I dreamed a dream in time gone by.....

Ginja Ninja

Well everyone has something they aim for.So,what's your dream?


Mine's pretty simple,have a piece of the world to call my own,someone to share it with and not have to worry about what might happen to either of the above.

and for epic suitability;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsV2O4fCgjk

A Neurotic

Be happy; make others happy.

Also, some glorious day I will own a moped.

Novella

I wanna buy a really old house and spend years making it perfect again. I'm obsessed with cottages, no idea why.

Other than that, loads of pretty usual junk - find someone who'll say, "If you're a bird, I'm a bird" to me!

norwegianwood

A Beatles' reunion tour......
These dreams don't have to be realistic, right?

seriousfizz

I have a few things which we'll pretend I can condense into one dream

I want to be a successful writer, I want to always be true to myself, and to help give people meaning in their lives through music and word. I want to become a part of the circle of the inspired inspiring those who aspire.

To advance the cause of humankind through mathematical progress.

A Neurotic

Oh, and I don't know what direction my career will go in, but a large part of me will always be attracted to research. It'd be so amazing to contribute to some health research that could help a lot of people. I can't even imagine how that would feel.

DylanS09

My goal in life is to be a pilot:o
It's very expensive and all, but I'll find away!

But recently I've been thinking about doing something in maths in college...don't know what career I'd get out of it!
But anyways my dream is to be a pilot...maybe after my Phd in maths!:pac:

DylanS09

DylanS09 wrote: »

My goal in life is to be a pilot:o
It's very expensive and all, but I'll find away!

But recently I've been thinking about doing something in maths in college...don't know what career I'd get out of it!
But anyways my dream is to be a pilot...maybe after my Phd in maths!:pac:

I think there's usually some kind of basic maths requirement for pilots anyway for some reason? Go for it. Maths and pilot - be a hero!

DylanS09

Deleted User wrote: »

I think there's usually some kind of basic maths requirement for pilots anyway for some reason? Go for it. Maths and pilot - be a hero!

Ha! Thanks!
YES I CAN!:pac:

Lando Griffin

I dream of becomming an Inter County football star together with its trappings of fame and the long stick to beat all the women away with, the fast cars, award cermonies presented by Marty Morrisosy, but i am old and decripid.

MavisDavis

DylanS09 wrote: »

Ha! Thanks!
YES I CAN!:pac:

Did you see that new course starting this year in DCU? It's called Aviation Management with Pilot Studies. I think the guy said it's all about the aviation industry and in the end you can specialise to work in either the business side of things or as a pilot by getting your licence. Just remembered it when I saw your post. Not sure if it's relevant, but anyway.

Here's a link: http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=AMPS&degree_description=B.Sc.+in+Aviation+Management/B.Sc+in+Aviation+Management+with+Pilot+Studies

DylanS09

MavisDavis wrote: »

Did you see that new course starting this year in DCU? It's called Aviation Management with Pilot Studies. I think the guy said it's all about the aviation industry and in the end you can specialise to work in either the business side of things or as a pilot by getting your licence. Just remembered it when I saw your post. Not sure if it's relevant, but anyway.

Here's a link: http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=AMPS&degree_description=B.Sc.+in+Aviation+Management/B.Sc+in+Aviation+Management+with+Pilot+Studies

Thanks!
Think I've heard about it before but I've never checked it out!
I'll have a look at it now! Thanks again!

MavisDavis

DylanS09 wrote: »

Thanks!
Think I've heard about it before but I've never checked it out!
I'll have a look at it now! Thanks again!

You're very welcome!


Hmm, I don't think I have a specific long-term dream other than to be happy. For now, I want to do a college course that I really enjoy. I'd better start doing a bit more work to achieve that.. :cool:

phlegms

Hopefully I'll get to study history for as long as possible and if all goes well contribute to my specific area of research. That would be lovely.

Konata

My dream? To live a life free of mental illness. That'd be pretty great.

Just to be happy really, in whatever I'm doing. Awesome people to share it all with would be nice too

SarcasticFairy

Can I be a sap and say to be happy?

I used to have a life plan. It was really detailed, and there was to be no deviation. Then I fúcked that out the window, and decided I'd do whatever makes me happy/feels right at the time, and worry about the consequences later. So long as I'm not hurting anyone else, I'm quite happy to be plan-less.

So um... to still be married to Grace and have skittle nails when I'm like, old? That's about as concrete as it gets! :P

Davidius

DylanS09 wrote: »

My goal in life is to be a pilot:o
It's very expensive and all, but I'll find away!

But recently I've been thinking about doing something in maths in college...don't know what career I'd get out of it!
But anyways my dream is to be a pilot...maybe after my Phd in maths!:pac:

Maths and piloting, sure just become an astronaut. :pac:

DylanS09

Davidius wrote: »

Maths and piloting, sure just become an astronaut. :pac:

No...
I'm afraid of heights!:pac:

Ally7

DylanS09 wrote: »

No...
I'm afraid of heights!:pac:

Of course, you''re not high at all in a plane :pac:

DylanS09

Ally7 wrote: »

Of course, you''re not high at all in a plane :pac:

'xactly!:cool:

Fad

To work in a petrol station until I am incontinent.......

KnifeWRENCH

Ginja Ninja wrote: »

Well everyone has something they aim for.

i dont, tbh. if i ever had a dream, i'd just be depressed when it never came through. i have no aims or goals whatsoever, which is sad i know but thats just the way i am.

Banjo Fella

I want to be really good at drawing, I would love to dedicate myself to improving at it and hopefully become good enough to make a living out of it. Maybe I could do concept art, or illustration, or graphics design... I don't care, provided I'm drawing and experiencing the joy of creating something I'm happy with, I'm happy!

My parents don't approve of that too much, so for the moment I'm studying something that's more stable in terms of future employability. I love what I'm doing right now, but sometimes I feel as though I've become completely side-tracked from my real plan. Losing sight of your dream is a most crushing sensation. I'm going to make it work though, some day, I don't know what I'll do with myself if I don't.

Extrasupervery

A Neurotic wrote: »

Be happy; make others happy.

Also, some glorious day I will own a moped.

What he said. Without the moped.

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

Can I be a sap and say to be happy?

I used to have a life plan. It was really detailed, and there was to be no deviation. Then I fúcked that out the window, and decided I'd do whatever makes me happy/feels right at the time, and worry about the consequences later. So long as I'm not hurting anyone else, I'm quite happy to be plan-less.

So um... to still be married to Grace and have skittle nails when I'm like, old? That's about as concrete as it gets! :P

It's on


My (ridiculously supportive and amazing) grandfather has sat me down periodically since I was about 4 and asked me what I wanted out of life. Through the years I've had various aspirations (rocket scientist, vet, my mom, journalist, what have you) and he's encouraged me with whatever crazy path I've dreamed of following at the time. Lately I've just been saying happy, I want to be happy. And he's all...happy won't pay the bills, you can't just be happy, what are you going to do after college? (The whole Arts decision didn't help matters.)

But I would love to just be happy. I have many material possessions, many lavish ways to spend my time should I choose to pursue them, whatever it is I want. I'm not spoiled or anything, but if there is anything I reaaaally want I know I can get there, my parents are good to me and I'm very determined, but all of this stops at happiness.

My parents can't buy me happiness, it can't be handed to me, surprise surprise it can't even be prescribed to me. So if there is one dream I have, one outlandish thing I wish for and desire - then it is happiness. Just happiness.

/soppy insight accompanied by nostalgic anecdote

ohthebaby

I think to have happiness and peace of mind in life would be an amazing achievement. To be always happy in and with yourself is a dream I hope we all achieve someday. I think it is one that probably (hopefully) comes with age and with any luck we'll get there.

In terms of my career, my absolute dream would be to end up working in fashion (writing, styling, whatever) or as a wedding planner. Not sure how my college course is going to get me to either of those places and I always get laughed at when I say them but sure we'll see. They're the dreams and hopefully someday they could become some sort of a reality.

illiop

I used to have a dream but then, when I found things weren't going my way, my entire life plan was completely shattered. I was devestated and it took me ages to recover so I realised that it was better to take life one step at a time. So at the moment my dream is to master Spanish, do well in my degree, master the ukulele and get back into art and writing which I used to do much more of.

As for the future I try not to think about it but I do intend on finding myself a prince charming and several babies along the way, I would like to have a novel published (even if it bombs) and I want to be eccentric when I'm an old lady.

Fad

In all seriousness, I do have some sort of vague ambitions......

I dont have some lofty ambition of being happy in life all the time (Professional cynic I are), but I do want to be content, I want to work in a job that pays in line with the work I put in. I dont know if I want a desk job or not, I haven't decided on whether I'm going to do Chemistry or Computer Science yet, Comp Sci is definitely a desk job, Chem? Perhaps not so much. Hopefully I'll manage to get in to research of some form, and I'd like to contribute in some way, I want my name associated with X, a principle of some sort named after me would be nice >_>

I want a niceish place to live, I don't necessarily know if I want to live with someone or not, that is something I probably wont actually decide, it'll be dictated by whether I am in a long term relationship or not. I want a kind of library wherever I end up living, just a room with my books in it, but I want one! Might dump instruments in there too.

I want to be able to persue things I enjoy, I want to do an Arts degree at some stage in my life, there's no real career that I have much of an interest in that can be formed out the subjects I'd like to study though (Philosophy, Religion & Theology and Irish, not becoming a priest......>_>). I want to be able to travel, I want to be able to see place people dont generally see, I want to go off the beaten track.

I just want to be content

Jako8

I have loads of dreams and aspirations. All different ones. I've moved on to a new one by the time I've realised my last hasn't come to fruition.

Something I always want to do is smile. And hopefully make others smile too. That's why it's great when I see people laughing and enjoying themselves, I love it.

SarcasticFairy

ohthebaby wrote: »

I think to have happiness and peace of mind in life would be an amazing achievement. To be always happy in and with yourself is a dream I hope we all achieve someday. I think it is one that probably (hopefully) comes with age and with any luck we'll get there.

In terms of my career, my absolute dream would be to end up working in fashion (writing, styling, whatever) or as a wedding planner. Not sure how my college course is going to get me to either of those places and I always get laughed at when I say them but sure we'll see. They're the dreams and hopefully someday they could become some sort of a reality.

Don't mind people! People are silly!

I have notions of becoming a make-up artist, orrrr some kind of journalist in the fashion-y/beauty kinda field (or, if someone would pay me [well] to write a really sarcastic column somewhere, my life would be made >_>) . Vague notions, but notions. The fact I do Law, which has no relevance to either and could not be less airy-fairy, is besides the point. If I wanna put make-up on people, I'll find people who'll let me put make up on 'em. The fact I'm studying something I find interesting should have nothing to do with it! Granted, the more traditional route would be to become a barrister/solicitor, and I won't become a part of the UCD prospectus or anything for becoming Chief Justice or anything, but mneh to that.

Just cos you study history, doesn't mean you gotta be like... a teacher!

Pygmalion

Lots of money.
A job that doesn't suck.
A lot less fail in social situations.

I'd probably be happy with any 2 of the above.

Aoibheann

I don't have anything huge in specific that I am aiming for - dropping out of med obviously took the old neurosurgeon plan out of the equation!

Obviously, I want to be happy. But I have accepted that nobody's ever going to be happy all the time, so I want to be able to look back on my life with as few regrets as I can manage about the choices I've made and where I've ended up as a result.

Career-wise? I honestly have no idea - I could be in research (either maths or physics), I could do a taught Masters in med. physics and combine the best of two worlds I've experienced, I could work in finance.. I could end up doing none of those and still be entirely happy with where I am. I could be a politician, hopefully actually doing something right for this country. I could be Taoiseach. Hell, I could probably take over the world if I wanted to do it enough.

Thing is, I'm ambitious enough to get just about anything I set my mind to - my problem is in setting my mind to the task at hand to begin with. But I'll cop on some day, and I think that's the time for the world to start being afraid.

Oh, a few things I know I have to do at some point. Get published again, and this time something I'm genuinely happy with. Complete the book I've worked on, on-and-off since I was 16. I want to do a marathon, a triathlon (maybe an Ironman one!), cycle the famous mountains of the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a Espana.

I want to (and will!) build my own house. I want to live somewhere that isn't a generic clone of its next-door neighbour in some estate. I want it to be home, not some house I happen to live with.

I hope to keep myself surrounded with the kind of friends I've made within the past year or so. I want to spend as much time as possible with the people I love, and hope to not waste (much) time on silly fights with said people. Like I said before, I don't want regrets - especially not where these people are concerned. my people!

I want to be able to leave my mark on the world, even in some small way. I want to make tiny changes and see what sort of chain reaction follows.

I don't ever want to have to settle for second best.

I'll be honest here - I want everything.

Bobalicious93

I want to visit North Korea.

bythewoods

I want to finish writing my book.
And I will.

Jay P

I don't know what I want. I mean, I'm 19. I don't even know what I want to do for the summer, never mind what I want for the next 70 years (yes, I will like until I'm at least 89). Of course I want to be happy, who doesn't? But I don't really care what the catalyst of my eventual happiness is. To be honest, I wouldn't care if that meant I was married with 7 kids, or twice divorced with a load of friends.

Though on the job side, me and my friend were talking about this a few weeks ago. I'd much rather not have a job where massive amounts of creativity or initiative are required. I'd rather have regular hours, and go into work and just be told what needs to be done, instead of guessing what has to be done.

Then again, like I said, I'm 19. I just finished first year of college. My mind will change. Many times over.

lou91

I want to be content but not complacent.
I think happiness comes when you're really engaging in something, whether it be work, watching tv, or relaxing with friends. It doesn't really matter what it is, just as long as you're there in the moment it's all good. Keeping that in mind, I don't want to have some job I'll start in my 20s and do the same thing for 40 years. I could see myself having several "mini-careers" instead. I'd like to keep building on skills and progressing, but not necessarily in the same field.
More importantly, I'd like to be able to stop myself from always focussing on the end point and just chill and appreciate the journey a bit more.

On the relationship aspect... It's important, but not worth losing yourself for. I think the second worst thing in life would be growing old and dying alone. The worst? Settling for someone you don't really want. Doesn't do anyone any favours.

Basically I want to be a bigger and better version of what am I now.

(And stay hot for as long as possible, naturally)

Craguls

I've some lofty ambitions but nothing really definite; being disappointed at the end of my life is something that I'm afraid of.

Like, I want to be a neuroscientist for a variety of reasons. I want to get a phd and go into research and do something that interests me and I want to travel some more, after that it gets vaguer.

I'd like to visit some places again. I didn't see the parts of Paris I wanted or New York so I need to do them properly. I'd like to visit Tokyo at one point too.

The romantic part of me would like to admit I want to be in a relationship but the realist doesn't believe in marriage. I also don't intend on having kids.

I want to live some place that's nice and quiet but that's still in a city, that I can decorate in a creative way. I want to be surrounded by people who are open minded. I want to be self sufficient and not struggle to make ends meet.

As regards myself I want to develop personally a bit more and I want to be in good health. Maybe be multilingual too.

I'd like a pet hedgehog too, who I'd name him sonic;

jefreywithonef

I wanna grow up to be a debaser.

/gives in to nerdy temptation.

D4RK ONION

You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?

Anyway, I keep picturing these little kids playing some game in this big field or rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean, except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy...

Pygmalion

D4RK ONION wrote: »

You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?

Anyway, I keep picturing these little kids playing some game in this big field or rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean, except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy...

Oh, I get it.

I get jokes.

norwegianwood

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

I want to visit North Korea.

Oi! Get your own dreams, don't be stealing mine!:pac:

QueenOfLeon

I don't really *do* dreams, was never really into the long term planning thing...never even told family that I wanted to do medicine til I was putting in the CAO, even tho i wanted to do it for years :rolleyes:

One and only thing that I've been dreaming about for years is doing a skydive...and thanks to my boyfriend and an amazing birthday prezzie, I'll soon be throwing myself out of a plane...woop!

Cows Go µ

I really want to program computer games, not sure if I'll be able to but I'm going to try my hardest to get there. Doing maths in college at the moment and planning on doing a masters in maths modelling and coding and maybe another one in coding specifically for games. Then I'm going to work in Rare and force them to make another Viva Pinata or Banjo Kazooie. Its going to be awesome.

So long as I pass 3rd maths that is which is looking unlikely at the moment

Pygmalion

Cows Go µ wrote: »

I really want to program computer games, not sure if I'll be able to but I'm going to try my hardest to get there. Doing maths in college at the moment and planning on doing a masters in maths modelling and coding and maybe another one in coding specifically for games. Then I'm going to work in Rare and force them to make another Viva Pinata or Banjo Kazooie. Its going to be awesome.

So long as I pass 3rd maths that is which is looking unlikely at the moment

Someone who wants to program games doing maths :eek:.
Most of the people I know who want to program games for some reason have no idea it's like the most Maths/Physics intense programming ever, so you at least have way better chances than them.

Cows Go µ

Pygmalion wrote: »

Someone who wants to program games doing maths :eek:.
Most of the people I know who want to program games for some reason have no idea it's like the most Maths/Physics intense programming ever, so you at least have way better chances than them.

I'm hoping my maths abilities will make up for my lack of programming skills. Though I'm going to try and learn how to program in Java during the summer. If I can find a good online course, I'd screw everything up if I tried to just learn it by myself

Professey Chin

I just want to fight

Pygmalion

Cows Go µ wrote: »

I'm hoping my maths abilities will make up for my lack of programming skills. Though I'm going to try and learn how to program in Java during the summer. If I can find a good online course, I'd screw everything up if I tried to just learn it by myself

Ewww ewww ewww.

Don't learn Java.
I mean I'd be saying that anyway just because I don't like it, but really games programming is pretty much always done in C/C++.
I wouldn't say they're harder than Java either, they're a bit more tedious to use in some ways but apart from pointers there's really nothing extra to learn, and pointers can be pretty damn useful.

Cows Go µ

I did some C++ in 2nd year. I was going to learn Java because my masters will include it and C# so I thought I would get a head start on it. And do some harder C++ as we only did fairly basic stuff, focusing more on working out the maths than doing hard programming

Pygmalion

Cows Go µ wrote: »

I did some C++ in 2nd year. I was going to learn Java because my masters will include it and C# so I thought I would get a head start on it. And do some harder C++ as we only did fairly basic stuff, focusing more on working out the maths than doing hard programming

A masters including Java and C#?

What is this, a business degree?

Cows Go µ

Nope, maths modelling and coding. Taking real life situations, making a system of mathematical equations to model the situation then making a program to run the system. I'm not entirely sure what its intended for, it doesn't really say. But it is government funded, which makes it awesome.

Jako8

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I just want to fight

Your violent nature worries and scares me. >_>