WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE OLDER?

[Gumball]

Not much else happening so thought i would start a thread that we could all join in with.

The question is....................WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP? AND DID IT HAPPEN AND WHY NOT?

I wanted to be a fighter pilot for the RAF and fly Tornados. Did it happen?

I never stuck in at school or get to Uni. Had it been for that i would have given it a go. I joined the Army instead

[AlanG]

Younger.... []

[irish al]

Wanted to be a successful property developer. On my third house just now and am still young so I might get there when I am older.

Wanted a subaru since I was 17, I got one ten years later.

Now I ve got one I want the fsatest one. Am still working on that  []

Al

[st3ph3n]

This is really sad, but I wanted to work with computers since I was about 8 years old. I'm kind of living my dream. Except it's not really that exciting at all, and everyone and their mother works in IT now. Well I say it's not exciting, but some of it is. I still get a kick from developing something really clever and innovative or solving really hard problems. Data structures in particular I find really interesting. I've got a ****ed up mind and a really short attention span/borderline ADD, and I need a good problem to solve to focus my attention, which is why I check the forums often when I'm bored.

But hey, I always wanted to own a fast car. And one day I will.

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Always wanted to be a racing driver ( do the math !)..........this  man being my inspiration

Ended up doing BSc. in Topographic Science at Glasgow Uni but Land Surveyors  pay was ( and i presume still is) radge so I am know a Hydrographic Surveyor ( or a Geomatician ) with Shell. Mega variety, loads of travel, and I basically love it. Used to work offshore before that for 4 years working all over the world. Now a desk jockey though but still diggin' it ......so you can thank me & Wuz & a few others for getting yer V-power out the ground.

Currently working on a beast of a pipeline that will supply you lot with 20% of yer gas. It's 42" diameter !

Cal

[RA Dunk]

i didnt really know what i wanted to do when i left school, i went deep sea fishing for 14 years,  went offshore joined transocean for four and a half years im  now with halliburton been with em for the last six months, it pays the bills and stuff though []

[4Hero]

I always wanted to own my own business. Not sure what I wanted my business to do, but just wanted to be my own boss. My dream was/still is to be able to afford a brand new Lamborghini, I realised working in an office 9-5 would not allow me to get one doing what I was doing. I now have my own company specialising in developing accessible websites, doing pretty well and not had to advertise yet (word of mouth is great). Still saving for the lambo []

You can do anything if you put your mind to it, I had feck all money/ambition when I was a wee bit younger. Gave my self a kick up the buttocks and loving every minute of life (and my new sti hawkeye [])

[craigwrx]

Exactly the same as u GUMBALL ...sadly never left School with enough passes to live my dream ...no where near lol ..and yes i also joined the Army, seemed to be the next best thing at the time !

[lescazscoob]

when i was a wee boy i wanted to be a fire man as i thought, wait for it................................................................................

that the firemen set the fires lol kids eh?

ended up leaving school meeting my lovely wife caz and training to be a bricklayer now 5 years on iam fully qualified and have my own small building firm and have 3 rather well behaved kids and my scoob in the drive.

wouldnt change it for the world

cheers les

[tazmaniandevil]

Break out the violins troops and troopesses. I wanted to be a solicitor.

I went to a school which had shall we say delusions of grandeur. I came from the slightly downmarket side of town and although relatively bright was sh@t on by teachers most of the time. The school careers teacher's reaction to my ambition was, (I will hate the rancid old b@st@rd for this till the day I die) "Don't be so stupid boy! People like you don't become solicitors. Go away and get yourself a trade."

After leaving school with 8 (count them) O' grades, 5 of which were A passes, I served my apprenticeship as a sparkie. I did this for 15-and a bit years before saying fugg this for a game of sojers, and retraining in IT.

I now make a (fairly sh1t) living as a desktop support technician. Easy job, 9-5, weekends off, 21 days paid holiday a year and paid sick leave. Light at the end of the tunnel? Only 23 years to retirement and a decent pension.

[mrs. jc scoob]

I wanted to be a solicitor too but I ended up not sticking in enough to do so,hated school and couldnt wait to leave,so I ended up becoming a hairdresser,people say you dont make money at it but I do O.K.When the kids get up a bit I fancy going back to college as I am interested in becoming a scenes of crime officer []

[bigbadboab]

I still have no idea as I don't class myself as 'older' yet.  24 years in the Army (1984-present day),finishing next May.  I have my house nearly paid for, 3 cars, a motorbike oh an okay-ish wife, a rugrat aged 12, with the money and pension I get, I will be able to live mortgage free and retire at the grand old age of 40. 

 

 

but

 

 

 

I want a bigger house, a faster scoobie, a new bike, a big workshop to better my skills of auto mechanics and body repairs. So the dream of bigger and better lives on as I'm about to move house with a garage, I have plans for the scoobie, I love the bike I have, the rugrat will move out (kicked out)when she turns 16 and the three little words that keep the missus and me together, CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY, will no longer be usable in a court of law, which means she will be joining the rugrat. 

Only joking on the last few comments folks, I really would like to do what Andy Forrest and Wuz do, but who would take a 40 year old on to learn these skills as an apprentice????  I am reading loads of mechanical stuff but I can't take it in unless I actually have a hands on demonstration. 

I still live the dream of a successful life for me and my family, as mine was pretty sh!t when growing up.

[Carl Davey]

I always wanted to be in a rock and roll band. [H]

Ten years later i find myself working on an oil rig.... [:^)]

Always fancied doing the RAF pilot thing too but having asthma as a child ruled me out of that. By some fluke i managed to get very good grades at school and started Uni but got bored and ended up doing an apprenticeship which landed me a good job offshore. Still have guitars cluttering up the house but sadly they do more dust collecting than anything else these days. []

[jcscoob]

I wanted to be a binman, called Albert . []

Here is what i might have looked like[]

Did'nt stick in at school and never got the qulifaction. [:S] 

[wrxmania]

Lawyer for me - even bought a book on Scots law at a jumble sale with my grannie when I was about 8 or something.  Never happened - gave up on it as just TOO dry.

Oh - and Jimi Hendrix intervened somewhere []

Brian []

[z1000]

From what i remember i've wanted to be an officer of the law , a steam train driver and a gamekeeper.

Have been a butcher, ghillie, had a job manufacturing toilet cubicles from solid laminate and everything else in between. If theres a buck to be made i'll be there, now self employed landscaper/general builder and i don't do gardening before anyone says it thats for old folk.

So anyone want some decking or a new patio i'm ur man.

I'd love to have a workshop building choppers and hotrods though, guesss i watch to much american chopper/hotrod, biker build off etc.

[Dougie C]

Well I left school when I was 17 and was supposed to go to college but instead when I was at school.

I did work experience with Bishops Move Removal Company and they phoned me up asking if I wanted a trial basis and I jumped at the chance and loved it until I got a new female boss and I resigned after 7 months as she stressed me out and forgot about my disability.

I've always been trying to get into Desktop Publishing as my brother does it and I am still going to try to do that or I would love to get into Web Publishing.

Currently at college part-time studying ECDL European Computer Driving Licence when my health permits.

Dougie

[nanaki]

when I was really young it was a car mechanic for me.... No.

Then went to high scholl and got into art so I thought maybe an architecht.... No.

Then I saw the high school music studio and fell in love with all the equipment. Passed higher music with the only A in the class that year.

Went to uni in Paisley for 3 years and studied music technology hoping to either work in live sound at gigs or in a recording studio.

So what did I do i graduarted... BSc with distinction and wait for it....... got a job in a call centre baby yeah!!!!

However during those 3 years i got into computers, built some pc's and started running lan parties in Ayr. They became my passion. I would always try and get everything out of every PC I worked on. Can build em, repair em and overclock them now like it was second nature.

16 months after graduating and I'm still in the call centre. Only lasted 3 weeks on the phone though. I now work in IT running dialler systems and desktop support. Also developing my knowledge of networks and databases. Would like to be a network admin some day and from there maybe own my own company doing netowork installations and computer repairs / builds.

Sad but hey i love computers.

I might not have been so far wrong though as a young boy about the mechanic bit. I'm now reading everything i can find on how my subaru works.

[scientific steve]

i was another one who wanted to be a mechanic

my old man had a mate who owned his own  little workshop that you could fit two cars at a time, this is where i spent 3 of my summer holidays

total heaven for a kid  []  i was happier working there than out with me mates

how sad is that eh?

when i left school try as i would there werent any spaces left for an apprenticeship

went through a few things to try and get into placements and ended up with a YTS with Salvesen, working with diesel power packs, rig tongs and casing equipment

wenent all that happy with it but at least i was getting my hands dirty, that only lasted for a year due to my age.

always wanted to be able to weild a spanner in a engine bay AND be able to know what i was on about at the same time

now i sit for days at a time waiting to throw my tool down holes and tell the company where the holes going

not quite what i had in mind, but it pays a lot better

[duncan_mccormick]

YOUNGER!!!

[terzo neil]

i wanted to be rich

 

but that never happened

[doorman]

A glasgow rangers football player to sort out that p1ssh the day.