered Users Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    Taller :D


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