Dreams... the Future...

Crumble Froo

ok, so as a kid, i had various dreams, thoughts and theories as to how life was gonna turn out for me.

when i was younger, i was gonna be a vet, cos i liked animals. adults would just laugh and tell me to study hard. then i copped that i'd have to treat the animals i wouldnt like,a nd then teaching seemed an option. then i copped i had zero self confidence, and realised i'd end up like those subs you send out of the room crying....

i figured i'd never get married, or get particularly attached to someone, but live in a house in the country, which i'd get to decorate myself (ill be honest, it never dawned on me i'd be renting instead of owning it...), live by myself, but have lots of friends around to call in on any time (i've always had a good system like that).

figured i love ireland, i'd never leave it, not for anything, probably to travel (i'd do a few years in australia, few in south america, but *always* return home to ireland), and would hopefully have played camogie in croke park at some point.

never quite dawned on me i'd not get a degree/college education...

so im working min wage, in the general social care area, have zero qualifications (does the L.C count?), live in a rented house i can't even stick posters up in, with my kiwi boyfriend who's 19 years older than me that i intend to make a life with for the long term future, and yeah... im in new zealand. not to mention the lack of camogie teams here, and though i did get on the county team, got a pretty 'fatal' injury in terms of ever playing competitively again when i was 14.

so what dreams did you have as a kid that never quite transpired? jobs that seemed perfectly feasible? did you picture yourslef having the dream wedding and now despise the thought, or were you wishing yourself into an early grave with the job you thought was for you?

ok, so im 20 now, but i should point out that all the above was in place by the time i was 19, and most of it by the time i was 18. how've your dreams changed since you hit your teens?

JC 2K3

I don't think I ever really had dreams as such. I suppose I would have wanted to be in a famous rock band at some stage, but that wouldn't have been until I was 14 or so.

Then again, I have difficulty recalling many childhood memories. You could say I've forgotten who I used to be to some extent (That sounds way deeper than it really is).

Right now, I have no dreams and haven't much of an idea where I want to go in life....

anonymous_joe

Well I always intended to be a cold-hearted bástard and become a lawyer as is the done thing in my family.

So far relatively on track. :pac:

On a relatively serious note, I didn't expect to ever find someone interesting enough to me to love and who I could get on with. It did end spectacularly badly though, so that's also the kind of thing one expects.

I reckon I'm actually fairly close to where I assumed I'd be. Thought I'd be slightly further ahead in the getting fit again lark, but still, perseverance and patience.

Fad

I never really had a dream when I was younger........

Success to me is owning a nice-ish apartment, near the city, having a decent job, and just being comfortable in life. Children with any luck will feature minimally in my life.

My dream job would be something music related, but I cant see that happening tbh.

So Science or Gaeilge for me

Insect Overlord

I used to imagine myself being the first Irish person to win All-Ireland medals in Hurling and Football, an FA Cup winner's medal with Manchester United, a #1 single in the charts and the WWE heavyweight championship belt around my waist, while writing a best-selling novel, having a loving family and acting in a few block-buster films. That was when I was young, imaginative and unrealistically ambitious. Starting 1st Year of secondary school drove out a lot of my more fantastic "dreams"!

I still believe I could go a long way with Gaelic Football, but I knew I was shite at hurling long before I gave it up. I won a winner's medal in the FAI Under 17s National Cup, but only as a substitute, so chances are I won't get to play professional soccer. I still watch wrestling from time to time, but my interest goes no further than wondering how long Jeff Hardy will be champ

I firmly believe I could become a famous writer, but I'll probably have to branch out from poetry into more accessible media for that to happen. I have never acted in my life, so I won't be appearing in any films soon! I still look forward to having a wife and kids, some day, some years from now. I'm getting more confident with my singing/guitar-playing too, so the chance of a relatively successful musical venture is not beyond the realms of possibility.

However, they all must take second place to my college course for the next year and a half. It looks like Ireland will become an even tougher place to live in without a qualification for a few years at least.

Acacia

I always thought I'd end being a music journalist / writer from about the age of twelve. Or a roadie for rock bands (not a groupie, though ). Failing that, I thought I'd move to L.A. and ...well, I guessed I'd figure that out when I got there! Probably end up as a hippie or something.

Now, I'm 19, finished college nearly, I have a fairly good idea of what I'd like to do, unfortunately it doesn't involve following bands around , trying to interview them. *sigh*

I still write a bit in my spare time, it's not going to be my full-time job though.
Well, I'm still young so you might see me writing for Rolling Stone yet!

Like the OP, I never thought I'd get married/be attached to somebody but I've been in a long-term relationship for a few years now, which I never even imagined would happen, but there you go.

donmeister

I wanna be a professional Ice Hockey Player,it came to me in a dream!(No joke)

Fat chance of that happening'!

Piste

I wanted to be so many things:


Shepherd when I was 3
Opening a restaurant when I was 6
Being a doctor, teacher or lawyer

I also assumed I'd have a string of boyfriends when I hit my teens, as it happened I've only had a few.

KnifeWRENCH

I wanted to be a lawyer until I realised it would be quite dull and wouldn't be anything like Ally McBeal or The Practice!
Then for a while I wanted to be a journalist - having a dreadful JC English teacher drove away any enthusiasm I had for that subject.

Now I'm in 2nd Year of college, and I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. I've also realised how much I dislike children and I no longer have any intention of starting a family.

Local-womanizer

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Well I always intended to be a cold-hearted bástard and become a lawyer as is the done thing in my family.

Diden intend on it to happen to me but it slowly is:(

Have a good job,wife and kids.Be settled with my own house,ie no mortgage and plenty of friends.Thought the way the country is at the moment it is just a dream:(

Aisling(",)

As far back as i can remember ive always wanted to be a vet but it only hit me halfway through 5th year that i wasnt good enough to get the points.thats my big dream crushed,even picked god awful chemistry just so i could do it.so now havent a breeze what i want to do so putting some random stuff on the old cao

ive always said i dont want kids but now im almost definitly against them so thatll be a big part in my life as if i ever end up with someone theyd have to uderstand that i dont think ill change my mind.

oh and when i was really little also wanted to be a nun,a dancer,a dog trainer and a zoo keeper:P

Local-womanizer

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You wanted to be all that in one go?!

Aisling(",)

Local-womanizer wrote: »

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You wanted to be all that in one go?!

seemed plasauble at the time:P

Piste

I forgot to say, I use to really not want kids, but now I think I'd like to start having them when I'm 27 or so.

JC 2K3

It's something a lot of people come around to I guess. The idea of having kids doesn't appeal to me right now, but I can see my mind changing.

phasers

I've wanted the same thing since I was 11: to be Jeremy Clarkson...

Failing that, I have no idea

Aisling(",)

oh and up till around 3rd year i was dying to go to college now its my biggest dread more so then the leaving

Acacia

Aisling(",) wrote: »

As far back as i can remember ive always wanted to be a vet but it only hit me halfway through 5th year that i wasnt good enough to get the points.thats my big dream crushed,even picked god awful chemistry just so i could do it.so now havent a breeze what i want to do so putting some random stuff on the old cao

This is why the points system is crap. I'd say it's the destroyer of many a young person's dream!
Still, if you really want to be a vet don't let the points thing stop you!

Acacia

Aisling(",) wrote: »

oh and up till around 3rd year i was dying to go to college now its my biggest dread more so then the leaving

Hey, I was like that too in 6th year! Don't be worrying over it! It will all work out fine once you get there. You'll have a ball.

Hmmm, I'm being quite the agony aunt today!

cHaTbOx

To make music that means something to people , going for it now

Stev_o

phasers wrote: »

I've wanted the same thing since I was 11: to be Jeremy Clarkson...

Failing that, I have no idea

Grow a curly fro, make giant hand movements, over emphasis pointless words and use obscene metaphors with references to your hate for Germans,French and Americans. I think its pretty achievable

To rule the entire Earth. Achievable? I think so.

Nightwish

phasers wrote: »

I've wanted the same thing since I was 11: to be Jeremy Clarkson...

I still do :eek:

When I was younger I wanted to be a crane driver...only a tower crane though. Sitting up in the sky all day, twirling around in circles seemed like an idyllic life at the time. I never thought about climbing up/down the ladder and using the toilet and all that stuff.

I always assumed I'd be a journalist or writer, when I was in secondary school. My 5th/6th year English teacher killed that dream, when she constantly critised everything I wrote. I still dont know what I want to do. All I know is that I'd love to be a roadie. I recently met a favourite band of mine, and I heard their merch seller was "retiring". I offered to do it for free...just wanted food/board but fluency in Dutch was a necessity

cautioner

Nightwish wrote: »

I still do :eek:

When I was younger I wanted to be a crane driver...only a tower crane though. Sitting up in the sky all day, twirling around in circles seemed like an idyllic life at the time. I never thought about climbing up/down the ladder and using the toilet and all that stuff.

I always assumed I'd be a journalist or writer, when I was in secondary school. My 5th/6th year English teacher killed that dream, when she constantly critised everything I wrote. I still dont know what I want to do. All I know is that I'd love to be a roadie. I recently met a favourite band of mine, and I heard their merch seller was "retiring". I offered to do it for free...just wanted food/board but fluency in Dutch was a necessity

F*ck her! My English teacher's a plank, don't let them bring you down!

Aisling(",)

Acacia wrote: »

This is why the points system is crap. I'd say it's the destroyer of many a young person's dream!
Still, if you really want to be a vet don't let the points thing stop you!

the only real way into it is to do a science degree and do really well in that which i dont think would work out too well as the only science im really good at is biology,chemistry is a struggle but doable and pyhsics i run from screaming.

think im just going to do media arts because it sounds interesting

Acacia wrote: »

Hey, I was like that too in 6th year! Don't be worrying over it! It will all work out fine once you get there. You'll have a ball.

Hmmm, I'm being quite the agony aunt today!

ah im hoping so because i may be going dit and ill be the only one from my year.eep

Davidius

Astronaut or engineer.

Yay.

It wasn't me!

When I was very young for several years I wanted to run a chartered fishing boat from some quiet cove, living a minimalist life. Before that, I wanted to be a gamekeeper on some small estate, running shoots for some small syndicates. Thereafter, for most of my secondary school life, I wanted to play music for ever, professionally. Nice dream, but to quote Ian Fleming, "It reads better than it lives." Also wanted to teach at various times for brief periods. Currently, plan is serve a military career until I feel too old for that, then retire to some wild moorland where I can stalk deer and shoot pheasants and grouse and relearn to flyfish in beautiful clear rivers. Children have never figured in my plans I must say. I don't like the idea of marriage much either. In the modern world, with the direction it's heading in, I may never get a chance at that lifestyle.

Bijoux

Oh jebus, i wanted to be everything at one point.
I wanted to be a teacher for ages....then it moved to barrister.....then doctor....then architect (I wanted to do it so much that when I was 8 i used to draw floor plans for houses, and pictures of the outside from loads of different angles...i had countless copies full of these)...i wanted to be a pilot...wanted to work in animal rescue, wanted to be a vet....then narrowed it down to doctor / architect / solicitor...now I'm studying medical physics. :eek:

I also never ever wanted to get married or have the kids, not so against the idea now.
Also wanted a big stone house in the country, near the sea....fingers crossed!

lilmizzme

I had this crazy obsession with the little mermaid when I was a kid, collected the magazines and everything! So when people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up (no I didnt say a mermaid, thiough it did cross my mind a few times!) I said marine biologist...had my life all planned out, living in australia, swimming with the dolphins, scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef!! What a life....untill i realised Id have to learn about fish and all in college and realistically would probably working on a fish farm in Donegal or somewhere!

So now Im just floating through college, still not much of a clue what to do, will probably end up being a teacher, is the only thing I can really see myself doing and being good at!

Kids may or may not come later!

phasers

Stev_o wrote: »

Grow a curly fro, make giant hand movements, over emphasis pointless words and use obscene metaphors with references to your hate for Germans,French and Americans. I think its pretty achievable

But I need someone that'll pay me for that

If I could it's be the best job.. IN THE WORLD

Stev_o

phasers wrote: »

But I need someone that'll pay me for that

If I could it's be the best job.. IN THE WORLD

Study carefull and you could just be.... JUST LIKE HIM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltoxUOoWeyA

cocoa

lol @ clarkson island above...

emm, for a while I wanted to be some kind of musician, then realised I was fairly mediocre at that... then I was thinking about being a translator (don't know why to be honest...) and there hasn't really been anything very interesting since then... I'm in engineering now but I don't really know what I want to do afterwards... I wouldn't mind being a doctor for a day, just for the fun though. I'd love to make it as a comedian, but I highly doubt I'm good enough, anything in acting would be fun too

so umm, yeah, don't really have any big dreams right now, but it's certainly varied in the past...

deleriumtremens

When I was really young I used to dream of being spiderman!

When I got to about 10 or 11 I dreamt of being a world class footballer, but secondary school beats those irrationalities out of ya pretty quick!!

I drifted through secondary school until my junior cert, did well but had no real asprations at that stage.

Then I got to 6th year and wanted to do something big after my leaving cert. Ended up doing a course I thought I would definiatley love but due to having overworked myself in 6th year, I was incapable of studying now or enjoying college life at all. 2008 was the pits for me. I'm now 18, no longer in college and I'm not in control of my own mind any more. There is nothing now I really feel like doing with my life!! Sure no matter, just have to turn old and bitter about having wasted my life...I suppose in this deterministic universe, though, it couldnt have happened otherwise!

Insect Overlord

You probably didn't mean any harm by it, but the alzheimers quip is a bit unnecessary. Some people might be sensitive to that situation, if ya know what I mean...

banshee_bones

when i was younger i wanted to be a firefighter

as i got a little older wanted to do law

got a bit older again physiotherapy... that one has stuck

however thanks to obtaining a BA (Hons) degree looks like im headed for something entirely different.

the wanting kids thing i hope will happen when i meet someone who makes me want to start a family with them...

illiop

When I was little I was always fairly rational, I was about the only girl in my class who knew that I had very little chance of being a pop star or a princess.
I always kinda wanted to be a primary teacher or a vet. Now i'm half way through 1st year in a course I know I don't like and will hopefully drop out of but everybody thinks that it's just because college didn't turn out to be the way I expected it to be(which it didn't) but it's not that.
Now I think I want to do secondary teaching...but really to be honest I'd love to be a housewife(I know everyone thinks I'm crazy) or an author(or a bit of both )

As for the love/family thing; as a child I always imagined that, like in all the american tv I watched) I'd meet my true love aged 15 or 16 and it would all go up from there. Now I'm 18 and have never had a boyfriend or any sort of romantic relationship and get overly excited when ever i think some one is vagauely interested in me. Oh...and I always have always will want lots of kids...like at least 4

Insect Overlord

illiop wrote: »

I always kinda wanted to be a primary teacher or a vet. Now i'm half way through 1st year in a course I know I don't like and will hopefully drop out of but everybody thinks that it's just because college didn't turn out to be the way I expected it to be(which it didn't) but it's not that.

May I ask, what course did you pick?
I'm doing primary teaching at the moment, and I had an awful time in the first semester of first year. There's a huge difference in the mood after Christmas, I've seen it first hand.

illiop

An File wrote: »

May I ask, what course did you pick?
I'm doing primary teaching at the moment, and I had an awful time in the first semester of first year. There's a huge difference in the mood after Christmas, I've seen it first hand.

Oh I actually meant that I picked a completely different course...I was kicked out of honours irish in 4th year so that kinda put pay to that

eVeNtInE

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Limerick Dude

Well when i was younger my dreams were to be a pro soccer player or pro in any sport for that matter.

My dream now is to finish my Environmental Science degree and travel the world!

yerayeah

When I was younger I wanted to be play for Man Utd, be a famous musician, then when Wimbledon came around I wanted to be a professonal tennis player, when the snooker championship came around I wanted to be a pro snooker player and when the Olympics came around I wanted to be a different professonal athlete every day! Now that I'm all growed up I've decided to be a doctor and I will definately have kids some day.

lovemypinkhat

When I was little I thought I'd open a vet's with my then-best friend...then she moved to America and I grew out of the vet thing.
Then I went through a phase believing I would be a pop star and imagined myself on the cover of Smash Hits, totally oblivious to the fact I hadn't a note in my head.
Then I wanted to be an air hostess and would plan out my whole life (including marrying my crush from up the road, having like six beautiful, blond and blue-eyed children...I even named them all and estimated the gaps between each one ). Then I was on a plane when there was an incident just as we were about to take off which sparked my flying phobia so that was air hostessing out the window!
I also believed at various points that I would marry Ronan Keating, Zac from Hanson, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter etc.

Piste

lovemypinkhat wrote: »

I even named them all and estimated the gaps between each one ).

I do that too

Insect Overlord

lovemypinkhat wrote: »

I even named them all and estimated the gaps between each one )

Piste wrote: »

I do that too

O_o

*backs slowly away from Boards*

Piste

Well It's not like I tell my boyfriend about them at every possible moment :P

RHRN

I wanted to do journalism when I was younger , I did it in CTYI when I was like, 8.

However I've wanted to work in NSA now for some time and that's stuck.

thusspakeblixa

When I was younger I was fascinated by space. I wanted to be an astronaut.
Then a radiologist.
Then a Journalist.
Then a Historian.
Now I'm doing a course in Journalism. Funny.

In terms of relationships I think I didn't really think about them too much so being in one now isn't a huge surprise.

I always thought I'd be playing Rugby or Hurling in college though... stupid injuries...

Also once upon a time I wanted to live in America, now I want to move as far away from America as possible.

Kids, yes but I'm going to name them after Norse gods. (not that I'll have my way) I'm thinking THOR for a boy and Freya for a girl.

I think in 5 years time I'll be freelancing still, hopefully I can use my people in the know to get a job in a newspaper.

phasers

OK guys, New dream: To be Charlie Brooker

thusspakeblixa

phasers wrote: »

OK guys, New dream: To be Charlie Brooker

Me too!

Arcade Panda

When I was a kid I was obsessed with Jurassic Park so for about 6 years my ambition was to be an archeologist.

Now my dream is to work on radio...I'd love to do a stint of djing and maybe move into current affairs! who knows?

thusspakeblixa

Arcade Panda wrote: »

Now my dream is to work on radio...I'd love to do a stint of djing and maybe move into current affairs! who knows?

Get involved in your local community radio station, it's a great way to learn the ropes and get started.