What profession did you wish to enter?

When I first learnt to figure skate, I decided I wanted to be a figure skater, like Jane Torvil, from Toril and Dean. (What was I thinking?!?!) Then my idea's got a little more rational... I think!

I can always remember wanting to be an Air Hostess, but that never really stuck, to be honest. Whilst on an aeroplane I noted the working conditions and thought about how I'd cope in such cramped conditions... not well, I concluded.

After the Air Hostess phase passed, I then got interested in being a Pilot. Hmm... Nope! I don't know why I even allowed that idea to enter my head! I soon dismissed it! hehe! :lol:

Finally decided on something perfect. Happy with that choice. :lol: :lol: :lol:

What about everyone else?

Astronaut!

The first thing I remember I wanted to be and god only knows why i came up with it was 'Sam Fox'.
Unfortunately nature saw fit not to endow me with the items of the trade.

After that I wanted to be a conservationist and a journalist. Nearly got to be a journalist too, until I attended the course and discovered what utter ass****s I would be working with and classed as.

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by "caprice"

What profession did you wish to enter?

When I first learnt to figure skate, I decided I wanted to be a figure skater, like Jane Torvil, from Toril and Dean. (What was I thinking?!?!) Then my idea's got a little more rational... I think!

I can always remember wanting to be an Air Hostess, but that never really stuck, to be honest. Whilst on an aeroplane I noted the working conditions and thought about how I'd cope in such cramped conditions... not well, I concluded.

After the Air Hostess phase passed, I then got interested in being a Pilot. Hmm... Nope! I don't know why I even allowed that idea to enter my head! I soon dismissed it! hehe! :lol:

Finally decided on something perfect. Happy with that choice. :lol: :lol: :lol:

What about everyone else?
I wanted to be an actor an a big hollywood star! DOH :cry:

I wanted to be a snooker player on TV.

I think it must have stemmed from watching snooker with my grandad all the time.

Then I wanted to be a copper, soon changed my mind on that one.#

Now I would like to be a photographer but I am doing a course in IT instead. It's so boring having to be realistic :lol:

Originally posted by "steelblade"

I wanted to be a snooker player on TV.

I think it must have stemmed from watching snooker with my grandad all the time.

Then I wanted to be a copper, soon changed my mind on that one.#

Now I would like to be a photographer but I am doing a course in IT instead. It's so boring having to be realistic :lol:
You could be a photographer. They do part time courses at Norton Centre of the Sheffield College.

OR

You could approach Olan Mills in Sheffield City Centre, they take on unskilled and with no experience photographers and train them up to do fashion/portrait photography! And you get paid for it too!

Just a thought!

Thanks for that info. To be honest I think what I'll do is get my HND out of the way, then when I've (hopefully) got a well paid job, I will do a photography course.

I don't actually have any photography experience whatsoever, my grandad was a keen photographer and I was always very interested in what he did, and well I just like photo's. :lol: especially black and white ones, don't know why I just think they are brill ,really capture the scene.

I wanted to be a teacher, then a designer, then a children's TV presenter (now that did sound fun - you get to make a fool of yourself, play with toys and get paid shed loads).

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a train driver, then to travel the world, Adventurer, anything exciting, see different countries, peoples, live in a warm climate, moving on. Then reality took over and when I left school at fourteen I started work as an apprentice motor engineer and after two years at that I became ill and drifted into various jobs just able to earn a living so I have always been very poor and now I am retired and it is too late.

Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"

...After that I wanted to be a journalist. Nearly got to be a journalist too, until I attended the course and discovered what utter ass****s I would be working with and classed as.


Don't tar all of us with the same brush...! I happen to think journalism is the bedrock of modern democracy.

Originally posted by "waxy chuff"

...After that I wanted to be a journalist. Nearly got to be a journalist too, until I attended the course and discovered what utter ass****s I would be working with and classed as.


Don't tar all of us with the same brush...! I happen to think journalism is the bedrock of modern democracy.
Someone has to! :P

Hey, I'd like to make it clear that I DON'T work for the Star...!

Don't tar all of us with the same brush...! I happen to think journalism is the bedrock of modern democracy.Bedrock - the dirt at the bottom of everything?

I wanted to be a can-can dancer. (is that how it's spelled?)
I used to dance around and hum the tune to myself for hours :lol:

Originally posted by "chrisb"

Don't tar all of us with the same brush...! I happen to think journalism is the bedrock of modern democracy.
Bedrock - the dirt at the bottom of everything?

Area of confusion here - there should be some distinction between the type of journalists working for 'respectable' media (broadsheets?) and those working for the tabloids. True journalism is vital to democracy - it gives people the chance to know the world they live in and make informed decisions on it. After all, what's the point of democracy when you don't know why you should vote for one party or another? There are parallels between media availability and democracy - Taiwan (democracy and very eager to push itself further in this direction) is rightfully proud of it's media and, just as importantly, it's media's independence. Their neighbours China don't have a remotely democratic political system, and bully their people into believing this is best by strictly limiting their media (including the internet).

When I was younger what did I want to be
now let me see
I think I know
but we'll have to look below

When I was little ................I wanted to be an architect, to build houses that people could be happy in, they always had smokimg chimney's and flowers in the gardens. This lasted until I was eight and then I progressed to Fighter Pilot as this was a bit more exciting, I built Airfix models avidly(That polystyrene cement must addle the brains), as a result of this my first fixed wing powered flight was with a Phantom pilot.

Originally posted by caprice
What profession did you wish to enter?

When I first learnt to figure skate, I decided I wanted to be a figure skater, like Jane Torvil, from Toril and Dean. (What was I thinking?!?!) Then my idea's got a little more rational... I think!

I can always remember wanting to be an Air Hostess, but that never really stuck, to be honest. Whilst on an aeroplane I noted the working conditions and thought about how I'd cope in such cramped conditions... not well, I concluded.

After the Air Hostess phase passed, I then got interested in being a Pilot. Hmm... Nope! I don't know why I even allowed that idea to enter my head! I soon dismissed it! hehe! :lol:

Finally decided on something perfect. Happy with that choice. :lol: :lol: :lol:

What about everyone else?

Something I have always wanted to be, and have never changed my mind, exactly the same today as always, but never realised my dream : What is it : A MILLIONAIRE!!!

I wanted to be a heamotoligist (blood tester!!) as I spent a lot of time at the Childrens having various blod tests as a child.

But my life long ambition was to be an actress!! I even went as far as writing to Coronation Street asking for a part. They politely explained all about Equity Cards and that blew my dream away :cry:

So what do I do now? Yesterday I just got a job as a dinner lady at my sons school!!!

First off i wanted to be a Formula 1 driver,but at 26 i still haven't passed my driving test! lol :)

I also quite fancied being a pilot but seen as. 1) My eyesight isn't exactly what you'd call 20/20. 2) I hate flighing so i cant really see that happening either.

At first I wanted to be a Fireman, for driving the big red Fire Engines, and the fact that the Fire House was literally 2 minutes from home...

Then I wanted to be a shop worker like my Mum used to be, which could very well and may still happen one day as I went to Loxley College in 97 and got NVQs in retail at level 1 AND 2.

Currently my aim is to do something involving web design, or just something with computers basically, anything except lowering myself to a tech support job, I couldn't be a techie anyway I know too much about PCs to jusr read from a sheet I'm given and hope the user's problem is on there, and if not go into a blind panic and make something up like AOhell and BT Openworld's techies are known to do.

I wanted to become an opera singer at age 4, i still don't know why i thought that.

Good job i can't sing, otherwise my post on the BMI thread would have been so much different.

Wilf

Always wanted to be a soldier and I achieved that so some extent.

I've always wanted to work with kids since I can remember. Now, though, I sometimes wish I didn't!

Train driver. just push a button and go abide lights every so often and stop now and then. easy peasy!! (well at 5 it was!)

I wanted to be a footballer. I would have made it too, if skill hadn't of been an issue.

I always wanted to be a vet, up until my dad said id probably have to put my hand up a cows bum...that put me off forever!!

Im now 21 and still havent decided what i want to do...:S

I wanted to be an artist and spent most of my youth drawing on the walls much to my parents displeasure :thumbsup:
Then I wanted to be an author
Then a nurse
Then a vet
Then a Forensic Scientist
Then a Pathologist (there is a difference)
Then a journalist
and now back to author, screenwriter

In reality - stuck calling bingo to the masses :roll:

Well I still a haven't really decided what I want to be when I grow up!

When I was about 8 I decided I wanted to be a space man (I think it was the silver suit that appealed) and even went so far as writing to NASA to find out the requirements for getting into the space programme! Part of the requirement was to log a certain number of flying hours so I applied to get an RAF bursery for my A-levels, went down to Biggin Hill but hated every minute of it so decided the forces weren't for me (anyone who knows is probably amazed that I even thought about them!) Then carried on doing my A-levels and decided I wanted to be a doctor so applied to do medicine at uni but missed out by one point - probably a good thing as I would have made a lousy doctor! Then I moved into biochemisty, got interested in pharmacology and structural biology and decided that perhaps rational drug design was the way to go - unfortunatley despite all interest in it no-one is using anthing more advanced than computerised pre-screening. I'm currently doing bio-informatics in the hopeof moving into nanotechnology or pharma research *crosses fingers*! Not really strictly job based but I'm hoping to do something creative on a private basis as relief from all the geeking!

Whoa! and I thought you were just a mad scientist in an underground laboratory surrounded by twisty glass pipes bubbling jars of goo and a few lightining rods here and there :D :wink:

Shhhhhh I'm trying to throw people off the scent...

And we prefer the term psychologically variable :p

Awww boo!
I was gonna apply to be your Igor :P

Go on I can do the hunchback lispy thing better than the next guy!

Yeeeessssstttthhhh Maaaarrrtthhhssstttter :D

How are you on brain collection?

**Snaps on the marigolds**
:D

Yellow ones I hope - they co-ordinate so much better with the gore and grey matter!!!

**gets a big jar ready**

apologieth for hijacking thith thread for our own evil requirementh :wink:

I always wanted to be a fireman, then for some strange reason a bus driver?!?!

Originally posted by Mosherchik
apologieth for hijacking thith thread for our own evil requirementh :wink:

Its lucky you said that Igor - as a psychologically variable world dominating genius I obviously can't apologise!

Office work
Interpreter
Knitwear designer
Armed forces (too short)
Forensics
Funeral home
Social pyschologist/probation work
Museum work/Historian

Journalist (I wanted to work for a tabloid and write lies-I had a vivid imagination)

Air Hostess (too small)

Nurse (thought it would be like casualty)

Originally posted by duffman
I always wanted to be a fireman, then for some strange reason a bus driver?!?!

Stick with bus driver mate, you know where Stannington is... :lol:

Airforce or Army.

Then realising I was short sighted and flat footed thought about joining either as a technical type person.

Then progressed to electronics engineer, but because I had crap maths ended up doing Biochemistry at Uni and considered research. Unfortunately I needed money first, got in to computers in 1982 and that's been it....done lots of technoloy related contracts, played with electronics as a radio amateur and got my maths sorted out!

My English teacher was convinced I was wasted on technology - she considered I should have continued developing my writing. And as I've got older and more bored I think she was right....:-) I've written books, articles and scripts but always more as a 'paid hobby' than anything else. But...writing very much attracts me...

SO...here I am at 42...perhaps it's time for a change!

When you were little?

I still am!!!!

Palaeontologist. For quite a long time, I persisted in the dinosaur phase.
then
Astronaut
Biochemist
Writer
Historian....

Thankfully the current occupation involves a little of all of these. Except the astronatting. maybe space isn't ready for me yet.