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What did you want to be when you were growing up?

  • 02-06-2017 11:32PM
    #1
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭


    When you were growing up, what job did you want to be? Dream job sort of thing.

    I wanted to be a steam train driver like in thomas the tank engine. Then my dad said that wasn't a realistic career and I could join the army and be a soldier like him. Then that didn't happen, and since I grew up I've no idea what I'd like to do for a long term career.

    How about you?


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  • #2
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Farmer. Because, I've absolutely Always been obsessed with trapping things. Thus, even my little preschool mind had it worked out that I should be a farmer. Then, I'd own lots of land and would be able to trap on it :) F**kin Easy!

    Quite funny, really. I'm now a retired, rural pest controller. Living in an old family farm house. Amidst nothing But farms. For as far as the eye can see, in any direction. And I have full permission to set traps on more land than I'm now fit enough to even walk to.

    Oh, and my farmer friends slog their guts out, working dawn till dusk and beyond. I just mooch about, looking for tracks 'n sh!t.

    F**king cracked it, didn't I?! :D


  • #3
    Miss Demeanour
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    A tree.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
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    I always wanted to be an archaeologist when I was in primary school. At the same age a girl I went to school with also wanted to be one and last I heard she had been out in Greece for years working as one. Pretty impressive to be able to make a living out of a passion.


  • #5
    harry Bailey esq
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    I wanted to be in the A-Team


  • #6
    Your Face
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  • #7
    jamesbere
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    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    A tree.

    You can always branch out into something else


  • #8
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    jamesbere wrote: »
    You can always branch out into something else

    Ugh.


  • #9
    Thelomen Toblackai
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    Astronaut until I discovered computers then a computer programmer. The thought of being able to spend all day on a computer just amazed me at the time.

    So not sure if I'm living the dream or wasting my life.


  • #10
    Widdershins
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    A firewoman (as in the fire brigade, not some sort of comic superhero) or a spy. I still do!


  • #11
    scwazrh
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    I wanted to be a Garda but was lured onto building sites with the promise of more money .Still would love to join the gardai but too old and fat now plus god only knows how they live on their wages .Definitely the most underpaid public jobs - when county council office jobs pay more money than someone who is risking their own safety for others , you have to wonder why anyone would do it ..


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  • #12
    Jesus Wept
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    a firetruck


  • #13
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    A nurse. Funny that because if I see any blood I'm out like a light. I once saw a man with a bag of transfusion blood hanging on a drip in the oncology ward, next thing I know I'm staring up at two concerned nurses faces looking down on me. Definitely wasn't an option for me


  • #14
    Atlantic Dawn
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    GDY151


    JCB/excavator driver, and if I am honest I would still bloody love to be if there was a good weeks wages in it.


  • #15
    Persephone kindness
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    I'm a fairy. I wanted to try and be human..i'm tryin :P


  • #16
    freshpopcorn
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    Garda!


  • #17
    Persephone kindness
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Garda!
    All my cousins wanted to be firemen :P


  • #18
    gormdubhgorm
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    A penguin (They got to swim a lot - until I realised they ate fish - I did not like fish)

    A Tennis Player - (Boris Becker won Wimbledon)

    A Boxer - (Barry Mcguigan won the world title)

    A carpenter - (I thought if it was good enough for that Jesus fella it might be a good idea - but then I thought how come he did not know how to get rid of the nails? )

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #19
    Bobby1981
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    I just wanted not to be poor, to be different. I just wanted peace at home and for no one to pick on me at school as life wasnt a bed of roses at home.

    It was so foookin painful and life long lasting standing out!

    Nowadays school uniforms are neutral colours so its not so obvious but in my school, we had this distinctive school uniform that had such bright colours when new. We were poor so I had to go to the school once term had started and get a used uniform that had faded many times in the wash....EVERYONE knew when I started that school that I had got my uniform from the 'office'....

    On top of that, I turned up late because of chit at home on my first day at 'upper'school and I had no pencil case or school bag or anything. My face still burns at the shame I felt and I get upset over it. I suffered social anxiety for so many years.

    I also never spoke much but wrote like a demon. I became very emotional and I am still that way now. I feel things deeply. I still write and read and listen to music like a demon and gravitate towards those who are helpless and on the fringes of society.


  • #20
    Persephone kindness
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    Buffy the Vampire slayer...don't laugh.



  • #21
    Dufflecoat Fanny
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    A dufflecoat fanny


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    21 posts and no "footballer" or "rock star" yet?


  • #23
    Bobby1981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Bobby1981


    Deleted User wrote: »
    21 posts and no "footballer" or "rock star" yet?


    Not a 'Rock Star' but I often fantasized about being a Country Star seeing as I was drowned in that music when young both Country and Irish.

    I still love it now and play it often although I have no desire to be a Country Star anymore:P


  • #24
    Persephone kindness
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    Oh I wanted to be an Opera singer at one point:) I kinda tiny but i still have fierce pipes!


  • #25
    Persephone kindness
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    Bobby1981 wrote: »
    Not a 'Rock Star' but I often fantasized about being a Country Star seeing as I was drowned in that music when young both Country and Irish.

    I still love it now and play it often although I have no desire to be a Country Star anymore:P
    Do you still sing :) ??


  • #26
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I wanted to be Maria Callas Or Elizabeth Schwarzkopf.


  • #27
    Persephone kindness
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    Or kate bush.


  • #28
    Outlaw Pete
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    A Stunt Man.....

    After watching The Fall Guy I would go at back garden in the pitch dark and jump over stuff, doing shoulder rolls as I landed and then pulling out my gun (wasn't real - but it did have some caps). I swore some day I too would have a cool pick up truck and a hot blonde like Jody riding shotgun.



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    Think when it came to my stunt man career, I peaked in that back garden... still a smidgen of hope I'll drive a pick up truck someday though... but Heather Thomas, even at 59, is still out of my league... holy schmoley!


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  • #29
    Bobby1981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Bobby1981


    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    Do you still sing :) ??


    I do but I can't sing for chit now :P


  • #30
    Persephone kindness
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    Bobby1981 wrote: »
    I do but I can't sing for chit now :P
    Everyone can. You just have to learn and practice :) But you don't have to sing to enjoy music of course :)


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  • #31
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    When you were growing up, what job did you want to be? Dream job sort of thing.

    I wanted to be a steam train driver like in thomas the tank engine. Then my dad said that wasn't a realistic career and I could join the army and be a soldier like him. Then that didn't happen, and since I grew up I've no idea what I'd like to do for a long term career.

    How about you?

    Pilot


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