Scutter01's Inquisition - #3 Your childhood dream job

[Scutter01]

When you were a kid, what was your dream job?




When I was 7, Star Wars had just been released. From that point on, my dream job was X-Wing fighter pilot.

 

[Benny]

I was weird...I wanted to be a Marine Biologist...But I don't like getting in water that I can't see through.

 

[rhino]

Pimp.

 

[Benny]

Pimp.

That was my second choice.

 

[Dogman]

When President Kennedy's funeral was on tv, I was seven at the time, I can remember watching the Honor Guard and thinking how neat they were and how impressed I was and I wanted to do that in the military when I grew up, the other thing was being a police officer.

 

[haldir]

I wanted to be one of the mountain trappers like in the Janice Holt Giles books. Second choice would have been King of the World.

 

[lovemywoods]

I wanted to be an engineer...like my brother.

Now I'm an engineer and I don't do engineering...

 

[spasmo]

I wanted to be a teacher all the way up through high school. Then I found out how much they made. Now I have my own little computer business doing computer stuff. Probably make a little more money than a teacher but don't have my summers off. Except that I do work from home so maybe it's a wash.

 

[Pami]

When I was five, after watching Reading Rainbow, I wanted to be a paleontologist.

In second grade, we had to write a paragraph about what we wanted to be when we grew up. I chose "veterinarian" because animals need a lot of care and attention. I knew that because we had a cat and had to feed her almost every week! That's a lot of work! (My mom still has the paper.)

In high school, I wanted to be the head photographer for the National Geographic. That one carried me all the way through two years of college, when I discovered computers. Even the movie Arachnophobia didn't scare me off the ambition.

 

[Scutter01]

So I'm the only X-Wing pilot here, then? WTF?

 

[Lars]

I wanted to fly a Tie-Fighter.....













ok, not really. I DID want to fly F-16s

 

[haldir]

So I'm the only X-Wing pilot here, then? WTF?

Sorry I was old enough at that point that the girls were more important. I watched it probably 10 times, a couple of them at the Kokomo South Drive-In with the future Mrs.

 

[Scutter01]

Sorry I was old enough at that point that the girls were more important. I watched it probably 10 times, a couple of them at the Kokomo South Drive-In with the future Mrs.

Well, in all fairness, the question was "What did you want to be when you were a kid", not "what career did you decide on when you were in high school".

 

[ATM]

Pimp Ha! Or Jedi master. (I still pretend around automatic doors.)
Rock star was on the list for a few years, too.

Now I'm an engineer and I don't do engineering...

Yep.

 

[NWI40cal]

Astronaut or a LEO

 

[rhino]

Joking aside, I wanted to be an oceanographer. I was fascinated by everything under the sea and watched ever Jacques Cousteau special that aired with rapt attention. I loved the old tv series "Primus" and any other show that had undersea scenes and scuba diving. I read everything I could about it and I still have some of Cousteau's books (probably first editions).

So what happened?

1. I realized I would have to live near the ocean, and I'm a middle of dry land kind of guy.

2. I realized that I'd have to get in the water with large predators that could and would eat me. So-called experts claims sharks aren't that much of a threat, but what self-respecting shark could pass by me without taking at least a nibble? I'd be like a mobile marine smorgasbord in neoprene to them!

 

[Scutter01]

2. I realized that I'd have to get in the water with large predators that could and would eat me. So-called experts claims sharks aren't that much of a threat, but what self-respecting shark could pass by me without taking at least a nibble? I'd be like a mobile marine smorgasbord in neoprene to them!

You should always have a nurse shark with you in case of shark attack.

 

[Steelman]

Mom was a teacher, Dad was a coal miner


I wanted to be a wizard..........I could still do a much better job than the guy from the Alltel commercials.

 

[turnandshoot4]

Wanted to fly fighter jets. Found out good math and eyes required that.

 

[Paul]

I always wanted to design cars or be a Marine. Instead, im going to school for engineering and then law school..