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

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  • #32
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,858 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    All my cousins wanted to be firemen :P

    What did they end up doing?

    I ended up being a bag of fresh popcorn!


  • #33
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    What did they end up doing?

    I ended up being a bag of fresh popcorn!
    Diff things. One is an accountant, one is a soldier, one is a retail manager, one studying to be a paramedic . :) One a legal secretary :)

    That's one side the other side banking, IT, medical receptionist ( she wanted to be an Irish dancer had like 150 trophies!)


  • #34
    SmartinMartin
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    Buried up to me bollix in Bibi Baskin.


  • #35
    Surreptitious
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    A chef and a writer and I achieved both. I never had ideas beyond my station maybe :)


  • #36
    AnGaelach
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    Various things; a soldier, a politician, a spy, a businessman, a lawyer. Whatever I can get my hands on I suppose.


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  • #37
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    A chef and a writer and I achieved both. I never had ideas beyond my station maybe :)
    Well done, there was another lady around these parts for a while who posted about being both a chef and a writer too. Must be a common career choice for people!


  • #38
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    A hippy! Honestly, I thought after seeing the movie Hair that that was the life for me. Failing that I wanted to be a writer.


  • #39
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,745 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Living close to Dublin airport I was always fascinated by planes and dreamt of being a pilot......

    Now I'm called Captain Smurfjed :)


  • #40
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    I remember we had a Spanish couple call to the door looking for a place to pitch their tent for a few nights back when I was 7 or 8. They stayed out in the field behind the house, lovely people!

    For a few months after that I told my mother I wanted to be a tourist when I grew up :pac:


  • #41
    MadamRazz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭MadamRazz


    An archer or a supervillian. Or even better, a librarian.


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  • #42
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,336 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Had no idea, still have no idea.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #43
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    A postman.

    And now I'm a postman!


  • #44
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    mackeire wrote: »
    A postman.

    And now I'm a postman!

    Thats quite a stamp of achivement.


  • #45
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    A soldier.


  • #46
    haveabanana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭haveabanana


    An army man


  • #47
    MRnotlob606
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    An Archaeologist!


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So many things. When I was very small I wanted to marry a prince and become a princess. I remember talking with my little friends in the yard of my primary school about my princess dream :) Next up it was an archaeologist. I wasad about dinosaurs. During my teens it was a writer, a band manager, a vet, a social worker, a psychologist, moving very much in to helping others.


  • #49
    minktrapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭minktrapper


    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[/QUOTE]

    Where did you get a job as a rural pest controller.

    Or maybe you were a guard in rural Ireland.


  • #50
    Bambi985
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    Had my head in the clouds for most of my childhood. Wanted to be a professional tennis player, then a writer, then a singer, then back to a writer again - at which point I decided to study Journalism and ended up working in broadcast instead.

    At 31 I still don't know what I want to be. Thinking a lawyer is next on the list.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    Bambi985 wrote: »
    Had my head in the clouds for most of my childhood. Wanted to be a professional tennis player, then a writer, then a singer, then back to a writer again - at which point I decided to study Journalism and ended up working in broadcast instead.

    At 31 I still don't know what I want to be. Thinking a lawyer is next on the list.

    Oh I forgot to mention journalist and lawyer! :D


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  • #52
    Mister Vain
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    A car salesman funnily enough. Then an electrician. Then a computer technician.


  • #53
    The Backwards Man
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    I wanted to be the person that holds the Stop/Go sign at roadworks.


  • #54
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    Had my head in the clouds for most of my childhood. Wanted to be a professional tennis player, then a writer, then a singer, then back to a writer again - at which point I decided to study Journalism and ended up working in broadcast instead.

    At 31 I still don't know what I want to be. Thinking a lawyer is next on the list.

    No harm in wanting stuff sure :pac:


  • #55
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Play centre forward for Ireland and city

    Be in a rock band


  • #56
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I wanted to be the person that holds the Stop/Go sign at roadworks.

    Should that not be a go/stop sign for you ?


  • #57
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    A teenage mutant ninja turtle.


  • #58
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I wanted to be a spy. Like James bond.
    But I don't like vodka martinis so that dream died.


  • #59
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Winterlong wrote: »
    I wanted to be a spy. Like James bond.
    But I don't like vodka martinis so that dream died.

    I went to a bar with a boyfriend when I was a youngish teenager, and on impulse, asked for a Martini. Neat. I hadn't a clue what it was or how it's normally drunk. I bit back the ''shaken, not stirred'', thank God. I had trouble keeping my face from turning inside out from the taste. :mad:


  • #60
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,281 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    mackeire wrote: »
    A postman.

    And now I'm a postman!

    You obviously like dogs and still do?

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • #61
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭Stigura


    minktrapper wrote: »
    Where did you get a job as a rural pest controller.

    Or maybe you were a guard in rural Ireland.

    Self employed. I was once in the local creamery when the van of one of the big nationals pulled up. This poor bloke got out. Uniform struck me as somewhat 'well worn' and, as he came past me, I saw there was absolutely no life in his dull, black eyes.

    Just think' His entire career consisted of driving from one soulless warehouse to another. Walking to the same points. Kicking a box. Opening it. Staring balefully in ~ probably long since past the point of even thinking, " What the hell went so wrong, in my life, that I've come to this? ".

    If only we'd met some years ago. Before I retired and gave all my gear to a mate in england. I could have shown you more traps than you'd ever imagined! I'd also been a Trap Collector. I had every make and size and model of all of them! Half a dozen Fenn Mink Cages alone. All different.

    Ever passing through my neck of the woods? I could show ye my Fenn Cat Cage. Special Edition. Only made to special order. Green plastic coated mesh! And my Fuller Cat Cage. Built like a f**king tank.

    But, if ye Really know anything about the old traps and their history? I think the Fenn Mk 1 Vermin should do the trick! :cool:


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