I always wanted to be a marine biologist....not the girly dolphin hugger that teenage girls dream about. I wanted to explore coral reefs and the deep ocean on the Alvin. I remember being 7 or 8 and being fascinated by a national geographic on the ocean. I remember taking the picture of the reef to my mom and telling her I would bring her a brain coral. Actually was able to achieve that just before she passed.

Then I feel in love with literature. Wanted to be a lit professor. Was even an English major for three years of college. Then I got married and had kids and decided I ought to do something that made actual money. So I switched to business, continued through MBA then spent 15 years in financial management.

When the kids are gone, I'm going back to the ocean. Gonna live on a boat, smoke cigars and dive. 5 more years.
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From a very young age, Retirement looked real nice and I am still trying to make it happen. For now, hard work and investing will have too do.


Todd, the 1/3,1/3,1/3 shop sounds great!
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Don't really remember what I wanted to be as a kid. Through junior high and high school, I seriously contemplated meteorology. I love the subject of weather. Still would have loved to be a weather man. I had the forms filled out for college for the major, but decided against it. Not much demand for the degree and if you do not get the weather man job, WTF you do with it.

I am a manufacturing rep for a top 4 tire manufacturer now. I love it.
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Uh, as a matter of fact, yes.

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I started college as a computer science major. Changed majors after 1 semester. Simply did not have time for it. I was working a regular job at the time and that is a major that requires your full attention. Sitting in a lab for hours on end pecking out C++ code convinced me of that.
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Since photography and travel have always been my interests, I would have loved to land a job with some organization or company like National Geographic...travel the world, take pics, write articles, and get paid to do it. Perfect! But..............
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Oh yeah I almost forgot. Being a hot shot pilot for the Navy was a dream of mine through much of grade school, too. But, my poor eyesight flushed that dream down the toilet! :-) Oh well. Nothing can be done about that! Generally I was drawn to being some sort of military man; I was an uber-geek growing up, though, and was NOT very athletically inclined at all, so when I turned 19 and decided to join the Army, it came as a shock to family and friends alike...
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They used to be valuable as a recyclable when they were common.
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Now we're veering into the "How Old Are You" thread in the Jokes forum! :-) I remember those; don't think I used them but remember my Dad having those as his time cards when he worked for Ford. I guess the time clock would punch new holes in the card when he punched in and out? :-) Oh yeah, and why was he bringing that stuff home? :-) :-)
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About 12-14 years old me and my buddies all wanted to be gynecologists. :-) With age and wisdom, I'm glad that was short-lived. Yuck!

I always wanted to be a chef and have my own restaurant. I still like cooking. I think I would've hated the hours and management part of it. Been a chemist for over 20 years and cooking has it's chemistry moments, so I'll stick with this.

Would also love to own and operate a butcher shop, along with a grill supply/grilling offshoot. Haven't given up on this...
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I never wanted to be anything, and I never amounted to nothing.
I guess I'm a complete success!!! :-)
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I always wanted to be a stuntman, Evil Knevil was my hero, then after I discovered KISS in the 70's I wanted to be a rock star. so in between jumping off houses, bikes and trees I got my 1st bass guitar when I was 12 and was playing in several bands.

I broke both my legs in college skateboarding so I gave up my stuntman dream got fat continued the music and actually went to school for music, excelled in that but parents weren't going to pay for another 2 years for me to get my degree in music, so I got out with a 2 years degree.

I finally gave up music for good in 2004 or 05 just wasn't going anywhere.

So now I'm a dispatcher and still not sure what I want to be.
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I wanted to play in the NFL when I was a kid, but no colleges were recruiting 5'9" 180 lb. mediocre linemen. In my early 20's I wanted to be a chef. I got a degree from Le Cordon Bleu and jumped in. The pay of a restaraunt manager does not balance the frustrations or long hours. I recently went back to school and got my RN license and currently work at the Mayo Clinic. Excellent decision, a very rewarding career with good pay. There are some moments where I wish I wasn't there (code brown), but the pros outweigh the cons by a considerable margin.
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When I was real young I vacillated a lot, at one point wanting to study history and teach, to metrology, to archaeology, never really settled.

Ended up in industrial electrical, then instrumentation, then systems integrator, now in charge of large electrical department in very large company. I would have never guessed how that would have happened whe I was younger.
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When I was growing up I wanted to fix computers, which doesn't seem like much of a goal but if you knew how I grew up... I was lucky enough to have a friend with a computer down the street and the guy that came to fix it one day seemed so smart I figured that must be the best job in the world.
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When I was really young I wanted to be a cowboy hahah... I grew up with my dad's old westerns in betamax mostly John Wayne and Clint Eastwood films. When I got to High School I was into computer so much I wanted t be a programmer. I started fiddling with programming mostly C and C++ and when I transferred here to the US I started working on a computer science degree. I was passing all my programming classes at the top of my class but calculus was killing me. Took me 4 tries to pass Calculus 1. So I started rethinking and during my limbo years I took an accounting class and really liked it. Started tutoring for my accounting teacher when I finished and shifted my major to accounting. Now im 1 year and a half away from my accounting bachelors degree
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When I was young I was HUGE into Star Trek: TNG... So I wanted to be a Crewman on the enterprise...LoL... Then I wanted to be a Lawyer... Then started college wanting to be a Psychologist... Changed majors to entrepreneurship wanting to own my own bar... and now I work in a Hotel... If I had my choice of jobs right now IDK what I would choose but I would want it to require a LOT of travel...:-)

Sorry for the life story but at least it was the short version... :-)
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Peter and I started on the same path. I wanted to be a garbage man till I was about 10. I even had a toy one that lit up and made the noises. I would sit at the window watching and thinking how cool it was.

Then because of my size I knew profootball was not an option, so I wanted to be an athletic trainer or coach. And I have been coaching for 26yrs now.

Now I would love to work on retirement and partner up with Todd.
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I always wanted to be like my Dad, who was a farmer when I was growing up. He was always happiest when he was on his tractor out in the field. But as I grew older, I saw the pain and hard work he went thru dealing with the government, bankers, and good ol Mother Nature and knew it wasn't for me. But I still miss the farm. Just can't make it into a career these days unless you are born with land already in your family.
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I was born in Regina Saskatchewan, raised for the first 7 yrs on a farm.
So I guess at that stage I wanted to be a farmer like my dad.
After he passed when I was 7, I was lost figuring out just what I wanted to be.:-)
Later in high school, I wanted to get into architecture, but no money for University.
I wound up a Millwright at a local steel mill here in Hamilton, and hope to retire in a few more years.
All in all life hasn't been to bad....:-)
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