I always wanted to be a jewel thief. I like things that glisten. Shiny I liked the idea of outwitting security and scaling castle walls.
Also wanted to be a detective. I had my plastic gun and my fake shield, and my sister and I would do commando rolls around the front yard. Listen all y'all this is sabotage.
In high school I wanted to study to be a forensic psychologist. My stupid career's councellor told me (in Yr 10 mind you) that I didn't have the grades and I'd be better suited to a reception position. Cunt . And I believed him
Sadly, my first actual job was cashier at Red Rooster. Bubble well and truly burst.
What did you wanna be? Did you get there, change paths, move beyond??
I got accepted to be a paramedic (career Ive wanted to do since I was 8 ) in qld at the start of this year but then got screwed over at the last minute ( I had literally packed everything and was about to move there) So its back to uni in 08 to study Paramedic sciences here and hopefully get a gig in melbourne. I don't have a clue what else i could do... Definately not be stuck behind a desk 9-5.
We had a careers module at High School and I got Sound Engineer, Journalist and Radio Broadcaster as best options for me.
I've worked in all those professions and have still ended up with a 9 - 5 desk job.
When I was young I always dreamed of being taller. Not there yet.
I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be the center of attention. I wanted the glory, I wanted the fame. I wanted the pretty girls to come up and say, "Hi, I see that you're good at Centipede."
have been everything from work for dole coordinator (lansacping WTf?)
to retail, to hospitality, to making installations to marketing wierd shit, to removals girl.
then worked for multinationals as their 'token freak" and got my ideas ripped off, now in a semi good for me job with lots of stress.
still no idea what comes next.
scary kinda.
the untrodden path is my only expectation. (although, dream job is to be paid to talk, many references available)
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For a little while I wanted to be a CNC operator (yes I dared to dream) then dad told me they made bugger all money. Then I wanted to be a Mechatronics/Robotics engineer (yeah, I was pretty cool).
I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that, contary to what Science Fiction movies would have us believe, Robotics engineers get very little pussy.
What I failed to understand was that HR professionals get even less, mainly because nearly all male HR people are homosexuals, closet homosexuals, or wimps.
I think when I was really young I wanted to be a Ghost Buster or a Ninja. I'd still like to be either, would probably prefer a Ghostbuster as those grey jump suits look comfy and you get to run around NYC all day smoking cigars and shooting lasers whilst making wise cracks.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
mrj wrote:
I think when I was really young I wanted to be a Ghost Buster or a Ninja. I'd still like to be either, would probably prefer a Ghostbuster as those grey jump suits look comfy and you get to run around NYC all day smoking cigars and shooting lasers whilst making wise cracks.
So your seriously telling me you've never dreamt of being a frog, crossing roads all day and dodging cars?
mrj wrote:
I think when I was really young I wanted to be a Ghost Buster or a Ninja. I'd still like to be either, would probably prefer a Ghostbuster as those grey jump suits look comfy and you get to run around NYC all day smoking cigars and shooting lasers whilst making wise cracks.
So your seriously telling me you've never dreamt of being a frog, crossing roads all day and dodging cars?
I did, when I was 5, but it very quickly gave way to the Ghostbuster thing.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
I wanted to be an Ant Whisperer or Dr Who's daughter.
Peter Davison would rush in to save me from double maths. In my head.
I guess that I am what I always dreamed I would be. Except for Dr Who's daughter. But that was never going to happen unless I wore the straightjacket for the nice men in the white coats.
I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be the center of attention. I wanted the glory, I wanted the fame. I wanted the pretty girls to come up and say, "Hi, I see that you're good at Centipede."
when I was really little (toddler) I wanted to be a paleontologist. I fucking loved dinosaurs man. I think I learnt dinosaur scientific names before I learnt my barn-yard animals.
Primary school saw breif flashes of jet pilot but still paleontology mostly.
Early highschool-year 10 - animal psychology/behavioural biology.
By year 12 more focuson on conservation.
At the start of uni it was all about wet schleorphy ecology. Focused on gliding possums and forestry alot, spent a bit of time camping around vic chassing gldiing possums and visiting logging coups.
By third year I'd developed a good relationship with a botany lecturuer and got pretty excited about her seaweed work. Worked on seaweed with her briefly bit after uni. Realised that we knew fuck all about marine systems compared to what's on land, which I found really appealing.
Then someohow I stumbled into sharks and stingrays and here I am. I will be in this field untill I have a mid-life crisis or retire I'd say.
So no dinosaurs. I've sticked in the general vein of science/animals/biology throught though. I think I would be happy doing any conservation based research, regardless of the the animal or habitat.
I'm pretty sure I wanted to be a computer programmer when I was like 8. Maybe that wasn't such a stupid dream. Code monkey wouldn't be so bad, definitley better than current situation.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
if someone who knew the future, pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives... could you then kill that child?
only if it didn't want to be called "Master".
DRS wrote:It’s uplifting while we drift through time,
‘cause we keep pushing the vibe.
if someone who knew the future, pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives... could you then kill that child?
only if it didn't want to be called "Master".
double lolz
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
hmm i used to want to be a welder then a lawyer then i turned 14 and hated everything.
Someone convinced me architecture was a good safe respectable profession, and art had no real good 'prospects'.
Architecture however is the stalest most cock sucking bottom feeding profession in the business, really boring slow dredging crap, always at the 'whim of a thousand fuckwits' (developers, builders, engineers, clients, planners, the public)
Now im grown up Im going to go back and try 'art' (yes lol ill be poor and dirty)
primary school: Comic book artist/ part time jungle mercenary (loved "Predator" as a kid)
year7+8: Video game artist (I gots books and books af graph paper at home with characters rendered in 8 bit colour I laboured over for hours and hours)
year 9: Proffessional drop out/graffiti artist/ trouble maker/ MC with NWA
year 10+11: Comic book artist (again)
year 12: "Real" artist having exhibitions and the like
18 years old to 22: Artist
22- now: Live off whatever I can convince people to pay me to design/make/draw/edit etc
I guess since primary school I always wanted to create something so I have been lucky enough to wind up doing that!
nic wrote:Someone convinced me architecture was a good safe respectable profession, and art had no real good 'prospects'.
Architecture however is the stalest most cock sucking bottom feeding profession in the business, really boring slow dredging crap, always at the 'whim of a thousand fuckwits' (developers, builders, engineers, clients, planners, the public) Cheers career counselling
Wanted to be a fashion designer since I was 4 and I got this badass fashion plate set. Year 12 came around and the counsellor told me that my work wasn't good enough and should instead be a hairdresser...fucker.
Now have almost completed a bachelor in urban planning, working in the field, hating it 90% of the time and considering going to work in Palestine for a few months before coming back and seriously working on my design stuff... 8 years later.
I'll get to it... eventually.
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I wanted to be many things, but have always gone the other way. Mainly the wrong way...
What I would really love to be is a social worker/mentor for kids who have been abandoned/suffered neglect.
And also have a book of either poetry or a kick ass story published one day...but still bit on the shy side sharing my writtings.
I'm one of those people who starts a project, leaves it unfinished because I get bored to easily and start something else...
I liked the idea of outwitting security and scaling castle walls.
. And I believed him 
