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Childhood Ambitions

JoshE

JoshE

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I recently received a letter from the ADF asking me if i was still keen on joining the force's, which i was back in the day but got cold feet at the end..

So it made me curious as to how many people actually became what there childhood ambition was.

So what did you want to be?? and what have you become?

I wanted to be a soldier/pilot, but now work a dead end job for Woolworth's, driving forklift's etc etc..:p
 
I wanted to be a pilot as well, studied aviation in high school, am currently saving up for flying lessons etc while working at the casino. Dunno how the pilot thing will pan out though as I've kinda lost my passion for it.
 
I don't think I was that ambitious as a kid. I'll theorize that the more you're interested in something and the more you learn about it as it becomes a passion that is when you start to become ambitious.

I guess I was really into aquariums and native freshwater fish when I was a teenager. I was also a really good golfer. But I'd say I was more keen to have a million awesome fishtanks than become a pro golfer. Basically what I'm saying is that you can be ambitious about lots of things, not just career related. You can be ambitious within your job too, looking to establish your position and/or further your career.

Combining those two points together once I found something I was really passionate about and because knowledgeable, then a job was just a secondary. So it took until I was about 20 to become interested in plants and the environment, and I am still working in the field now.
 
I've thought about it before, and I don't think I ever had a childhood career ambition :\

I liked the thought that I could be anything (professional soccer player? sure! lol). I never dwelt on anything in particular, though like most kids I went through phases of wanting to have various jobs after hearing about something cool they do. Heck I even wanted to be a politician for a while in primary school when I was told they get to eat during long sessions =D

I guess if I had to pick something it'd be an author, but I wasn't really keen on that until high school and never actually did anything to pursue it. Was always more of a 'maybe later in life' kind of thing.
 
I wanted to play for the All Blacks. The closest I came was being able to train with them once when they used my school in a build up to a Test match. I even got to run in defence against them before running a few backline moves with my idols. Was pretty wild to be throwing cut out passes to Frank Bunce and a steaming John Timu. Even though I eventually got injured trialling for a professional club in Europe, it was never my ambition to play professionally (mainly because as a kid rugby was a very strict amateur game).

Before I left school I was tossing up between astronomy and dentistry. I'm a dentist now and I'm heading heading to a Doof for Winter solstice tomorrow to view a lunar eclipse. I guess you could say I don't aim high enough. Or perhaps I don't sit back wondering. Currently I wouldn't mind being P Diddy's new umbrella holder or just finding a large cliff face and devote 30 years of my life creating a massive rock monument similar to Mt Rushmore. Where's my dynamite?
 
I wanted to do the pilot thing for a while but ended up following my fishy interests (similar to Klue's) into the aquaculture industry which is where I am today. I suppose I did follow my childhood ambitions, I'd never realised this before.

I absolutely love my field, despite the fact that it pays fuck all. I've been fortunate enough to get into a well paying job in managing a research facility so I'm very happy with that :D
 
^ Sounds good man, I always wanted to be a Marine Biologist before the pilot phase, but i kept on changing my mind..

One minute i would to be a pilot, then a week later i saw something on tv about Marine Biology and was yea I can defiantly see myself doing that, then again later down the track i read/saw something else and wanted to be that..

Couldn't make up my frigging mind and now i have no idea what i want to do..
 
Didn't every kid in the 80's want to be a Marine Biologist?


Is anybody here a Marine Biologist???

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I'm not a big fan of marine biologists (which is usual for an aquaculturist) they're so impractical :p
 
I wanted to be a fisherman, like as in the dudes on that show the deadliest catch, that kind off fisherman.

Actually had a chance to ride on one of the boats too, six of the scariest hours of my life!
 
I wanted to be a plumber.....

Now I'm a national supply chain manager for a company listed on the ASX.

I wish now that I were a self employed plumber, stress less.
 
A chef... Instead... Working I.T... Then again it is basically the same thing. Working with different components to create/repair/design something
 
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