I want to be... a tree (",)

RotalicaV · 03-11-2005 11:45AM

Bard wrote:

I wanted to work in radio... presenting, producing, etc.

I'm now a salesman in a computer retail outlet... AND a presenter and producer on a local community radio station \o/ - so I guess I've (sort of) realised that dream.

Next step is to make it a paid job/career...

What about your dream to live in a trailer park, with a fat yank twice your age for three years?

Sammyjo · 03-11-2005 12:00PM

when i was about three or four i wanted to be a meterologist and used to spend my time drawing maps of ireland (well what i thought looked like maps of ireland). Then soon after i wanted to do anything that was involved with horses. After jurassic park i wanted to be a palentologist, at the time i wasnt too sure what it was but if it involved dinosaurs i thought that would be cool! when i hit 13 i just wanted to be famous, but seeing as i couldnt dance, sing, act and was too short to be a model, that kinda didnt work out.....

misswex · 03-11-2005 12:12PM

When I was 5 I wanted to be a Nun!!!!!!!!!!

di11on · 03-11-2005 12:29PM

Misswex: How did that turn out?

Should we call you sister?

Binomate · 03-11-2005 03:06PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

I was making a Monkey Island 2 reference... probably a bit too abstract of me...

Oh right! My bad.

JungleBunny · 03-11-2005 03:25PM

I wanted to be a zoologist and only work with monkeys, but only the baby monkeys. I was very fussy!
For a while I also wanted to drive a JCB. I think it was the yellow colour that got me?!

Ended up working with a bunch of monkeys in IT, so I guess I kinda got what I wished for I guess.

monkeyfudge · 03-11-2005 03:27PM

JungleBunny wrote:

I wanted to be a zoologist and only work with monkeys, but only the baby monkeys. I was very fussy!
For a while I also wanted to drive a JCB. I think it was the yellow colour that got me?!

Ended up working with a bunch of monkeys in IT, so I guess I kinda got what I wished for I guess.

I like this post because it mentions monkeys a lot.

audge · 03-11-2005 03:27PM

My ma tells me that when i was a kid I wanted to work in a sweet shop, so I could eat all the sweets, then we drove past cadburys one day, and when she told me it was a chocolate facotry i swore i would work there one day.... what a fat dumb kid I was!

eefs · 03-11-2005 03:31PM

I really wanted to be a teacher so I could write on the blackboard.

Then, I realised I was ****e at looking after kids.

So, now I'm 6 months away from being a qualified journalist. No children there!

dahooligan · 03-11-2005 03:37PM

Well, I wanted to be a photographer when I was a wee lad.. then a football star/webhosting genius (it sounded good in my head) Then because all the lads in my class in school were talkin about becoming a DJ - when it was still a craze like - I saved up like mad and bought me first set of decks. Then I went on to become a worldclass superstar DeeJay.. me arse! But it did lead me to do a course in radio, where I met the love of my life and all things became happy after that!

But at my young age I am a qualified barman, bouncer, DJ (if you can be qualified to do that), and I have worked as a plumber, electrician, steel erector (heh heh), and labourer.. and I'm happy as a plum now working for RTE where I get lots of money to pretend to be busy... nice!:D

:rolleyes:

:eek: :cool:

BoozyBabe · 03-11-2005 03:41PM

Wanted to work in music, teaching or something like that.
Now I work in IT (which is nearly the same, NOT)

Have you noticed how many people here are in IT!!!!
Don't we ever do any work??????

dahooligan · 03-11-2005 03:48PM

BoozyBabe wrote:

Don't we ever do any work??????

Ha ha ha ha ha, sure when you've access to the net you're hardly gonna let something as trivial as work get in the way! I'd say that if I had no access to the net my productivity as a worker would go up at least 30% to 40%... don't tell any employer friends though - they might take it away!

audge · 03-11-2005 03:55PM

seriously, every week I do feck all until the day before my deadline, then I kill myself to get it all done, and have the neck to complain about being overworkd!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Sometimes I think about having boards blocked, just so I could get some work done..... but then I think...............NAAAAHHHhhhhhhh!!:p

*Lees* · 03-11-2005 05:38PM

My dad told me this... I don't remember really but I wanted to be a shop keeper when i was small!.... So i could eat all the sweets!!!

Ehhh... I'm kinda happy that I opted for the receptionist job instead!! (my teeth would probably be falling out of my head by now!!:rolleyes: )

nobodythere · 03-11-2005 10:45PM

I wanted to be a JCB....
no... not a JCB driver... a JCB.
And I will be.

I wanted to be a priest for a time being.

Also, dahooligan, steel erector? As in putting up the spire

. How'd you become a qualified barman anyway

trishh · 03-11-2005 11:20PM

misswex wrote:

When I was 5 I wanted to be a Nun!!!!!!!!!!

OMG !!!! Same here, only I was older, like 9/10, after my mother shoved a book about becoming a nun under my nose !!!!

NineMoons · 03-11-2005 11:31PM

Since I was 10 or 11, I've wanted to be a barrister. So far I've got the law degree and a Masters and am paralegaling while I get money together for going to the King's Inns. I'm nine months and one degree away from doing what I've wanted to do since I was a kid. YAY!

The only thing that worries me is that I won't like it when I finally get there!

DEmeant0r · 04-11-2005 12:52AM

When I was small I wanted to be a writer/journalist, I'm doing a degree in I.T now -_-;;

YeatsCounty · 04-11-2005 01:50AM

In order, from age four:

Fireman
T-Rex
Astronaut
Adventurer (that seems to have come true actually)
Football + Gaelic Football goalie
Teacher (On course for that, hope to become a lecturer within 15 years after I get good experience in my career).

Currently taking a year our of college, completed three years and have a Diploma in Computer Science. It's a far bit away from a T-Rex.

jrey1981 · 04-11-2005 02:37AM

Apparently when I was very young I used to say I wanted to be a gardener - I used to help my Grandad in his vegetable garden.....then went to uni where I was trying to make it in business at the same time as studying - was naive enough to think I would become a millionaire....

dahooligan · 04-11-2005 10:50AM

grasshopa wrote:

Also, dahooligan, steel erector? As in putting up the spire . How'd you become a qualified barman anyway

Ha ha ha, like I keep telling me missus, if it wasn't for me the Luas line would never have been delivered! Actually I did do some work for SIAC who were the main fabricators of the Spike... so technically - I made the Spire. Thanx for the €4m! Guinness's run a bar technicians course which qualifies ya and I know a lot of people who do the hotel and catering course in college are now qualified barmen too.

Deadwing · 04-11-2005 12:53PM

I wanted to be a shark

Then i found out you cant grow up to be cool things like sharks and life suddenly got a whole lot duller

Miss Fluff · 04-11-2005 03:10PM

When I was younger I wanted to be grown up, now I'm grown up I wouldn't mind being younger

I want to be... a tree (",)

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