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What job did you always want to be in?

  • 24-11-2011 3:05pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Corvo


    I always wanted to be a History teacher. Alas, I'm now a professional envelope licker and I'm about as useful to the company I work for as an ashtray on a motorbike. I fear my redundancy may be a stapler and some paper clips.

    So what job did you always want? And are you even close to what your preferred job would be?

    If you unemployed, do you think you will get that job someday?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I always wanted to be a History teacher. Alas, I'm now a professional envelope licker and I'm about as useful to the company I work for as an ashtray on a motorbike. I fear my redundancy may be a stapler and some paper clips.

    So what job did you always want? And are you even close to what your preferred job would be?

    If you unemployed, do you think you will get that job someday?

    Bet you're a hit with the ladies though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Intergalactic evil overlord... there's still a chance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Corvo


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Bet you're a hit with the ladies though.


    Unfortunately not, as my tongue resides inside a mouth which is attached to a very ugly face. It resembles a kicked in biscuit tin :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Politician.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    Always wanted to be a journalist and I am one!

    Living the dreammmmmmm


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    As I child I wanted to be a ballerina. As an adult, I want to be a lawyer. Neither are looking likely to be honest


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    Always wanted to be a journalist and I am one!

    Living the dreammmmmmm

    Me too! Media five! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Some kind of park ranger or geologist in a big national park somewhere like Yosemite, or Yellowstone. One actually stayed with my bro one year, not that I am a begrudger but I made an exception in this case, the bitch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭Shiner11


    What job did I always want to be in?

    I'd love to work for Lego.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Porn Star.

    It came through minus the cameras. Well what I mean is that the women have not spotted the camera yet !!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    I always wanted to be in visual/special effects especially after seeing T2 and Jurassic Park back in the day.

    Oh well. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    Yeah, rub it in guys...:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    as a child i wanted to be a lawyer or paeleontologist(i was on odd child)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    I always wanted to be retired at 30 and very wealthy. I'm 27, so I'm doing okay at getting to 30, not so okay on the retirement and the wealth though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,689 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Millicent wrote: »
    Me too! Media five! :pac:

    Me three. Media friend.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    as a child i wanted to be a lawyer or paeleontologist(i was on odd child)

    If you can't spell it, you can't be it. It's why my friend can't work for the FBI ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    I wanted to play up front for Manchester United and Ireland. This has so far yet to happen :(

    I'm only 21 though so there's still a chance :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    I just want to be rich. Currently sitting pretty with tax-free minimum wage, aw yeah :cool:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    I used to want to be an astronaut.

    But eventually I realised I wasn't going to get that job so I ended up joining the Royal Navy at the age of 16 as soon as I left school in 1997.

    I was in there for a few years and eventually left and have just done several different jobs since then, including working in a cafe and shovelling up dog **** at a boarding kennels.

    Today I went for a job interview at Pearl Windows in the Wingates area of Bolton and I should find out by the end of this week whether or not I have got the job. Pearl make uPVC window frames and it's a hi-tech, computerised factory.

    I'm glad the interview is out of the way, though. Talk about nerve racking. Anyway, tonight I am off out with my mate to watch Al Murray, the Pub Landlord at the Albert Halls in Bolton town centre.


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I want to own/lease a sleazy strip club in England, was almost there a few years ago but the big R came along, I'll get there though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Fbjm


    Music therapist, and I'm currently in the undergrad stage.

    1. get into college.
    2. get a degree in musicology.
    3. get a masters in musicology.
    4. get a doctorate in musicology.
    5. set up a music therapy clinic.
    6. ?????
    7. Profit!!!

    Fúck yeah :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    frag420 wrote: »
    Porn Star.

    It came through minus the cameras. Well what I mean is that the women have not spotted the camera yet !!

    Came through what?


    <awaits hysterical reply>


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I always wanted to be a Journalist until my uncle got me a summer job in London working for a newspaper.


    Jesus wept.... The experience still actually makes me shiver.


    Imagine a grown woman screaming "Could you please refrain from using the employee mugs you thick faacking caaaan­t" into the face of a 15 year old.

    There are way more but Im actually getting homicidal thinking about it.



    Now I want to be an anything that will get me money.


    Aim low, reach your goals, avoid disappointment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I've always wanted to be a doctor. I'm not particularly close though but fingers crossed in a few more years!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭tiredcity


    Always wanted to work in the music industry (the organisation side of things rather than as a musician). Pootled about on the margins of doing so for years but decided unless I invented a time machine back to the 1970's it wasn't gonna happen.

    Now in year two of four of grad entry medicine and very much enjoying it, so could be worse :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭megaten


    Illustrator. Still working on it in my spare time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    Batsy wrote: »
    I used to want to be an astronaut.

    But eventually I realised I wasn't going to get that job so I ended up joining the Royal Navy at the age of 16 as soon as I left school in 1997.

    I was in there for a few years and eventually left and have just done several different jobs since then, including working in a cafe and shovelling up dog **** at a boarding kennels.

    Today I went for a job interview at Pearl Windows in the Wingates area of Bolton and I should find out by the end of this week whether or not I have got the job. Pearl make uPVC window frames and it's a hi-tech, computerised factory.

    I'm glad the interview is out of the way, though. Talk about nerve racking. Anyway, tonight I am off out with my mate to watch Al Murray, the Pub Landlord at the Albert Halls in Bolton town centre.

    You know you could have just stopped there. That would have sufficiently answered the thread question. You didn't have to tell us all your life story afterwards :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭lucycat


    I wanted to be either a vet or doctor - plans backfired when I realised that blood makes me faint/puke :(

    Strangely enough, I never wanted to either do anything with numbers or work in an office - I am a tax accountant now *go figure*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    lucycat wrote: »
    I wanted to be either a vet or doctor - plans backfired when I realised that blood makes me faint/puke :(

    Strangely enough, I never wanted to either do anything with numbers or work in an office - I am a tax accountant now *go figure*
    I wanted to be a vet too. Until I saw one sticking his hand up a cow's ass.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭brownacid


    Fbjm wrote: »
    Music therapist, and I'm currently in the undergrad stage.

    1. get into college.
    2. get a degree in musicology.
    3. get a masters in musicology.
    4. get a doctorate in musicology.
    5. set up a music therapy clinic.
    6. ?????
    7. Profit!!!

    Fúck yeah :cool:

    Yeah bother getting teh masters when you could just go straight for the pretty huge dick?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭Vanbis


    Fireman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭shangri la


    Own a beach bar in a tropical paradise that make enough money to cover the cost of the beach front villa and porsche.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    I wanted to be an astronaut, or a dinosaur


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I always wanted to be a writer but right now, I've got weriter's block up the wazoo on account of being stressed about college. Mrrrrrr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭dirtyghettokid


    meteorologist.

    instead i'm an unemployed graphic designer


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭CFG92


    Horologist


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    I've always wanted to be a Firetruck.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Reece Rhythmic Bifocal


    a writer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    A musician who makes money from his own music (ha some fuppin chance) or something involving legal explosions / firearms


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Sky King wrote: »
    A musician who makes money from his own music (ha some fuppin chance) or something involving legal explosions / firearms

    the army?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I was talked out of it and into the family business with promises of a lifestyle where I could do lines of coke off a hookers ass. That dream has gone tits up (not in a good way) because of the recession and now I am too old for the army and poor.

    Plus I don't really fancy getting programmed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    A House husband (dreammmmmmmmm)

    Get up about 10, put my bets on, have a few drinks, order the Chinese, then write a list of the things and cleaning that needs to be done and give it to her when she comes in from work.

    PS no children.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    As a child I wanted to be a soldier - and I'm a soldier :D

    90% of the time its a 9-5'er and I bitch & moan like everyone else.

    But the other 10% really is a life less ordinary :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Have wanted to be a fireman for a long time now.

    Will apply next time they're recruiting, but that won't be for a few years, and even then I'll probably be up against almost every tradesman in the country :(

    I'm a web developer now. Would prefer if it was just a hobby though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    I wanted to play up front for Manchester United and Ireland. This has so far yet to happen :(

    I'm only 21 though so there's still a chance :cool:

    No there's not :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Wanted to be a carpenter but not good enough.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Was hoping to get into Aeronautical engineering, but took a course closer to home. A decision I regret more and more every day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    I always wanted to be a child counsellor. My wait goes on.

    EDIT: An air traffic controller would be pretty cool too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    ATC? Fk that stressfest!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Wanted to be a carpenter but not good enough.

    Why did you fancy skinny Karen


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