Your childhood dreams or ambitions

I had the same dream at one point...and the same perfectionist issue. I also don't have much patience, so the one kid who wouldn't pay attention would probably get a good screaming at hahaha!

 

i wanted to be an indian but my dad said i couldn't 'cause you have to be born one, so i changed my mind to wanting to be a cowboy and proceeded to dress up as one every day in the first grade

 

Like every good Canadian kid, I wanted to play in the NHL. Instead I played a couple years of AA rep and then got cut from a junior B team at try-outs.

Then I bounced around a while from lawyer to political organizer to writer.

Now I am 4 weeks away from being a teacher.

 

My childhood ambition was getting out of bed in the morning running toward discovery. It has not changed. I want it to be daytime, all the time.

 

olympic swimmer, military officer, firefighter, or investment professional

first 3 are out. i may take the firefighter exam again, though i'm far from optimistic that i'll get a slot in boston without having veterans preference. still making may way towards the 4th

 

When very young, I wanted to be a priest. (Until puberty hit. Then I put away that idea pretty quick.)

Then I wanted to fish as much as I could and write about it. So, in between and around other jobs, that's what I've done. I've fished a lot and hopefully will a lot more and I've written a book about it.

 

You may find this hard to believe, but I wanted to Farmout and escape the madness of society....

 

So is it fair to say you're still fishing around for a career?

 

Heh.

Nope. I'm quite happily semi-retired. I still write some and fish some. But I've collected a few other interesting hobbies along the way that keep me occupied.

 

I wanted to be Cinderella.
Then I wanted to be an orthodontist.

 

I wanted to make lots of money and be cool like my sister's boyfriend.

 

i wanted to grow up and post on the hipforums.

 

Look at you now buddy you are living out your dreams... sniff sniff. thats beautiful man

 

I initially read this as " I want to make lots of monkeys... I thought that was admirable

 

looking back on it now, as a little kid, i did grasp an early and primitive understanding of social interactions (power politics.)
i was around 4 or 5 years old when i started to gain that insight.

when i was 6 years old, i remember watching a television program entitled, "the outer limits." that was back around 1962.
it was the first time i realized, that there were adults out there in in the world, who experence the world the same way i do... they are called, "scientists."

i had a grandaunt (my father's mother's sister) who for the last 60 years of her life, she spent sleeping.
it is a neurological condition called 'encephatlitis lethargica.'
in plain words that means, "swelling of the brain that produces sleeping sickness."
it was a major pandemic back in the 1910's and 1920's. my grandaunt was 20 years old in 1922, when she contracted the disease.
several times, my grandmother took me to the mental hospitial to visit her sister.
my grandaunt's condition scared the living shit out of me, and it even gave me nightmares for awhile; yet, i, was, also, fascinated by her condition!

well, the years rolled on by, and as i grew into a teenager i took every class in the humanities and social sciences that were offered in junior-high school and high school; i also studied alot of biology and neurology too.
i got my college graduate degree in psychology, with a strong background in neuro-psychology.

it seems that my inborn temperment gave me the nuge to become a social scientist, and my early life experences gave me the drive to get there.

 

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Get's You A Great Big "Pos Rep" From "Grumpy Old GLEN"....



Cheers Glen.

 

I wanted to be a vet, a mom, and a ballerina.

at one point I also wanted to farm all my food and have horses.
another time I wanted to be a radio DJ.

 

You are quite the dreamer! :2thumbsup:

 

Wouldn't that require lots of red hot monkey love? :biker:

 

Yeah! Pretty hot thought huh!