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Subject: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bobert Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:44 PM Okay, this oughtta be a lot more fun than fussin' with CarolC over the 10 Commandments... Ahhhh, when you were a a youngin' what were your carrer aspirations? Did you want to ba a fireman, nurse, lawyer 'er what?... I wanted to be an achietect. My mom worked for one, Mr. Parlie, and I liked ro draw so I just figured I's be one myself. I actually made it thru the first semester in college before figuring out that archietects ain't nuthin' but engineeers & mathmaticans so I changed majors... But how about the rest of you in Mudville? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: John Hardly Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:46 PM All I ever really wanted to do was be in music. ...after my pro basketball phase anyway. I'm a potter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: CarolC Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:06 PM I wanted to be a zookeeper. And I did that (be a zookeeper). And I decided that, A. I hate zoos, B. I hate stinking like animal shit all of the time, and C. I hate zoos. I also wanted to be a weaver (of cloth). And I did that. I still like doing it, but I find now that I can't weave fast enough to do it for a living. And I also wanted to own a little store or shop of some kind. I came very close to doing that at one point, but that one slipped through my fingers like sand through an hour glass ;-) I still might do that one some day. At some point, I decided I wanted to be a mother. And I did that. It was great, and now my son is all grown up and out on his own. And later on, after all of that, I wanted to be a counselor (psychotherapeutic). I still wouldn't mind being able to do that, but I'm not in a position right now to get the necessary education and credentials. These days, what I am doing suits me just fine, but I still might do some of that other stuff some day (or again). But not the zookeeper part. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Clinton Hammond Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:16 PM What was I gonna do? I think I'm doin' it... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:27 PM The chinchilla in the morris dancer video. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Chris Green Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:29 PM Grow up. Never managed it, I'm afraid! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Padre Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:31 PM At 16 - I was going to be a doctor At 21 - I was going to be a research biochemist At 25 - I just wanted a job At 60+ - Now I see what I was meant to do! Padre |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:35 PM (sigh) Ah, youth, glorious youth...had it, and had no idea what to do with it at the time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: RangerSteve Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:39 PM Like Duelingbazoukis, I also didn't grow up, at least not completely. I wanted to be a policeman, fireman, sailor, park ranger, musician, cowboy and lighthouse keeper. I have done the first five, and for a while was a cop and fireman simultaneously. Life doesn't get much better than that. The job of cowboy was an impractical dream, and the lighthouse keeper bit came from a period during 8th grade when I grew extremely cynical and a job that involved little contact with the human race looked really good. I outgrew that phase by 11th grade. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: gnu Date: 05 Apr 05 - 08:40 PM Bobert said: "...so I changed majors...". What DID you do? engineergnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: jimmyt Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:03 PM My original plan was to be a professional jazz trumpet player, but I got sidetracked. I am having more fun with music now than I ever did then. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:09 PM I wanted to be a cartoonist, and a singer and guitarist. I ended up in Geology, and spent most of my life as Director of a Museum. I still fool around with cartooning, singing and guitar playing. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: kendall Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:22 PM As a teen ager, I wanted to be a forest ranger. Ended up being a Fish & Wildlife Conservation officer. Not too far off. I told my father I wanted to be a truck driver, he said he wouldn't stand in my way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Ebbie Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:26 PM First I wanted to be a schoolteacher- and then I found out that they get paid. I lost my innocence then and there. Then I thought that when I got to be 17 (I don't know why that was the magic number) I would adopt LOTS of kids; I was never going to marry. sigh |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: sixtieschick Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:29 PM I wanted to be a black blues singer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:32 PM I like your attitude, Ebbie. You might better have been born in a traditional society, such as existed long prior to the arrival of a certain value system we are all saddled with now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:38 PM As the son and gandson of engineers, I figured I'd be one, too, since I really liked engineering. In seventh grade, I decided I wanted to be a Catholic priest, so I went off to the minor seminary in ninth grade (age 14). I stayed for eight years and got a wonderful eduction, but I decided I wanted to be a husband and father. So, I've worked in the church as a volunteer and unpaid teacher all these years, but I was employed as a U.S. Government investigator, something I never dreamed of doing. -Joe Offer, retired- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:43 PM I was going to be a teacher but discovered that I hate adolescents. So, I did something else for about thirty years until I decided I'd rather starve than do it anymore. I have been successfully starving for four years now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:47 PM That explains your bitter self-loathing, then. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Rapparee Date: 05 Apr 05 - 09:50 PM Let's see. When I left 8th grade, the nuns asked us what we wanted to do. I told them that I wanted to be a policeman, even a detective. Ten years later I worked as a Military Policeman and in the Army's CID -- the detective arm of the MPs. When I was in high school I wanted to be a high school graduate, and maybe go to college. I got both my wishes, even though the college part was interupted by my Rich Uncle Samuel calling my name. When I got out of the Army, I wanted to be a college graduate and go to Library School. I did that; ran out of money, moved to Ohio from Illinois, and got a job in a small library as a Reference Librarian. Haven't looked back since. Well, yeah, I finally did finish Library School, getting my Master's degree (MS) from CWRU. Since 1971 I've been working as a professional librarian, and I've been having a ball. I mean, yeah, I've had lots of other things I've wanted to try -- assassin, stud, cowboy, secret agent, Lord Of The Universe, spaceman, theoretical physicist, mountain man, hero and so forth -- but this is pretty nice and a heckuva lot of fun. Of course, you never heard of a RICH librarian, but what the heck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Deckman Date: 05 Apr 05 - 10:12 PM I grew up as the son of a master/magical carpenter and builder. He presented me with my first hammer when I was ten. I threw my hammer away when I was 23 ... I was tired of hammering. I then wanted to be: a folksinger, a counsellor, a real estate salesman, a prostitute, a commercial fisherman, a logger, a casket maker, a bar keep, a park ranger, a radio announcer. For the last 40 years years I've been trying to replicate my Father. I'm getting close! CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: jacqui.c Date: 05 Apr 05 - 10:21 PM I wanted to be a hairdresser and studied at college for a year and a half before contracting dermatitis and getting pregnant. Three kids later I went to Teacher Training College, got my certificate but no job. Ended up working in an office as an injury claims negotiator, a job I loved. Gave that up to hop the pond and marry Kendall! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bobert Date: 05 Apr 05 - 10:29 PM Best stories I've heard here in the 3 'er 4 years I've been here.... Lovin' each post... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 05 Apr 05 - 10:41 PM An oceanographer. I joined Greenpeace instead, and went into freelance documentary work and writing as an environmental activist. I actually got to work with the Cousteau crew once, which was sort of a dream come true. But I've since come to realize that working with these folks would be the pinnacle for someone like me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bill D Date: 05 Apr 05 - 10:57 PM started off in grade school thinking I'd be a 'scientist'....then narrowed that to astronomer....then found out it was 94.621% math, which I never was strong in. So, as a senior in high school, I was working in a grocery store, when one slow Sunday after blue laws were repealed, (allowing us to be open on Sunday), I picked up a copy of "The Age of Ideology", one of a series of paperbacks on the history of Philosophy....and I was hooked. I entered college planning to teach Philosophy, but LIFE interfered and slowed my education until after 13 years and 130+ hrs of Philosophy courses and an incomplete thesis on A.N. Whitehead, I discovered that there was not much demand for Philosophy teachers. (Two of my thesis advisors never finished THEIR PhDs, and became a race driver and a real estate salesman) I made a grand total of $4000 in Philosophy, as a graduate teaching asst. for 2 years. Some of you may have noticed residual reminders, in this strange and wonderful forum, of those years when I was attempting to learn to think ;>) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Don Firth Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:06 PM When I was about six, I got totally hooked on the "Buck Rogers" comic strip. I couldn't wait for the next Sunday's funnies to see what was going to happened, so I grabbed pencil and paper and drew what I figured was going to happen. A few years later, I was drawing my own characters and doing my own stories. I had a fair-size collection of possibilities, including a masked and costumed crime-fighter ("Batman" influence) and a fighter pilot who practically won World War II single-handed (he bore an odd resemblance to Steve Canyon). When I was thirteen or fourteen, I could draw various aircraft such as the P-51 Mustang or the B-25 Mitchell right down to the last rivet. In my early teens, that was going to be it: I was going be another Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, or Alex Raymond and make my livelihood drawing comic strips. Once my stories got a little more sophisticated, I learned the hard way to write up a synopsis of the story ahead of time, otherwise I could waste a lot of time, ink, and paper getting my hero into a pickle I couldn't get him out of. I wrote the stories up like a movie script: dialogue plus a description of the illustration. But soon I found that I was writing the stories way ahead and not getting back to do the strips themselves. By that time, I was in high school, and I took an English elective: a creative writing class. The teacher liked my stuff and she was very encouraging. In the meantime, I had taken up fencing (one Rafael Sabatini novel and one Errol Flynn movie too many), and in order to find more people to fence with, I got permission (over some faculty members' misgivings regarding safety) to teach an after-school intramural fencing class. Over a couple of years, I had several dozen pupils. Becoming a "fencing master" had a nice ring to it, but there were already a couple of good fencing teachers in Seattle, and they taught for free, because they were active in competition and they wanted to keep their amateur standing. Couldn't make a living at it. I entered the University of Washington with the idea of writing Great Literature (and science fiction when nobody was looking). Then I fell in with rampaging gangs of folk singers, including Sandy Paton, Walt Robertson, and Bob Nelson (Deckman). The next thing I knew, I was playing the guitar and learning songs. Some desperate televison producer from the local educational channel dragged me in front of a camera to do a series on folk music, and in the resulting local notoriety, I found myself singing in a coffeehouse and doing concerts—and strangely enough, getting paid for it. That sorta thing can hook a guy! The Great American Novel (or the Great Galactic Novel [if nobody was looking] would just have to wait until I got this folk singing aberration out of my system. Since then, I've taken various "day jobs." I've worked as a production illustrator (draftsman) at Boeing, a radio announcer and news director, a telephone operator, and a technical writer (for the Bonneville Power Administration—so I've worked for the same company that Woody Guthrie worked for back in the Thirties or so). But I've kept singing off and on all this time—and I'm still doing it. So it's not out of my system yet. But I am writing a lot these days. I still draw and sketch a bit from time to time. The occasional irreverent cartoon. Don Firth (Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. If, that is. . . .) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:14 PM Dear GUEST, CLICK! Discuss. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Deckman Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:24 PM Don... "He had the gift of laughter and a sense that world was mad! ... EH? Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Rustic Rebel Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:44 PM When I was about 6, swinging in a swing, singing, 'How would you like to go up in the air? Up in the air so blue" I decided I wanted to be a singer. In high school I stayed in choir, but I took up a lot of art that got me into drawing, clay, fibers and painting. At that time I wanted to be a portrait artist. After school I took off on the road with a friend and we hitchhiked back and forth across country for 5 years. That's when I picked up my first harmonicas and guitar. It also got me into working (carving) with stone, hunting and studying rocks and minerals, and I wanted to become a geologist. When I settled down and moved into a farm I started studying and growing herbs and wanted to be an herbal healer. Time sure flies- So now I, play my music, sing, play harps, write, sculpt clay, go on rock hunting trips, grow herbs and gardens and have a seasonal job as a supervisor in a beautiful park, and I still can play half a year! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: hesperis Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:46 PM Well, when I was less than 3 years old I wanted to be a world-famous composer and definitely did not want to be a world-famous piano player. Later I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but decided I didn't like suffering in order to dance... I wanted to dance for the enjoyment of it and not worry about performance and strict standards of what is beauty. I wanted to be a wife and have a wonderful husband and family. Some of that's happened and some hasn't. Then after high school was over I really wanted to be a professional jazz French Hornist... but could only afford a flute. And all I could play on flute without buying a ton of music were the old songs that my mother and I used to sing. So I got into this folk music kick and that hasn't stopped. Then I discovered computers, and they ruled. And I discovered computer games and realized that in the field of computer game production, I could use all my generalist knowledge of art, music, programming, and writing, and my love of pulling creative threads together into a finished project with a team... in just one job. And now, I compose music and songs, have created 2 CDs over time, have material for at least 5 more CDs if I can only find a place to live long enough to record them, and have friends all over the world who love my music. I'm also a Sacred Circle Dance teacher and a web host and a web designer, and just produced my first completed game with friends. (It's oldskool and kinda amateurish, but rather cute for all that.) Just wish I would earn enough money with all of those to have a nice place for myself and my husband to live. Not bad for being sick a lot, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Peace Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:09 AM Since I was four years old I have wanted to be a firefighter. I became one at the age of 46. I have failed at many things, but not that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: dianavan Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:16 AM Not bad at all, Hesperis. Try visualizing your place to be. Write down everything you want as a home and then read it over every night before you go to bed. Think matter of factly that it will come into being. Its worth a try. Me - I never wanted to be anything. I assumed I would be a wife and a mother. Later on I decided I wanted to know myself thoroughly. Then I wanted to become a bridge between cultures. I accidently became a teacher when my need to feed my family interfered with my love of learning. My kids taught me more about myself than I ever thought was possible. My students keep my love of learning alive. Husband? Had one of those for a couple of years but now he's just a friend of mine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:16 AM I have been a folksinger, a radio shack employee, a jewelry engraver, a computer technician, a guitar teacher, a worm picker, a newspaper columnist, an assembly line worker, a gas station attendant, a government employee, and what the heck else...most of which had its appropriate time and place. I now run a small manufacturing business, and pontificate on the Internet. The first pays well, the second keeps my mind occupied in an enjoyable but largely useless fashion. The only thing I ever wanted to be all that badly was a folksinger, but it was not a very workable way to earn a living, given my basic temperament. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: LadyJean Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:26 AM When I was a little girl I wanted to be a dancer. Not a good idea. I have coordination problems. But I still dance, just not professionally. When I was older, I wanted to be an actress. I still wonder what would have happened if I'd pursued a career in theater. One of my high school classmates was Molly Picoun's niece. She couldn't really be said to act, but she looked like her famous aunt, so she got the lead roles in school plays. My mother wanted me to teach. I volunteered at a local school when I was a senior in high school. I didn't mind the kids so much, but I didn't think much of the teachers. So, I decided to be a writer. Well, I publish some, though not enough to pay the bills. And I'm still at it. I clean houses because that leaves my brain free to write. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: dianavan Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:55 AM In between I've been in sales in the fashion industry, a coding clerk (medical insurance), a deckhand on a couple of gillnetters and trolling boats, a cook on other fish boats and at folk fairs, a University fund-raiser, a manager of the coffee shop at the local community center, a tutor, a Special Education Assistant and a teacher. All paid positions. I totally thought I was going to be a wife and mother. My husband and I would live on love. I dreamed of finding the man that would make it so. Beyond that, I really wasn't encouraged to do much except look pretty and know how to cook and clean. Boy have times changed!!! Anyway, my life didn't turn out the way I thought it would but I certainly do not regret the journey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,MBSLynne Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:56 AM First of all I wanted to be a zoologist, then that crystalized into wanting to be a vet.....I really wanted to work with animals. When I was 12 or so, I went through a phase of being extremely squeamish so decided I couldn't be a vet, and didn't do things like chemistry and physics, which I would have needed. I found that it had only been temporary, but by then I was in a diffeerent stream. I wanted to be a journalist but didn't get the cadetship I applied for when I left school. I always wanted to be a writer of some sort. I became, over the years, an Australian Government clerk, a waitress, a stocktaker, a chambermaid, a factory worker, a filing clerk, a strawberry picker, a milk delivery person, a sales person (lasted 2 weeks!), a cowman, a tupperware seller, and an artificial inseminator. The last I loved and worked at for nine years until I got pregnant (no jokes please!!). Now I milk cows part-time, and grow herbs and give talks on them. I sell the herbs and also a herb cookbook and herbal that I have written. My biggest happiness and satisfaction in life (apart from my family) have come from working on and around farms, so my original desire to work with animals was the right one. Having produced two books as well, though they were not what I envisaged when I wanted to be a writer, I guess I've fulfilled my other early ambition. Neither worked out the way I imagined. Isn't it funny how life often gives you what you want, but in a completely different way from what you might have expected? Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Stu Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:04 AM I decided to make my dream come true as I approach my forties and retrain as a Palaeontologist/Geologist by doing a degree, until I recently run out of cash (due to unforseen circumstances) and had to abandon the lot halfway through the second year. Back to the drawing board. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Fibula Mattock Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:07 AM Become an archaeologist. And now I am, albeit circuitously. Hurrah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:24 AM I wanted to be an actor, but in order to make it pay I ended up teaching Drama (and English, Maths, Biology and Latin). Then somebody asked me to write a text book and gave me a word_processor to do it with. Took to computing and have been a systems analyst for 25 years. Now my daughter wants to be a theatrical director |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: freda underhill Date: 06 Apr 05 - 09:04 AM I grew up in a non religious family. when i was 9 my father asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up. I said I couldn't decide between being a nun or a circus performer. later i wanted to be an artist and writer. i have done of those things professionally. my list of things done includes: factory work (screwing one bit of wood into another); stand up comedy; writing and producing pantomimes for kids; door-to-door surveys; political cartooning for various trade unions and community organisations; social welfare worker (housing), some community activism (prisons & prisoners rights, anti-police verbal campaign, movement against uraniuum mining), refugee decision maker, community liaison work with various ethnic communities in oz, currently writing political briefs for politicians and bureaucrats. ps. had three beautiful children - all in their twenties now, and one has given me a bneautiful grandaughter. collected some very lovely friends on the way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Rapparee Date: 06 Apr 05 - 09:08 AM Well, along the way I've been a newspaper delivery boy, an inventory taker for closing stores, a contract killer, an assistant bookstore manager, a maker and setter of tombstones, a student, a system administrator on a Unix system, a strawberry picker (at 7 cents a quart), a caddy for golfers, a snow shoveler, a guy who mows lawns, and some other stuff I forget now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Bill D ..in cookieless mode Date: 06 Apr 05 - 11:04 AM addenda: I actually once worked as a genuine Bean Counter. I did cycle inventory at a Stokley-Van Camp's cannery/warehouse. (I had to count all the other canned good in the warehouse also, but Pork & Beans was the single biggest item.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,MMario Date: 06 Apr 05 - 11:14 AM all I've ever wanted to be war retired with a comfortable income. I figure I've got about 4 decades left to go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Flamenco ted Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:02 PM I wanted to become a walrus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:24 PM When I was young, I resisted my piano teacher's push to major in music. I started college as a Spanish major, absolutely fascinated with languages and literature. When I realized that a 6-year-old kid in a foreign country could always speak the language better than I could, I changed to chemistry. I wanted more than anything to raise a family, so I taught high school math until my twins were 16, then worked as a lab technician and chemist in research - my favorite jobs. After several downsizings, I was diagnosed with MS, so then worked for my husband in a veterinary clinic. It turned out better than I thought it would since I grew up working for my father in a retail store and never planned to work with or for a relative. Now I'm home, play with the granddaughters, tutor math and ACT preparation, do a little data entry for a catalog, design web pages for friends/relatives. I gave piano lessons along the way, but don't encourage new students anymore. (I am trying to influence the granddaughters.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:25 PM oops, that was me above, came through the back door. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:58 PM I was small I was going to be a missionary, but that idea was knocked out of me with a sharp blow to the head, by a sunday school teacher wielding a hymnal. I then decided animals were much nicer than most people and desparately wanted to become a veterinarian. That idea was abandoned when my father informed me, that educating women was a waste of time and money, as they only ended up getting married and having babies. Later, I thought being a legal secretary sounded exciting, but gave up on that idea also, when I failed shorthand and typing. Fortunately my other academic skills, apart from some difficulty with math, were somewhat stronger. Bound by the conventions of the time, I was advised to become a nurse, but later decided, a school teacher, although I hated school and had absolutely no idea of how I was going to fund the undertaking. A far cry from earlier dreams, and by some intervening fortuitous circumstances, instead of teaching, I ended up in a laboratory playing with microscopic worms. All subsequent endeavours have been just as diverse as fiddling with worms was from my childhood dreams and I did eventually get married and have babies, but not any of it has been a waste of time or money. Except perhaps the shorthand. BG |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Metchosin Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:01 PM oops, my post 12:58PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,CarolC Date: 06 Apr 05 - 01:16 PM On the subject of serendipity... one of the best kinds of work I ever did, I never expected or even imagined I would do. That was my one season as an interpretive naturalist. I had submitted an application for employment to the local zoo. The director of a brand new nature center in the same park as the zoo found my application in the zoo's files, and he contacted me and offered me the job. I am forever grateful for that one. And the nature center job got my foot in the door (so to speak) for the zookeeper job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Apr 05 - 02:17 PM I was told at age 14 that I was going to be the good little girl who stayed at home to look after mummy and daddy...... I sort of never bothered to even think about anything after that, because at that stage, I couldn't see any other option. I was crapping out badly at school, getting freindly with alcohol, fast motorbikes, Hells Angels and had a job in a pub kitchen. School careers advice was basically 'get these qualifications and you can be a nurse/teacher/vet, don't get any, you'll end up in an office' - said like it was one step up from prostitution. Left home having discovered over the following 4 years down the line that the last thing in the world I'm suited for is looking after parents. I've worked as a cleaner, pub cook, in a chocolate factory, as a secretary, a researcher, archaeologist's scribe, illustrator, museum assistant, Vicars' PA, window dresser, seamstress, proof-reader, sous chef, youth club assistant, in scrap metal, painting and decorating, child minder, library assistant and Revenue assistant. I have also been paid for singing, but that doesn't count as work, because I like doing it! So from being told what to do, and having absolutely no idea what I wanted to do, I ended up doing a lot of different things. There are a few of those jobs I'd refuse to do again, and some I'd love to have back.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Mooh Date: 06 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM Hmmm...At various times in my youth I thought I could see myself as a teacher, musician, forest ranger, fishing guide, architech, carpenter, or boat builder. In adulthood I tried, musician, janitor, retail sales, labour representative, unemployment (I was good at that, but it didn't last long enough to call it a career). These days I work as a musician, teaching, playing, fixing instruments, and so on. Still tramp the woods, fish, and build stuff, so the dreams of my youth weren't entirely mistaken. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: greg stephens Date: 06 Apr 05 - 02:55 PM At the age of 11 I heard Lonnie Donegan playing the guitar, and I thought, right, that's it. And that's been it ever since. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Janie Date: 06 Apr 05 - 03:58 PM By 18 or 19 I knew social work was my vocation. Have been at it now for 32 years. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: HuwG Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:19 PM I wanted for a long while to be a Geologist. I did indeed get a degree in the subject, and one short contract in South Africa, but the work dried up after that. I next worked at a job in Sheffield which was a mixture of metallurgy and computer programming. This is a lot less glamourous than it sounds. However, I have been programming ever since (although I was made redundant over a year ago). I also tried the Armed Forces briefly, but wasn't suitable (although it left me with some experiences and good stories). The Geology and soldiering occasionally come to the fore, as friends ask me to lead walks around the local hills. When at school, I suffered from teachers whose attitudes seemed frozen in the late 1930s. They threatened if you didn't pay attention in class or do your homework on time, you would find yourself working down a mine. They seemed to think that the acme of academic achievement was to come back and teach at the same school you attended as a pupil. I am proud of having avoided that fate, and having worked down a mine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:27 PM "...before contracting dermatitis and getting pregnant." Jacqui C Jacqui, I had no idea those two were related. However, I do know to avoid giving aspirin to dogs - I did that once and 30 minutes later she had a puppy. Bill D, a musican friend of mine - who I hope will be able to go to the Getaway this year- also got her degree in Philosphy then went on to became an electronics technician. She and her husband have a video shop and she also sells high-falutin' sewing machines and services them. Philosphy is a wide open field. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST, Ebbie Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:30 PM Oh. Sorry, that last bit was me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: John Hardly Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:51 PM Gee, I always heard that asprin was a contraceptive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST, Ebbie Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:53 PM hahahah |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Metchosin Date: 06 Apr 05 - 05:53 PM Liz, I vividly remember that great divide, where non-academic programmes for females were regarded by teachers and school councillors as barely one step up from prostitution as well. As I had initially started out on that track, most of my friends were in that stream and I stuck with them, as I found that a lot were a hell of a lot more fun, kinder and brighter than many of their academic conterparts. The prevailing thought at that time amongst many females was, if you went academic and chose something like nursing, you might snag yourself an engineer or a doctor, which seemed to me, as a primary reason upon which to base a career choice, far closer to prostitution than choosing a non-academic undertaking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Charley Noble Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:02 PM I grew up on a small dairy farm where there was all kinds of work to learn to do but which I never seriously considered doing after I left home. I dreamed about becoming an oceanographer, and read a whole lot about what one had to do. My college courses included sciences and geology but by the time I graduated it was either be drafted into the army or join the Peace Corps. Fortunately, the Peace Corps in 1965 came up with an invitation first and it was off to teach sciences and geography in Ethiopia for 3 years. By the time I got back to the states I was too old for my draft board and enrolled for a graduate degree in geography at Michigan State University. Well, I did manage to get my Ph.D. there after 6 years but I found a whole lot of things more interesting by that time than teaching. I had helped organize an Energy Demonstration Center (Urban Options), a Tenants Resource Center, a housing co-op (Rivendell), lobbied for statewide mortgage anti-redlining laws, and played lots of music. At one point I panicked and joined the state bureaucracy, becoming a researcher for the Michigan Occupation Information Coordinating Committee. It was a bad move, a thorously miserable 6 months, but fortunately I was able to write a successful National Science Foundation Grant and do something more useful for a year (monitoring the implementation of the new Redlining Law) and I never looked back to secure employment. Since returning to Maine in 1982 I helped do the major fundraising for two Nuclear Power/Nuclear Waste referenda, worked full-time on a brilliant but failed U.S. Senate campaign, renovated and sold several buildings, and continued to make music. I now do digital photography for artists and builders, occasional fundraising for land trusts and other environmental organizations, and am looking for another building to renovate. I'd like to do more writing, both stories as well as songs. It ain't over till it's over! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Phot Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:09 PM I always wanted to be a Farrier, but I could'nt get an apprenticeship when I left school, so I worked in a heating suppliers as a warehouse man, my Mum saw an advert that the RAF were looking for stores personnell so I applied.....And became an aircraft engineer. I loved the job, but was made redundant by Maggie Thatcher, so wound up driving a bus for two and a half years before joining the Royal Navy, doing pretty much the same thing I had done in the RAF. But when the RN started mucking me around I thought sod it! And became a photographer in the RN, great job, lots of toys (Helecopters, Destroyers, Frigates, Cameras) lots of creative oppertunities....Stress, high blood pressure, deadlines...... Still want to be a Farrier though, and drive a pair of heavy horses to the plough....... Wassail! Chris |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Metchosin Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:35 PM Phot, I have a pony here who really needs your services. There is something intrinsically noble about draft horses and their work, so I can quite understand your longing. It is really interesting to read on this thread, the aspirations and paths that people have taken or in some cases, have just happened. Perhaps if I hadn't been smacked on the head at such a young age, I might have done a better job of overcoming some of my early cynicism. LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bobert Date: 06 Apr 05 - 06:44 PM Bad, Rap, bad.... Hey, seein' as I started this thread *I AM* reading it!!! Now say yer sorry... Okay, so you might have served in the armed services that's no excuse fir putting "contract killer" in yer danged resime', gol dang it... Now play nice... And to everyone else... I am really enjoying you stories and like someone said, yeah, life is strange... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Ebbie Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:56 PM Phot, there always be a need for farriers, whether it's for the race track, the military, sheriff's posses, arenas, show teams, horse clubs, whatever. If you really want to be one, get the schooling and have at it. My father, as well as farming with them, logged (lumberjacked) with draft horses in a small gyppo operation. He much preferred the horses to tractors, because the horses were active participants in the job. We never had ponies, never had 'child-sized' horses. I remember one mare that wasn't as tall as most of them; we called her 'Shorty'. Most of our riding horses were around 15 hands, but some of our draft horses stood more than 18 hands tall. Back to the subject... Incidentally, if you're going to have your foot stepped on by a horse, have a BIG horse do it- it doesn't hurt as much. The big hoof displaces the weight= fewer psi. The little hoof cuts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: jaze Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:15 PM Way back in catholic school, I thought I wanted to be a priest...until puberty hit and decided I didn't think I could do that. I then thought I might be a social worker. Did go to school for that some. Along the way, I have worked in a dry cleaners, a nursing home, a candy factory, several restraunts--dishwasher,busboy, waiter, and host,and a shoe factory. Went back to school to finish the social work degree and somehow decided to try nursing- it is social work in it's own way. Have been a nurse now for 23 years. Way back then, I would have laughed my ass off if you told me I would end up being a nurse. But I love it so go figure. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Bobert Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:15 PM Thanks, Ebbie... I never thought of having a horse step on my foot but once had a car tire run over my foot... Hurt fir weeks.... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Desert Dancer Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:28 PM From fifth grade (and reading "Never Cry Wolf"), I was sure I would be a biologist of some sort. Got a B.S. in biology from Antioch College, which means I got "real life" experience teaching at an environmental school in Maine, taking care of animals (including breeding feeder mice and rats) and doing some public interpretation at a large aquarium/museum, and doing research on the social behavior of wolves in captivity. Cool. After college, did two volunteer stints with the Fish & Wildlife Service in Alaska studying caribou (wolf prey!) and worked in a museum (and a company specializing in second mortgages and yacht loans) during a year off until grad. school. In grad school, studying foxes, I realized I did not want to be a university professor, however, they are not set up to tell you anything about the alternatives... Went off to work with captive chimpanzees (recordkeeping and behavioral research oversight) and never finished the graduate degree. Tried to free-lance for while doing research and writing text for zoo and museum exhibits -- too shy and undisciplined to market effectively on a nation-wide scale, which was what was required. Got depressed. What to do? Got pregnant. Oh, I'll do that for a while. When my son was 6 months old, had an opportunity to become managing director of our local "friends of traditional music". Did that for 8 years, but it's not too lucrative of course! ;-) Decided to become a teaching artist -- bringing American folk dance and song to the schools. Had a part time position teaching "general music" to kindergarten-2nd graders. Still too undisciplined at the marketing end on the dance gigs, and so too slow off the block to make the $$ hubby wanted. Got depressed. Now I'm an administrative secretary (picked up a lot of business/office skills with that "non-profit administration" job...) -- to a couple of professors who study evolutionary genomics at the local univ. And, in order to increase my part-time hours, I'm going to start working in the lab this summer as well. You never know where life will take you. I still don't know... I figure I've got another 20-25 years of working life ahead, maybe more if Social Security and Medicare go down the tubes. Who knows when the next left turn will be? They don't tell you about that stuff when you're in high school and college.... ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:44 PM Ah! ambition. I wanted to be:- At 10. FIREMAN At 14. MUSICIAN. Starting in skiffle, moving to folk. No earnings till about 1985. At 18. ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. Worked at that one(s**t pay) till.... At 30. EMPLOYED. Steel erector, coach driver, taxi driver, sales rep, sewage worker, injection moulder, etc. etc. At 50. SETTLED. Got a job as a school caretaker, with a small pension to come. From 65. FOLK SINGER/ENTERTAINER What I should have done for a living in the first place. I guess the rest has given me material for what's to come, so it hasn't been wasted. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:18 AM Since shortly after joining Mudcat I have decided that my one great remaining ambition is to BE William Shatner. Step 1: gotta gain about 150 pounds. Step 2: gotta master his acting and singing technique Step 3: gotta kickstart the old libido and practice some groovy moves I'll report in as significant progress is made in these 3 areas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Peace Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:23 AM It boggles the mind! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Ebbie Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:35 AM Dern. I read that as "It boggles the menu!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: heric Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:50 AM I was going to stop irresponsible clearcutting in the Pacific Northwest and help to ensure sensible, sustainable forest management and old growth protection. I fucked that up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Peace Date: 07 Apr 05 - 01:53 AM Once upon a time in the Sahara forest . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: 42 Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:34 AM When I was young I wanted to be a horse. A little later I wanted to be a cowboy and then Robin Hood was my aim. At high school I decided I would be Canada's first amazing female playwright/actress. After delivering the solioquy from Everyman from 30 feet up a scaffold for my university audition into the performance stream of the Fine Arts school, I opted to become Canada's first successful female playwright and leave the acting to those who do not experience vertigo when they are more than a couple of metres off the ground. I've pent most of my working life in various educational environments terrorizing school administrators by refusing to follow curriculum, attempting to infect young children with a sense of themselves and their rights and responsibilities in the world around them. Music was always a passion but, until I hit 40, I didn't do anything about it. Now, as a singer, a songwriter, a performer, presenter and promoter (avocations all) I can't imagine where those 25 years went. I've met saints and sinners along the way, done the expected and the perverse, loved well and lost hard... At the moment I'm longing for retirement, menopause and a recording contract...in that order! jen "Even if the road should end the song will travel on" |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Diva Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:47 AM Aged 5 I wanted to be a nun! Then I wanted to be a teacher and by age 14 I wanted to be a librarian. So far I've worked in an accountants, trained as a hotel receptionist, worked in a factory, worked for the Co op and for Woolies. Became a mum. Been an assistant manager in 2 different Charity shops and now I'm a full time (allegedly mature) student and when I grow up I don't know what I want to be!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Grab Date: 07 Apr 05 - 05:42 PM From when we got our first computer (a Commodore Plus-4 for those who remember it), I wanted to work with computers. Computer programmer was the first aim. Then, this being the 80s, I found that stockbrokers made lots of money *and* worked with computers - luckily I outgrew that. Then I took an electronics course and crapped out, but discovered that I enjoyed it and liked the idea of controlling stuff and making it work. So electronics at uni, specialising in software and control areas. And some time since then in industry doing exactly that. However boring the details of the job are, it's still a vocation rather than an occupation. I never wanted to be a musician early on, but that was most likely bcos my folks were into classical music. I literally didn't find out pop and rock existed until age 16, and I knew I wasn't good enough at classical piano/violin (and didn't enjoy it). Some years later, my wife and I have come to the point of considering trying to get a few gigs. Instead of coming to it with the confidence of youth, we've definitely got there the hard way. Should still be fun though to see what happens in the next few years. :-) Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: jacqui.c Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:49 PM LH 1. You haven't a chance of getting that porky 2. Do you really want to downgrade your talent to that degree? 3. Borrow Brucie's goat - that will do the job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:10 PM wonderful stories. thank you everybody. it just makes you realise when you look at all these frustrated and difficult lives, how wise the young Joni Mitchell was when she realised that she was the one out of all the generations of wmen in her family whi was going to have her ambitions realised. It involved giving up her child for adoption, but how brilliantly wise to realise the rareness of the situation, when so young. why do we get it so wrong - estimate our powers and weaknesses so misguidedly. I suppose the perennial trouble is that we grow up in a world that is totally different from anything our parents experience. the only people who really love us, at our most unlovable age, are blinded by how wonderful they think we are. all the best bigalwhittle |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: beetle cat Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:31 PM Right now- I want to be a folklorist. But I always just wanted to be the folk. Im trying to do both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: jacqui.c Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:18 PM wld - the problem is that if we let ourselves get frustrated by the fact that we didn't fulfil our early aspirations we can end up wasting our lives with regrets rather than looking forward and trying to make the best of our situation or to improve it where possible. I get called a Polyana but I always have tried to look at the positive things in my life rather than the negatives. Life is there to be experienced and maybe the lives that we lead are a learning process of some kind, or a test. Whatever, there is no rehearsal so it pays to roll with the blows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 08 Apr 05 - 05:54 PM Yeah Jacqui, No frustration! No backward glances! At 64, I finally KNOW what I'm going to be when I grow up..............If I decide to grow up. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: mg Date: 09 Apr 05 - 01:01 AM marry Patrick Fantastic. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: CharleyR Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:09 PM I'm just about to start at the beginning of all this... I finish my university course in 9 weeks' time, first of all I'm just looking forward to not being a student any more! I have no burning desire to follow any particular career path. Recently I have considered library work or translation, at the moment I think I would like to work in a musical instruments shop. What I would most like to do with my life is play music like I'm doing already and grab any other musical opportunities that come up, be better friends with some of the people I know and probably get married sometime in the next few years. It's like I'm totally free to choose where I want to go and what I want to do, I could do anything, but I think I want to stay where I am and play music. I've ended up in a great city for music and nice folky people and I'm not sure I could find that in many other places. Of course what I'm 'supposed' to do is be a 'graduate management trainee' in some big company or other and be prepared to move round the country and beyond trying to climb the career ladder (according to all the careers websites) but I think the 'career' ideas have now become 'day job' ideas - I just want to find a job I don't dislike doing that makes enough money to live on, and play music the rest of the time. Still, university served its purpose for me, which was keeping me off the dole for four years and letting me meet lots of musicians and form bands. Immediate plans after getting university out of the way are to play gigs and return to busking for a bit while I try and find a day job and work out what I want to be when I grow up... Charley |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Hand-Pulled Boy Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:46 PM I wanted to be a mermaid but quickly realised the bulge would be a problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Apr 05 - 02:49 PM Good luck, Charley! You're unlikely to get rich, but you could have a very rich life. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM I was going to be a gardener. Even got the enrolment papers for horti college. Instead I married a very poor muso who became a very rich muso. We now have a gardener. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Ebbie Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:28 PM Bobert, if the weight of one wheel of a car were lowered onto one's foot, I shouldn't think it would hurt as much. A moving car adds the weight of the 'push' to the psi transferred to the foot, I imagine. Can anyone tell me the physics of this? There's another reason a large hoof doesn't hurt as much- because it is big, part of it is going to be on the ground and thus it will bear some of the horse's weight. (Think of a plate-sized hoof; many of them are.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 09 Apr 05 - 09:44 PM For as long as I can see backward over the years, music was IT for me. When I was young, older ones all KNEW what was good for me -- they always said. If my plans for the future were my own ideas, those were not seen as worthwhile. Fighting to follow my own path became the norm for a few years. Happily, I was able to do that with only some small (but real) damage done to us ALL. Somehow, it worked out and I was able to follow the road of a singer of American folk songs and ballads until I wasn't able to do it any more. And that is why we need Social Security not to be tampered with and degraded. KNOWING IT WOULD BE THERE pretty much allowed me the social security to do what I loved for a living. And knowing it'd be there in the end is what gave me the willingness and vision to keep on paying into it. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: harpgirl Date: 09 Apr 05 - 11:27 PM What I "WERE" going to do THIS MORNING was go on down to the Sopchoppy Worm Gruntin' Festival and say "hi" to some of my river rat pals....I put the kayak in at the Sopchoppy City Park and headed upstream. It is known as a blackwater river for the tannin colors of the rivers in these parts. About a hunnerd yards upstream I see this brown head swimming fast from one side of the river to the other. It's kinda wide by the park and this creature was swimmin real fast across the bow of my kayak in a somewhat threatnin' manner. Oh no, I thought, I've come upon the mating territory of a bull aligator and he will tip me over with his tail! Just then, the creature flipped over in the air, slapped his tail hard on the water and swam back in the direction he came. I got kinda scared and I turned around to get out...then I got up my courage and deciding it was a beaver and went on up the river. I came home with wet britches...as usual What do YOU think it was? ...oh I that's what I wanted to do earlier in the day...how far back do you want me to go? love, harpgirl |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: LadyJean Date: 09 Apr 05 - 11:32 PM CharlieF: Congratulations. Here I sit regretting all the fun I didn't have when I was your age. Take a lesson from me and have all the fun you can. I graduated from Ohio University with a BS degree in Journalism, hoping I would never write again. 5 months later I did my first real story (Covering a speech by Gerald Durrell) and knew I loved writing. Things look different when you are out of college. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Scoville Date: 10 Apr 05 - 10:04 PM When I was in middle school I went into that moody phase and decided I wanted to go into forensics (as in, dead bodies). I held onto that one until the end of my junior year of college when my useless, self-absorbed academic counselor finally told me that the guy who was slated to teach the anatomy classes I wanted had retired three years earlier and the classes were still in the catalog just for show. I could have strangled him. I switched to history when I got back in the fall and basically told the biology and chemistry departments--I had been a biology major--they could take their research science and shove it. After graduation, I worked as a kennel scrubber-then-veterinary assistant for four years. I was good at it, loved the animals, and considered going to school for an RVT (registered vet technician) degree but then realized I didn't want to spend my adult life at the mercy of small-business financial limitations (read: no benefits) and being treated like a moron and whipping-girl by clients because I wasn't a DVM. Besides, I loved my history degree. Don't laugh. Next Monday I start as an "assistant" at a medical center historical archives. I think this probably means I'll spend my days shifting boxes and sticking acid-free paper in between old documents. However, I'm reviewing for GRE's in the hopes that I can get into an online program for a master's in library science/photo archiving. What would I LIKE to be? I'd be a musician if I had the talent/self-promotional inclinations (preferably a fiddler, which will make you laugh if you've ever heard me try to play). My friend and I would like to have our own show in PBS where we travel all over the U.S. visiting interesting sites and showing people how to do things. I'd like to get paid to travel and write about the weird stuff I see. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Peace Date: 10 Apr 05 - 10:51 PM "Can anyone tell me the physics of this?" Initial Speed Reaction Distance Deceleration Distance Total Stopping Distance 35 mph 128.3 feet 81.7 feet 210 feet* 45 mph 165.0 feet 135.2 feet 300 feet 55 mph 201.6 feet 201.9 feet 403 feet* 65 mph 238.3 feet 282.1 feet 520 feet 75 mph 274.9 feet 375.6 feet 650 feet 80 mph 293.3 feet 427.3 feet 720 feet 90 mph 329.9 feet 540.8 feet 870 feet *1999 officially recognized DMV reaction plus deceleration distances are given at: DMV The above chart will NOT help. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Apr 05 - 04:42 AM Charley if you want to play music for a living, make a start - do it. The longer you put it off, the harder it gets. Your very youth is in many ways your biggest asset in the entertainment industry. If you lack self promotional skills, then develop them. You may join a group that has immediate success - you may go for thirty years before you find something in the entertainment business that suits you. But if its what you want to do, need to do. ..then make a start! as Joey in The Committments says, I believe in starts! all the best Big AlWhittle |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Ellenpoly Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:35 AM I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to have my own acting company. I accomplished both. Now however I no longer have or want that, and unfortunately it's not been replaced with anything else I've really wanted. Through my life I've done a lot of different jobs as well, but what I really miss is that passion of knowing what I wanted. ..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,top carnorive T-Rex Date: 14 Apr 05 - 12:16 PM all of ya thing ya could as ever make a cartoon as good as mind?.........please!!. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Sunday Date: 20 May 05 - 08:18 PM I am a headstart teacher. Summer is coming and I am thinking for next year.........is this really what I want to do. *WHAT CAN I DO WITH A B.S. DEGREE IN EAARLY CHILDHOOD EDU/ELEMENTARY ..........and I have not been able to pass those dumb PRAXIS teacher tests.............even though I have been a teacher for 4 years......... My mom was a teacher, my sister is a teacher and her husband is a assistant principal, my uncle was a principle and my cousin is a teacher. * I think I am stuck..................anyone have any advise.......... *PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: number 6 Date: 20 May 05 - 08:39 PM In high school I decided I was going to work in a factory. My ambition was to be part of the 'salt of the earth', be a working man's hero. Upon graduating from secondary school I held various jobs such as putting flyers into the Toronto Star newspaper, worked on the floor in the garmet industry, stacked skids of various products, worked in a bicycle warehouse (which imported bikes from France). I really liked that one since cycling at the time was my fav past time. After about 4 years of that I went on to the big school of higher learning. Majored in Business Admin. I thought (then) I could make a change by getting into the managment thing. Somewhere things sorted drifted into survival mode (had a family to provide for, that kind of stuff). Actually I have done pretty good without selling out, never lost my respect for the 'working man'. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 20 May 05 - 09:03 PM Sunday, you said you think you are stuck. I once felt that way and received some great advice. Hubby realized that as long as I was in a limited environment (the end of the preschool years for my children), I didn't even know what was possible. He encouraged me to go back to school where I would be in a stimulating environment. It worked! Many people will tell you that there are many, many jobs "out there" for whatever your field of interest - but they don't come knocking on your door. You have to talk to people, talk to people, and talk to people. For every 10 people you talk to, 9 are deadends - but that 10th one has ideas and leads that send you in many directions. Some of my best leads and ideas came from salesmen and secretaries in professional organizations. A good friend of mine, English major, loves Shakespeare, worked as a clown for awhile, loved it. She's now the education director in a very large church. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Leadfingers Date: 20 May 05 - 09:21 PM Test Pilot !! God knows why !! Finished joining R.A.F as Radio tech !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Leadfingers Date: 20 May 05 - 09:22 PM Hey !!! 100 |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Leadfingers Date: 20 May 05 - 09:24 PM Discovered MUSIC while in Apprentice school ! The rest is history !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 20 May 05 - 09:54 PM Sunday, you're gonna think this is crazy, but if you know how to care for children....are you already married? If not, go wherever good providers (6 figures at least) hang out, meet one you like, get married, and raise great kids. Be a full-time mom and however active in volunteering at school as you want to be. If that's not a possibility (at least this year) what are the regulations for starting your own day-care center for a handful of babies or toddlers? Could you and one other teacher together fulfill all the requirements to get one going? Sick of teaching? Maybe being an assistant to a pediatrician? Go back to school pursuing pediatric nursing? Sick of kids? Do you get a vacation break in the summer? If so, hit the road and travel, clear your head and see if you find any new ideas out there in a new environment. Just some ideas. Good luck, and hope the right thing will come to you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Flash Company Date: 21 May 05 - 09:37 AM As a kid I always wanted to be a Cabinet Maker, at 67 I still have a good set of tools(woodworking ones, you filthy swines!), and will tackle most things, often to the horror of Sheila. Finished up in the Accounts dept of a Joinery manufacturer. This meant that I had access to a good source of timber for the next seventeen years and made all kinds of things for the pleasure of it. I even managed a passable guitar' and had the distinct pleasure of being told by the head of the Apprentices School that 'None of my lads could have done that!' Went on from there to Credit Manager at a number of companies in differing industries. Now retired, and only doing things I enjoy, like photography and 'Wasting your time on that computer!' Singing sort of came in in the '70s, never more than floor-singer level, and mostly of the 'keep them laughing' variety. The ability to write parody I had displayed for some time before, and it came in very useful. FC |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Amos Date: 22 May 05 - 09:46 AM The area where one tire contacts the ground, a region about, what, 40 square inches or less? -- supports one-quarter of the weight of the car. The weight of the car does not significantly change when it is accelerating horizontally. The weight is the result of its accelerating downward as a result of gravity. The force is the mass of the car (say, 1000 kilos) times the acceleration (9.8 meters per second per second) divided by four. Say, roughly, 2500 newtons, distributed over my hypothetical 40 square inches yields a force of about 60 newtons per square inch of force being transmitted on the foot which is run over. This doesn't take into account the vector caused by the rotary momentum of the wheel itself, but I think that is negligible. A newton is about the force of a Big Mac hitting the floor after falling off a table, just for comparison. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Amos Date: 22 May 05 - 09:52 AM But if a car is moving it is often bouncing up and down, depending on the road surface, etc. So if that car goes over your foot on a "down-bounce", the force is greater than if it is rolling on the surface. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Amergin Date: 22 May 05 - 02:37 PM a marijuana farmer.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: SINSULL Date: 22 May 05 - 03:08 PM When I was a child, I planned to be a teacher. Once I became a teacher, I wanted to be in Business. After a few years of abuse there, I saw an old homeless woman on Fifth Avenue in front of Sach's. She was spitting at young women and shouting "Do you know what your mother did so that you could be here? She F**ked someone." That was it. My ultimate goal is to someday take over that corner, spit at people, shout obscenities, and collect a SS check. I would do it here on Mudcat but the position is filled and their is a huge waiting list. For now, I am content to live in Maine, make enough money to live comfortably, and share my wealth with friends and family. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: LilyFestre Date: 22 May 05 - 07:42 PM I was going to be employed by NASA to go to Jupiter to study the storm center/eye right after I became the first person ever to win the Olympic Gold Medal for baton twirling...all the while being employed by National Geographic to take wonderfully interesting photos all over the world. I can't forget to add in that I was going to marry the most wonderful human being on the planet (which I did) and have a house full of children. One out of five isn't too bad! :) Michell |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Kim C Date: 23 May 05 - 11:53 AM I wanted to be a rock star, but instead I got to be a folk singer. I guess that's a fair cop. The money ain't so good, but it's a heap of fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Doug Chadwick Date: 24 May 05 - 02:45 AM I work in an oil refinery. I wasn't born to work in an oil refinery - I was born to be an international playboy but fate played a cruel trick on me ! When my daughter was about 5 years old she wanted to be an astronaut and a Mum. She reckoned that she could go to the moon so long as she was back in time to pick the kids up from school. Doug C |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST Date: 24 May 05 - 03:41 AM a secret agent |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Doug Chadwick Date: 24 May 05 - 07:25 PM "Can anyone tell me the physics of this?" Initial Speed Reaction Distance Deceleration Distance Total Stopping Distance 35 mph 128.3 feet 81.7 feet 210 feet* 45 mph 165.0 feet 135.2 feet 300 feet 55 mph 201.6 feet 201.9 feet 403 feet* 65 mph 238.3 feet 282.1 feet 520 feet 75 mph 274.9 feet 375.6 feet 650 feet 80 mph 293.3 feet 427.3 feet 720 feet 90 mph 329.9 feet 540.8 feet 870 feet *1999 officially recognized DMV reaction plus deceleration distances are given at: DMV The above chart will NOT help. The table is constructed assuming a reaction time of 2½ seconds before the brakes are applied and a deceleration of ½ g or 16 ft/sec/sec. The speed in mph can be recalculated in ft/sec to give Speed Speed . mph ft/sec . 35 51 . 45 66 . 55 80 . 65 95 . 75 110 . 80 117 . 90 132 In 2½ seconds Reaction distance in feet . (speed x reaction time) . 51 x 2½ = 128 . 66 x 2½ = 165 . 80 x 2½ = 200 . 95 x 2½ = 238 . 110 x 2½ = 275 . 117 x 2½ = 293 . 132 x 2½ = 330 From Newton's Equations of Motion: distance = (Initial speed squared – final speed squared) / ( 2 x deceleration) As the final speed is zero, distance = (Initial speed squared) / (2 x deceleration) At 16 ft/sec/sec Deceleration distance in feet . (speed squared / 16) . 51 x 51 / 16 = 81 . 66 x 66 / 16 = 136 . 80 x 80 / 16 = 200 . 95 x 95 / 16 = 282 . 110 x 110 / 16 = 378 . 117 x 117 / 16 = 428 . 132 x 132 / 16 = 544 Add the Reaction Distance and Deceleration Distance for each speed to get the Total Stopping Distance Doug C |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Donuel Date: 24 May 05 - 07:39 PM At 10 I wanted to be an archeologist. At age 16 I wanted to be a composer and create a work that might equal Beethoven's Choral Symphony or at least create music that raises the hairs on the back of your neck. I sort of lived my life in reverse and may be reaching a full circle of desired projects. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Janie Date: 24 May 05 - 10:09 PM I wanted to be a social worker. I still want to be a social worker. June 1 is my 32nd anniversary in the profession. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Kaleea Date: 25 May 05 - 12:12 AM Evidently 'Catters have done it all! & to think, when I was a kid, I wanted to get married, have a nice little house, & live happily ever after. And be a writer. and a singer. and a pianist. and a floutist. and learn how to cook lots of yummy stuff. and play lots of other instruments. and make beautiful sewing & needlework creations. and teach Music to special needs folks. So I got married at 17 to someone who didn't know what he wanted in life & wasn't married very long. I did pretty much all of the above & lots more, but never made my whole living at it. I never found that "Mr. Right" either! Oh, well. [ but I never worked in a chocolate factory!! ] |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Peter Kasin Date: 25 May 05 - 03:42 AM Great thread, Bobert. Growing up I had no idea of what I wanted to do for a living. In adulthood, I was on my way to getting into the library field, with my passion for history and biography, and the pleasure I got out of helping people find books and articles. Sometimes, while browsing in used book stores, I was mistaken for an employee and asked questions. I loved it! I'd show them the sections and recommend books. Then, one evening I was invited by some friends from the Irish music scene to a National Park ranger program; a chantey sing aboard a ship, and that changed that. Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Hand-Pulled Boy Date: 25 May 05 - 05:28 AM John Wayne |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Pete Jennings Date: 25 May 05 - 12:30 PM I always wanted to play guitar like John Renbourn. I started out in about 1969 and I'm still trying... Pete |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 05 - 12:44 PM Another ambition I had was to make love to Diana Rigg, who played Emma Peel in "The Avengers". Have not succeeded in that objective so far. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 05 - 12:14 AM I have also always wanted to don a gorilla suit and go running around the town freaking people out, but was afraid some fool might shoot me. Accordingly, it has remained an unfulfilled fantasy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Hand-Pulled Boy Date: 26 May 05 - 08:07 AM Do you think she's attracted to gorillas? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: freda underhill Date: 26 May 05 - 08:23 AM LoL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 05 - 02:54 PM Well...I hadn't given that any thought. Perhaps it's worth a try. "Ook! Ook! Ook! Diana want banana? Kreegah, Diana!" Yeah, sure. That oughta do it. I have also had a strong desire to go out with Winona Ryder ever since sometime in the 80's. The poor girl hasn't had any good movie roles lately, but she was dynamite back in the 80's and 90's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: PoohBear Date: 27 May 05 - 10:40 AM "I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. . . " I wanted to be a fashion designer but listened to my father and got a business degree. Still want to design, but now have more interest in costuming and did quite a bit while in the SCA. Not practical for getting a paycheck - but lots of fun for me and the cat. The most basic classes in school have proved to be the most useful (typing/10key/accounting) and have allowed me to (mostly)pay the bills but provide little joy and involve no passion. I'm still working on the goal of being any sort of decent vocalist, accompanied by my own VERY basic guitar work. . . I have dreams of improving on the basic and building and playing my own hammered dulcimer. . . And since I not only have dreams of that, but some rather nebulous plans, it will happen . . . maybe not right now. . . but it will happen. I will: move out of the desert - back to the ocean where I belong I will: learn to play a hammered dulcimer I will: sing because it makes me happy - and hope to find an audience who will be happy to hear me. I will: create fanciful, wonderful costumes because they are pretty and it's fun to watch the cat play in yards of fabric And if it all takes a while that's okay - the journey is the really fun part, after all! Cheers PB |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 27 May 05 - 10:45 AM From age 10, when I read _Explaining the Atom_ by Selig Hecht, till age 26, when I flunked out of graduate school for the second time, I was going to be a physicist. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If you're cute _and_ useful, your clock never stops running. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: annamill Date: 27 May 05 - 07:03 PM I was suppose to be Donna Reed. Didn't work out. I wanted to be a painter. Spent hours in my bedroom "painting" with water colors. I wanted to study bugs. Scared the hell out of my mother when I brought a large jar of bugs into my bedroom to study....and dropped them all on the floor, jumped up on the bed and screamed, jumping up and down on the bed. Didn't want to do anything for years. Just hang out enjoying life. Didn't work out. I couldn't understand the concept of working for years so I could retire and do nothing except just hang out and enjoy life. I had 2 kids. Had to go to work. I became a computer programmer with a two year degree. Worked for 27 years and eventually became a "consultant" (makes loads of bucks) Didn't work out. Tried a mess of other stuff, security guard, trolley driver, ebay seller, telemarketer(really didn't work out), waitress. Nothing has worked out. So, here I am, 60 yrs old, with no idea what I want to do. Mostly, I just want to hang out and enjoy life. Nobody pays you to do that. You know, my father always told me to marry a rich man. I did once. Didn't work out. I have a wonderful husband who has a pretty good job. He's happy just hanging out too. We used to laugh about coming out to Cali and living in a box on the beach. A small one for Maxie (our Maltese) of course. It may just happen. ;-) Boy, life is weird! Love, Annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: sixtieschick Date: 27 May 05 - 08:18 PM As far back as I can recall, what I wanted most was to be selflessly of service; be able to give unreservedly and without thought of reward, and to bring some measure of good into the world: To help alleviate the suffering of humankind in some way--to work to end injustice, bigotry, war, hunger. To love one man til death do us part, helping him fulfil his dreams and bringing joy into his life. To write books and paint pictures that would uplift and inspire others. If I could have, it would have made me very happy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What you *were* going to do in life?.... From: Kaleea Date: 28 May 05 - 04:17 AM Little Hawk, I loved the Avengers! I did think that the man was too old for me & for Mrs. Peel. |
