Don't everybody clog it up with "Male" or "Female", I'm talking about professions. :laugh:
I have a spiral bound School Years book with my old elementary school pictures and report cards, and each year had a spot for your height, weight, and a check-off section for what you wanted to be. Mine varied from scientist to astronaut and fireman. I've spent virtually my whole life working on military electronics and weapons systems.
What did you want to be, and how close did you come to it?
Hugs, Devlyn
In my family there has been lumberjacks, workers in the mill, wood frame housing carpenter and in that line came me as a commercial carpenter foreman building skyscrapers. I hoped my children continued the progression, and one has become an architect.
What I did was a calling and I was a natural, what I wished though, was to be a draftsman and be the architect. My protege could have gone even farther.
I wanted to fly airplanes in the Air Force. I grew up on Air Force bases and used to fall asleep to the not so distant roar of B52 engines getting ready to take off. But since I have had poor vision since I was a kid that wasn't possible. So I did the next best thing and joined the Infantry (LOL) and jumped out of the airplanes instead of flying them.
I get horrible motion sickness 🤢 anyway so maybe it was for the best. I did become a really good pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator though. 🤣
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I always wanted to be an astronaut! Growing up in the space age it fascinated me! Now, at 52, I wish I could turn back and become a scientist or as crazy as this sounds, a professional sports official. I was a coach in my early life and like you went into the military (and am glad I did as that was one thing I wanted to do, I am sure partly because I was supposed to do something manly).
Well, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!!!
Paula
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It depends... I changed my mind frequently as a kid...
By the time I was getting ready to go to university, I wanted to be a research biologist for Parks Canada... (especially wildlife biology)
I went to university and quickly discovered that I preferred microbes to animals... I went on to get a PhD and worked for a while for a different government department... pretty close...
Now after 8 years as a stay home parent and rapidly approaching 40, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
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A naturalist.
I trained as a biologist and worked in the field for a bit in the 2000s.
I also wanted to be a pianist, but I hated scales and exams so I just ended up playing for my own enjoyment.
After that I got the arts bug, and got into art and performance. I'm currently an artist and performer. Also a writing student as well.
If I decide I want to do something I do seem to end up doing it. Family members are always joking about my wanting to be and do everything. These days though, I'm mostly interested in acting.
I had no idea
I really didn't know, because I have always had so many interests, that I didn't want to choose just one thing. The only thing that really appealed to me was doing something in the entertainment industry; my great uncle was famous, so I wanted to follow in his footsteps, And I did in various ways, but it didn't work out as well as I had hoped it would.
My first opportunity to perform in front of an audience happened when I was in the Army, and stationed in Germany. Me and one of my friends decided to take a trip to a resort town in Spain called Lloret de Mar; it's a beautiful city on the Mediterranean coast, and it's a major travel destination for a lot of Europeans, it's basically party central. Anyway on our second night there we went into a bar called the Troubadour; we were there about an hour, and for some unknown reason my friend told the waitress that him and I had a nightclub act, then she asked us if we would like to perform, my friend looked at me, and I agreed. And about 15-20 minutes later they invited us onto the stage, so we go on, and out of thin air we start doing an off the cuff improvised acapella song and comedy act, and everyone liked us so much, that the club manager asked us if we could come back the next evening, and perform again. So, since we had so much fun, we said yes. So we go back the next night, and our act was a big hit, and people started calling us Boss and Sunrise, because my friend wore suits, and I drank Tequila Sunrises. We performed almost every night for the next two weeks, and people were coming to the club to see our act, just from word of mouth. It was kind of surreal, we were getting recognized while we were out; people would notice us as Boss and Sunrise, and tell us how much they liked our act, and asked if we were going to perform that night. The club manager offered us a job, and we would have taken it, but the clock struck midnight, the carriage turned into a tank, our dancing shoes turned into combat boots, and we were on our way back to duty😊
Quote from: kitchentablepotpourri on March 17, 2018, 09:06:06 PM
I really didn't know, because I have always had so many interests, that I didn't want to choose just one thing. The only thing that really appealed to me was doing something in the entertainment industry; my great uncle was famous, so I wanted to follow in his footsteps, And I did in various ways, but it didn't work out as well as I had hoped it would.
My first opportunity to perform in front of an audience happened when I was in the Army, and stationed in Germany. Me and one of my friends decided to take a trip to a resort town in Spain called Lloret de Mar; it's a beautiful city on the Mediterranean coast, and it's a major travel destination for a lot of Europeans, it's basically party central. Anyway on our second night there we went into a bar called the Troubadour; we were there about an hour, and for some unknown reason my friend told the waitress that him and I had a nightclub act, then she asked us if we would like to perform, my friend looked at me, and I agreed. And about 15-20 minutes later they invited us onto the stage, so we go on, and out of thin air we start doing an off the cuff improvised acapella song and comedy act, and everyone liked us so much, that the club manager asked us if we could come back the next evening, and perform again. So, since we had so much fun, we said yes. So we go back the next night, and our act was a big hit, and people started calling us Boss and Sunrise, because my friend wore suits, and I drank Tequila Sunrises. We performed almost every night for the next two weeks, and people were coming to the club to see our act, just from word of mouth. It was kind of surreal, we were getting recognized while we were out; people would notice us as Boss and Sunrise, and tell us how much they liked our act, and asked if we were going to perform that night. The club manager offered us a job, and we would have taken it, but the clock struck midnight, the carriage turned into a tank, our dancing shoes turned into combat boots, and we were on our way back to duty😊
Kinda like the Everly Brothers :)
I wanted to be a brain surgeon just like Jethro Bodine!
Poor little Cassi wasn't allowed to be involved in this but she had ways of making herself known. But I think first a Marine and second a cop.
Funny thing about wanting to be a cop to help people but once you are, you're exposed to so much garbage it can have a numbing effect on one's self. Less I degree..........................
When I was 5, I wanted to be a Texas Ranger (LEO not baseball).
When I was 10, I wanted to be a pilot and fly the X-15.
When I was 15, I had discovered my dad's magazines and I wanted to be a Playboy Bunny.
Seriously!
Pilot and policeman. I almost enlisted to get a helicopter pilot license. But then I was supposed to pay back my education - for 15 years. I said no thank you. No military for me for 15 years.
Funny thing is. I've been working at the same place for 20 years now. Why o why did I not get that license?!
Quote from: BeverlyAnn on March 17, 2018, 10:56:00 PM
When I was 5, I wanted to be a Texas Ranger (LEO not baseball).
When I was 10, I wanted to be a pilot and fly the X-15.
When I was 15, I had discovered my dad's magazines and I wanted to be a Playboy Bunny.
Seriously!
I like Wicked Wanda in Penhouse!
A Chef, I always loved baking and cooking. I sent to Culinary school but I've always clashed with management and the executive chef's I've worked for. I have never been fired or reprimanded because I'm that good! But I never get promoted. So I kept going to school and had seen discrimination been bullied for being myself and have seen others bullied discreetly for their sexual identity of preference. I am finishing my M.B.A in human resources.
I wanted from an early age to be a scientist. When I was about 10-11, I read Gerald Durrell's book 'My Family and Other Animals' which confirmed my interest in Zoology. I did an Hons degree in Zoology and specialised in endocrinology. I then found out there were no jobs for Zoologists so worked as a research assistant in an Immunology lab as I had small animal surgical skills, this generated a love of Immunology. I did a PhD and then a Pathology Fellowship in Immunology, I then got interested in imaging technology and that coupled with hybridoma technology got me started into cancer research. I was so interested I even brought my work home in my throat!
Now that I'm retired due to ill health I have re-started my interest in zoology/ entomology again and have just begun my first paper on kleptoparasites in araneids.
I think I ended up as I wanted - a scientist.
Quote from: Cindy on March 18, 2018, 12:51:57 AM
I wanted from an early age to be a scientist. When I was about 10-11, I read Gerald Durrell's book 'My Family and Other Animals' which confirmed my interest in Zoology. I did an Hons degree in Zoology and specialised in endocrinology. I then found out there were no jobs for Zoologists so worked as a research assistant in an Immunology lab as I had small animal surgical skills, this generated a love of Immunology. I did a PhD and then a Pathology Fellowship in Immunology, I then got interested in imaging technology and that coupled with hybridoma technology got me started into cancer research. I was so interested I even brought my work home in my throat!
Now that I'm retired due to ill health I have re-started my interest in zoology/ entomology again and have just begun my first paper on kleptoparasites in araneids.
I think I ended up as I wanted - a scientist.
The lack of jobs in basic biology has definitely contributed to my uncertainty about what I want to do for my third career... I still have the intense passion for my research organisms... but no one wants to pay me to do it. I need a patron.
Enjoy your thieving spiders :)
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Work on the perfume counter at Boot's chemists, they were the most glamorous elegant women I saw as a kid. Couldn't tell the careers teacher that so I told him I wanted to be a Hell's Angel!
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up! ;D
Two of the three things I wanted to do when I was a kid were be a jet pilot and be a fireman. I have gotten to do both. I know it is officially off-topic for this thread, but the third thing was to be a girl. So I'm three for three.
I'm very happy and proud of everyone who isn't growing up any time soon. ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Cindy on March 18, 2018, 12:51:57 AM'My Family and Other Animals'
I read that as well as a kid and immediately wanted to do what he was doing.
Quote from: Deborah on March 17, 2018, 08:35:32 PM
I wanted to fly airplanes in the Air Force. I did become a really good pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator though. 🤣
As an officer candidate tried to join the Navy - did well on written tests but am color-blind with poor depth perception so . . . glad I didn't qualify! Spent next 30yrs working for Pan American / Delta instead!! Got pretty good as a 12yr old with the 707 simulator my father was Captain, Instructor and eventually Chief Pilot . . . Deborah ever hook into Vatsim (https://www.vatsim.net/)?
Sooo realistic I'd be scared death and father used to just sit there and
LAUGH!!
Always wanted to goto State Dept school @ Georgetown and be a traveling diplomat / spy . . . after all I am Irish Catholic!
Quote from: Kiera on March 18, 2018, 10:24:42 AM
Deborah ever hook into Vatsim (https://www.vatsim.net/)?
Always wanted to goto State Dept school @ Georgetown and be a traveling diplomat / spy . . . after all I am Irish Catholic!
I never did try Vatsim although I did get pretty good flying IFR and using approach plates. What I really enjoyed was vintage airplanes with their rather primitive navigation equipment. That always kept me busy just trying not to get lost. My favorites were a DC3, a P47, and a highly realistic, and complex, B17 I got. That one sometimes took me nearly an hour just to get the engines started, LOL.
On one assignment I was attached to the State Dept and even had a black diplomatic passport. We were in a country trying to keep two hostile parties apart and keep the peace. Ultimately we failed.
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A firefighter. I went to college to study fire science and when I finished school, I could not pass the physical due to heart problems. Luckily my BIL got me a job at Northrop as an expeditor. This set the stage for a forty year career in Materials Management.
Quote from: DawnOday on March 18, 2018, 12:02:11 PM
A firefighter. I went to college to study fire science and when I finished school, I could not pass the physical due to heart problems. Luckily my BIL got me a job at Northrop as an expeditor. This set the stage for a forty year career in Materials Management.
Interesting on the Materials Management job. I did a brief tour of duty with Douglas Aircraft in 1979-1980 as an expediter in Material Release. I worked the the swing shift which after my son's mother and I broke up was cool because I could show up at the all the bars after everyone was drunk and I was sober, lol.
Sadly, a number of people were promoted and moved to days and everyone was laid off. Felt like I had been fired and never went back.
Nice new avatar by the way! Had to double check to see who it was - looks nothing like your previous one :)
I'm a chameleon? ;D I got laid off at Northrop in 76 when they lost the contract for F18 just after I got married. I then worked for Fairchild tracking space shuttle parts. Then Garret for twenty years and Boeing for 10. My Brother in Law, Morris Black worked for Douglas in materials.
Quote from: DawnOday on March 18, 2018, 12:28:22 PM
I'm a chameleon? ;D I got laid off at Northrop in 76 when they lost the contract for F18 just after I got married. I then worked for Fairchild tracking space shuttle parts. Then Garret for twenty years and Boeing for 10. My Brother in Law, Morris Black worked for Douglas in materials.
Sounds like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPL5OXSBNE
Quote from: Kiera on March 18, 2018, 10:24:42 AM
Spent next 30yrs working for Pan American / Delta instead!!
These last few weeks with rain/cold/rain/cold, my knees have been reminding me of the baggage bins of Delta DC-8's, DC-9's, 727's, etc.
Quote from: BeverlyAnn on March 18, 2018, 02:32:08 PM
These last few weeks with rain/cold/rain/cold, my knees have been reminding me of the baggage bins of Delta DC-8's, DC-9's, 727's, etc.
So when it's all loaded, is the Luggage Bin Laden? <running away> :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
Devlyn! Go stand in the corner and think about what you've just said, and don't turn around until you've something funnier to say!
And oh yes, I wanted to be a teacher [emoji23][emoji23]
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.. Only kidding on the teacher bit, I wanted to be Luke Skywaker AND Princess Leia, the signs were strong in this one [emoji16]
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Quote from: Megan. on March 18, 2018, 02:46:54 PM
Devlyn! Go stand in the corner and think about what you've just said, and don't turn around until you've something funnier to say!
And oh yes, I wanted to be a teacher [emoji23][emoji23]
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:( Yes, ma'am. <sullenly walking away to corner>
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 18, 2018, 02:37:47 PM
So when it's all loaded, is the Luggage Bin Laden? <running away> :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
You do realize I can hit a moving target?
Quote from: BeverlyAnn on March 18, 2018, 03:01:10 PM
You do realize I can hit a moving target?
<walking> No point dying all sweaty then. ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VtEs-vS7ik
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 18, 2018, 02:37:47 PM
So when it's all loaded, is the Luggage Bin Laden? <running away> :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
Bin Closed - his cousin!
I wanted to be a barrister when I was little but I really don't have the skills to be good at it. I figured I'd end up in some sort of middle man job and I did as I'm an insurance broker at the moment (don't curse me just yet!). I'm retraining to be a radiographer later this year. I'm really looking forward to being able to be much more caring in my work.
My ideal job would be the chef at a teeny tiny bistro in Brighton :)
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Quote from: MollyPants on March 18, 2018, 03:38:06 PM
I wanted to be a barrister when I was little but I really don't have the skills to be good at it. I figured I'd end up in some sort of middle man job and I did as I'm an insurance broker at the moment (don't curse me just yet!). I'm retraining to be a radiographer later this year. I'm really looking forward to being able to be much more caring in my work.
My ideal job would be the chef at a teeny tiny bistro in Brighton :)
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Is that like a Radiologist?
Years ago I worked for North American Philips and their X-ray Company - Still glow in the dark :)
Quote from: Cassi on March 18, 2018, 04:46:40 PM
Is that like a Radiologist?
Years ago I worked for North American Philips and their X-ray Company - Still glow in the dark :)
Radiographers just take the x-rays. The radiologists interpret them. At least that's how it's done in the UK [emoji14]
Lol! Very useful for midnight snacking ;)
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Quote from: BeverlyAnn on March 18, 2018, 02:32:08 PMDelta DC-8's, DC-9's, 727's, etc.
lol Can very proudly say "
never been in a Mad-dog bin!" PA just didn't have 'em!
With 727 at least one could stand on feet! Another rainy weekend it's been just killer!
Doctor. Didn't happen.
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Quote from: Gertrude on March 19, 2018, 08:37:20 AM
Doctor. Didn't happen.
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Hi Aunt Gertie!
I can understand! I wanted to be a brain surgeon like Jethro Bodine and it didn't happen.
Two vastly different things.
Firstly, a marine biologist. I have NO idea why other than I love the sea/ocean.
Secondly a writer.
I came closest to the first, joining the Navy. Dabbled with the second, although not for quite a long time.
Marine biologist and sailor, quite a combination :)
Quote from: Cassi on March 19, 2018, 03:30:59 PM
Marine biologist and sailor, quite a combination :)
Lol yeah. I guess that's why I went on subs. I love the water, and being immersed in it. That's my element.
Quote from: Kiera on March 19, 2018, 05:05:07 AM
lol Can very proudly say "never been in a Mad-dog bin!" PA just didn't have 'em!
With 727 at least one could stand on feet! Another rainy weekend it's been just killer!
That was the problem with being as small as I am. I got to be the bin monster on all the Mad-dogs. A 727 put me in the hospital. A Convair 880 bin door gave me a concussion.
Quote from: Sephirah on March 19, 2018, 03:41:46 PM
Lol yeah. I guess that's why I went on subs. I love the water, and being immersed in it. That's my element.
I was on the Nautilus at Disneyland!
Quote from: Cassi on March 19, 2018, 02:10:17 PM
Hi Aunt Gertie!
I can understand! I wanted to be a brain surgeon like Jethro Bodine and it didn't happen.
I wasn't so far apart like Jethro. I come from a blue collar background where I was smarter than most of my peers and I had found staying in my roots unsatisfactory, but no one to show me the way out. Mentors are important.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist - later that changed to 3D animator which I have done for many years.
But these days I spend most of my time 3d modelling for jewelry and architecture.
Sonja.
Quote from: Sonja on March 19, 2018, 05:43:46 PM
I wanted to be a cartoonist - later that changed to 3D animator which I have done for many years.
But these days I spend most of my time 3d modelling for jewelry and architecture.
Sonja.
That's sooooooooooooo kewl. A friend of mine pay for his son to go the Prague and study animation. When he came back he got a job with I guess Lucas Films? And did parts on at least How to train your dragon.
Quote from: Gertrude on March 19, 2018, 05:17:34 PM
I wasn't so far apart like Jethro. I come from a blue collar background where I was smarter than most of my peers and I had found staying in my roots unsatisfactory, but no one to show me the way out. Mentors are important.
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I can understand that. My mother was very intelligent but believe she gave up and fell into a wine bottle when I was about 10. My dad use to throw how he paid cash for his first car by working in a brickyard. He neglected to add that he lived in his parents basement until he was 30 and got my mother pregnant and they moved from Illinois to California.
Quote from: Cassi on March 19, 2018, 06:13:19 PM
I can understand that. My mother was very intelligent but believe she gave up and fell into a wine bottle when I was about 10. My dad use to throw how he paid cash for his first car by working in a brickyard. He neglected to add that he lived in his parents basement until he was 30 and got my mother pregnant and they moved from Illinois to California.
My wife does very well. Works for a very large national bank managing project managers. My drug was food. Now I do Keto. Down 112lbs since June.
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Quote from: Gertrude on March 19, 2018, 09:24:42 PM
My wife does very well. Works for a very large national bank managing project managers. My drug was food. Now I do Keto. Down 112lbs since June.
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Wow
I wanted to be a rock star, neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, and comic book hero.
Bonus points for anyone who knows the combination!
Maybe even a trip through the 8th dimension.
Quote from: Artesia on March 19, 2018, 10:54:38 PM
I wanted to be a rock star, neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, and comic book hero.
Bonus points for anyone who knows the combination!
Maybe even a trip through the 8th dimension.
Buckaroo Banzai!
Quote from: Artesia on March 19, 2018, 10:54:38 PM
I wanted to be a rock star, neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, and comic book hero.
Bonus points for anyone who knows the combination!
Maybe even a trip through the 8th dimension.
My drum teacher would tell me if only I practiced more and took it more seriously...maybe. If one have several interests , it makes things harder in terms of career. I envy people with singular focus.
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Quote from: Artesia on March 19, 2018, 10:54:38 PM
I wanted to be a rock star, neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, and comic book hero.
Bonus points for anyone who knows the combination!
Maybe even a trip through the 8th dimension.
Excuse Me.................
Did I get the extra points???????????????????????????????//////
Quote from: Cassi on March 20, 2018, 12:38:16 PM
Excuse Me.................
Did I get the extra points???????????????????????????????//////
Yes, of course you got the extra points. You are now officially my favorite person on Susan's place. I know it's kind of like winning a kiss from giraffe, but it's all I got.
Quote from: Artesia on March 20, 2018, 11:17:17 PM
Yes, of course you got the extra points. You are now officially my favorite person on Susan's place. I know it's kind of like winning a kiss from giraffe, but it's all I got.
That's great! I'm a smarty pants, I'm a sparty pants...
Kiss from a giraffe is better than one from a rattler!
Astronaut / General lay about / Clinical Psychologist
Space. My first love. I was, and still am absolutely fascinated by it. I don't really need to say I got no way near actually being one.
I was a typical teen, had a mediocre interest in school, choose my work and going out over college. Kinda scraped by there.
Managed to get into a BPS accredited degree, and didn't follow up onto a Master's. Kinda went off the rails again as a party girl in my early 20s.
Eventually, I would at a national engineering company, dealing with all the crap no on was interested in, liabilites, contracts, parts/materials. I then went on to contracting myself out as a Training Manager to the e-commerce/ dot-com industry. One day at 5am, before the end of my shift, I wondered what the hell I was doing. I gave my weeks notice.
My official title is now Housewife, so I'm told. My days are the school run, PTA stuff and trying to avoid new born spit up.
Best decision ever. I may go back to Uni later this year.
Wow, I like space too. I'm told that there's an quite a lot of it between my ears!
Quote from: Cassi on March 25, 2018, 03:10:02 PM
Wow, I like space too. I'm told that there's an quite a lot of it between my ears!
Sounds like my average school report:
A good pupil, but lacks concentration. ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/KLN1Td3.jpg)
Well, if this posts I can flash my blue eyes and have the Devyl wonder.
I wanted to be a sorcerer, or an alchemist. I intensely believed in magic. Then I wanted to be a scientist, mostly physics. Now I'm an Imagineer, so kinda achieved my dream. I tell people I create magic for a living!
Bari Jo
(https://i.imgur.com/2zzHFbQ.jpg)
19 Years old (last week) and losing my hair :)
CalState student days. Hiding my missing hair :)
(https://i.imgur.com/iEHWjep.jpg)
All I ever wanted was money honestly. My dream profession I suppose than is freedom. When I was 6 my mom actually asked me this same question, and money was the answer lol. I live in Northern California, and there is a place called El Dorado Hills where all the rich people live, and I have fantasied living there because everything is just beautiful there. So I guess my answer would be an Entrepreneur?
I suppose if anyone is interested if I achieved my dream, than read below.
My attempts to gain wealth have all landed in failure, at least until just recently. I tried to invent my own product, and got all the way up to looking for a manufacture to produce it, but they all wanted like $10,000 to create a prototype, which is something we did not have lol. So than I tried Real Estate investing, but my social anxiety stopped me from doing that one very quickly. Finally I came across ecommerce and dropshipping. To make a long story short I ended up making my first $1,000 within a week of doing what I was doing. This proves to me that money can be made online, and I am exited for the future.
I am in collage though, and I am currently taking a marketing course or class online.
So yeah, that is my story.
Quote from: Bari Jo on March 25, 2018, 04:14:50 PM
I wanted to be a sorcerer, or an alchemist. I intensely believed in magic. Then I wanted to be a scientist, mostly physics. Now I'm an Imagineer, so kinda achieved my dream. I tell people I create magic for a living!
Bari Jo
DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!
The happiest eeeevil empire on earth!
Myself? I wanted to be a fighter pilot.
Quote from: TicTac on March 28, 2018, 10:45:24 AM
All I ever wanted was money honestly. My dream profession I suppose than is freedom. When I was 6 my mom actually asked me this same question, and money was the answer lol. I live in Northern California, and there is a place called El Dorado Hills where all the rich people live, and I have fantasied living there because everything is just beautiful there. So I guess my answer would be an Entrepreneur?
I suppose if anyone is interested if I achieved my dream, than read below.
My attempts to gain wealth have all landed in failure, at least until just recently. I tried to invent my own product, and got all the way up to looking for a manufacture to produce it, but they all wanted like $10,000 to create a prototype, which is something we did not have lol. So than I tried Real Estate investing, but my social anxiety stopped me from doing that one very quickly. Finally I came across ecommerce and dropshipping. To make a long story short I ended up making my first $1,000 within a week of doing what I was doing. This proves to me that money can be made online, and I am exited for the future.
I am in collage though, and I am currently taking a marketing course or class online.
So yeah, that is my story.
Best typo of the day! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 28, 2018, 11:52:50 AM
Best typo of the day! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
College, but I spelled it Colledge until I learnted howto speel!
All I learned from my business classes is that you don't need to word good to learn to sell goods gooder.
Actually I also learned that the word synergy is the most goodest word ever.
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 28, 2018, 11:52:50 AM
Best typo of the day! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
I can't believe I spelled college wrong lol. That is funny.
I wanted to be a chemist. I was really into burning stuff and also fireworks as a kid. [around 11 or so] and then I realized actually chemists do pretty boring work. Then I wanted to be a doctor because I had so many health problems and wanted to understand those. Then I realized the environment is the last thing I'd be interested in. And also that I'm kind of a dumbass so!
When I was teenager, [14-17] I wanted to be a musician or work as a comic artist. I sorta did both for a while? I play several instruments and sing, and used to be in a band [it didn't go anywhere]. I worked gigs as a stand in [mostly playing guitar] for a while. It was pretty hard but I was into it [and the pay was decent] so I kept with it for a while.
I worked as an inker/penciller/storyboardist for comics for a while after that. The pay was ->-bleeped-<- but I felt like I was learning a lot and I had "passion" after all. I couldn't keep up the work without pay though so I dropped it eventually. I picked up a job as an editor [for books though] after that. Hated it. Switched to programming. Found it too hard.
Went back to "normal" jobs, mainly retail. I can't stick with "normal" jobs either due to my disability or just my personality so I quit jobs a lot. I've settled into being a freelance artist for now. Ideally, I'd like to go into social work and maybe also combine that with art/music somehow [which is basically my approach to activism].
Quote from: TicTac on March 28, 2018, 01:32:09 PM
I can't believe I spelled college wrong lol. That is funny.
Don't feel bad, like I said I spelled it Colledge at first. LOL.
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on March 28, 2018, 12:08:38 PM
All I learned from my business classes is that you don't need to word good to learn to sell goods gooder.
Actually I also learned that the word synergy is the most goodest word ever.
Yeck ya awe! I learned how ta spack inglish in Tejas!!!!!!!
I wanted to be a video game developer. Wrote (official, published) strategy guides for two when I was 18, realized actually working with video games was a living nightmare that sucked all the fun out them, and dropped that idea forever... ... Oh wait, no, I'm still an idiot have vague ideas of putting together an indie game or mobile game.
I wanted to be an artist. Worked really hard until about 7th or 8th grade when the "good" artists made fun of me so I stopped. Recently got back into it and plan to go to art school next year; hoping to become a high school art teacher. I want to have my own studio for creating personal projects during summer break.
Quote from: Cassi on March 21, 2018, 12:13:56 AM
That's great! I'm a smarty pants, I'm a sparty pants...
Kiss from a giraffe is better than one from a rattler!
And how to make up acronyms
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Quote from: Gertrude on March 30, 2018, 06:19:53 PM
And how to make up acronyms
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Short term memory loss, dont remember writing that - must have been during one of the She and He arguments :(
I always wanted to be an author. It is my dream to publish a novel before I die.
I wanted to be a lawyer or politician when I was a kid. I sort of got it on a lower scale as for 6 years I was chief steward and 4 years as president of a union. I also work full time as a PSW did not ever think I would be in that career.
Like many kids who grew up in the 60's I wanted to be an astronaut. Maybe a little strange for someone who is terrified of high places.
RICH! 😃
1. astronaut. Reality came and hit me in the face. Like the chanses to become an astronaut were microscopic.
2. Fighter pilot in the Swedish airforce. Then I saw one plane crash in middle of Stockholm during an air show.
3. Helicopter pilot in the Swedish airforce. Got the hiccups when I saw I'd need to be enlisted for 15 years to pay back my education. 15 years, it's like forever when you are 16.
3. Police man. I did not have the grades for it. When I had studied up, I was already working and it was too comfortable and fun to work.
What I became? A nightwatch/security guard. Close enough. Haha
Tony