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OP - July 11, 2011, 05:11 PM

I'm interested what everyone's childhood dreams were.

I wanted to be a dustbin man so I could "look out the window" - yeah, wasn't really the sharpest tool in the box. Then I wanted to be a comic book artist, then a lawyer, then an architect. Most Muslim kids become doctors, so I was original and chose engineering (so damn original!) but deep-down I wanted to somehow help the Muslim ummah I guess.

So what was your childhood ambition, and how closely has your life followed that?
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Reply #1 - July 11, 2011, 05:17 PM

I wanted to be a policeman originally (but more like robocop), then a lawyer, considering I've just done a law degree my education somewhat follows that, but at the same time I'm not going to train to be a solicitor so....(mixed results).

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Reply #2 - July 11, 2011, 05:19 PM

Train driver, then musician (which I was for 20 years, but not professionally), then chemical engeneer, and I became a doctor at last

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Reply #3 - July 11, 2011, 06:09 PM

I initially wanted to be a doctor, then an astronaut, then psychiatrist, then lawyer, but eventually I became a statistician

I guess life took me by surprise and landed me where I least expected to go (math was my worst subject in high school).
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Reply #4 - July 11, 2011, 06:19 PM

I initially wanted to be the prime minister of India, then a commercial airline pilot, then a scientist, now I am being admitted in an Engineering course.

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Reply #5 - July 11, 2011, 06:24 PM

I wanted to be a con artist, like my then idol, 'Face' from the A-Team.

So far, the only person I've conned has been myself. I'm not sure if I've been rumbled yet.

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Reply #6 - July 11, 2011, 06:25 PM

Conning is easy, being productive is hard.

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Reply #7 - July 11, 2011, 06:25 PM

Over the years (lol, am I too young to use that phrase?) i've wanted to be an oceanographer, astronomer, doctor, film score orchestrator, movie director, and photographer.

Now I want to study biology and see where that takes me. Neurology is interesting.... And photography is a nice hobby. I'm not sure where in science I'll end up, but I have narrowed it down that far.

I have an overactive mind....

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Reply #8 - July 11, 2011, 06:26 PM

Quote from: interested212 on July 11, 2011, 06:25 PM
Conning is easy, being productive is hard.

To think, if none of them had escaped that high-security military stockade, how different my life could have been..

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Reply #9 - July 11, 2011, 06:30 PM

Rich.

Now I just want to come up with the grand unified theory. And maybe the theory of everything too if I have time...
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Reply #10 - July 11, 2011, 06:31 PM

Quote from: Elifaz on July 11, 2011, 05:11 PM
I wanted to be a dustbin man so I could "look out the window"

I had multiple different dreams..

* I wanted to be a bus driver who skip through all the unneccessory stops and go all the way directly to my cool uncle's house.
* I wanted to be a doctor, but had the ambition to ask patients to take off their pants for leg pain..

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Reply #11 - July 11, 2011, 06:32 PM

First thing I remember was wanting to be an astronaut, then I wanted to be an archeologist/scientist - looking at dinosaur bones etc and then a dectective (-for a very long time I wanted to be this, until i realised you have to start off being a police officer ) and then I wanted to be scientist again.

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Reply #12 - July 11, 2011, 06:37 PM

Quote from: kleine Bruder on July 11, 2011, 06:09 PM
I initially wanted to be a doctor, then an astronaut, then psychiatrist, then lawyer, but eventually I became a statistician

I guess life took me by surprise and landed me where I least expected to go (math was my worst subject in high school).

LOL! statistician hehe 'mommyyy i wanna be a statistician when i grow up!!!' imagine that

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Reply #13 - July 11, 2011, 06:37 PM

Quote from: stardust on July 11, 2011, 06:32 PM
First thing I remember was wanting to be an astronaut, then I wanted to be an archeologist/scientist - looking at dinosaur bones etc and then a dectective (-for a very long time I wanted to be this, until i realised you have to start off being a police officer ) and then I wanted to be scientist again.

I think you watch too many of those Harrison ford archeology movies dear stardust. So you are scientist now...

Well When I was kid I used to love Peacocks and used to raise them.. I think I am going to make some money and raise a peacock farm .. spread peacocks in every country all over the world..

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Reply #14 - July 11, 2011, 06:49 PM

Quote from: stardust on July 11, 2011, 06:37 PM
LOL! statistician hehe 'mommyyy i wanna be a statistician when i grow up!!!' imagine that

haha, only kids that are into gambling would ever figure that being a statistician is cool (of course, they'd be kinda wrong but that's a non-issue)
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Reply #15 - July 11, 2011, 07:28 PM

I wanted to be a pilot.

I seriously wanted to do it, for a long time, but then I realized it probably wasn't very practical for me especially if I wanna have a family one day. *shrug*
But I don't even know if I want that anymore.

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Reply #16 - July 11, 2011, 08:02 PM

I think we used to have a thread like this way back, but anyways:

1. Scientist (nuclear physicist, astrophysicist, or genetics researcher). Found out I was bad at math when I started doing more advanced math (algebra, geometry, etc) and that was the end of that.

2. Professional criminal (crime lord, thief or hitman-- even did a book report in elementary school that was supposed to be on a biography of one of our heroes and I did Al Capone). Too many moral reservations (especially given how much my ma hated my dad who was a professional criminal, nor did I care for him too much since he didn't pay child support). Dabbled in some petty shit here and there and hung out with some pretty serious guys when I was younger, but never got into the serious shit myself.

3. Professional military (plan to be a Green Beret then a mercenary). This one I actually embarked on a concrete plan for and got US Army scholarship to attend a good university, but then I got an arrest and conviction early on and was kicked out of the program.

No, never wanted to be a cop, firefighter or professional athlete (well baseball pitcher for a short time until I realized I sucked)-- I was a strange child, not like the balanced and normal Raccoon Rapist you see before you today.

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Reply #17 - July 11, 2011, 08:09 PM

Oh wow, as a child I wanted to be so many things. I still do now. I would be immortal just for the chance to be everything I could be at some stage n my life. But anyway:

1 - A creature with magical powers - preferably an elfen sorceress. this was actually a real ambition so whatever.

2 - A doctor - then I saw an open wound

3 - An inventor - robot cars that looked like transfromers long before I saw a transformer.

4 - The boy who could fly - I wanted to be that boy

5 - A boy

6 - An archeaologist - Indiana Jones was my inspiration

7 - An astronaut

8 - A human rights campaigner - I was gonna right those wrongs

9 - A figure ice skater

10 - A singer - yea, so not gonna happen

11 - Beautiful - hahaha ^^

12 - Free

13 - Writer

So, I am free from Islam at least and there is still time to be a writer. I will get there one day.

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Reply #18 - July 11, 2011, 08:17 PM

Quote from: BerberElla on July 11, 2011, 08:09 PM
So, I am free from Islam at least and there is still time to be a writer. I will get there one day.

Human rights campaigner is also within your grasp. And you wouldn't be the first person to do both.

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Reply #19 - July 11, 2011, 08:17 PM

For me is was:

1. Singer or Band Member
I used to always sing and I just loved it.
I still sing, but im thinking of taking singing and guitar lessons in the coming years.
Ima try to make something out of that hobby.

2. Author/Poet
I've written a few short stories and a novel.
But I can easily do that as a side thing rather than a career now.
I've also written countless COUNTLESS poems.
Published a few.

3. Film editor/director/videographer
Thats currently what im going into.
I want to work with music videos and documentaries.

Maybe someday I can write a book and make a movie out of it.
Or I can even have a band and direct our own music videos.
Who knows, right?
My options are endless.
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Reply #20 - July 11, 2011, 08:20 PM

Quote from: Raccoon Rapist on July 11, 2011, 08:17 PM
Human rights campaigner is also within your grasp. And you wouldn't be the first person to do both.

Oh yeah, I know.

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Reply #22 - July 11, 2011, 08:42 PM

I wanted to be a pop star

In a band

become an actress and be on disney channel

archaeologist (because I watched 'The mummy'

a whore

a doctor (because I liked greys anatomy)

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Reply #23 - July 11, 2011, 08:46 PM

inb4 'at least you managed one of them'
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Reply #24 - July 11, 2011, 08:49 PM

that was such a cheap come back I'm not going to bother with you

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Reply #25 - July 11, 2011, 08:50 PM

I wanted to be a doctor.

I also wanted to be a marine biologist after a visit to Marineland.

I also wanted to be a teacher in the first grade, like every other kid.

And I cant remember MOAR ATM

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Reply #26 - July 11, 2011, 08:54 PM

Quote from: ChinaDoll on July 11, 2011, 08:49 PM
that was such a cheap come back I'm not going to bother with you

inb4 'well so are you'.

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Reply #27 - July 11, 2011, 08:56 PM

never knew that was possible

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Reply #28 - July 11, 2011, 10:15 PM

WTH Prince? I didn't expect this from you.

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Reply #29 - July 11, 2011, 10:16 PM

Quote from: Ephemeral on July 11, 2011, 08:50 PM
I wanted to be a doctor.

I also wanted to be a marine biologist after a visit to Marineland.

I also wanted to be a teacher in the first grade, like every other kid.

And I cant remember MOAR ATM

I also wanted to do marine biology at one point.

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