What were your childhood dreams?

ballsymchugh · 2013-11-13 20:29:50

according to this lady, it's every little girls dreams to own a pet monkey. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/my-monkey-alvin-died-from-depression-after-he-was-stolen-court-case-29751186.html i'm not sure if i remember any sane person saying anything like that. there is a serious side to this case, but that quote just…

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#32 13-11-2013 11:10PM

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I wanted to be a businessman that wore suits and had a briefcase.

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#33 13-11-2013 11:12PM

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I think I wanted to team up with the Autobots and fight the Decepticons.

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#34 13-11-2013 11:14PM

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I wanted a monkey.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055566855

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#35 13-11-2013 11:17PM

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For years, my son wanted to be a speed bump or a hammer head shark.

Now he wants to be Steve Jobs.

I wanted to be a plumber.

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#36 13-11-2013 11:26PM

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I wanted a monkey too. I remember Belfast zoo was closing down and my dad said he would get us a monkey. My brother and I were all excited and started planning what we would do with it, teach it to dance, get it to play football, dress it in cute clothes, put it in the basket in the front of my bicycle etc. Then dad told me he was joking! We were heartbroken.

I also wanted to be an archaeologist. Never happened coz as I grew up I liked the thoughts of rats and worms less!

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#37 13-11-2013 11:27PM

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Me? I wanted to own a sweet shop. Then I could eat as many sweets as I wanted.

In secondary school, I wanted to be a journalist.

I became a psychologist, realised I HATED writing (although I love *doing* research), and as for sweets - meh.
But as I love my job, I'm happy. Very happy.

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#38 13-11-2013 11:29PM

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My dream was to be able to eat coco pops when ever I wanted.

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#39 13-11-2013 11:32PM

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Wibbs wrote: »

Same here. Sooooo much. None of this near earth orbit malarky either. I wanted to go out there. Mars I figured as an 8 year old was next after the moon. I also wanted to be a geologist so mixin the two on mars I would have filled the suit with pee in my glee. Pilot would have been first on the list, but then at 9 I discovered I was very shortsighted and that broke my little heart cos I knew game over. It didn't help that my mathematical abilities would be bested by Coco the chimp.

Then I fell back on geology, well more paleontology. Mad into collecting fossils I was. Drove my dad demented asking him to stop at road cuttings on family holidays Even when we went continental I'd be climbing over rocks, finding fossils and the odd stone tool(the latter were all over the place in France once you got your eye in). It's all probably illegal now. But adults tend to leave weird 8/9 year olds alone so maybe you could still get away with it. If you're weird and 8.

Dad...? Is that you?:pac:

I was almost exactly the same, though in reverse. The geology and paleonthology first and space/military geek after. Never went out foreign fossil-hunting, but I did bring back home huge rocks in the parent's car from the beach that I could barely lift (they were rare though) and happily cut them open to get at the fossils with hammer and chisel.

As time went on, my options and reality conspired against me as regards taking up archeology or paleonthology as a career, though I still keep an eye out when walking on the beach.:)

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#40 13-11-2013 11:47PM

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To become a fireman. My mother even brought me to a fire station and i got to go down the Pole.

Applied for a role with the fire Brigade a couple of years ago but got no where.

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#41 14-11-2013 11:37AM

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I wanted to be a wrestler and i still do!

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