What do you want to be when you grow up? - Page 2

Mericet · Mericet's Garage

Grow up? NEVER!

dafischer · 05-30-2011, 05:45 PM

What is this "Grow Up" that you speak of?

MBAtarga · 05-30-2011, 05:52 PM

I want to be retired and enjoying everyday doing whatever strikes my fancy. I've just got to wait another 15 years or so for it.

imcarthur · imcarthur's Garage

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Originally Posted by KC911

I'll be danged if I'm ever gonna grow up...life is too good

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Originally Posted by Superman

Astronaut as a day job. Porn star on nights and weekends.

Both good answers. Keith's is basically reality for me. And Supe's are real goals to shoot for but I believe we'll have to rethink the astronaut thing.

Ian

M.D. Holloway · 05-30-2011, 06:15 PM

either a hockey puck or a dinosaur...

tabs · 05-31-2011, 06:35 AM

I always wanted to aim high....a Mens Room Attendant...think of all the tips..or failing that a Pet Food Taster...

Superman · 05-31-2011, 06:38 AM

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Looks like Nostatic's career exemplifies the courage I know he has. I'm looking for something similar, as I have realized that the industry I was in is not for me. Totally rethinking what I want to do. I realize now that stress is not as fun as it used to be, so the remaining chapters in my life will have a decidedly selfish and "simplify" theme. I am helping my GF put up wood for winter-after-next. I've always loved splitting wood with a mall. Today I will get a load of compost and plant my tomatoes. At age 53, I've decided it's time for me to be happy.

scottmandue · 05-31-2011, 07:03 AM

Ninja assassin!

When I retire I want to be that annoying guy playing guitar in the corner of the bar.

Currently an under paid and under appreciated tech for the evil state government.

vash · vash's Garage

my serious answer is; HEALTHY.

as i have aged, i realized my stupid youthful bliss was just a fantasy. at this point, i just want to be friggen super healthy in my golden years.

my fun answer? i want to be stable in retirement, so i can be a pirate, big game hunter, ninja..bounty hunter.

all that fun will take a steady retirement income. fuk.

ronster · ronster's Garage

I went to work, at 18 for Southern California Edison Co., in field construction, got an apprentice bid a year later and became a journeyman lineman after four years. At nine years I was recommended for an interview for a new department called Energy Services Load Management and was one of ten interviewees out of 270 to get a position. I became a supervisor after three years in that department, became a division training instructor and took an early retirement in 1987. That's when real life began as I started doing some of the things I had dreamed about while working for someone else. Five years of travel including a half dozen archeology digs, a paleontology dig with Jack Horner, a whale census on the St. Lawrence River , a field manager for a company that sponsored scientific expeditions, two years of cruising up and down the California coast in a VW van, surfing and doing market research for sportswear companies like Billabong, Stussie and Quicksilver. Photography was always a hobby and now it is a third or fourth career (I've lost count). I managed to get a BA in management along the way and the degree and $2.75 gets me a Tall Latte at Starbuck's.
What do I want to be when I grow up? An Astronaut what else.

scottmandue · 05-31-2011, 09:09 AM

BTW I do NOT recommend the correspondence course for "male exotic dancer"

Just sayin...

scottmandue · 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by vash

my fun answer? i want to be stable in retirement, so i can be a pirate, big game hunter, ninja..bounty hunter.

You want to live in a stable? With or without the horses? I suppose the rent would be cheap...

And a Pirate-ninja-bounty hunter... now that has reality TV series written all over it!

Seahawk · 05-31-2011, 09:30 AM

I'll be the last one to know...once the kids are well settled into their sail, I'll think more about it. But, come what may and health, I know this: I'll labor at something, attend to my loves and friends, laugh with them as much as practical, never not look someone in the eye.

scottmandue · 05-31-2011, 09:57 AM

"We make our plans...

and God Laughs...

scottmandue · 05-31-2011, 12:57 PM

As a lad I wanted to be a proctologist... but when it came time to go off to school... I just couldn't leave my brothers behind.

MT930 · 05-31-2011, 01:04 PM

Cowboy, Astronaut, Spy ---hard to decide ?

tabs · 05-31-2011, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by superman

i am helping my gf put up wood for winter-after-next. I've always loved splitting wood with a mall. Today i will get a load of compost and plant my tomatoes. At age 53, i've decided it's time for me to be happy.

ohhh no not another abe lincoln..

Hard-Deck · 05-31-2011, 04:59 PM

Fighter pilot...Did it.....it sucked....mostly due to the peers you had to work with.
Switched to Army SOCOM....much better......leading world-class Soldiers.

Hugh R · 05-31-2011, 05:16 PM

I get paid well to travel the world, watch people blow things up, have car chases and wreck stuff. Why would I want to grow up?

livi · 05-31-2011, 10:46 PM

Much like Superman and Nostatic.

I have spent the first half of my life in a trade that stems from duty and pligh to my fellow man. Although it is all good in a number of ways, it does not tick all the boxes in my heart. Deep down I am a Soul Man, in the sense that I get the most from art and music, particularly the latter. Nothing excites me more than composing and playing music. That said, it won´t pay for dinner..