What would you be if you weren't who you are?

[Red Tail 444]

I would be someone else...probably a marine biologist.....

definitely a marine biologist

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Red Tail 444
I would be someone else...probably a marine biologist.....

definitely a marine biologist

If you were a marine biologist, maybe you could pull a golf ball out of a beached whale's blowhole and save it's life, impressing your girlfriend.

I was nominated, but not appointed to, the US Naval Academy.  I've always wondered what I'd be doing now if I were able to take that road.

[Leslie]

Well, there's no such thing as reincarnation, so we don't have to think about who we might have been or who we were in some past life.   We only pass this way once.



Les

[Maverick]

Since Nash started this thing I tend to think it's not genuine but all the same, I'll bite.

I had 2 goals from before High School. I wanted to fly and I wanted to go into Law Enforcement or Fire Fighting. After High School I busted my butt working my way through school to get a degree. I also joined ROTC at the urging of an Uncle who had been an Army Officer. (He had started out enlisted, was a B29 gunner then went back to school, did ROTC then made a career retiring as an LTC. in Cavalry branch.)

I finished school then had to make a decision. I was already at my Branch school and they were coming up on decision time to try for full active or go the Reserve route. I received a letter from the PD for my final pre hire physical so I decided to do Army part time and Police fulltime. I retired from the Army in 2000 as Armor LTC.

I learned to fly on my own then bought my own plane and had it until last summer. (Piper Comanche) I enjoyed flying and working on it. I retired from the PD after being disabled in a motorcycle collision on duty. I then went back to school and got a Masters in Education and taught school for 3 years. That wasn't much fun so I got a job as program director of a non profit education incentive program that involved aviation. That was a nice couple of years but it wasn't going to get any different or progress so I helped an aircraft mechanic who convinced me to get my A&P. Did that and got an Associates degree at the same time. After a year and half my wife retired so now we RV full time accross the country. I go where I want, do what I want when I want.

All in all I pretty much did what I wanted to do am proud of what I accomplished and have very few regrets about it.

Life is too short to not do interesting things. If you are happy doing what you do then enjoy it. If not, do something about it. The only one who can hold you back from what ever you might want to accomplish is the person in the mirror.

[Seraphim]

When I was young, I thought I'd be a scientist, or somethin that had to do with math.  Then I started taking things apart (which my parents did everything to stop), eventually in my teens i could put em back together......but, when I learned guitar, I knew I would be a musician, played in a  good band, wrote some music, learned bass also.....Unfortunatly, that never paid the bills. So I went to work (of course after a few years of band parties & drinkin) for Hughes aircraft (now Boeing sattelite), and ended up taking machines apart & fixing them. Started at 6 bucks an hour as a lowly 'processor', am now a senior tech.

I think I wouldve still been in the music business(with my same $15 guitar)...in fact im startin to write again, and learnin piano; now that i can afford all those fancy guitars & sound processors & stuff I used to drool over ...

[rpm]

My jobs in chronological order:
Farmhand
Gas Pump Jockey
Truck Driver
Heavy Equiptment Operator
U.S.Coast Guard
Traffic Reporter
Disc Jockey
Reporter
News Anchor
Program Director
Truck Owner/Operator
Bar DJ
Bar Manager
Liquor Store Owner
Liquor Chain Area Supervisor
Rancher

When I get bored, I move on to something new. I really regret getting out of broadcasting, but it was a great move financially. A few friends and I made an indecent amount of money with those trucks in a few years hauling hazmat when the "Superfund" industrial contamination clean-up's were going strong. It allowed me to do pretty much whatever I wanted to for the rest of my life.

Right now I enjoy getting back to my roots farming and ranching. I'm going thru a "Tom Good" phase trying to be self-sufficient. I just need Felicity Kendall (circa 1975) to complete my evil plan.

[FUNKED1]

Porn Actor

[Nilsen]

Did you always want to do what you're doing now? Was it a straight line? (no)

When you were younger, did you picture yourself doing something different than what you're doing now? (yes)

How did you wind up doing what you're doing? (fell in love and wound up in the family business)

Any regrets? Or conversely, thoughts of "Thank god!" (no real regrets... had to make a choise)

Do you like what you're doing now? Or wish you were doing something different? (its ok, but I still wish i had done something else)

Do you think your occupation matters, and that you matter to your occupation? (yes and yes but not really to myself)

Or does none of it matter, and that wherever you wound up is (and was) never necessarily important, when compared to other aspects of life? (compared to other aspects...no)

If so, is that an attitude you've taken on now but didn't subscribe to when you were younger? Or always held? (fairly new attitude....status and money mattered to me when I was younger, now i just need enough for my family and _abit_ more)

[Wolfala]

Nuff said...

[Holden McGroin]

After much consideration, I have decided that if I weren't who I am, I would like to be a lesbian golfer.

Get all the p***y I want, and hit from the red tees.

[Saintaw]

I wanted to be Rockstar. I am still working on my version of the "cucaracha" ... some of you have had the pleasure to hear me sing it on proxy channel. If not... ask my squaddies.

Meanwhile, I do enjoy what I do a lot, building web apps is like lego... you start off with a blank page, and end up with lots of little toys.

[airbumba]

Nash..

Thats funny , my ma is retired now and is painting full time. I'm taking lessons with her this winter, I like the art stuff, hope my path turns out as well as yours. Did you ever join the Cdn. art ass.?

Skersk...

I've been drivin heavy machines for years. Have many pals who did stints in Alberta in machines. I was wonderin, if I wanted a stint up in the Ft McMurry area, is there an agency doin the hiring up there? and is it still booming?


Jeezy...

Wassup buddy? Long time no see, . Glad to see you graduated buddy!!

[lazs2]

I have seen people who get a job and stay with it for 30 years or more and then retire from it with very little change except in status or income.   like boxboy up to manager of the same supermarket and maybe change from one branch to another..

most of us try a lot of different things tho.   I believe that everyone should take at least one shot at running their own business tho.   I have had a lot of trades and been a contractor several times.    Mostly tho I used construction as a way to make a lot of money in a short time so that I could spend the rest of the time running wild.   I sometimes wishn that I had been more serious and not got so far behind the curve but.... no real regrets... had a great time and still caught up enough to retire soon if I'm not too worried about a high standard of living.

lazs

[eagl]

If I wasn't a pilot...

I was very interested in oceanographic research before I discovered airplanes and I discovered computers just a few years later, so I'd have either been a poor ratty looking ocean research guy with a beard and a nice coat of blubber,  a computer programmer, or some sort of aero/computer dude in the aerospace industry.

I also thought about joining the Navy but Navy ROTC didn't want me, go figure.

When I grow up, I want to be a surfer.

[Eagler]

sounds like a Zen koan to me