What did you want to be and where did you think you would be at this point in your life

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STOWEAWAY

Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:13 AM

When I was in high school, I thought I would forego college and go fight apartheid in South Africa. Then I saw a story about a civil rights worker getting killed and it finally got through my head that it was a dangerous job (duh!). I'm a huuuge scaredy-cat so that was out of the question.
Since then I've tried on many hats. But none of them fit quite so well as being a mom. So that's now my bliss and everything else is, well, fluid. It comes and goes, things change, but my mommy hat still fits best.

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:01 AM

By this point in my life, I wanted to be learning about 3-D animation, so I could one day work for George Lucas at Industrial Light and Magic. I still want to do the 3-D animation, but I want to work for Zoic now. Only problem is, I didn't apply for College until AFTER I graduated, so, I'm going to a community college, that doesn't have ANY of the classes I wanted! So, I'll probably get a Defense Contractor job that I'll end-up hating, and I'll wish I had applied for college earlier, and been starting down the road to working for Zoic.

Fe'nos Tol
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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:06 AM

Well you can always work and study. Takes longerm but you can still get there!

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OATH

Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:19 AM

If I could, I'd go back and do things a bit different, back in my 20's. If I stayed the same as I was then, I'd probably be dead in a ditch somewhere. I decided that maybe seeing the world wasn't so great after I got the utter shite beaten out of me in Tijuana with a barstool.

And now I'm a teacher. Weird, huh?

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RIVER6213

Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:26 AM

Right where I am now minus all the strange acting-out online.

-River

HIGGINS

Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:53 AM

For starters, I never saw myself as getting this old. I always wanted to be older, of course, (what kid doesn't?), but I saw myself as lingering in my 20s/30s forever. Who knew that doesn't happen? It's a gip, I tell ya.
As a kid, my ambitions changed every time I read something new. I wanted to be a diplomat after I read Keith Laumer's "Galactic Diplomat" (still one of the best send ups of bureaucratic life ever), I wanted to be a neurosurgeon after I read a medical thriller (whose title escapes me), etc. As much time as I spent in the library, though, I never, ever once thought I would wind up as *dramatic pause* a librarian! But I did, I've been one for the past 18 years (God, where does the time go?), and I LOVE it! It's the best career I never planned on. Heck, it's the best career ever!
My advice? Do what you love to do. And if you're not doing that now, remember, it's not too late to change your life.
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REGINAROADIE

Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:10 AM

It's funny that this thread should pop up on this specific day.

With the exception of wanting to be a fireman when I was in kindergarden, I always wanted to be a filmmaker. There was no doubt in my mind that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

As for where I wanted to be at this point, I always thought that this would be the year that I graduated from Uni with a film degree and enter the real world. And that for the first few years, I'd be a grip or an electrician on film and tv shows for a while (the film industry is booming in Regina, my adopted hometown) before making the leap into dirt-cheap indie filmmaking and working my way up to a respected filmmaker.

Now, for the longest time, I would be sending in resumes to the various productions going on and never hear anything from it. I had resigned myself into thinking that it would never happen, and was thinking of trying to set up a SCN doc to make as soon as I graduate from University so that I can hit the ground running. But today, I get a call from the key grip of LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE, saying that I'm on the shortlist of people they're considering for a trainee grip position on the show. This was the last thing I was expecting. I certainly hope I get the job and I'm wondering how to handle the scheduling conflict if I do in fact get it (June is free for me, but the first week of production in August coincides with ym last week of Spanish 110). But the bigger implication is that my cushy life as a uni student is almost over and that the real world is gonna crash in sooner than I expected.

So yeah, I've sort of accomplished what I wanted to be ever since I was a kid, but a little shocked that I'm this close to actually attaining it.

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DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:20 PM

Hey, congrats, reginaroadie. I've heard reviews for the film; I hope you get the job.

As for me, when I was younger, first I thought I would be a writer, then a journalist, then a forensic psychologist, and then a sociologist. Now I'm in college studying to be a librarian, which in my opinion, is still a pretty cool job. So even though I'm not where I expected, I think I'll end up okay.

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REGINAROADIE

Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:15 PM

I hope so too. But for the record, it's not a movie. It's season 2 of a tv show on CBC. It's kind of the CBC's answer to CORNER GAS, which is shot in and around Regina and is the biggest Canadian sitcom EVER. So the CBC picked this up sort of for shock value (the CBC's trying to be more hip for some reason), but the first season inexplicably was shot in Ontario. But they finally made the right decision and now it's being shot here.

What I'm more worried about is if I can do the June block and then take the first week of the August block off so that I can finish my Spanish 110. The last week of class coincides with the first week of shooting for August. Hopefully I can finish off the class so that I won't have to drop it and take it yet again (I've dropped it twice already, so I can't really back out now).

If I can finish Spanish and then go to work on the show, that would be great. But if they say no and I have to be there for when they start shooting, I may have to back out. It's stupid for me to do six weeks of a seven week class, and then drop out at the last minute, then wait an entire year to take it again.

So yes, I am willing to drop a job for my education, but I'm hoping that I can have my cake and eat it too.

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CHRISISALL

Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:36 PM

I wanted to be a film-maker. I did a Super-8 fourty minute sound film called Superman The Spoof 'round 1980, and even showed it at DC Comics to Jerry Seigel & Joe Schuster, and it was featured on a BBC show called Arena.
My friend actually made it in Hollywood as a stuntman (worked on BUFFY, TOO) & co-ordinator, and got me stuntwork on lots of small films, most recently Toxic Avenger 4.
But in the end, show business was a little too business-y for me, so now I'm a husband and Dad, planning my big graphic novel (SF, with martial arts, of course).

"It isn't easy...being...the Dad..."Chrisisall

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