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

freshpopcorn · 03-06-2017 05:09AM

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!

Persephone kindness · 03-06-2017 05:20AM

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!)

SmartinMartin · 03-06-2017 05:28AM

Buried up to me bollix in Bibi Baskin.

Surreptitious · 03-06-2017 05:33AM

A chef and a writer and I achieved both. I never had ideas beyond my station maybe

AnGaelach · 03-06-2017 06:01AM

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 03-06-2017 10:08AM

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!

ger vallely · 03-06-2017 10:12AM

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.

smurfjed · 03-06-2017 10:46AM

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

Now I'm called Captain Smurfjed

Noveight · 03-06-2017 10:48AM

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:

MadamRazz · 03-06-2017 10:50AM

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

Tom Mann Centuria · 03-06-2017 10:51AM

Had no idea, still have no idea.

mackeire · 03-06-2017 10:52AM

A postman.

And now I'm a postman!

MilesMorales1 · 03-06-2017 10:58AM

mackeire wrote: »

A postman.

And now I'm a postman!

Thats quite a stamp of achivement.

corner of hells · 03-06-2017 11:00AM

A soldier.

haveabanana · 03-06-2017 11:03AM

An army man

MRnotlob606 · 03-06-2017 11:03AM

An Archaeologist!

03-06-2017 11:05AM

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.

minktrapper · 03-06-2017 11:09AM

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?!

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

Or maybe you were a guard in rural Ireland.

Bambi985 · 03-06-2017 11:31AM

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.

03-06-2017 11:32AM

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!

Mister Vain · 03-06-2017 11:37AM

A car salesman funnily enough. Then an electrician. Then a computer technician.

The Backwards Man · 03-06-2017 11:40AM

I wanted to be the person that holds the Stop/Go sign at roadworks.

MilesMorales1 · 03-06-2017 11:58AM

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:

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-06-2017 12:02PM

Play centre forward for Ireland and city

Be in a rock band

corner of hells · 03-06-2017 12:23PM

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 ?

Atoms for Peace · 03-06-2017 12:35PM

A teenage mutant ninja turtle.

Winterlong · 03-06-2017 03:03PM

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

Widdershins · 03-06-2017 03:51PM

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:

gormdubhgorm · 03-06-2017 05:59PM

mackeire wrote: »

A postman.

And now I'm a postman!

You obviously like dogs and still do?

Stigura · 03-06-2017 06:55PM

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:

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

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