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

POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Friday, June 15, 2007 00:47
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TRAVELER

Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:40 PM

I figured I would be dead by this time. God has other plans. So I wait and see what they are.

Traveler

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, June 1, 2007 12:03 AM

I had quite a few things I wanted to do when I grew up. Wanting to be a stuntman was a huge preoccupation with me for years as a kid and then I went towards wanting to be a director, I had a stab at that in 2000 on a music video. It was ok but not that rewarding and not nearly as enjoyable as what I've been doing for 13 years now, which is a cartoonist. I basically draw all day!

Thing is though because of shows like Buffy, Angel and Firefly I want to create a TV show. Which is what myself and two friends are working on at the mo.

So doing what I wanted - but now have other things I'd like to achieve also.

[url= http://www.cirqus.com/loreman/loreman.html]LOREMAN]
www.cirqus.com

REGINAROADIE

Friday, June 1, 2007 5:37 PM

Hey Deepgirl

Quick update on the job prospect. I just got off the phone with Jeff, the Key Grip on LITTLE MOSQUE, and they've decided to hire someone else for the trainee position.

At least now I know before I go off to Saskatoon for the weekend. And to tell you the truth, I'm kinda glad, since this won't be getting in the way with my Spanish 110. I have to have two languages before I graduate, and I'd rather do it like a band-aid than to draw it out as long as possible. And then after that, it's just Film 400 and 401 and then that's it.

Plus, I still have the whole month of June off. And I do plan on doing a bunch of stuff with a whole month off, one of which could go towards getting me work during and after my last year of Uni.

Oh well.

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"Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"
"No."
"Have you ever fired ONE gun whilst jumping through the air?"

SAFEAT2ND

Friday, June 1, 2007 6:42 PM

My story is remarkable similar to Penguin's. Coming from somewhere inbetween farm country and cottage country Ontario, I went to University because that's what one does after high-school. I'm a 'jack of all trades, master of none' meaning I can do just about anything I wanted to...passably. If only I could apply myself to just one attribute...sigh.

In school I wanted to be a stuntman and a pilot. Always wanted to fly a Spitfire, but being partially colour blind put an end to that dream.

I found I could get by in high-school without doing any real work and maintain an decent average and ultimately end up on the honour roll in my final year. Let me tell you, this does NOT work in University.

Tried out to be a Firefighter but the damned colour blindness did me in yet again. After changing jobs every 3yrs, worked retail, auto sales(too honest to sell cars) then auto service and maintenance, ended up in insurnace as well. Not what I want to do, as I've discovered I reeeeally can't accept the things I cannot change, but it's family business so...

The best job in the world, as stated by Chris and it really surprised me to realize this, is being a dad and husband.

Psstt... Traveler, I have a theory that I'm putting to test, that one is only as old as one thinks they are. A kinda mind over matter thing. That said, they are going to have to drag me off the baseball diamond only when I can't walk anymore No rocking chair for me. But I suppose there will come a time.

You hardly come across as 'old' to me.

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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."

CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, June 2, 2007 12:56 PM

I found a project from 4th or 5th grade not too long ago. It was supposed to be done on a hostorical American figure. Everyone else picked presidents and civil rights leaders. I picked George fucking Patton.

Being a weak, sickly child gave me a huge inferiority complex. I wanted to be strong and powerful like a military hero. I eventually had to come to terms with the fact that I was not physically built for this line of work; I'm about as far from an alpha-male, competitor or an over-acheiver as you can get. Honestly, it's been the source of a lot of friction between myself and the guys that I work with. Alpha-males can smell the stink of a life-long reject from a mile away, and they're not quick to change their opinion about those types. It doesn't matter if you can outdo them at PT, shooting, combatives, etc. They KNOW you didn't play football in high school and that's all that matters. Being a virgin doesn't help, either.

But I wouldn't trade it for nuthin. This life bucked me off about 2 years ago, and I got back on it. I been shot, blown up, stabbed and beaten, and I'm still here. I'll rip it's fucking head off before I let it toss me aside again.

I am the Infantry.
I am my country's strength in war,
her deterrent in peace.
I am the heart of the fight-
wherever, whenever.
I carry America's faith and honor
against her enemies.
I am the Queen of Battle.

I am what my country expects me to be-
the best trained soldier in the world.
In the race for victory,
I am swift, determined, and courageous,
armed with a fierce will to win.

Never will I fail my country's trust.
Always I fight on-
through the foe,
to the objective,
to triumph over all.
If necessary, I fight to my death.

By my steadfast courage,
I have won 200 years of freedom.
I yield not-
to weakness,
to hunger,
to cowardice,
to fatigue,
to superior odds,
for I am mentally tough,physically strong,
and morally straight.

I forsake not-
my country,
my mission,
my comrades,
my sacred duty.

I am relentless.
I am always there,
now and forever.

I AM THE INFANTRY!
FOLLOW ME!

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Ride down from Asgard to the battlefield,
Bringer of the valiant dead who died but never yielded,
Carry we who die in battle over land and sea,
Across the rainbow bridge to Valhalla,
Odin's waiting for me.

DEEPGIRL187

Saturday, June 2, 2007 5:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Hey Deepgirl

Quick update on the job prospect. I just got off the phone with Jeff, the Key Grip on LITTLE MOSQUE, and they've decided to hire someone else for the trainee position.

Too bad about the job, but at least you'll get your Spanish done. And besides, I know lots of other great things will come your way.

And unlike me, you're a heck of lot closer to finishing school than I am.

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"If you want to win a war, you must serve no master but your ambition."

MACQYVER

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:39 PM

Well, at this point in my life, i thought that I would be a little closer to muscle bound and six pack abs, and farther away from girlfriendless. But hay, what can a guy still in highschool expect. Course I never took the time to get to know half the people in my classes. At the school dances I do get people walking up to me and asking if I want to dance with them, but that's usualy after some sort of coment like "you look so lonely standing all by yourself."

But otherwise things are great, I passed the wssl and am looking forward to summer

IF ONE MUST FAIL, FAIL SPECTACULARLY

For those that think they may know me, heres a hint:
1) I almost always have on shorts and a hawiian shirt.
2) my yearbook picture this year looks nothing like me. (but does anybody's)
3) I do archery and
4)I flip a pen around alot

COPILOT

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:17 PM

I wanted to be happy that was all.....and now I am! Life is good!

An I carried such a torch
http://myspace.com/serenityscopilot

SHIMAUMA

Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:47 PM

When I was interviewing about 4 years ago for a position as assistant manager for an online webstore, the boss asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up...I sat up quick with big bright eyes and piped, "I want to be a forest ranger!" Not 'cause I'm a whiny environmentalist, mind you, but I like the idea of walking in the woods all day as a job, maybe getting to weild a chainsaw on occasion, if a tree was down across a trail, or something similiar.

I'm realistic enough to know that I'd have to be somebody's cousin/sister/aunt to get a job like that as well as register demoncrap to vote, so I settled for the Air Force, and then went into customer service for various electronics companies throughout my life.

So here I am, 37, living in about the crappiest, hippiest, blue state in the USA and what I really wanted to know is; WHERE ARE THE GORRAM FLYING CARS?!?!?!?

Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. ~ Psalm 144:1

Jayne Cobb: Shepherd Book once said to me, "If you can't do something smart, do something RIGHT."

EXOTICK

Friday, June 15, 2007 12:47 AM

I've never really known what I want to be. Of course when I was younger I wanted to be all these grand things; actress, pilot, jedi, but I never seriously knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I do remember when I was 16 in class one day we had to write up a little blurb about where we thought we'd be in 10 years. So there I was, totally clueless about what the real world entailed, I wrote that I'd have a job (some generic job), I'd be married and have kids.

What a joke, here I'm 29, single, no kids and I work to pay my mortgage on my itty bitty condo.

This quote describes perfectly what I think on a daily basis; "Sometimes I feel frozen in the expectation of a remarkable destiny that might still materialize".

There's gotta be more to life than this.

**I edited that to fit this blog*

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