Childhood ambitions

Frank the tank
Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
edited June 2010 in The bottom bracket
I always wanted to be a pro footballer or a test pilot. Even before footballers were paid mega-dosh and even after I'd viewed a tv programme in which it reveilled a 50% mortality rate amongst test pilots.
Tail end Charlie

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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    I always wanted to waste my life away posting on fb or a cycling message board
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    spen666 wrote:
    I always wanted to waste my life away posting on fb or a cycling message board

    Well looking at the number of posts you've made, it's mission accomplished. :wink:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I wanted to be a soldier, which I have done. Now I'm trying to be the best dad I can be, schmalzy but true :wink:
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    dmclite wrote:
    I wanted to be a soldier, which I have done. Now I'm trying to be the best dad I can be, schmalzy but true :wink:

    I'm sure your family would say you've scored 2 out of 2, then. :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • LJAR
    LJAR Posts: 128
    I wanted to fly fighter planes.

    Pity about the glasses really, and the fact that I black out on fairground rides :oops:
  • holmeboy
    holmeboy Posts: 674
    Wanted a job where I used my hands and Brain(?), did'nt want to go to Uni or anything like that. Now don't like DIY or even doing maintenance on the bike, can'yt be bothered with Puzzels etc. And I'd now love to be a full time student! Go Figure? :?
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I wanted to go into space.
  • I wanted to win an Olympic medal. A bronze would have done. Having no hand/eye coordination, stamina or strength meant I didn't bother trying too hard.
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  • cyclingmev
    cyclingmev Posts: 105
    i just wanted to be tall....mainly so i could clowt my older brother....sigh.....
    i like bike
  • CarleyB
    CarleyB Posts: 475
    I wanted to be a professional dancer. That ended when I became a teenage mum :shock:
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  • bikey2009
    bikey2009 Posts: 121
    I wanted to be a TV camera man, that was based on watching swop shop and realising the camera men were having as much fun as the presenters.

    Also wanted to be James Bond, all those gadgets and girls........ 8)
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    Wanted to work with animals....

    Got a job on the cold meats counter in Tesco.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Beside going into space, I wanted to be the next David Attenborough.
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    I just wanted to get laid :roll:
    Not the most ambitious of careers I grant you :lol:
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  • Allez Mark
    Allez Mark Posts: 364
    I wanted to be a policeman, like my Dad and Grandad were, but Im colour blind. :(
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I never really wanted to do anything in particular as a child, once (aged 8) my dad told me i'd never play Scrum Half for Warrington.

    In my Teenage years I had 3 dream jobs... I wanted to be a pro cyclist (tried and failed), wanted to be an Army Officer (tried and failed) and wanted to work in politics (tried and failed).

    So now i'm content with paying the rent every month and having enough left over for kit and bike bits.
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  • neilmacd
    neilmacd Posts: 128
    I wanted to be a fireman or pilot. Being diagnosed diabetic at 8 put paid to all of that.
    Said I'd never work in bank as my dad did it and hated it. Guess where I work!!!
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    Bitsa training bike. Bitsa this Bitsa that.......
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Flasheart wrote:
    I just wanted to get laid :roll:
    Not the most ambitious of careers I grant you :lol:

    HAHA ditto! Don't seem to recall knowing what I wanted to do when I left school. I really didn't care, every job I've fallen into I've enjoyed so I must be kinda lucky in that respect. No major aims, no disappointments :lol: I think if I could I'd probably go into journalism, but my grammar's so bad there's not a chance in hell :roll:
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    I just wanted everybody to like me. :(

    Took me 40 years to spot the problems with that ambition! :roll:


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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    andy162 wrote:
    Wanted to work with animals....

    Got a job on the cold meats counter in Tesco.

    :lol::lol::lol:
    Kinda successful achievement, then. :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    When I left school, my head teacher told my Dad that "I'd never have a job, as long as there was a hole in my a*se!" That's the truth...
    I wanted to be a surgeon!

    Now, I work for myself, supervising Drilling Operations (not BP one's!), so I failed. :cry:

    Wish my Dad could see me now, though (and that fcukin' teacher) :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    I wanted to be a professional cricketer.

    It was going quite well (Sussex U-13, U-15, U-19, etc.) until a torn anterior cruciate ligament put paid to that. :cry:

    Now I just want a 9-5 job that I can cycle to/from - which I've got. So 50% success for me.
  • An Astronaut, footballer or porn star.

    Still trying!
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    In primary school I wanted to be a Spitfire pilot (reading too many war comics probably)

    Later, having discovered Sci-Fi, I wanted to be an astronaut. In my mind I should be preparing for a mission to Mars right about now as that was what was expected to happen. Watching the moon landing live on TV (aged 4 and a bit) probably had something to do with this.

    In my mid teens, having read all of Erich Von Daniken's books, I wanted to be a parapsycologist / UFO investigator.

    The closest I've come to any of these is 'space cadet'. :(
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I wanted to be schizophrenic....and I'm still in two minds about it.
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