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What did you want to be when you grew up?

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justincredible Honorable Admin
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Wed, Jul 8, 2020 9:47 AM

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did that actually happen?

When I was very young I wanted to be a firefighter. My mom was a volunteer firefighter and I basically grew up hanging around at a fire station. I did not become a firefighter.

justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 250 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:00 AM

In high school I thought I wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I did a shadow program with one my junior year and realized very quickly that I was wrong about that one. I observed two or three vasectomies and one impacted wisdom teeth removal.
gerb131 Senior Member
9,982 posts 25 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:04 AM

weatherman 
Laley23 GOAT
33,369 posts 134 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:05 AM

Aside from the obvious pro sports player...

Figured being an announcer would be amazing. I didn’t end up doing that, but gave it a shot for 5 years. Ended up doing something very similar though, working on TV broadcasts throughout the world.
justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 250 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:09 AM
posted by Laley23

Aside from the obvious pro sports player...

Figured being an announcer would be amazing. I didn’t end up doing that, but gave it a shot for 5 years. Ended up doing something very similar though, working on TV broadcasts throughout the world.

I thought I recognized you.
Fab4Runner Tits McGee
6,997 posts 64 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:25 AM
posted by justincredible

I thought I recognized you.

My brothers went to high school with him. 

My earliest recollection is teacher, because I liked writing on chalk boards. 
kizer permanente Senior Member
1,309 posts 18 reps Joined Aug 2017
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:37 AM

I wanted to be an astronaut. The idea of going to space intrigued me. I did not become an astronaut. Although the idea of leaving earth still intrigues me more than ever currently.  
Laley23 GOAT
33,369 posts 134 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 10:56 AM
posted by justincredible

I thought I recognized you.

We actually studied this poor kid in a course at Indiana. Our teacher was his producer up in Muncie and basically told us everything he did wrong in preparation lol
Ironman92 Administrator
56,729 posts 169 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 11:05 AM

Baseball player

Thought about pharmacy early in my college years but decided I wasn’t smart enough. Didn’t decide on teaching until my 2nd year of college.
iclfan2 Reppin' the 330/216/843
9,465 posts 100 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 11:35 AM

When I was in HS I thought about Pharmacy or majoring in math (to be an actuary). Decided I hated science and then did not do well in honors calc so now here I am in Finance/ Accounting (CPA). 
Belly35 Elderly Intellectual
10,015 posts 56 reps Joined Nov 2009
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 1:38 PM

As a young boy I wanted to be a soldier (that dream did come true for a short time).

In High School I studied drafting, was very good at it and won several awards. During the summer I work for a short time with a manufacturing company doing drafting design. I wanted to become a designer / architect. My career/ education took many different paths before and during my military. A career with Red Adair Oil Well Fire was a vision of mine, in college at one aspect it was suggested I move into sport medicine (anatomy was simple for me to learn) however I when into education. I end up teaching for a few years and then moved into doing architectural reprographics restoration, and later designing heavy equipment instrumentation.
Zunardo Senior Member
815 posts 15 reps Joined Nov 2010
Wed, Jul 8, 2020 2:36 PM

Earliest recollection is to be a fireman.  I had a Texaco fireman's hat and one of those big Texaco toy firetrucks. Only trouble was, I was deathly afraid of fire, so that was out.  Thought about being a cowboy, until my dad said I was born too late.   Astronaut was in there somewhere, and pro football player.  In middle school, it was to be a pro bowler on the PBA tour.  

I didn't really have any clear idea, though.  In high school I was thinking about the military and hoping to qualify for an interesting field in the Navy or Air Force and learn something I could then use in the private sector, but my parents weren't keen on me going.

It wasn't until I'd worked in the Postal Service for a decade, mostly in the training department, that I realized I had good people skills and communication skills, and really enjoyed the HR field.  So I didn't really grow up until I was 35 or so.  
thavoice Senior Member
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Thu, Jul 9, 2020 1:02 PM

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justincredible Honorable Admin
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Thu, Jul 9, 2020 1:52 PM
posted by thavoice

Message Board Moderator.

Shooting for the stars, eh?
Spock Senior Member
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Thu, Jul 9, 2020 3:11 PM

https://youtu.be/e3-5YC_oHjE
Heretic Son of the Sun
20,517 posts 205 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 3:32 PM
posted by justincredible

Shooting for the stars, eh?

Shooting for the stars and then realizing that, however insane this may sound, he's actually under-qualified for the gig.
thavoice Senior Member
15,437 posts 42 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 4:24 PM
posted by Heretic

Shooting for the stars and then realizing that, however insane this may sound, he's actually under-qualified for the gig.

Absolutely.


So I went to work for the federal govt!
justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 250 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 4:31 PM
posted by thavoice

Absolutely.


So I went to work for the federal govt!

Overqualified.
thavoice Senior Member
15,437 posts 42 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 4:33 PM
posted by justincredible

Overqualified.


I do have 1/4 of a brain, so yeah, overqualified!
Heretic Son of the Sun
20,517 posts 205 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 4:53 PM
posted by justincredible

Overqualified.


If you can breathe and walk at the same time, you're overqualified for that shit.
jmog Senior Member
7,737 posts 52 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Jul 9, 2020 4:55 PM

Major League Baseball player...


But once reality set in in HS (I was good enough to play college but not in the pros), I really liked studying how the world/universe works...so engineering it was.


I truly knew early on in life that I would be doing something with math/science, I just liked baseball so much.

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